While sitting at the table waiting for BC Jean’s set to start I thought I’d try out this new app called SocialCam. SocialCam is a video recorder that lets you share video quickly and easily using an iPhone. I’ve used uStream and JustinTV in the past with very little luck getting something watchable out of them mainly due to using mediocre / spotty cell service. To fix that issue somewhat this app does it a bit different so instead of it being streamed as it’s recorded the app actually saves the video locally then pushes it out to their servers during recording which improves its quality quite a bit. I’m pretty happy with the results from my iPhone 4 camera in a dimly lit room. The video isn’t “Live” per se but its pretty damn close. What do you think?
 

 

 

 
After BC Jean’s set Andy Grammer (@andygrammer) got on stage and did his thing. He sounded great and got the crowd moving.
 

 
Jason and BC Jean
 
BC Jean and Bill Palmer

My experience of jailbreaking my iPod Touch and installing apps. Here is a list of apps I talk about. Expect some reviews of these on EverythingTech.tv

I used this method to JailBreak my iPod Touch:

• rupertgee.wordpress.com – Let’s Jailbreak the iPod touch with the OFFICIAL Dev Teams GUI Method – II

Apps I talk about on this video:

• BossTool
• BossPrefs
• VNsea
• MobileCast
• AFPd
• Summerboard
• Stumbler
• Finder
  • Term-vt1100
  • TextEdit
  • Preview
• MobileScrobbler
• APLogger
• Jiggy
  • iLive

I’ve been listening to the latest efforts of Linkin Park entitled Minutes to Midnight and after the first listen I like some of it. One of my favorite tracks on the album is “Bleed it out” it has quite a bit of energy and really had my running on the treadmill at the gym. There are some super soft tracks and some uber hardcore tracks both of which were fine to be on the album but it got me a bit confused at times. Another track I enjoyed is Shadow of the Day, which is a soft track but has some good emotional value in there. Sometimes an album tells a story, sometimes it just a collection of random tracks and othertimes they are well thought out and placed in an exact order so the sound flows. Personally I think this album is a bunch of random tracks not really telling a story. This is fine but it confuses me when you go from hard track to soft track with little transition, the majority of the tracks tend to be softer than harder. *shrug*

I give the album 3 out of 5 stars, some of the tracks are good and others seem to just been added in there as filler. This album defiantly isn’t Hybrid Theory and Meteora, which is ok, bands are allowed to mix it up a bit they’ve done so in the past with great success. I just can’t see this album pleasing a majority of LP fans which shows by the reviews on various websites such as amazon.

I think after a few more listens my rating may go to 3.5 out of 5. I think I may end up listening to the back catalog a bit before reevaluating the 3 out of 5 rating.

J5 has released their new album today called Feedback. I’ve been listening to it and I’m diggin’ it. “Radio” is a tight song and “Work it out” feat Dave Matthews Band is damn soulful. J5 and Dave Matthews on the same track just works and very well at that.

If your a J5 fan you gotta get this album. I hear they will be playing at House of Blues pretty soon here too.

Reviews:
All Hip Hop
SOHH
House of Blues
Yahoo News
Top 40 Charts
Thug Life Army
Live Daily
Baller Status
Hip Hop DX

This is where LogMeIn.com comes in. LogMeIn is a web based (using ActiveX in IE or an extension in Firefox) app that allows you to connect to a remote machine. They have a number of “products” to choose from, as well as a free version. So whats the catch? Well, the free version doesn’t allow for File Transfer nor Guest Invite (Allow friends and colleagues to temporarily view or control your PC.) or File Manager (Securely access, transfer and backup important files and folders.). So if you can live without these 3 things, your golden and can have Free remote access with no problems. Anyhow back to my user, so I when on her machine in the office and installed the software. Then i setup her login and password and made a few quick changes to some things I didn’t think she would be able to set herself. Then I called her up and had her login on their website. 3 mins later she was connected and accessing her apps and email. LogMeIn.com saved the day, and saved me from walking her through all the steps of repairing the botched Putty/RealVNC bs.
Before I started using RealVNC, I was using a program called RemotelyAnywhere that Isaac was using and recommended it. You install the app on your computer, then punch a hole in your router/firewall and then you access your remote machine by remembering your IP address (or using a service like dynDNS to assign your IP a easy to remember hostname). As fun as all that is (and geeky too), I don’t really see the need if you can use a service like LogMeIn.com and work within their restrictions of not being able to do file transfers.
But Jason…. I want to do file transfers too!!! Well, ok.. I was ready for that question and heres my answer.. what you can do is install an app called Hamachi which is a secure file sharing app that you install on the machines you want to have access to (and the machine you want to access from). Then you link them up together by creating a new virtual network, now when you browse each of the machines its as if you were on the same network accessing them via SMB (windows file sharing). Is this all over you head? Well, check out their website and give it a look see. Xinu and I have been using it and it works pretty well. I hear you can use FTP and web services with this too, I haven’t tried but if those work then I’d think that RemoteDesktop may work over it too.. but thats just a guess at this point.

Jehst – Staircase to Stage (feat. J-Zone) Stream / Download

You can check out more of his stuff here:
http://brokebboys.blogspot.com/2005/10/return-of-blogger.html

now I need to find me some more UK hiphop. Anyone have any suggestions (and not The Streets.. I’ve got that )

Atmosphere – You Can’t Imagine How Much Fun We’re Having

I watch the way you try to keep your mom happy/
Daddy learned that from you/
You’re supposed to learn that from daddy.

…on this track he’s talking about his 11-year-old son on this way chill beat. From what I gathered Slug is 33 now and this song explains his relationship with his son he had with his highschool sweethart and later broke up with.

Give this album a listen its good stuff.