Jason Lee
04-13-2011, 10:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.skifta.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.skifta.com/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Skifta is an easy way to control, play and enjoy your music, videos and photos at home and on the move. There's no uploading to the web or syncing to your phone. In fact, you don't copy or move your media at all. You just leave it where it is. Then, whether it's somewhere on the Internet or on your computer at home you can access it remotely using your phone."</em></p><p><img height="554" src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/adt/auto/1302708052.usr206.jpg" style="border: 0;" width="282" /></p><p>Well, other than badly photoshopped screen shots this services seems pretty cool. If you've ever heard of Apple's Air Play the idea is kinda the same but this implementation uses something really cool. Standards. That's right, Skifta basically allows you to stream media (pictures, video and audio) from where ever it may be located to any DLNA compatible device all through your phone. So for example, you could stream music from your computers hard drive to your DLNA compatible stereo receiver through your phone. Now here is the neat part... You can do this any where to anyone's DLNA device. You don't have to be in your home thanks to the Skifta desktop client. There are many options for play back though. You can play media form anywhere to your device, from anywhere to some local player through your device, of from your device to some local player. To access your media remotely you will need to sign up for a free Skifta account but this will give you access to even more online content. Like the ability to stream your Facebook photos exactly like you would photos on your device or your computer at home.</p><p>Overall this seems like a really cool idea. Many new Android devices come with DLNA support build in but that only allows you to share media from your phone. Skifta adds the magic of the internets into the mix. Unfortunately I don't own anything DLNA compatible so I couldn't really play with it to its fullest extent. Any of you tried this out yet? Or if you do let us know how it works out for you.</p>