Ok. This is a new theme i have been considering writing about. It should be fun but what i need are evveryday problems for which information is uncertain and a decision must be made. Here is a very simple and oft discussed example. Suppose that you are on the show Let's Make a Deal. The scenario is as follows. You are shown three curtains and told behind the curtains are three prizes. One of the prizes is valuable the other two are generally not valuable. You are asked to pick a curtain. At this point you have a 1/3 chance of having selected the curtain with the prize behind it. You are then shown that behind one of the curtains that you did not choose is one of the crummy prizes. You are then asked whether you would like to stick with the curtain you initially chose or switch and choose the other remaining curtain.
If you stick with your original choice you still have a 1/3 chance of winning. On teh other hand, the prize had a 2/3 chance of being in one of teh other two curtains. This remains true even after you have been shown that a crummy prize was behind one of those two. As a result, the remaining curtain of the two still has a 2/3 chance of having the prize. Thus switching doubles your chances of winning. Neato!
Friday, November 14, 2008
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
iPod Touch/iPhone Update
By popular request, here is another post on the configuration of my iPod Touch and how i make use of it to enhance by my personal and professional lives. This post will be organized into two parts. The first will deal list my official appstore apps and webbased tools which i use. The second will just give a very quick overview of how to jailbreak the latest OS (and unlock for 2G phones) and the list which unofficial apps I find useful. FYI, its an increasingly small number these days.
Ok. My apples store apps:
(1) Google Calendar (and/or Contacts and/or Mail) syncing with Microsoft Exchange. I used to use the jailbreak app NemusSync for this purpose but the free NuevaSync services works even better. Directions for its use can be found here, but the essence of the procedure is that you create a free account with nuevasync.com give it permission to read and update your google calendar (by ticking an option). Then on your iPhone, goto Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendar. Then add an account select Microsoft exchange and enter you newly made nuevasync.com info. Anyway, detailed instructions can be found at nuevasync.com.
(2) Mocha VNC: This is a versatile, free, VNC client for your iPhone. I run the (also free) TightVNC server along with no-ip on my PC and this combination allows me use the iPod touch to login to my windows desktop. Its primary function is to check on numerical jobs I am running and possibly start new ones. For the free version, you lack the use of the right mouse button in windows, but the keyboard works just fine. Instructions to install tight VNC for your PC are to be found here. MAC users have a VNC server already their machines which just need to be setup. If the PC (or MAC) that intend to use has a dynamic ip address. I recommend signing up for a free account at no-ip.com which effectively gives you a fixed ip address for your computer (after you install a bit of software). Just sign up here and follow the instructions.
(3) Itunes Remote. Use you iPhone as a remote control for iTunes one a machine on a local network. Just start it up and follow the instructions. Works perfectly, is great for parties.
(3) Fring. Turns your iPhone into a internet phone allowing you to make calls (or send instant messages) using Skype or a SIP account. For SIP service i use Gizmo. But its the same cost as skype out (~2cents a minute for international calls) so if you Prefer skype it is unnecessary to sign up for it.
(4) AirSharing. Basically, if you want to read papers while you fly, or carry around maps of the subway on you iphone for those occasions when you have neither cell service or wifi access, then this is the program for you. Once installed and properly configured it makes your iphone or touch show up as a networked hard drive on your local area network. Using your laptop you can then drag and drop files to your iPhone/iPod Touch for later viewing. Supports PDF's, Word Docs, Excel, and PPT so you can even upload a presentation and give the smallest talk ever. Install the app through the app store and then follow the instructions which appear when you start up the app for the first time.
(5) Simplify Mobile Media. This app lets you stream the music in you iTunes library to your device over the internet or edge. Useful for when you want to hear a particular song that you didn't happen to squeeze onto your 8Gig device. Instructions for setup are here, but the procedure is fairly simple. You sign up for a free account, install some software onto the PC from which you would like to stream your iTunes library, download the Simplify Media app from the app store, start it up, and login with your newly created username and password.
(6) Orb the easiest way to stream video (of just about any format) from your pc to your iPhone or iPod Touch. It works just like Simplify, but it uses the safari browser instead of have an apple store app interface. So it also requires that you set up a free orb account, found here. After signing up it will ask you to install some software on your PC and point it do the directories when your videos/music/documents that you want access to over wifi or edge. To access the videos you then point your iPhone's browser to mycast.orb.com and then enter your username and password. Note, OrbLive is a $6 app at the app store which provides a nicer interface than the web interface, but I dont think is worth the money.
