Posts from — November 2009

For a few weeks now I’ve been listening to various French radio stations via my computer,  thank to a great application called Radio Sure. This free internet radio application permits access to hundreds of radio stations all over the world–all in real time. With the Radio Sure program open on my desktop, as shown, I group all the stations by language, to make it easier to brows the French language stations; then I scroll through the French list to find my favourites. My current one is called Nostalgie La Legende–chansons francaises, a bit like ‘golden oldies’. It seems to play all the French songs from my childhood, through to those from the eighties. I can have the radio on in the background while working on other programs, or even while doing something else in the room. I have just the standard application, but you can buy fancy ’skins’ quite cheaply from the Radio Sure website, including some that look like actual radios.