Apple Sept 9th press event

So, Apple finally confirmed the Sept 9th press event. Looks like its the usual announce new products guessing game from now until then.

The most popular predictions are:

• an ipod with a built-in camera
• an itablet

How about if Apple releases an iTablet that also doubles up as an e-Reader a la Kindle? That would be a one-in-all device. It would be worth it at $699 too.

iPhone Product of the Day

The award for Product Of The Day has to go to Air Video by InMethod.

http://www.inmethod.com/air-video/index.html;jsessionid=F7EF22C725F70A98E2C07048F7FBC62F

All you need to watch movies from your NAS is a host server. Either Windows or Mac will do.

Install the Server component on your Mac, point it to the shared NAS and you're good to go.

Note: It currently doesn't support TVOut due to a firmware glitch.

Multi-room streaming using Songbird, iTunes, Airport Express, iMac

Apparently, iMac supports simultaneous audio streams to different audio destinations.

Here's how my configuration worked:

* Play Audio Stream #1 in Songbird which will default to the iMac speakers

* Play Audio Stream #2 in iTunes but select remote speakers via Airport Express

You now have multi-room streaming through a single iMac server.