(7) Google Reader. I like google reader and the mobile interface is pretty good, so I use it. Just navigate to www.google.com select reader at the top and login. Easy.
(8) GraphCalc. A graphing calculator. Useful when you need it. I've used it once to plot a few functions as a sanity check.
(9) NowPlaying. Useful for finding movies and movie times.
(10) Games: Sodoku, Tap Tap Revolution, Trace, MazeFinger, Word Wrap. Aurora Feint, Sol Free
(11) TouchType: Lets you use a landscape (big) keyboard for writing long emails. Review is here.
JailBreaking.
Directions can be found here. But i will give a short overview.
Note: you can only unlock 2G phones for use with any sim chip.
Regardless of whether you've a MAC or PC the procedure for jailbreaking and unlocking your iPhone is relatively simple and involves downloading a copy of the latest operating system provided by apple. Found here for iPhone or here for the iPod Touch
Assuming that you have used iTunes to upgrade to the latest version of the device's operating system the one you want is the one at the end of the list.
You then download and running a program called QuickPwn or WinPwn depending upon whether you have a MAC or PC. Files found here for MAC and here for PC.
Basically you just install the software run it and follow the instructions. The hardest step is putting your device into DFU mode. Which involves holding down the Home button (that's the big round one at the bottom) and then the power button (the little one on the top) for certain amounts of time and in a certain order and sometimes together. But its all in the directions you will receive. To unlock your 2G phone you may be asked to download two additional files, which can be found here: Bootloader version 3.9 and Bootloader version 4.6
Once you've successfully jailbroken you device you have a few new icons Cydia and Installer. I only use Cydia so thats what i will talk about. The first thing you want to do Click on Cydia and install any upgrades that are recommended. After that i recommend going selecting Home at the bottom of the screen and then selecting "Featured apps". I have installed MobileTerminal and SSH as well as BossPrefs. You need the last one if you have SSH as it allows you to turn the SSH server on and off. I haven't tried Netatalk + MobileFinder may also be useful for those you don't want to pay for AirShare. I haven't used it but supposedly PdaNet is also a nice way to convert your phone into a wireless router. You can then point your laptop to your iPhone and get internet access on the laptop through your iPhone Edge network.
Have fun.
Ok. My apples store apps:
(1) Google Calendar (and/or Contacts and/or Mail) syncing with Microsoft Exchange. I used to use the jailbreak app NemusSync for this purpose but the free NuevaSync services works even better. Directions for its use can be found here, but the essence of the procedure is that you create a free account with nuevasync.com give it permission to read and update your google calendar (by ticking an option). Then on your iPhone, goto Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendar. Then add an account select Microsoft exchange and enter you newly made nuevasync.com info. Anyway, detailed instructions can be found at nuevasync.com.
(2) Mocha VNC: This is a versatile, free, VNC client for your iPhone. I run the (also free) TightVNC server along with no-ip on my PC and this combination allows me use the iPod touch to login to my windows desktop. Its primary function is to check on numerical jobs I am running and possibly start new ones. For the free version, you lack the use of the right mouse button in windows, but the keyboard works just fine. Instructions to install tight VNC for your PC are to be found here. MAC users have a VNC server already their machines which just need to be setup. If the PC (or MAC) that intend to use has a dynamic ip address. I recommend signing up for a free account at no-ip.com which effectively gives you a fixed ip address for your computer (after you install a bit of software). Just sign up here and follow the instructions.
(3) Itunes Remote. Use you iPhone as a remote control for iTunes one a machine on a local network. Just start it up and follow the instructions. Works perfectly, is great for parties.
(3) Fring. Turns your iPhone into a internet phone allowing you to make calls (or send instant messages) using Skype or a SIP account. For SIP service i use Gizmo. But its the same cost as skype out (~2cents a minute for international calls) so if you Prefer skype it is unnecessary to sign up for it.
(4) AirSharing. Basically, if you want to read papers while you fly, or carry around maps of the subway on you iphone for those occasions when you have neither cell service or wifi access, then this is the program for you. Once installed and properly configured it makes your iphone or touch show up as a networked hard drive on your local area network. Using your laptop you can then drag and drop files to your iPhone/iPod Touch for later viewing. Supports PDF's, Word Docs, Excel, and PPT so you can even upload a presentation and give the smallest talk ever. Install the app through the app store and then follow the instructions which appear when you start up the app for the first time.
