Orb and Steek demonstrate “Orb Online”
August 31, 2007
To PC or not to PC - Users Decide When to Stream Media from the Internet
San Francisco (USA), Paris (France), [31/08/2007] Orb Networks, whose PC application lets users stream media from their PC to any other internet-connected device, today announced how, with Agematis, users could stream their content without using their PCs.
By integrating the Orb MyCast service with Steek, a network based solution from Agematis, the two companies highlighted the added insurance, convenience, transferability, and anytime access benefits of an internet-based Orb solution. Orb OnLine! extends the Orb media sharing architecture to the internet, providing users with the choice to stream their content via their computer, or from the internet.
More File Formats On steekR
August 30, 2007
The fancy new slideshow module on steekR also received a major backend revamp. It now supports dozens of formats, from the ubiquitous extensions jpg, mp3 and avi to the popular png, tiff, aac, wma, ogg, asf, mp4 or flv but also the more obscure formats like C93, DXA and CRI ADX ADPCM. I am sure the latests are very useful too 
You can try the new slideshow here. Click the checkbox Select 24 items, then click the Play button in the black toolbar.
The Image tab will display the only image file in the selection.
If you select the musique tab–the one with the musical note–you’ll be able to listen to an excellent album, available here under a Creative Commons licence.
The magic behind the support for all these formats comes from FFmpeg, an open source “complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.” The list of supported formats is here.
Steek Blog Brasil
August 23, 2007
The Brazilian version of the steek blog is no live at
In perfect Portuguese, of course! Paulo, thaks for the great job!
PS: You’ll find the link to French version of the sidebar.
SteekUP: More On The New Features
August 23, 2007
Let’s get back to the new features in the latest steekUP version, some of them described in this post from July 20th.
First, this new SteekUP version allows users to master the CPU and bandwidth used by the application, thanks to the new option in the “Advanced settings” section of the Configuration tab.
Simply define a maximum transfer speed, like the 500KB/s in the screenshot, and the rest of your bandwidth will remain available to your other applications.
Another big innovation in steekUP is the full intégration with the Windows, especially its contextual menu and the way files and folders are listed in Windows Explorer.
At any time, you can right-click on the sected elements in Windows Explorer and add them to you steekUP selection.
Steek = Web 3.0
August 23, 2007
It’s not necessarily a bad thing, but I was wondering what should one think when the strategy and the product of an enterprise are the very definition of Web 3.0, according to Google’s boss.
“Google CEO Eric Schmidt was recently at the Seoul Digital Forum
and he was asked to define Web 3.0 by an audience member. After first
joking that Web 2.0 is “a marketing term”, Schmidt launched into a
great definition of Web 3.0. He said that while Web 2.0 was based on
Ajax, Web 3.0 will be “applications that are pieced together” - with
the characteristics that the apps are relatively small, the data is in
the cloud, the apps can run on any device (PC or mobile), the apps are
very fast and very customizable, and are distributed virally (social
networks, email, etc).”
Read it on ReadWriteWeb here.
PNY: Offer Updated
August 23, 2007
As said in this pretty good french article on Silicon.fr the PNY/steekR offer will finaly include 2 GB of online storage with each 2 GB USB drive purchase. It’s even easier like this!
So, if you are buying a 2 GB USB drive to transfer your most recent files with you or between your Mac and Windows PC’s, you can save and share its content directly, without installing aything on any of the machines you are using the drive with. In fact, you don’t have to worry about loosing the USB drive–or the PC’s–the good stuff’s backed up.
