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iPhone App: FStream
Jul 28th
This app has been available since the early days of the App Store, however the whole time, it has seemed to be the best of the streaming audio applications available, however the interface is slightly less than intuitive.FStream has a built-in library of presets including ShoutCast and the iTunes presets, however there is functionality to add in a custom feed. I’ve really only ever used this app to receive the TWiT.am audio feed (twit.am/listen). I am aware that there is a specialized TWiT.am app in the App Store, however it doesn’t seem to be as resilient to a slower connection (*cough* EDGE *cough*) as FStream.
You can get FStream in the App Store for free. It is compatible with the iPod Touch and iPhone (3.0 not required.)
Quick Tip: Stream Audio in Background on iPhone/iPod Touch on OS 3.0
Jun 24th
I’m a TWiT aficionado and always use the TWiT.am app from the App Store, however it doesn’t work in the background (a feature I LOVED when I had my iPod jailbroken) however, I got curios and tried this, and so can you!
- Go to http://twit.am/ in Safari
- Click on Listen Live
- [A Player opens – as seen below]
- Click the home/menu button on the front of the device and the audio keeps playing in the background.
What I’m Watching: Dr. Kiki and Ray Maxwell
May 15th
This week I finally caught the live stream of Dr. kiki’s Science hour on live.twit.tv, Leo Laporte (of TWiT.tv)’s live video stream of everything he does, even some shows which you can’t directly get a podcast feed of, such as Maxwell’s House with Ray Maxwell and Dr. Kiki’s Science Hour with Dr. Kiki Sanford. Usually I’m passive with viewing these shows, but they were somehow exceptionally wonderful this week.
Dr. Kiki spread the show over just about every topic from medicine to chaos theory in drawers with cords, very thought-provocating. Ray Maxwell introduced the atomic theories such as Bohr, Ruthford, and will be spending the next few weeks going into great depth. But, this gets better, because Ray Maxwell is going to be joined by Dr. Amanda Peet (aka @kiwinerd in the TWiT chat rooms, on Twitter, and the TWiT Army) who has been with the University of Toronto since 2000 and appeared in PBS’ NOVA ‘The Elegant Universe’.
These two shows (Maxwell’s house and Dr. Kiki’s Science Hour) are both great shows which tend to broadcast on Thursdays at 2p (Maxwell) and 3p (Kiki) Pacific time. To get an up to date schedule, see this calendar.
Or should you miss any TWiT show, you can get it at ODTV.me (which is coincidently run by kiwinerd). The links for the two shows mentioned above are:
Kinemac: TWiT Animation
Mar 26th
This is a quick animation I made in Kinemac from the MacHeist bundle this year. I experimented with 3D camera controls against 2D objects.
Kinemac: First 20 Minutes
Mar 25th
Part of MacHeist this year was a $300 animation app, Kinemac. I sat down and played with it, and I actually got a working animation. My biggest hang-up was making sure that the camera view is at the top of the sprites window and to make a keyframe before editing the sprite. Here is a copy of the project file.
Here is the Quicktime output of it (8 whole seconds!!) (download here.)
