What is Orb? Simply stated it is a program that gives you secure access to your digital media from your home computer through a simple Web interface. Log on to Orb and you can stream your live TV, look through all your photos, listen to the hundreds of music files you have stored and watch all of your favorite videos that you have collected and all of this can be "streamed" to any Web-enabled device. Pretty cool, huh?
Well, Darius Way thinks it is cool too! Darius, an editor of Pocket PC Thoughts and a member of the Boards of Experts panel for Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine, wrote a nice article that has been posted on the Microsoft Windows Mobile site about Orb.
In part, Darius had the following to say:
Do you miss your favorite songs when you leave home? Now you don't have to. Thanks to a free online service and your Windows Mobile powered device, they’re available whenever you have a connection to the Internet.
Orb gives you unlimited access to the media stored on your personal computer. It streams digital media on your PC—whether it’s a favorite song or a favorite television show—to your smartphone or Pocket PC.
I’m already addicted to Orb. Even though memory cards continue to drop in price, I still can’t get one big enough to hold my collection. Even if you have a two-gigabyte memory card packed with music, there's a good chance you have many more gigabytes worth of digital media sitting on your personal computer. That's where Orb comes into play. If you're sitting in an airport lounge halfway across the world and you're itching to listen to one of your favorite tracks at home, you can. As Orb puts it, it's "home entertainment without the home."
It is an excellent article and one that I highly recommended for you to read. You can find Darius' article on Mobile Media Without Limits here on the Microsoft Windows Mobile site.
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