I’ve heard of Orb, but wasn’t fully aware of its capabilities. Seems
like a good way to access photos and such from your home PC, but if you have a
Media Center or record video to your PC, you can stream that to your Treo 700w
as well.
Orb is both the name for the service and the software itself. You
install it on any Windows XP-based computer, and it transforms your computer
into a powerful solution for serving up your media from any browser, anywhere
– including the one found in your Windows Mobile device. The service was
initially fee-based at launch, but is now free and advertising supported. Orb
is made even more useful when installed on a computer with a TV tuner as I’ll
explain below, but will work fine without one.
Full story at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/articles/orb.mspx.
Orb also gets a mention in an episode of Hanselminutes (http://hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=11).
If Hanselman uses it, it must be good.