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The iPhone – Great for Mobile Media Lovers
I’ve always been a gadget hound. So, no surprise that I waited in line all day to be one of the first to grab an iPhone. The Apple iPhone is the ultimate convergence device. Sure, it’s pricey, but I’m loving the fact that I have a phone, iPod , camera and email/internet device that fits nicely in my pocket. Plus, it is without a doubt the most beautiful device I’ve ever owned.
Replay AV, Replay Media Catcher and Replay Converter make great companions for the iPhone. Use Replay AV or Replay Media Catcher to capture online media. Use Replay Converter to convert your audio or video to a format suitable for playing on your iPhone. It’s really easy. Replay AV will even transfer your newly recorded and converted media to iTunes automatically. Next time you sync the iPhone your recordings will be there ready for you to enjoy or show off to others.
Video that can be played in iTunes will sync with the iPhone. Use Replay Converter to convert your home movies to iPod video format and take them with you on your iPhone.
For me, the iPhone was worth the wait. It’s functional and beautiful. This morning I heard that the Apple store I had camped out at still has a few in stock. My first thought was Ugh! You mean I stood in line all those hours for no reason??!! But actually, I’m glad I had the experience. It really was fun and exciting to be 9th in line. I proudly earned my geek badge on iPhone launch day.
Silent Radio Day
Today is Radio Silence Day, when thousands of online radio music stations go silent to protest the upcoming increase in music fees. This canard promoted by the RIAA basically insures that any internet radio station goes out of business. Not only will fees increase, but they are retroactive to the past 18 months!
Pandora says it best. Read their home page here:
http://pandora.com/
Mad yet? Call your congressman!
Replay AV 8.21
– Fixed problem with YouSendIt application not launching on some machines.
– Installer doesn’t automatically reinstall the YouSendIt app if it’s already installed.
Replay AV 8.20
– Duplicated shows no longer have conversion status messages appear for original show by mistake.
– Added support for automatically sending recorded files via YouSendIt.
– Fixed WinPCap problem with URL finder not working if 2 network adapters have the same name.
– Includes Replay Converter 2.8.
– Restored AM Stereo Quality (32 Kbps) to Audio output settings.
– Fixed Sirius logins.
New Applian Media Browser Toolbar
Today we have just released a cool gadget – the Free Applian Media Browser Toolbar. From within Internet Explorer or Firefox, you can stay notified when Applian product news and updates occur, quickly get access to tutorials and help with streaming media recording problems, as well as some handy gadgets including a search box, radio player, weather bug, email notifier and more.
The Applian Media Toolbar is free. Check it out here:
http://applian.com/toolbar/
More cool stuff – Veoh Player
Today just seems to be the day of neat discoveries. Have a look at the Veoh player – it can download videos from a variety of places, it lets you subscribe to RSS Video feeds, and it even has a “10 foot” TV mode so you can sit back and enjoy your videos. And Replay Converter works with the video downloads. Pretty cool stuff.
Check it out at veoh.com.
Recaptcha.net
This has little to do with the media business, but it’s so cool that it’s worth sharing. Check out http://recaptcha.net.
This service supplies free captchas – those squiggly words supposedly readable only by humans and not computers, used to prevent automated submissions of forms. The captchas are taken from scanning books where the OCR software fails. After enough humans verify a captcha, the word is corrected as a part of the book scan.
This solves two real world problems at once – supplying unique captchas to Web sites, and deciphering unreadable words using human power. Brilliant!
(Read more from the site to see how the software knows that a captcha is correct before it’s actually verified.)
Replay Media Splitter 1.3
– Some missing ASF metadata now copying from source file to destination file.
– Fixed issue wtith marker not matching with slider.
– Fixed incorrect program behavior when opening .mp3 files and moving slider (such as spontaneous playing and so on).
– Fixed issue of sometimes when moving previous or next K-frame slider moves at wrong position
– Foxed issue of sometimes when copy time from clipboard to the time calculator, to the navigation edit box or to the marker position edit box time is copied incorrect.
– Fixed high CPU usage when splitting some WMV files.
– Fixed lost audio data problem when splitting some files.
– Problem with the installed Haali Media Slpitter (KLite Codec Pack) with AVI support was fixed. Previous version returned “Input file has not been set properly or damaged (The parameter is incorrect. hr = 0x80070057)” Error if Haali was installed.
– Added WMSP1 (“Windows Media Audio 9 Voice”) audio stream recognition.
– Added MSS2 (“Windows Media Video 9 Screen”) video stream recognition.
Google Audio Ads
This is one of the weirdest things I’ve seen in a while: Google is setting up an Adwords-like system to be able to place and track radio ads. It’s called Google Audio Ads.
No, this isn’t online advertising – these are ads placed on terrestrial AM and FM radio stations. Ads are tracked by a callback phone number in the ads itself.
Why would Google undertake something so far outside their core area of expertise? Either it’s incredibly stupid, or really smart.
Perhaps Google thinks it can take over another advertising area, duplicating the success of Adwords and Adsense. Adsense works well for the hosting sites, but in our experience it doesn’t do nearly as well as targeted keyword advertising. Radio ads are usually expensive to run and ineffective unless you have a huge budget.
The other possibility is that they are setting up infrastructure for local advertising of all kinds. Location-based ads are hot in the investment community, and show a lot of promise, so perhaps this is Google’s way of trying to dominate the sector before the other location-based technologies take hold.
Google Audio Ads an interesting development, but don’t be surprised to see it become a total flop.