(5) Simplify Mobile Media. This app lets you stream the music in you iTunes library to your device over the internet or edge. Useful for when you want to hear a particular song that you didn't happen to squeeze onto your 8Gig device. Instructions for setup are here, but the procedure is fairly simple. You sign up for a free account, install some software onto the PC from which you would like to stream your iTunes library, download the Simplify Media app from the app store, start it up, and login with your newly created username and password.
(6) Orb the easiest way to stream video (of just about any format) from your pc to your iPhone or iPod Touch. It works just like Simplify, but it uses the safari browser instead of have an apple store app interface. So it also requires that you set up a free orb account, found here. After signing up it will ask you to install some software on your PC and point it do the directories when your videos/music/documents that you want access to over wifi or edge. To access the videos you then point your iPhone's browser to mycast.orb.com and then enter your username and password. Note, OrbLive is a $6 app at the app store which provides a nicer interface than the web interface, but I dont think is worth the money.
(7) Google Reader. I like google reader and the mobile interface is pretty good, so I use it. Just navigate to www.google.com select reader at the top and login. Easy.
(8) GraphCalc. A graphing calculator. Useful when you need it. I've used it once to plot a few functions as a sanity check.
(9) NowPlaying. Useful for finding movies and movie times.
(10) Games: Sodoku, Tap Tap Revolution, Trace, MazeFinger, Word Wrap. Aurora Feint, Sol Free
(11) TouchType: Lets you use a landscape (big) keyboard for writing long emails. Review is here.
JailBreaking.
Directions can be found here. But i will give a short overview.
Note: you can only unlock 2G phones for use with any sim chip.
Regardless of whether you've a MAC or PC the procedure for jailbreaking and unlocking your iPhone is relatively simple and involves downloading a copy of the latest operating system provided by apple. Found here for iPhone or here for the iPod Touch
Assuming that you have used iTunes to upgrade to the latest version of the device's operating system the one you want is the one at the end of the list.
You then download and running a program called QuickPwn or WinPwn depending upon whether you have a MAC or PC. Files found here for MAC and here for PC.
Basically you just install the software run it and follow the instructions. The hardest step is putting your device into DFU mode. Which involves holding down the Home button (that's the big round one at the bottom) and then the power button (the little one on the top) for certain amounts of time and in a certain order and sometimes together. But its all in the directions you will receive. To unlock your 2G phone you may be asked to download two additional files, which can be found here: Bootloader version 3.9 and Bootloader version 4.6
Once you've successfully jailbroken you device you have a few new icons Cydia and Installer. I only use Cydia so thats what i will talk about. The first thing you want to do Click on Cydia and install any upgrades that are recommended. After that i recommend going selecting Home at the bottom of the screen and then selecting "Featured apps". I have installed MobileTerminal and SSH as well as BossPrefs. You need the last one if you have SSH as it allows you to turn the SSH server on and off. I haven't tried Netatalk + MobileFinder may also be useful for those you don't want to pay for AirShare. I haven't used it but supposedly PdaNet is also a nice way to convert your phone into a wireless router. You can then point your laptop to your iPhone and get internet access on the laptop through your iPhone Edge network.
Have fun.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Why Bayes Rules
I need to stop reading this stuff. The opening discussion on induction and the in ability to come to the "correct" conclusion in the case of the crows and to decide between green and grue emeralds was particularly annoying. In the first case, the statement all crows are black is considered. This statement is problematic because, if it is true, one could never rationally conclude that it is true unless you observe all crows.
In a slightly more complicated example, Nelson Goodman considered the statement, "all emeralds are green" and the statement "all emeralds are either green or blue (grue)". He then noted that if it is true that all emeralds are green, then the observation of any number of emeralds is equally consistent with either of these two statements.
The author then resolves this by suggesting that these statements should be rephrased to take the form "all but finitely many crows are black, i.e. 70% are black". Ignoring the incorrect use of the word finitely, this is considered acceptable as it represents (to the author) a statement which can be reasonably accepted after observing a finite amount of data and is asymptotically reliable.
Anyway, what kills me is that this problem has a normative solution provided you're willing to give up the impossible dream certainty in the presence of finite data. Moreover, that solution doesn't require you to give up on very reasonable statements like all emeralds are green, just that you acknowledge that you can only come to a conclusion of that sort with a confidence level which corresponds to a probability level that the statement is correct that is less than one. Here, for example, is the Bayesian Laplacian approach to the emerald problem.
