Episode 011: March 12, 2009
March 12, 2009 by Corey Charette
Filed under Featured, Podcast
This week the guys cover the game Pure, Who Should I Follow?, FileZilla server, the amazon.com iPhone app, how to syndicate your tweets on Twitter, and so much more…..
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NEWS
Steve Wozniak debuts on Dancing with the stars
The Beatles: Rock Band coming in September, with bundles
Wolfram Alpha looks to transform the factual query
The Guardian launches open API for all content - but they still control the ads
Phish re-unites, gives away high quality mp3s of the shows and takes over twitter
Read the Phish posting on Dave Senior’s personal site
Japanese Elementary School Kids Now Being Taught by Saya the Robot
Facebook to change interface this week.. makes itself the new Twitter
DTV coupons flowing as number of unprepared households drops
Twitter rolls search and trends into it’s online interface
The Top 10 Most Expensive Domain Names
GAMES
Jason Kelly gives us a review on Pure.
SITES TO SEE
Corey Charette answers the question of Who I Should Follow.
FREE FILE
Chris Poteet gives us a quick overview of FileZilla Server.
Here the tutorial that Chris mentioned in the show.
HOW-TO SECTION
Dave Senior let’s us know how to syndicate tweets by keyword to a twitter account.
APPLE CORNER
Ben Skripnik tells us about the Amazon.com iPhone application.
RANT
Chris discusses the never-ending OS Wars.
Episode 003: December 18, 2008
December 18, 2008 by Corey Charette
Filed under Podcast
This week the Gang go over Defense Grid: The Awakening, Elf Yourself for the holidays, Twitter Spy, essential iPhone apps, IE7Pro, and the failure of DRM.
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NEWS
Apple Announces its last year at Macworld
Twitter has made Dell $1 million in revenue
Spore Is Most Pirated PC Game Of 2008
PC Prince of Persia contains no DRM
Might Google Buy the New York Times?
Google releases Chrome 1.0
“Cupcake” roadmap tells tales of video recording, stereo bluetooth and more coming to Android
Google slips from list of top companies on privacy
Google Earth Adds Photo-Realistic Buildings to NYC
Bush Shoe-Dodging Video Already Watched More Than 5 Million Times On YouTube
GAMES
Jason Kelly talks about Defense Grid: The Awakening.
SITES TO SEE
Corey Charette talks about the seasonal website Elf Youself.
APPLE CORNER
Ben Skripnik talks to us about some essential iPhone apps: 1Passwrd, Twitterific, MySpace, Facebook and Google.
HOW-TO SECTION
Dave Senior tells us how to get track back on your Twitter with Twitter Spy.
FREE FILE
Corey Charette gives a brief overview of the browser enchancement, IE7Pro.
RANT
Jason Kelly gives us an earful on the failure of DRM.
How to stream XM on your iPhone
December 7, 2008 by Ben Skripnik
Filed under How-To
Requirements:
Windows OX (XP, Vista, 2000, 2003)
iPhone (1st Gen or 2nd Gen)
uXM and uSirius - http://www.millardsoftware.com
Orb - http://www.orb.com
Download and install uXM and/or uSirius as directed by the installer
Download and install Orb as directed by the installer
Set a static IP address on the computer that is going to be serving the streams
Configure uXM and/or uSirius:
Launch the application and click the start button to start the application.
Click on the URLs button and click on the Channels tab.
Select the station to be streamed from the Channels drop-down box. Make sure that
“MMS stream is selected underType. This has to be set to this for Orb to play
correctly.
Choose the bandwidth for the stream (high has better quality sound, but takes up more
bandwidth).
Click the Clipboard button to copy the URL to the clipboard
Configure Orb:
Launch Orb and create an account if you do not already have one.
Open the Web interface and click on the Open Application link next to the home button
and select Audio.
Click on Favorite Channels under Internet Radio.
Click on the Add Custom link at the top to add a custom stream.
Give your channel a Name (i.e. XM71)
Paste in the URL copied from uXM or uSirius and click Submit and the channel will be
added to the list.
iPhone Setup:
Open Safari and navigate to http://mycast.orb.com and log in.
Select Audio from the menu and select Internet Radio Favorites
Select Station and wait for play button to appear over the radio tower icon in the upper
left next to the station name.
Press the ply button that appeared over the radio tower icon and the player will
launch.
Press play in the player and the stream starts.
Other Notes:
Works great over WiFi and 3G, but a little spotty over Edge
Totally free except if your paying for WiFi access
Streaming XM or Sirius to iPhone
Can also play stations from the browswer on any computer by going to your Orb
account.
Orb offers interfaces for PS3, XBox360, and Wii
