Mobility Guys #4
Show Notes:
This podcast will cover some of the topics mentioned in previous podcasts. Don gives us a run-down of his mobile gear and his gear bag . We also talk about 3 new Mobile Devices and their impact on the future of mobility. And we round off the show discussing mobile media- the different services and content out there for mobile devices and the differences between stream and stored content of both audio and video content.
Don’s Gear List
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iGo Power Supply
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Targus Pack
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Antec Laptop Cooler
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MiniSync MiniUSB Cable
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KJam or SP5
Text Input on Mobile Devices:
New Devices Motorala Q, Treo 700P, HTC Hermes:
Motorola Q
Treo 700p
HTC Hermes/JasJam aka O2 XDA Trion
Get a good list of Media sites from Aximsite.
Paid to Play for Store and play later:
- Urge
- Napster
- Yahoo Unlimited ( Chris’ Favorite )
- eMusic
- Vongo now has a 14 day trial
- Read TDavid’s account of replacing Cable TV with Vongo
- Cinema Now!
- Movielink
Free Music Download sources:
- 3hive.com - A great blog-style listing of free iPod-compatible MP3 songs offered by record artists and labels in an attempt to entice full-album purchases.
- Amazon.com Free Music Downloads - A surprising mix of music from mainstream and independent artists, available for free in iPod-compatible MP3 format. Also offers musicians the ability to upload and share their songs.
- Creative Commons - A nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works. If you like it you can pay the artist what you feel is fair and the music can be downloaded, copied, file-shared, trade, distribute, and publicly perform (e.g. webcast) it or used in a Podcast as long as credit for the artist is given. Kristin Hersh of 50 Foot wave turned me onto this.
- eMusic.com - Provides a paid MP3 download service with a free two-week trial period. Focuses primarily on independent artists and offers a selection of 20,000 full albums to choose from.
- Epitonic.com - Offers highly professional, artist-focused presentation of free digital music downloads in MP3 format, with biographical details and short previews for songs across a narrow collection of genres.
- Freekidsmusic.com - Along with its sister site Freechildrensmusic.com , provides a large variety of free MP3 format songs for young listeners.
- Garageband.com - Not to be confused with Apple’s music creation application of the same name, Garageband.com collects and provides popularity charts of independent music, featuring over 125,000 bands.
- IUMA.com - The Internet Underground Music Archive provides genre-organized downloads of iPod-compatible MP3-format music.
- Magnatune - Source of some great Creative Commons music.
- WindowsMedia.com Mobile - Some free media format for Windows Mobile Devices
Free Video Download
- Instant Media - free video and audio downloads
Streaming Radio and TV
- Orb - Your content anywhere there is an internet connection from your computer- music, video, pictures,etc. as well as some popular streaming video and radio sources.
- Mobile Media Without Limits - article on Orb by Darius Wey
- Slingbox - Don loves his “new gadget” new beta for Smartphone platform coming…
- MyTV ToGo
- The StreamCenter - AM and FM radio streaming listed by state.
Video entertainment in the palm of your hands-Live TV, Movie Trailers,Movies,Music videos,news, short films,weather,technology,webcams,etc.
Satellite Radio on Your Mobile Device
- Pocket XM Radio
- XStream XM
- SiriuCE developed by a user of Aximsite, Emulamer
Satellite Radio via Yahoo Widgets aka Konfabulator for PCs, Macs, Laptops, Tablets and UMPCs
Rip DVDs to your Mobile Device
Other Links Mentioned in the show
- Windows Media Player 11
- Vista & Office 2007 Beta 2 - new features in both and links to where to download the betas
- DVArchive -for archiving,controlling, and playing content from Replay TV PVRs
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