Day: November 15, 2006

Geek Software of the Week: Vibe Streamer!

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More and more we are going to see streaming services in our homes. I still believe that the future of TV is actually “IPTV,” meaning TV shows will be streamed over the Internet to our homes and we will be able to have “narrowcasting” of only what we want to watch shown on our TV sets! Well, you can do that now with MP3 music in your home!

Vibe Streamer – Free MP3 Streaming Music Server for Windows

Check out these features on this FREE software!

  • Free MP3 Streaming Server.
  • Easy installation and configuration.
  • Share unlimited files and directories.
  • Full support for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003.
  • Protect your directories with user accounts and groups.
  • Easily manage your users, groups and their access rights.
  • Restrict access to your server based on the clients IP address, for better security.
    Unlimited skin possibilities, create your own or download new skins as they appear on our website.
  • The included standard skin supports the latest versions of Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Opera.
  • Our own Vibe Script Language, for unlimited possibilities in skin creation.
  • Guaranteed free from backdoors, spyware, adware and other non-requested software.

    • Very nice! Check it out! And, if you set up your outgoing ports through your firewall correctly, you can even listen over the Internet from anywhere (say, at work!) Keep all your music in one place, yet securely listen to them when you want to, anywhere you have an Internet connection!

    The New “Zune” from Microsoft is Incompatible with Windows Vista!

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    You HAVE to be kidding! You would think Microsoft would have “talked among themselves” and made sure that this embarrassing issue would not have happened!

    It’s true: The Zune is incompatible with Vista

    “I had heard the Windows Media Player DRM and the Zune DRM were not going to be compatible. (According to this Knowledge Base article, Zune supports Windows Media Player 10’s DRM, but not WMP 11’s. And ‘Zune software and devices only play protected music files from Zune Marketplace.’) That was bad enough. But there is absolutely no way Microsoft would allow the Zune to work only with Windows XP SP2 and Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 Update Rollup 2, I said. It is going to have to support Vista — or at least have a clear-cut upgrade path and timetable as to when Vista support will be provided. But on November 14, Microsoft rolled out the Zune player, which doesn’t work with Vista. And so far, the Softies haven’t provided any public info (that I’ve heard/seen) about when the company will introduce a patch or update enabling the Zune to work with Vista. I already know Microsoft’s justification: Vista only RTM’d on November 8. So there was no way that the Zune team could have made sure the final Vista bits would work with Zunes. All I can say is Microsoft really needs to have a Vista update — or at least a public Vista support strategy — for Zune by the time the company does the business launch of Vista on November 30.”