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The Oak Hills High School Drama Club & Thespian Society will host a classic car "cruise-in" to promote its fall musical, "Grease." Step back in time to revel in antique and classic cars, listen to rock-n-roll music from the 1950s and 1960s and hear excerpts from the show like "Summer Nights," "Greased Lightning" and "You're […]
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LiveAll Startup Tools Sharing
As startup, LiveAll doesn't have much money and time to build up physical servers and pay the effort on operation. Startup should focus on what it really want. Others, just leverage other's help.
Server-side Instance Tools (IaaS+PaaS)
- Google App Engine (PaaS)
- OpenStack (IaaS)
- Amazon Web Services (a.k.a AWS)
- T-Cloud (Trendmicro Solution, PaaS)
After tried Google Apple Engine and OpenStack, LiveAll finally used AWS as server farm, although it is not cheap. The reason is as below.
- AWS console is friendly to use
- Community support is good
- Everyone has experience in AWS
- Pay by what really used.
In LiveAll, we use following AWS services.
* ELB (Elastic Load Balancer)
* CloudWatch (Monitoring)
* CloudFront (CDN)
* SES (Simple Email Service)
* SQS (Simple Queue Service)
Software Engineering Tools
Project Management
- Redmine http://pm.liveall.com/redmine
Basically, we leverage Redmine to record backlogs and product issues.
- Trello (not use anymore)
Scrum tool, easy and simple
- Redmine http://pm.liveall.com/redmine
Build System
- Phing (ant-like tool) + Shell Script
Version Control
- SubVersion + Git
Dropbox as File Service
Dropbox free version can support at least 2GB (most people are over 2GB), it is big enough for shared file system. We usually save some product information in Dropbox, such as Visual PSD, notes, design doc..etc. BTW, evernote is really good for document, but only paid version support co-editing function.
Facebook Private Group as Discussion board
At first beginning, we leverage Google Wave for discussion and spec. Unfortunately, Google decided to terminate it in 2012 Q1. Finally, we switch to Facebook private group. Although everyone is using Facebook, all information sharing is easy and quick. But Facebook is hard to search. We can just use it as sharing platform.
Cacoo (Online Drawing Tool)
Cacoo is an really cool service. The most convenient function is co-editing same diagram.
~~Google Wave~~
This is really awesome tool for collaboration. It could replace mail and wiki. Although Google terminate this service, but contribute its partial source code to Apache Incubation project. (Only partial source code) (http://incubator.apache.org/wave/). After build and install in our own server, the functions are too few.
Basically, hand-draw is most convenient way to discuss the wireframe. After we have consensus, we use tool to make it more real. like Balsamiq(http://balsamiq.com).
UML Modeling Tool
We don't draw all types of UML, just
class diagramfor better architecture design. Here we use ArgoUML (http://argouml.tigris.org)
Bascially, every engineers has their favorite IDE, for example, our team use Eclipse, NetBean, Xcode, Sublime, Vim. Don't need to unify IDE, becuae this will impact coding emotion.
GAS (Google Apps Script)
We leverage Google app script to make some automation, for example, reply user's feedback once a day or make summary repoprt.
Testing Tools
- API Test
- JMeter http://jmeter.apache.org/
For automation, JMeter can handle most of cases. We also use it for performance test.
- PostMan https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/postman-rest-client/fdmmgilgnpjigdojojpjoooidkmcomcm
PostMan can easily create RESTful request and see the result from Web Browser.
- JMeter http://jmeter.apache.org/
- UI Test
- Sikuli http://www.sikuli.org/
LiveAll's first version is focusing on Web browser, it means we need to handle browser compatibility issue. From Sikuli's help, we could quick run this script and take screenshot in different browser. Although, we still need human to check the screenshot, but it already saves a lot of time.
- Sikuli http://www.sikuli.org/
- Performance Test
- JMeter
- ab (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/ab.html)
- Google pagespeed
- Yahoo YSlow
Marketing&Business Tools
Mail System
Leverage Google App for Business http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/. By using this service, we can build our own mail domain, such as
firstname.lastname@example.com. For free version, it could support up to 10 free users. Google cancelled free service from 2013/1.