Suppose that you have N emeralds and all are green. The quantity of interest is the probability that hypothesis one (H1 = all emeralds are green) is true divided by the probability that hypothesis two (H2 = all emeralds are grue) is true.
Clearly,
P(N Green Observations/NG0 | H1 = true) = 1
while hypothesis 2 has a hidden parameter, theta, which gives the percent of emeralds which are green. Marginalizing out this parameter implies...
P(NGO | H2 = true) = \int p(NGO | theta, H2)*p(theta | H2) dtheta
Utilizing the Jeffreys prior for p(theta | H2)dtheta this yeilds
P(NGO | H2 = true) = \int theta^n/sqrt(theta*(1-theta))/pi dtheta
= Gamma(N+1/2)/Gamma(N+1)/sqrt(pi)
where Gamma is the Gamma function.
In the limit as N goes to infinity P(NGO | H2) goes to zero indicating that this form of inference is asymptotically efficient. More importantly, however, for N=30 observations of green emeralds P(NG0|H2) = 0.05 indicating that, even a small amount of data can lead to a 95% confidence in the conclusion that all emeralds are green. Meanwhile, it is still the case that a single observation of a blue emerald is sufficient to reduce this confidence to zero.
As an added benefit this method can also be used to predict (at any time) the probability that a blue emerald will be found, i.e we can compute P(Blue Emerald | NGO), which gives the probability that we will change our mind the next time we see an emerald.
Of course, we could also have take the authors suggestion and, instead of hypothesis testing, we could have asked simple what is the probability that non-green emeralds exist given that we have observed N green emeralds. This requires ignoring H1 completely, and instead computing
p(theta | NGO) = theta^N / pi / sqrt(theta*(1-theta)) / p( NGO | H2 )
Curiously, in this case, the probability that your conclusion that all emeralds are green will eventually be proven incorrect is bounded from below by 1-exp(-1/2) \approx 0.4 That is, no matter how many observations of green emeralds you have observed there is at least a 40% chance that you will eventually observe a green emerald.
Similarly, the probability of failing to observe N additional green emeralds after having already observed N green emeralds, i.e. the probability of failing to replicate your observations is bounded from below by 1-exp(-1/4) \approx 0.22 even as N goes to infinity.
In a slightly more complicated example, Nelson Goodman considered the statement, "all emeralds are green" and the statement "all emeralds are either green or blue (grue)". He then noted that if it is true that all emeralds are green, then the observation of any number of emeralds is equally consistent with either of these two statements.
The author then resolves this by suggesting that these statements should be rephrased to take the form "all but finitely many crows are black, i.e. 70% are black". Ignoring the incorrect use of the word finitely, this is considered acceptable as it represents (to the author) a statement which can be reasonably accepted after observing a finite amount of data and is asymptotically reliable.
Anyway, what kills me is that this problem has a normative solution provided you're willing to give up the impossible dream certainty in the presence of finite data. Moreover, that solution doesn't require you to give up on very reasonable statements like all emeralds are green, just that you acknowledge that you can only come to a conclusion of that sort with a confidence level which corresponds to a probability level that the statement is correct that is less than one. Here, for example, is the Bayesian Laplacian approach to the emerald problem.
Suppose that you have N emeralds and all are green. The quantity of interest is the probability that hypothesis one (H1 = all emeralds are green) is true divided by the probability that hypothesis two (H2 = all emeralds are grue) is true.
Clearly,
P(N Green Observations/NG0 | H1 = true) = 1
while hypothesis 2 has a hidden parameter, theta, which gives the percent of emeralds which are green. Marginalizing out this parameter implies...
P(NGO | H2 = true) = \int p(NGO | theta, H2)*p(theta | H2) dtheta
Utilizing the Jeffreys prior for p(theta | H2)dtheta this yeilds
P(NGO | H2 = true) = \int theta^n/sqrt(theta*(1-theta))/pi dtheta
= Gamma(N+1/2)/Gamma(N+1)/sqrt(pi)
where Gamma is the Gamma function.
In the limit as N goes to infinity P(NGO | H2) goes to zero indicating that this form of inference is asymptotically efficient. More importantly, however, for N=30 observations of green emeralds P(NG0|H2) = 0.05 indicating that, even a small amount of data can lead to a 95% confidence in the conclusion that all emeralds are green. Meanwhile, it is still the case that a single observation of a blue emerald is sufficient to reduce this confidence to zero.
As an added benefit this method can also be used to predict (at any time) the probability that a blue emerald will be found, i.e we can compute P(Blue Emerald | NGO), which gives the probability that we will change our mind the next time we see an emerald.
