zoom-h2-hand1.jpgFrom the first 8 guitar notes of “Sweet Child ‘o Mine” to the haunting calls of the howler monkey on your trip to Belize to the light and airey strums of the ukulele band on Kauai, music and sounds have a uniqe ability to take us away to that special place. Capturing these sounds and the music has been possible for a long time, but not until the introduction of the Zoom H2 hand held surround-sound recorder has it been so easy and so inexpensive with such a professional level of quality.

Here are the details:

  • 4 track surround-sound recording via 4 microphones
  • MP3: 64-320 kbps, Wav: To 24 bit/96 KHz
  • SD card storage (4 GB stores 377 minutes at 16 bit 44.1 kHz - CD quality)
  • Mini-jack phone/line level output, external mic input, line level input, and USB
  • About the size of a hand held razor
  • $199

Indepth reviews and specs at Zoom, O’Reilly and Cnet.

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Very simple.
Sign up at Anywhere.FM.
Upload your music (MP3’s only).
Access your music from anywhere on the net.

More info and a screenshot at Lifehacker.

RaimaRadio has released an awesome Internet radio tool that moves it up. Here are the bullets:

  • Record Internet radio, and where available, have the songs saved individually and labeled with title, artist and album information.
  • Record and/or listen to multipe radio stations at once.
  • Record on a schedule. Just set the date and time.

RaimaRadio offers many other useful featues. The entire review can be found at gHacks.net. I have to agree with them that this is probably the best Internet radio tool out there.