How to Manage Radio on the Desktop

This is a large topic. In fact, I intended 'manage' Radio as a bit of humor. Get it? No? Hmmm.

Managing Radio boils down (here, at least) to a simple mouse-clicking question:

What are all those options that appear when I right-click my mouse button on the Radio icon after I have opened the program?

Launching Radio

You can't manage Radio without launching the Radio application itself.

When you double-click the Radio shortcut (if you created one) or select Radio from the Start menu, Radio launches (ie, opens). 

After it launches, it loads and displays your private, local, Radio desktop weblog in your web browser.

(If you would rather launch Radio through the Windows Start route, select Start --> Programs --> Userland --> RadioUserland).

Your desktop weblog pages are the tip of the iceberg. They are the user interface for the full-blown Radio application that sits behind and under the weblog. Let's chip away just a bit at the ice.

Your Options

Right-clicking on the radio icon in the Windows status bar gives these options for exploration:

Home Page - Click to (re)display your local Radio weblog page in your browser. This is convenient when you have been browsing elsewhere on the Web and want to work now with Radio. (Even I can't come up with a reason to link from this command here to a separate topic page ...).

Open Radio - Display the full-blown version of Radio on your desktop as a standard Windows application.

Update Radio.Root - Get the latest changes to Radio from Userland, if any.

Upstreaming - Turn on the connection between your local Radio weblog and the Internet target URLs to which you want to broadcast (publish) your latest works of genius - for instance, to Userland's Community Server. The next upstreaming (publishing) event will occur based on the upstream setting on the Radio Prefs page (by default, 10 seconds).

Work Offline - Just what it says. Kind of. Sort of?

Open WWW folder - This displays the folder with files containing content and instructions which Radio user to upstream your content to Userland's Community Server or a different Internet server of your choice.

Exit and Shut Down Radio - Just what it says. You're outta there. However, there a few subtleties.

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