Of course, we could also have take the authors suggestion and, instead of hypothesis testing, we could have asked simple what is the probability that non-green emeralds exist given that we have observed N green emeralds. This requires ignoring H1 completely, and instead computing
p(theta | NGO) = theta^N / pi / sqrt(theta*(1-theta)) / p( NGO | H2 )
Curiously, in this case, the probability that your conclusion that all emeralds are green will eventually be proven incorrect is bounded from below by 1-exp(-1/2) \approx 0.4 That is, no matter how many observations of green emeralds you have observed there is at least a 40% chance that you will eventually observe a green emerald.
Similarly, the probability of failing to observe N additional green emeralds after having already observed N green emeralds, i.e. the probability of failing to replicate your observations is bounded from below by 1-exp(-1/4) \approx 0.22 even as N goes to infinity.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
When did deep theory become synonimous with inane sophistry? The Rookie Error
In this article from that bastion of learned discourse, Discover Magazine, a physicist is interviewed regarding his 'scientific' theory that the universe is actually made of mathematics, or as he puts it, "there is only mathematics; that is all that exists." At first, this article caught my eye because i thought/hoped that he was making a clumsy epistemological statement regarding the necessity for formal, i.e. mathematical, explanations of physical phenomena, and that heuristic reasoning should be appreciated for its utility in guiding avenues of inquiry but should not be trusted if it can't be formalized. I had even naively hoped that, en route, he was simply going to point out that it is unwise to confer metaphysical significance to the various latent (explanatory) variables of a given theory. Or even to commit to a single theory but rather to accept them in proportion to their relative likelihood given observations, i.e. take a fully Bayesian approach.
Unfortunately, i was wrong on all counts. Honestly, i should know by now that far too many scientists really do believe that the latent variables of their theories have metaphysical significance. So much so that when fundamental theories begin to posit the existence of increasingly abstract entities, at least one physicist is forced to conclude that abstraction is the only thing with metaphysical significance and that all abstract theories (though presumably just the self consistent ones) give rise to universes in which those theories hold.
The article even includes a direct quote which I always affiliate with this kind of pseudo scientific cosmology. Regarding the level 2 multiverse: "No, they share the same space, but we could never communicate with them because we are all being swept away from each other as space expands faster than light can travel." Untestable is unscientific. The interviewer seems to sense that something is fishy and does ask about testable predictions to which the interviewee responds by saying yes there are testable predictions but then, instead of listing any, he effectively seems to say that all we have to do is figure out how things look from outside the universe....unfortunately, the interview ended before we could be told how to accomplish that without firing up a doobie.
Seriously, we need to remember that science is nothing more than prediction and data compression. At best we might say that the Data, being immutable, does have some special significance, but metaphysical significance, even of the data, is irrelevant to scientific inquiry. As such, we might as well take Occam's advice and shave away that pretentious beard, it looks better in a humanities department anyway.
Unfortunately, i was wrong on all counts. Honestly, i should know by now that far too many scientists really do believe that the latent variables of their theories have metaphysical significance. So much so that when fundamental theories begin to posit the existence of increasingly abstract entities, at least one physicist is forced to conclude that abstraction is the only thing with metaphysical significance and that all abstract theories (though presumably just the self consistent ones) give rise to universes in which those theories hold.
The article even includes a direct quote which I always affiliate with this kind of pseudo scientific cosmology. Regarding the level 2 multiverse: "No, they share the same space, but we could never communicate with them because we are all being swept away from each other as space expands faster than light can travel." Untestable is unscientific. The interviewer seems to sense that something is fishy and does ask about testable predictions to which the interviewee responds by saying yes there are testable predictions but then, instead of listing any, he effectively seems to say that all we have to do is figure out how things look from outside the universe....unfortunately, the interview ended before we could be told how to accomplish that without firing up a doobie.
Seriously, we need to remember that science is nothing more than prediction and data compression. At best we might say that the Data, being immutable, does have some special significance, but metaphysical significance, even of the data, is irrelevant to scientific inquiry. As such, we might as well take Occam's advice and shave away that pretentious beard, it looks better in a humanities department anyway.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Google Side Bar
In response to a few querries here's a screenshot of my desktop. I have been trying to keep it cleaner that i used to and Vista's launcher and integrated search make it pretty easy. The SimpleDrive is the external device which has all my reasearch and media files. Maxtor Manager is the tool i use to backup the external drive onto another external drive. On the right is my google sidebar which has the standard weather and gcalendar gadgets as well as the Google Desktop email Gadget and todo gadgets. Below that is gdTunes which controls iTunes (or winamp) and a wikipedia search window. I find the email gadget to be particularly useful. Not only can you expand it to view any particular email, but I use it to keep an ever present list of all the emails which still require a response.
