Geriatric feline, FU Sirius

So Ali picked up some tuna on the way home and thought she would try to puree it, aka throw it in a food processor.  This is the same thing that happens to the food many nursing home residents “eat” to aid in digestion/consumption.  Well in our situation it would allow the cat to simply lick the food without having to chew.  Well the experiment was a success.  Over the past day Spook has cleared 2 or 3 servings of the mushy tuna.  She is still heading to the vet today for further analysis.  I am suspecting that whatever infection she had where the tooth was removed never cleared up completely.

I have ranted several times about the various bullshit Sirius has been pulling on it’s subscriber base.  One of these items was releasing the official Sirius Iphone app MINUS some of it’s most listened to content, namely the Stern channels.  Short of jailbreaking my phone I figured I was pretty much screwed if I wanted to listen to Stern via my Iphone.  I was wrong.  An app called “Pocket Tunes Radio” has come to the rescue.  This nifty little $8 app will allow you to listen to TONS of various internet radio INCLUDING ALL OF THE SIRIUS channels.

Now you still have to be a paying Sirus customer with internet radio enabled on your account.  This isn’t a way to pirate Sirius.  It uses the same internet portal that is used from your PC to access the content.  For some reason if you try to log in to the portal from within your standard Iphone browser it will not work. However due to some magic this app performs you can log in and play any channel that you already can get with a pc.  I downloaded the app immediately and tried it out, it works beautifully. 

There have been other apps that  have tried to snag Sirius radio using their own custom UI to do so.  These apps have been squashed by Sirius as violating the TOS. (terms of service) However with Pocket Tunes since it is using the standard Sirius web app to connect and you are doing so as legitimate Sirius customer there is no violation of these terms of service.  FU Sirius, you shortsighted, money grubbing, idiots. 

 If this proves to be as robust as I think I very well may be dropping my second subscription that I use for my plug and play receiver.  I’ll simply use my Iphone to listen.  Sure it isn’t as convenient as turning on the vehicle and pressing one button to get to the service but I’ll deal with 30 seconds of logging in to the service to not pay Sirius a dime more than necessary.