How i streamed my TV, and 1TB Media collection to my iPod Touch

May 25th, 2008

So i have about 1.25TB of storage space on my PC, which equates to a hell of a lot of music, videos, and whatnot. So Naturally i’d like to access this from anywhere, well, just my iPod Touch in particular.

Heres the steps i took to accomplish this:

NOTE: I did this on windows(simplifymedia.com for os x)

1. Go to orb.com click download

2. click ‘run’

3. go through installation and fill out information as needed

4. click desktop icon5. create a new account

6. when finished with that, right click on the orb icon on the bottom right of the screen and go to configuration

7. Here you will be able to set up your tv connection and what folders will be available for streaming8. Adjust configuration to whatever you want

9. Click ok

10. Right click on the orb icon again (bottom right) click go to orb

11. Sign in

12. go to your iPod Touch/iPhone (Must be jailbroken!)

13. open installer app

14. go to multimedia>orblive

15. install

16. start it, put in your info

17. NOTE: if you get an error installing, just go to orb.com on your iphone… works pretty much the same.

18. Navigate the menus and enjoy your streamed massive library!

If you have any questions (other than jailbreaking your iPhone/iPod Touch) feel free to contact me by clicking the about page on the right or leave a comment.

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iPod Touch Review

May 24th, 2008

So i broke down and bought the 8GB version last week, and let me tell you, this thing is one amazing piece of equipment. With Wi-Fi and an amazing browser built in, its hard not to use it for web browsing, even at home.

I Jailbroke this thing this as soon as i got home and it’s never let me down. Installing the last.fm app, MSN, safari fixes and iPhysics has been the easiest thing in the world from the installer app. The multi-touch interface is flawless, amazing scrolling and zooming controls and easy to navigate all the menus… now if i could just get my VoIP info from my ISP i’d be pretty damn happy.

Also, hopefully i can get my vista PC up today and use it as a media server for my ipod touch. Streaming 1.25TB of movies/music will be pretty intense. Who needs a bigger ipod when you can stream everything from your home server?(Though if iPods ever get to 1.25TB i think i’d buy one).

Maybe when i get more apps on my touch i’ll do a top10 apps i use  for it, in the mean time. Stay Tuned!

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10 Reasons why you should switch to a Mac

May 23rd, 2008

So since i own a mac and i *had* a hackintosh. Here are my 10 reasons why *YOU* should switch to a mac.

10. Top hardware/software out of the box
Futureshop sells shit pc’s overpriced, with mac’s you know your getting their top of the line equipment

9. No Widespread Viruses
Don’t slow down your PC with heavy footprint anti-virus and firewalls.

8. Ease of use
Easy to install, uninstall and operate OS X and its applications

7. Customer Support
Amazing customer support, they built the things, so they support everything.

6. Cosmetic Appeal
Let’s not kid ourselves here, Mac’s are the coolest looking things out there

5. Solid OS
OS X is built on unix, so you know its reliable.

4. Gadget Integration
iPods are so much better with macs

3. Vista is terrible
enough said.

2. XP is terrible
enough said.

1. Windows is terrible
enough said.

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Mac Down!

May 22nd, 2008

So in my previous post about my new mac-ish, i install OS X on my AMD processor. Well, it was fun while it lasted but when i booted it up yesterday i got a HFS error. Being my lazy self, I’m not going to troubleshoot this through(even though i work in IT), i will be installing Vista x64 and throwing in my 8GB of ram tonight. Probably run a media server off of it or something similar, hook up my TV tuner, and have a ball. Will post some pictures of my monster (AMD 6000+ 3.2ghz(OC’d) 8BG ram nvidia 8500) soon.

Sorry Stephen Fung! I tried lol.

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Yet another last.fm post

May 21st, 2008

As i spend more and more time listening to Last.fm i find out more about audio scrobbling. This is such an amazing way to keep track of the music you love and you have listened to in the past. Have you ever listened to a song and then 2 hours later think to yourself “Dammit! What was the name of that song i heard”, well log in to last.fm and find out. With it’s syncing with iTunes, and most media players out there, anything you listen to will be up on last.fm. This definitely is a huge plus to putting everything through last.fm.

Check out what I’ve listened to lately by looking at the widget on the right side of my site. ——>

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Boston Pizza - Good or just expensive?

May 19th, 2008

Nowadays, restaurants and clothing stores are getting more and more expensive, but why? Because the gas prices are going higher so they figure they should step it up a bit? I think John Chow said it best when he explained the raising prices of goods in Padong, Shanghai as people wanting to spend more, just because they have more money. Like showing off to your friends “yea i just got these shoes for $150″ and yet you can get the same ones at wallmart for $20.

Its all about showing off in this generation, the more expensive items you have, the better you look. Whether it be iPhones, Pearl necklaces, big house, car, pretty much anything you can see when you are out in public, people want to spend more and more.Same with restaurants, “yea lets go there, its $25 for a pizza, but its cool, i can afford it because I’m a money machine”, this is how our generation feels about restaurants and consumer products.

Is that $25 pizza better than Pizza Pizza, or Little Ceasers?
Debatable, but still not worth $25. 

So I’m off to Boston Pizza, though it’s expensive, it better be damn good. 

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New weekly post: How I am monetizing the blog

May 18th, 2008

i have decided that at the end of each week i will discuss how i am marketing and making money off the site.

Here’s what i did this week.

Traffic:
As you can see i put up the blogrush widget, many people think this is a good traffic generator for your blog. I also started an adwords account, which i didn’t get the free $50 for, hopefully my hateful email to them will induce a promotional coupon or something.

Making money:
I signed up for adtoll which is pay per week banner/button advertising. I signed up for it because it provides the peel-away ad you can see in the top right corner of my website. If thats not cool, i don’t know what is.More next week!

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My new Mac-ish

May 18th, 2008

After reading this article from stephenfung.net, i was inspired to put OS X on my desktop once again. I have done this in the past and it didn’t work out too well, i had some freezing issues, which i believe was because i had 8GB of ram in it and the version i have is only 32bit. Anyways, my ‘hackintosh’ installed flawlessly, and recognized my wireless card as an airport card, so it was pretty painless compared to my previous attempts.  I have a Powerbook G4 for the road, and now i have a ‘Mac Pro’, or so OS X tells me. But this is my first step into leopard, and i love it. It’s aesthetically pleasing UI and more features make me not want to go back over to my laptop(which is running OS X 10.4).  

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