The early iPhone jailbreak scene spawned numerous iPhone applications that were free of Apple’s iPhone SDK restrictions. One of those early applications, Orb, caught our eye as a PC-to-iPhone streaming media application. With the ability to place-shift music, video, and even live TV (if your computer is equipped to pull down TV broadcasts), Orb offered

The question of “Can we use Orb” on this mobile phone keeps popping up on the Orb forums, and by “this mobile phone” they mean a Google Android based mobile handset,, and the simple answer is yes you can. One particular forum user asked if there was ever going to be an Android Orb application at

Kinoma has updated their popular Kinoma Player EX for Palm OS devices. This latest version brings a number of new features and improvements. First up, support for the Orb streaming media service is now built in so you can access your own personal media library nearly anywhere. Kinoma has also improved the internal bookmark capabilities for streaming content and improved much of the youtube functio...

TiVo and RIM are getting all friendly on us, teaming up to build software for the BlackBerry that could strike fear in the hearts of Slingbox and Orb. Right now it's pretty innocuous, utilizing the phone to check listings and schedule recordings, but in the future the two are looking to "further simplify mobile access to video content" -- which means streaming video straigh off the TiVo to a ...

We saw quite a few articles about the state of the boys with the orange orb recently - while some were positive, the outlook for the Palm OS looks bleaker by the minute. The folks at MobilityToday’s now met some folks who were involved in the Treo Pro’s design - and left the meeting in a

I've decided to try something new on my LS800.  After I doubled the height of the taskbar, as suggested by Warner I had an annoying issue.  When I clicked the orb to bring up the Start menu in landscape mode I would get a message stating that some Start Menu items could not be displayed.  Remember that the LS800 has a screen resolution of 800 x 600.  As far as I could tell the only item missing wa

The folks behind Orb, the application/service that allows you to stream content from your PC to other devices, just announced the iPhone support. Now Apple handset's users are able to access all the content from their PC — including TV — to their shiny device. Naturally, iPod Touch is also supported but it is required,

Orb Networks today issued Orb update version 2.01.0013. This update makes various improvements, most notably, support for streaming Live TV to Apple's iPhone. The update enables this by installing the OrbLive application on a jailbroken iPhone. Orb plans to add support for un-modified iPhones with the upcoming iPhone 2.0 software update, available next month. In addition, the

Some things you learn about and then proceed to forget about them. This is one of those cases for me. In fact I posted about this Vista performance tip what seems like ages ago here on GBM. I thought it was worth fresh look so here we go. The round Start Button or Orb can cause the GPU to force a non-rectangular clipping operation when it is overlapping a maximized window. This indeed causes some

Orb, the popular free placeshifting software for remote access of media, has been updated. Version 2.00.1084 makes several bug fixes and improvements. The update fixes several connection issues with Windows Vista, including key updates to support Vista Service Pack 1. Most notable however, is the addition of MMSH 1.1 support. This enables streaming media players to