Many Android devices support the DLNA standard, as does Windows Media Player and many digital televisions. But what if you want to stream media to your Android device from a Mac computer, which as standard does not support DLNA, favouring instead Apple's AirPlay standard?

Step in TVMOBili: a free DLNA server for MacOS.

Problem

Following a clean installation of CentOS Linux 6 on the VMware platform, the network adatper is detected but not enabled.

Search Engine Optimisation is the “black art” of ensuring that your web site ranks highly in any search results returned to queries that relate directly to your specific area of interest. There are a number of factors to consider when optimising your web site: from the domain used, to its accessibility to search engine “robots”. In this article I shall examine what I have learned to be useful when configuring the Drupal for Search Engine Optimisation. Drupal (http://drupal.org) is the free, open source Content Management System (CMS) that I selected to use for the Brightpoint GB Blog (http://blog.brightpointuk.co.uk)
Note – in this article I shall focus specifically on how to configure the Drupal platform, but many of the concepts detailed here apply to SEO in general.

Drupad is a module for Drupal that proves access to common administrative tasks directly from your iPhone, without the need to access the site from your device web browser.

Piwik Mobile, the client application for both iPhone and Android which enables access to a Piwik Web Analytics server, has been updated to provide access to a wider range of reports as well as chart display.

I have blogged about Piwik previously (http://blog.brightpointuk.co.uk/piwik), the open source project intended to offer sysadmins an internally-managed version of Google Analytics.

Now in version 1.0, the package features an improved web interface as well as visitor geo-location and live, real-time, hit results.

Free client applications are also available for both the iPhone and Android platforms, providing rich up-to-date access to all reporting.

I have blogged previously about how to deploy an SSH-based VPN solution (http://blog.brightpointuk.co.uk/deploying-ssh-based-vpn-solution) enabling safe remote control of corporate assets without needing to worry about the health status of the machine doing the remote controlling.
It is possible to access the same SSH VPN server from an iPhone device using the iSSH application.

iSSH is not free, it must be purchased via the iTunes App Market, but once installed configuration is quick and simple and works via both WiFi and 3G connections.

I have blogged previously about the open source Piwik web analytics software package, which enables webmasters to keep track of visitors to their web sites, including where those visitors came from, which search engines referred them, what keywords they typed in, which other web sites referred them or what marketing campaigns drove their traffic. In short, it's a great little utility and a worthy rival to Google Analytics.

I admit this is extremely lazy, especially seeing as I already have a Bluetooth mouse, but that doesn't mean it didn't bring a smile to my face when it worked!

Android devices can be used as remote control devices for the free VLC Media Player application on both Windows and MacOS. In this post I am using a Mac Mini running Snow Leopard and VLC Media Player 1.0.5 ....and an HTC Legend.