I read David Pogue’s post on 4 Music Sharing Tricks for Windows 7 and successfully setup my Windows 7 machine to share my media over the Internet. How fun is that! At least now as soon as I get the files organized into Windows Media I can find them via the Internet very easily without having to store them on my servers.
TRICK #4: Play Over the Internet
For its final stunt, Media Player lets you listen to your home music collection from anywhere in the world-across the Internet.
How does it know it’s you, and not some teenage software pirate who just wants free music? Because you have to sign in with your Windows Live ID at both ends. (If you don’t have a free Windows Live ID, you can get one at https://signup.live.com.)
To set this up, open Media Player on your home computer. From the Stream menu, choose “Allow Internet access to home media.”
In the resulting dialog box, click “Link an online ID.” (If you see “Add an online ID provider” in the next box, click it; you go to a Web page where you can click either “Download for 32-bit” or “Download for 64-bit,” depending on your Windows 7 version. Complete the 417-step installation process.)
Now, next to where it says “WindowsLiveID, click “Link online ID.” Provide your Windows Live e-mail address and password.
Finally, you return to the first box; click “Allow Internet access to home media” (supply an administrator’s name and password if it’s requested). Click O.K. in the congratulations box.
Now, on any other PC that’s online and has Media Player 12 or later, repeat those steps. And presto: In the Other Libraries category of the left-side pane, your home music library shows up. It’s ready to examine and play, across the Internet. If that isn’t magic, what is?
A number of posts crossed my desk over the last few days as Google released updates to its Google Bookmark service. What I found surprised me and I think this tool is going to be amazingly useful in a classroom to make it easy to create lists around specific topics.
Recently I do keep a few Bookmarks in Firefox and use Xmarks to synchronize them. I love this service and have used it since it was Foxmarks quite some time ago. In addition to syncing my bookmarks, it keeps my QuickFox text files and my UpdateScanner setup synchronized across machines. Xmarks is not foolproof though and I have frequently ended up with multiple copies of my bookmarks despite my best intentions. I now keep Xmarks in check by only automatically updating on one machine and manually on the others.
I also store bookmarks in Delicious for reference and enjoy easily publishing them automatically on my WordPress sites using del.icio.us for WordPress.
I last tried Google Bookmarks a few months ago and found the disconnect between my GMail page, where I live, and the Google Toolbar, where I could find bookmarks easily, a bit hard to navigate. The first thing I noticed was how easily it imported my Firefox bookmarks and that sharing a List was easy.
That seems to be the least of what Bookmarks are useful for. I was impressed with what a list actually is and what they are useful for. Check out my Google Bookmarks public list and you will see this video (below) or this presentation.
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