Last night I was listening to a streaming radio broadcast of the playoff game between the Detroit Tigers and the New York Yankees on my iPhone. The stream quality is about 64kbps which is low enough to stream on AT&T’s Edge (E) network with reasonable quality. Hopefully 97.1 The Ticket will have all of the Tigers’ playoff games this year. And doubly hopeful that the Tigers make it to the World Series!

The same app and station can be used for listening to the Lions games each Sunday! :-)

• Download FStream for iPhone
• Tap the “Favorites” menu item on the bottom of the screen.
• Tap “Preset” on the upper right corner of the screen
• Tap “iTunes” from the list.
• Tap “Sports Radio” from the list
• Add “97.1 The Ticket” to your favorites — Tap the “+” next to the name.
• Tap the “Play” menu item on the bottom of the screen.

• Tap the station name and you will be streaming the Tigers game!

I used to listen to Detroit Lions games using Radio.com, but for some unknown reason that method does not work for me. I found another way to listen to Lions games on Sundays. Especially useful since the Lions are 4-0 this season!

• Download FStream for iPhone
• Tap the “Favorites” menu item on the bottom of the screen.
• Tap “Preset” on the upper right corner of the screen
• Tap “iTunes” from the list.
• Tap “Sports Radio” from the list
• Add “97.1 The Ticket” to your favorites — Tap the “+” next to the name.
• Tap the “Play” menu item on the bottom of the screen.

• Tap the station name and you will be streaming the Lions game!

I’ve been playing a lot of “Words with Friends” for iPhone lately. My friend sent me a mystery score where his opponent used all 7 tiles to produce the word “Grinders” for 54 points but the score on the board should have only been 19. I found the Words with Friends Rulebook which reveals that you get 35 bonus points for using all of your tiles in a single turn. Interesting!

The Words with Friends rule book also reveals the source dictionary of valid words for the game. The game uses the Enhanced North American Benchmark Lexicon (ENABLE), a free public dictionary filled with many “words” that would never make it into Merriam-Webster. I found it interesting that NewToy (Zynga) also throws in words of their own to modernize the game’s lexicon.