UPDATE: Apparently there is a need to know what's going on with my Icon tray as well. Here is a closeup.
From left to right the icons are: Divx, Itunes, Last FM, Itunes again (I think that sometimes this happens when the Ipod is plugged in?), Safely Remove Hardware, Dell Support Center, Logmein (Best VNC ever!), SigmaTel Volume Panel, Fingerprint Software, Touchpad, GoogleDesktop, Webcam, maxtor Automated Backup, Trend PCillin, Agea Physics engine, Google Calendar Sync, Battery, Wireless, Global Volume Control. Of course, now that i've scrutinized this list i will probably remove Maxtor and SigmalTel. I still haven't decided about PCillin. On the desktop at home I also have Simplify Mobile media and the Signal Remote Control going on down there.
And here how, firefox quick access is setup:
Google is Google, Orb is for streaming media to the Ipod/Iphone. Remote access is Logmein for getting to my home pc and Last.fm is social networking/music finding which I am only just now giving a try.
Monday, May 26, 2008
Wirelessly Sync Iphone Calendar with Nemus
Ok, to wirelessly sync your iphone calendar with any google calendar do the following:
In the installer, select System and then install NemusSync.
Since Nemus is only for 1.1.1-1.1.2 versions of the OS it will crash when you try to point it to your gmail account. Here's the workaround that worked for me.
Open up your terminal app and su to root or ssh in from your pc. Type the following commands:
ln -s /var/mobile/Library/Calendar/ /var/root/Library/Calendar
chown -R mobile.wheel /var/Applications/NemusSync.app
Now this is important. When you point Nemus to your new account hit the Get Calendar List button before you hit the Save button. Then all is well.
Note if you currently sync your Calendar with Itunes (or sync your gCalendar with Outlook and then sync Outlook with your Iphone using Itunes) this will create duplicate entries. Fortunately, Nemus comes with a button in the Advanced Menu which allows you to delete your iphone Calendar and start fresh. I haven't had the guts to try to upload events from the iphone to the gCalendar yet, so if anyone has success with that let me know.
In the installer, select System and then install NemusSync.
Since Nemus is only for 1.1.1-1.1.2 versions of the OS it will crash when you try to point it to your gmail account. Here's the workaround that worked for me.
Open up your terminal app and su to root or ssh in from your pc. Type the following commands:
ln -s /var/mobile/Library/Calendar/ /var/root/Library/Calendar
chown -R mobile.wheel /var/Applications/NemusSync.app
Now this is important. When you point Nemus to your new account hit the Get Calendar List button before you hit the Save button. Then all is well.
Note if you currently sync your Calendar with Itunes (or sync your gCalendar with Outlook and then sync Outlook with your Iphone using Itunes) this will create duplicate entries. Fortunately, Nemus comes with a button in the Advanced Menu which allows you to delete your iphone Calendar and start fresh. I haven't had the guts to try to upload events from the iphone to the gCalendar yet, so if anyone has success with that let me know.
View Windows Media/Avi files on Iphone
It doesn't exactly work the way you want, but if you have a mycast.orb.com account and either a wireless or edge connection, then you can stream avi files from your pc at home to your Iphone. Here are the instructions:
(1) Install the lastest version of Orb, obtained here.
(2) Create an Account (and make me your friend!)
(3) Right click on the orb tray icon then select Configuration and point it to the directories which contain you audio and video files you would want to view/share.
(4) In the Iphone Installer goto multimedia and select Orb Live. Once installed just give it your login and password and your ready to go.
(5) To actually view your movies select the movie button at the bottom, then select Folders to browse the file structure you pointed orb to in step 3. Find the file you want and enjoy.
(1) Install the lastest version of Orb, obtained here.
(2) Create an Account (and make me your friend!)
(3) Right click on the orb tray icon then select Configuration and point it to the directories which contain you audio and video files you would want to view/share.
(4) In the Iphone Installer goto multimedia and select Orb Live. Once installed just give it your login and password and your ready to go.
(5) To actually view your movies select the movie button at the bottom, then select Folders to browse the file structure you pointed orb to in step 3. Find the file you want and enjoy.
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