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Air Video is a an application that allows video streaming for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.

It is a really neat app, and I felt compelled to start reviewing some of iPhone apps that I use that I thought were really cool or could be of great use to you.

As most of you know from previous posts here, I have a media center pc in the living room and on that pc I have several movies that I have ripped from dvd, as well as tv shows that are automatically downloaded via rss feeds. Well since I purchased my new iPhone 4 I have been looking for ways to use my old iPhone 3g and although using the ipod, gps, bookreader, and other parts of it are great, I thought it would be really awesome to stream video from my computer to it.

Encoding of video files

In the past I used a program called ORB to stream video to my phone., but in order for the video to work on the iPhone I had to pre-encode it so that I could view it on the iPhone. I didn’t like this very much.

What I found to be great about the Air Video application was that you put a small client on the computer that has all the video files, and THAT computer can do ALL of video encoding for you on the fly in real time. Yes you can let it encoded it properly for the iPhone in real time as it streams the video to your phone. This is nice as you will not have to worry about what type of video it is that you are streaming. You can even encode it and save it for later to watch on your phone, ipod, or ipad.  I

Connectivity

Connectivity is great! I have tried it over Wi-Fi and also over 3G and it worked great. Over 3G there was a slightly longer buffer time, but it still worked out really good.

Check out their website here. Air Video

Here is a short video of the AIR VIDEO application for the iPhone.
I am recording this video using the iPhone4 video recorder and the app is on the 3G iPhone.
This application allows you to stream video from a source, which is my living room computer my Media Center PC, to the iPhone.
This can be done over 3g or WI-FI network.
I first stream an episode of THE IT CROWD a TV show, then I launch my copy of Iron Man the movie.

This is great when you are in the yard on the deck, or in the hammock, or laying in the bed.

Air Video is $2.99 but there is a free version that you can try first.
The free version only allows you to see 3 videos from your source.

I recommend this app!

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It’s always nice when you manage to find something in life for free.
However, it’s even better if you manage to find something which is
free and useful at the same time. Luckily, in the world of antivirus
software, this magical combination is not too difficult to find.

Antivirus programs, those designed to remove computer viruses from an
infected machine, are everywhere these days. This is not surprising as
the number of infected machines seems to increase many fold each and
every year. If your computer has ever ground to a halt, if it has ever
run wild displaying unsolicited ads, or if it has ever decided to
suddenly act in very unusual ways then you have likely had contact
with a computer virus. At this point, it is time for a little computer
repair. Now you could send your PC off to the local computer repair
technician, but why do that when you can temporarily become the
computer repair technician.

One of the most difficult parts of virus removal is deciding which
free antivirus program to download. There is a boatload of them out
there and for the computer novice it can become quite overwhelming.
Fortunately, we have done the research for you and come up with a list
of three popular, and reliable, software applications which can rid
you of this electronic pest.

3. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is a well known free antivirus program
which has been around for quite some time. It has a solid track record
of virus removal and is updated on a fairly frequent basis. The
programs interface is quite straightforward and should be useable by
nearly any computer user. The only major drawback of it is that it can
slow down your PC while it is scanning. If you have a new computer
then this will likely not be a problem. If you have a older, slower
model then you may want to look elsewhere for a free antivirus
alternative.

2. Avira AntiVir Personal is much like AVG (mentioned above). It is a
fairly well known product with a good record of virus protection and
is updated quote often. Once again, its user interface is fairly
simple and should be useable by nearly anyone. Unlike AVG, Avira tends
not to slow down your computer very much; therefore, it will work well
on a newer or older machine. The only major problem with the product
is that it continually encourages you to upgrade to the full paid
version.

1. Avast! Free antivirus is another great free antivirus alternative.
It is similar to the programs listed above; however, it comes with a
wider feature set. Not only can it scan for viruses and malware (like
AVG and Avira), but Avast! can also scan emails, websites, and IM’s
(internet messengers like MSN). The user interface for Avast! is easy
enough to learn and the program does not slow down your computer much.
The only problem with Avast! is that you have to register the free
version after 60 days (although the registration is free).

There you have it; if you are looking for a free, useful antivirus
application try one of the three programs mentioned above: AVG
Anti-Virus Free Edition, Avira AntiVir Personal, or Avast! Free.
Although they each have a few minor drawbacks, they do a very good job
of detecting and removing computer threats. If you have any more
questions about computer virus removal then feel free to come and visit Computer Repair Vancouver where we talk about a host of computer repair related
things.

I don’t know how it happened,  I think my email address was sold as a part of a list or something, but I started receiving emails in one of my Gmail accounts about some stupid money making scheme.

At the bottom of the email it had a place to unsubscribe to the email but simply emailing a reply with the subject of REMOVE ME.

I did this several times and I kept on getting emails. I even marked it as spam inside of Gmail for good measure and it still kept coming over to my phones email inbox.

Then it hit me. I remembered that Gmail had lots of filtering features that I could take advantage of.  A simple way to deal with this guy that constantly refuses to remove me from his list would be to set a filter to move his incoming emails to the deleted items folder and I would never see it. But I wanted him to know that I was sending his email to the deleted items.  I wanted a CANNED RESPONSE! Something set up to automatically let him know each time he sent me and email.

I went into Gmail and I knew where it once was but it was gone! This made me mad for a little bit till I looked deeper and Google had moved it to a new tab in the settings called LABS.

On the labs tab there are lots of little tools you can enable to use for your Gmail. Canned Response is one of them.

Here is how you can enable the feature and set up your first Canned Response.

Open up your mail and visit the settings tab

Now click on the Labs tab.

From there scroll down till you see Canned Responses and enable it.

After you have selected enable, scroll to the bottom and select Save Changes.

Now lets setup a canned response.

Compose a new email.

Save the email as a response.

Create a filter for emails you do not like or from people you do not care to get emails from. We will set an auto response for these.
Click CREATE A NEW FILTER

Here I will type who to filter the email from.

Here I will tell it to skip the inbox, and send the canned response. The one I made and saved earlier.

There you have it. Next time I get an email from the jerk, he will get my response and I will never see it.

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Recently AVG.com released a run from cd version of their popular free anti-virus program. They call it a rescue CD.

Here at USERBYTES we have grown tired of CD’s for a long time now. They often get scratched and I found that I have to keep up with way to many of them. All our readers here prefer the USB flashdrive method with lots of utilities on it.

Read about how to create your own here http://www.userbytes.com/roll-your-own-multiboot-usb-flash-drive/

For those that are familiar with this project and you now want to add AVG to your drive, its really simple.

First download the version for USB flash drives here. Download Rescue CD (for USB stick) it will be in .rar format so you will need winrar or 7zip to extract it.

WINRAR Download
7zip Download

Once it is downloaded, extract it and put the contents in a folder that you will create on the root of the USB flash drive called AVG

Now add this code to your menu.lst file on your multi-boot usb flash drive.

title AVG Anti-Virus
root (hd0,0)
kernel /AVG/vmlinuz persistent vga=0×317 ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw quiet
initrd=/AVG/initrd.lzm
boot

That’s all there is too it.