Radio comes with a weblogging application and a news aggregator. The way you interact with Radio is through a web based interface. This is a smart way to use Radio since all you need is a web browser. However, there are disadvantages and other reasons why you, like me, might only on occasion visit the Radio Desktop Home page.

Let's take the first part, weblogging. I used to pull up the Radio desktop home page, type my entry and then click on the Post button. Now I use MarsEdit to do the same thing, only it has a beautiful OS X environment. Scratch off one reason why I now need to interact with Radio in the browser.

There are many news readers out there. Radio is one of the best but I prefer NetNewsWire, a top notch application by Ranchero, the same people who brought us MarsEdit, for my news gathering. So now I no longer need to use the browser to retrieve my news using Radio.

Thankfully, Radio allows us to control whether or not to open the home page at startup. Unselect this option and you won't waste your computer's time by having Radio open a window in your browser every time you start it up.

For those times when you do want the Desktop home page, either create a bookmark that is easily accessible or switch to your Radio application. From the Radio menu, select Local Pages and then Home Page. Your Desktop Home Page will open in your default browser.

I was going to write something witty here, but I don't want to waste your time.