Newly Discover Application - StreamToMe

I often pick up great tips and ideas, applications, and more for many facets of my technology and learning infused life from my Google Reader pages which I read on my iPad with Reeder and on my many desktop computers through the Google Reader application. Incidentally Google also has a Google Mobile application that I use sometimes as well that includes all of the many great services offered by Google. Recently I found a very good iOS application this way. It is called StreamToMe. In the past there have been a few applications that allow you to control your Macintosh or PC from your iOS device (iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch). This application actually allows you to play content on your iOS device from your computer in effect going in the opposite direction as those applications I have used in the past. StreamToMe works very well and it is very simple to set up. You simply download the StreamToMe app to your iOS device and down load the StreamToMe server application to your Mac or PC. I was impressed with the application's ability to convert almost any video format on the fly from a desktop computer to a format that iOS devices can utilize. The audio files worked very well and affords me the ability to place speakers in any room of the house, connect an iOS device to the speakers, and play content that only exists on the desktop computer. This application gets a five star rating in my book. Kudos to the developer Matt Gallagher.

Hunting Down my first low budget Digital SLR

I have my eye on the following Digital SLR camera. With megapixel amount, digital SLR level (not point and shoot), and image stabilization as my the three most important factors to me I have narrowed my search down to a base Canon EOS Rebel dslr model and the Nikon D60 model shown here. I was able to narrow these choices down due to a web site I found through my google reader called Best In Class. Here is a picture of the sweet camera that I plan to use for nature photography, landscapes and more. You can see the Amazon.com price is $549.95, which puts it within reach directly between the Apple 24" iMac I will be getting soon, and a 40+ inch Samsung LDC HDTV.