Mail Campaign
MailChimp (http://mailchimp.com)
MailChimp provides a lot of mail campaign function, like send mail, mail tracking, unsubscribe…etc. It also provide free version, but its limitation is 2000 mails per day per account. It is easy to over this limitation.
Make by ourselves
Because MailChimp's limitation, we decided to make a simple mail campaign system directly. We just need to 2 simple function. Mail open rate and Mail tracking source.
User Behavior & Feedback
In order to open door to collect feedback, LiveAll used following tools before.
- UserEcho, UserVoice, GetSatification (User need to create account, it is too complicate for user)
- IdeaInformer (We used it for 2 months, but finally, LiveAll made a simple one )
- Facebook Fan page (https://www.facebook.com/liveall.now)
- Blog (Not use anymore)
- Twitter (Not use anymore)
Except above tools, the most important feedback service is
Google Analytics. Google is good friend for Entrepreneurs. GA can provide simple or complicate tracking rule. If you familiar with how to design the GA, it might be another Consulting service.
Besides, face to face to collect/observe user's feedback is also very important. We can know how user use our product and how good/bad it is. Don't be afraid to test unfinished product, just collect feedback as early as possible. (~~this is totally different thought in BIG company~~)
TestFlight (https://testflightapp.com) For iOS app, there is no designed way to do open beta. Thanks for TestFlight service, it provides a platform to help developer to run beta and collect feedback. (p.s: Google is much better for beta testing)
Google Doc
Again, Google is good friend for entrepreneurs. LiveAll use Google Doc to co-editing document and also use GAS (Google Apps Script) to auto-generate some useful information, like user feedback, DB statistics…etc.
Social Network
Be prepared for your social network before launch your servce. No matter it is Facebook Fan page, blog or Twitter.
- SEO (Search Engine Optimiztion)
When people know new service, the first thing is to search it from Google or Bing. At begining, we don't put much effort on it. For people, it is hard to find LiveAll, even they found it, the preview of search result is sucks.
Monitoring Tools
AWS CloudWatch:
Basically, AWS also provide monitoring service, but it only covers instance and its own services, like S3, AES…etc. We only leverage CloudWatch to monitor CPU usage. For example, if CPU usage is over 60%, then AWS send a notification mail to system owner. We could check if several minutes later, CPU become normal or not. In original idea, we plan to watch I/O, Memory as well. Unfortunately, AWS didn't provide convenient way to do it.
Zenoess: Zenoess provides community and commercial version. In order to monitoring more items, we install Zenoess and configure some monitoring rule for AWS instance. Basically, Zenoess can do a lot of things, but we just use very basic function.
JMeter: In most case, we use JMeter for testing, like API testing or HTTP testing, but JMeter also provide monitoring function. The reason we leverage JMeter is because other monitoring service cannot post specified parameter and also assert its response.
UpTimeRobot: http://www.uptimerobot.com, checked the screenshot below. It provides SLA for last 24 hours and also email notification.
Above information was summarized from LiveAll experience. Not all of them are best solutions, it depends on how much time you want to take on and how perfect solution you want. If you have any questions or suggestion, please welcome to mail email@example.com. Thanks.
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Training pilots to fly combat jets is an expensive proposition. A proposal by European air chiefs to cut costs by combining forces has made only slow progress. However, two well established multinational training programs are readily available in North America.
The key to Bombardier's still-pending decision on whether to go ahead with a $2 billion-plus investment in its projected C Series 110/130-seat regional airliner family appears to rest with the engine manufacturers.
Bombardier's business model for the C Series airliner family includes fleet management services along the lines of Boeing's GoldCare program for the 787 that would enable operators to pay a fixed per-hour fee to cover maintenance, spares and overhaul.
The competitiveness of the French aerospace industry continues to be battered by the historic weakness of the U.S. dollar against the euro. The country's labor laws aren't helping matters and the industrialists are looking to France's new government to instill a new approach to employment.
The Solar Impulse project has made significant progress toward its aim of being the first solar-powered aircraft flying at night. The team initiated by psychiatrist and famous aeronaut Bertrand Piccard began construction of the 200-foot-wingspan prototype late in April.
Will flying one day be as taboo as smoking is today, at least in most of Europe? Will it become socially unacceptable in the future to travel by air?
