At 9to5Mac they have said to have an “extremely senior source” at sling media. They have reportedly said that they will have an iPhone and iPod Touch version of their SlingPlayer client coming soon.
FlyTunes is an satellite radio type of service and can work without satellites or additional hardware. It is said to offer users a more personalized radio-like experience, with thousands of channels of digital music that will work regardless of a wireless connection.
The holidays are quickly approaching! Do you need a way to impress your friends on how cool your iPod Touch really is?
Last week Google took some time out from Android to flirt a little with Apple’s pair of touchscreen stunners, bringing a newly-tweaked homepage for the omnipresent search engine to their finger-friendly screens. Well, they obviously have a taste for developing mobile Safari apps (or are busy testing out potential Android content!) because they’ve now updated image organisation software Picasa to work nicely with the iPod Touch and iPhone’s browser.
Recent rumors point to Orb announcing that they will support the iPod Touch and the iPhone in the next few days. Orb provides access to your songs, photos, video, and TV from anywhere.
It is basically a slingbox with out the expensive hardware. Many users use it to access their home music collection at work or where ever they might be.
If you’ve got a big enough music collection to fill your iPod Touch and still have plenty of tracks left over then predicting what songs you’ll want to hear can be a chore. The alternative is to ditch the Touch and pick up an iPod classic (blasphemy!), dramatically narrow down your musical tastes or look at some sort of audio streaming software. So far there are two sorts: the first, such as SeeqPod, is a sort of online music search engine; the second, requiring a little more preparation but potentially preferable results, is to stream music from your home computer straight to your PMP. That’s what’s on offer with the alpha release of Simplify Media for iPod Touch and iPhone.
Check out the video demo of the app, after the cut
Jaguar have embraced the iPod Touch and iPhone with a version of their online brochure for new model the XF specially tailored for the finger-friendly devices. Navigation is simple and, despite the buttons appearing small on-screen, the tap-regions are actually relatively large.
Perhaps it doesn’t take much for you to fill up the 8 or 16GB capacity of your iPod Touch, but maybe you also have trouble finding new music to mix in there with old favourites. Last.fm has long been suggesting new music based on existing tastes for the desktop user; now, thanks to the coding skills of Sam Steele, with MobileScrobbler you can use the tracks that you’re listening to on your Touch (or your iPhone) to keep your Last.fm account up to date.
Apple’s catalogue of movies on iTunes gets a new addition this week, Purple Violets by director Edward Burns. What makes this two-hour film special, however, is that it’s being released to the online media store without first courting audiences in a cinema, or on DVD or TV. The exclusive premiere - available to download for $14.99 - stars Selma Blair and Debra Messing, and is the latest of Burns’ films to see initial release in non-mainstream format.
Hah! Apple, Conceited has beat you to the release of another great piece of software, internet radio for your iPhone or iPod Touch. It works great on the iPod Touch with a WiFi connection, and reports are it works well with the iPhone’s EDGE connection as well.
(Thanks Ken Allen!)
The streams are MPEG streams, but hey, it’s a step in the right direction. It starts fast, works fast, sounds good, and will continue playing even when the iDevice locks, just like the iPod app.
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