Hi all As Lynne mentioned earlier in the week, we are now working hard on a Sparkle Radio solution which is intended to be a "Fun for all" project for visually impaired people particularly, but that doesn't mean you have to have a sight impairment to join in the fun. But what's more, we are not restricting the activities of Sparkle Radio to music only. We are more than happy to broadcast other things as well. For instance, if you wish to provide audio reviews and demos, anything like that, we are more than happy to give you air time. We really want this thing to work and we are doing our very best to make it happen. We are preparing a website with broadcaster tutorials and, to simplify things, we ar also making available the free broadcaster tools for Mac and PC which we think might help. All of the downloads will be together in the one place so there's no need to go hunting for them.
If you're interested, would you please let us know off list. Also, if you wouldn't mind spreading the word, we'd be grateful. Now, I want to squash one accusation which was made yesterday in a private message to Lynne. This project is absolutely not aimed at generating any form of income for us. We are doing it purely for fun. There is absolutely no financial gain by us. In fact, we have invested quite heavily in the project. You need much more than a DSL Internet tariff to sustain multiple listeners. Our server can cope with up to 500 listeners at a time and we plan to upgrade that soon so that we can handle up to 1000 listeners. The cloud will be used to broadcast pre-programmed material when there is no presenter broadcasting live. So we are aiming to make this a full blown 24/7/365 project in the very near future. We will probably arrange it so that any articles we receive are broadcast either in a playlist or randomly. But again, I stress that there is absolutely no financial motivation here, more will we be asking for any financial contribution of any kind. Again, if you're interested in having a bit of fun and sharing your work, we welcome your input very much. You know where to reach us: [email protected] or [email protected] will find us. We will soon be implementing mail services for the Sparkle Radio project and anybody is welcome to an E-Mail account under that domain if they wish. Gordon <--- Gordon Smith ---> If you wish to contact me privately, please use E-Mail in the first instance, before you try the below. Please also observe time differences. I prefer telephone calls by prior arrangement where possible. E-Mail: <[email protected]> Telephone: United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Or: +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Follow Us On Twitter: <http://twitter.com/maciosaccess> Skype: <callto:mac-access.net> ------------------------------ ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
