{"id":1336,"date":"2011-07-07T15:40:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T19:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2011-07-25T16:29:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T20:29:47","slug":"listening-post-tap-and-flick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2011\/07\/07\/listening-post-tap-and-flick\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening Post: Tap and flick"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was at the NPR Digital Services “Road Show” in Rochester a few weeks back, I was filled with lust watching all the folks in the room cuddling and communing with their new iPads. So much so that I left my clunky brick of a 2005 Gateway laptop under the conference table in shame, and set my respectably new iPhone in front of me instead.<\/p>\n

But now an iPad has come into my life, purchased at the insistence of the web team (that would be me and Bill Haenel) strictly for the purpose of testing out the iPhone\/iPad app in development for the station. Purely a research tool—honest. Of course I had to take it home with me to widen the testing pool, and had to download a whole bunch of other cool apps–but only for comparative purposes. We wouldn’t want to miss out on a neat new feature.<\/p>\n

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Screenshot of the NCPR iPhone\/iPad app playing the live broadcast stream<\/p><\/div>\n

All the Apple hype aside, there is a marked difference in using a device that is designed to operate by touch. Smart phones and tablet devices of all types are so seductive because of their intimacy. A keyboard is 19th century, a mouse is 20th century. In the 21st, it’s all tap and flick. Sort of like when you pretend to conduct the orchestra on the radio, but in this case, you actually make them play.<\/p>\n

While some folks at the meeting had little stands and accessory keyboards, the iPad is designed to operate in your lap like a child–a stiff, rectangular and literal-minded child–but kind of cute when its yours.<\/p>\n

The NCPR iPhone\/iPad app is scheduled to be out in a week or so. It’s testing well and needs only a few last tweaks. The Android version will follow in a couple more weeks, and an integrated website player that will work with our mobile apps will follow some time after that. Flick, tap–It’s String Fever<\/em>. Sweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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