Kinoma Notes

The game may be over – congrats, Saints! – but today you can re-watch, share and enjoy the great* commercials of Super Bowl XLIV on your phone with Kinoma Play. (*Okay, some are greater than others.)

Go to Kinoma Guide > Featured > Super Bowl Commercials 2010 to enjoy these:

• The Snickers ad with Betty White and the surprise “he’s still alive?” cameo
• Dorito’s viewer-made ads, including the funny “shock collar” ad that won $600,000
• The romantic all-text Google ad
• VW’s “punch dub” ad
• The Audi “green police” ad
• The Bud Light “house of cans” ad

…and lots more! Be sure to click “More” to see all of them, or just start the first and let ‘em roll.

If you hang around technical people, you’ve probably seen those computer books with the funny-looking animals on front.

They’re from O’Reilly Media, best known for great books on everything from super-technical topics like programming, to their “Missing Manual” series for the rest of us.

What you might not know is that O’Reilly creates lots of really interesting video content as well. Today, you can watch hundreds of O’Reilly videos on your phone with Kinoma Play!

Here are the new categories now available in Kinoma Guide > Providers > O’Reilly TV:

• Gov 2.0 Summit 2009 and Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase 2009 — Want to see what happens when you bring together government and technology thought leaders to reshape government for the better? Here are 84 videos from O’Reilly’s 2009 Gov 2.0 conference.
• O’Reilly Conferences — 200 “best of” videos from various O’Reilly conferences and events, including ETech, OSCON, RailsConf, Foo Camp, Sci Foo, Ignite, Web 2.0 Expo, Web 2.0 Summit, MySQL Conference & Expo and Expo Where 2.0.
• O’Reilly Interviews — 50+ interviews with notable authors, editors, and innovators, including Tim O’Reilly, Sarah Millstein, Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, Larry Wall, Pia Waugh, Nat Torkington, and more.
• O’Reilly Webcasts — 140+ webcasts that put you in touch with experts from every area of technology: programmers, web designers, digital photographers, social media gurus, iPhone hackers, open source mavensand more. Each webcast is a recording of a live, online event including Q&As from the audience.
• Tim O’Reilly — 34 talks and interviews with the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, who “watches the alpha geeks” to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is an activist for open source and open standards, and an opponent of software patents and other incursions of new intellectual property laws into the public domain.
• Web 2.0 Summit 2009 — 40+ videos featuring the intelligence, innovation, and leadership of the Internet industry, gathered together in one place at one time. Watch incisive plenary sessions, frank onstage conversations, rapid-fire “high order bits”, and Launch Pad, where visionaries and executives from Internet businesses present their unique perspective on the Web’s future-in-flux.
• All O’Reilly TV Videos — Browse through all O’Reilly Media videos, including those that don’t fall into one of the above categories.

Enjoy!

As usual this new Kinoma Guide content is free for all Kinoma Play customers. It’s available right now at Kinoma Guide > Providers > O’Reilly TV.

If you have favorite podcasts, radio stations, video streams or other media, send a URL and short description to content@kinoma.com and we’ll add them to Kinoma Guide for everyone to discover and enjoy.

PalmAddict readers have spoken, and we’re honored that they picked Kinoma Play as 2009’s Best Multimedia Program for Windows Mobile.

Over 60,000 votes were cast in PalmAddicts’ year-long reader survey, and the other nominees we were up against were the best-of-the-best.

Many thanks to the PalmAddict readers who voted for us!

• PalmAddict Reader Awards 2009 results

When I was a kid, I couldn’t get enough of “how stuff works” books. Pre-Game Boy, they were one of the few things that could keep me occupied for a few hours — it was really cool to learn about the secrets behind of everyday things.

Recently, one of our customers (thanks, Grogck!) let us know about a cool collection of podcasts from the HowStuffWorks folks. Like the books I used to love, they’re full of interesting revelations.

The HowStuffWorks podcasts are available right now, in Kinoma Guide > Education > HowStuffWorks.

• BrainStuff – If you’ve ever wondered how cabin pressure works or why apples turn brown, then this is the podcast for you. Listen in as Marshall Brain delievers a much-needed dose of daily ingenuity in BrainStuff.
• High Speed Stuff – Addicted to speed, cars or trivia? Then this podcast is for you. From the early days of racing to a future filled with flying, shape-changing cars, the High Speed Stuff team takes a look at all things automotive.
• Stuff From the B-Side – Whether you’re into classical music, zydeco, punk rock or anything in-between, the genre-hopping B-Side team is ready to explain all things musical in this podcast.
• Stuff Mom Never Told You – Do male and female brains really differ? Are men and women “partisan” when it comes to office politics? Check out this podcast to get a female perspective.
• Stuff You Missed in History Class – What made Peter the Great so great? What made Henry VII so bad, or Ivan so terrible? Tune into this podcast to learn the stories behind the lines of your textbooks.
• Stuff You Should Know – Why robots can’t get married? Are exorcisms real? Listen in as the Stuff You Should Know takes a look at astonishing facts from across the globe in this podcast.
• TechStuff – Whether you’re looking for the scoop on the latest online innovations or the oldest video game, TechStuff is for you. Tune in as our experts take a look at the past, present and future of all things tech in this podcast.

Enjoy!

As usual, this new Kinoma Guide content is free for all Kinoma Play customers.

If you have favorite podcasts, radio stations, video streams or other media, send a URL and short description to content@kinoma.com and we’ll add them to Kinoma Guide for everyone to discover and enjoy.

Zune Pass is a music subscription service from Microsoft’s. Think of it as “all you can eat” music rental for a monthly subscription fee.

That’s pretty neat, but who wants to carry around a Zune and their phone? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could play Zune Pass music on your phone?

Kinoma Play to the rescue

With Kinoma Play, you can enjoy your entire Zune Pass collection — not to mention the rest of your media library! — anywhere, anytime by installing Orb on your home PC or media server.

Not every song available in the Zune store has “subscription” rights, although most of my favorites did. And if you do buy tracks, those MP3 files will play perfectly with Kinoma Play as well.

Install and configure Orb

You can find instructions for installing Orb, and using Kinoma Play to stream your complete media library from your PC here.

Important: As I write this, Orb 2.5 has a bug that interferes with Zune Pass streaming. For now, use the latest 2.0.1 release from the Orb download page.

Try it for free!

Don’t have Kinoma Play yet? Get Kinoma FreePlay from http://kinoma.com/get/, and a 14-day Zune Pass trial from http://www.zune.net/en-us/products/zunepass/.