Brainwagon Radio: Opera for Smartphone, Orb and Deep Impact

July 1, 2005 | Brainwagon Radio, General | By: Mark VandeWettering

Where your host tries to shake off his morning jolt with some gadget news and a brief bit about some weekend fireworks in space.

Links from the show:

  • Opera for Windows Smartphones has been released. I have a Motorola MPX220, so I downloaded it and gave it a shot. Pretty neat, check it out.
  • Orb Networks makes a free download that you can run on your Mediacenter PC (everybody has one of those right) WinXP box to control and stream content from that PC to any web enabled device anywhere on the Internet. I was streaming a bit of the Giants game to my cell phone last night. I’ll have a longer review of this later, but in the mean time check it out.
  • NASA’s Deep Impact probe is due to mash into Comet Tempel 1 this weekend. The flash may actually be visible to amateurs or even possibly naked eye. If you are bored with the standard fireworks, consider trying to watch this. If any amateurs are going to get pictures of this and want a link, drop me an email and I’ll share some link love.

Comments

Comment from Josh Bancroft
Time 7/1/2005 at 11:11 am

Actually, Orb runs on any Windows XP PC – Media Center Edition not required.

Editor’s note: I stand corrected.