Double-U Tee Eff, it’s cnettv flash video streaming to my non-jailbroken iPhone, in Firefox? Yup. This is all thanks to the Cloud Browse app.
The app details don’t give any information about how this is actually working. As far as I can tell the app makes a VNC-type connection to a virtual machine on Amazon EC2. Works like a charm.
Get it while it lasts though, seems like the sort of app Apple might pull from the App Store.
[iTunes Link]
I want to shout out a couple of the sites that have been promoting iPlayPhone recently.
Matt Howie – creator of metafilter – gave iPlayPhone mention in his roundup of Recommended Kid Games.
AssociatedContent – a site I’d never heard of, but one that evidently gets over 24,000,000 visitors per month – ranked iPlayPhone #2 “Best Phone App for Kids on the iPhone.”
I just recieved the following email from last.fm:
subject: Your free trial to Last.fm Radio is over. Did you enjoy it?
Hi 200iso,
Your free trial to Last.fm Radio is about to end. If you’re enjoying it, why not
subscribe for only $3.00/month and continue listening to non-stop personalised
radio.Best Regards,
The Last.fm Team
What a backhanded way to introduce a paid service. Apparently the last 5 YEARS I’ve been using last.fm have been nothing more than a free trial.
Very weird marketting choice.
I haven’t see a whole lot of information around the intertubes about what it’s actually like to deploy an iPhone App. Sure there are stories every other week about Apple’s ridiculously inconsistent censorship, and talk of developers not being paid. But there is not a lot of information about the actual process of getting App into the iTunes Store.
I’m going to go through a couple of different steps in the process and talk about some of the unexpected problems. I must say though, I was not very impressed. Nothing about the process is very “Apple-like.”