Orb
Originally published at Toth's Domain. Please leave any comments there.
This is an extremely cool piece of software. It streams your media (music, videos, photos) through the internet and can be shown on anything with a browser. This is particularly handy for listening to music at work, but it can also be used to play videos from your computer on your TV using a modern game console (Wii, Xbox 360, etc).
http://www.orb.com
Setup is very easy and the documentation seems to be good. Once you put it in and give it a chance to scan your media, you set up an account and then go to whatever you want to access your media on and point your browser to https://mycast.orb.com, login, and have at it.
Using a browser like Firefox or IE will bring up a nifty AJAX interface that feels like an application. It tries to detect when you are using a portable device or game console and then brings up a large font, easy media center interface (incidentally it defaults to this if you open it in Opera). Apparently you need some decent hardware to stream videos effectively, but I haven’t tried it yet. It streams music from my laptop (which is using wireless) across the Interweb to my PC at work very well though.