This year marks the 100th birthday of the helicopter, but it is actually difficult to be sure who deserves the title of "first to fly a manned rotorcraft." Frenchmen Louis Breguet, Paul Cornu and Maurice Léger all achieved some sort of takeoff in 1907, but in reality this branch of aviation began
Bental Industries, an Israel-based manufacturer of motion systems, is launching its hybrid engine for unmanned aerial vehicles here in Europe, having already introduced it to the U.S. market.
Delivery of the 561st Airbus A300 next month marks completion of the European manufacturer's long march to becoming a successful competitor to its U.S. rival, Boeing, in the commercial aircraft market.
The future of composites may lie in carbon nanotubes. Nano composites have already found their way into cars and sports gear, and now specialists in this technology are looking for aerospace applications.
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When Denny Hamlin was taken off the track on a stretcher at the Auto Club 400 on Sunday, there was some concern about the extent of his injury and the potential recovery time. We learned yesterday that Hamlin suffered a broken back in the Fontana crash thanks to some aggressive driving from Joey Logano and now today Joe Gibbs Racing said the driver will be out for at least six weeks.
Marty Smith of ESPN passed along the report:
Joe Gibbs Racing announces Denny Hamlin out six weeks due to back injury. No word on replacement driver yet.
— Marty Smith (@MartySmithESPN) March 27, 2013
Luckily for Hamlin, he will not need surgery for the injury.
Hamlin will miss races at Martinsville, Texas, Kansas, Richmond, and Talladega over the next month and a half. If he was to return at the six week mark, he would be back in time for the race at Darlington.
In the NASCAR Cup Standing following the Auto Club 400, Hamlin was sitting in tenth place.
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Small Business Smackdown
Detroit gets tough on city's 'underground economy' with its 'Operation Compliance' initiative
These businesses are not well-financed franchises. They don't provide elaborate services with amenities or award cards. But across the country, from Camden to Compton and Detroit to Dallas, tiny, independent businesses provide services to Black communities.
Sometimes, the businesses are housed in nondescript buildings in neighborhoods. On main drags—Harper, Grand River and Gratiot avenues—they have rainbow-colored facades, hand-painted signs or paper signs plastered on windows. While not aesthetically pleasing, the hair salons, used tire stores, resale shops, rib joints, chicken shacks and auto repair garages play a vital role, providing low-cost, stripped-down services to local residents.
Critical components of a delicate, economic ecological system, the small businesses are the backbone of Detroit neighborhoods; the "underground economy." City officials say far too many have existed without paying taxes, acquiring licenses, building permits—or paying attention to appropriate zoning requirements.
For years, Detroit's Buildings, Safety Engineering & Environmental Department tended to look the other way as these urban entrepreneurs popped up like mushrooms. Sometimes, they shut down and morphed into a completely different business with no regard for zoning use.
Not anymore.
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing's "Operation Compliance" initiative, which began in earnest at the beginning of the year, has been systematically targeting 1,500 illegally run businesses, especially those contributing to blight and crime. Turns out some businesses are illegitimate tire shops, scrap yards and second-hand appliance stores where issues of accumulated solid waste or significant property maintenance issues are prevalent.
In January, its first month, the initiative closed 70 businesses and recovered more than $100,000 in lost tax revenue. It could have an impact. A February Detroit News analysis of 200,000 pages of Detroit tax documents found $246.5 million in taxes and fees went uncollected in 2011.
The project is supported by the Detroit police and fire departments and slates 18 businesses for closure weekly. The buildings are padlocked, and inspectors seal the doors. Business owners breaching entrances of closed businesses are subject to $500-per-day fines and/or jail.
However, if proprietors are cooperative and seem willing to fix code and zoning violations, the city works with them. Unresponsive operators are met with official notices; shutdowns, giving owners minutes to get out.
Helen Broughton, a business advocate for the Detroit Buildings, Safety Engineering & Environmental Department, says more than 500 letters have been mailed to businesses with code violations.
"Out of that group, as of late April, we have gone out on 143 closure operations and padlocked the businesses."
The businesses have up to 14 business days to respond to city notifications before action is taken. "However, of the 143 that were padlocked, 57 of those business owners came to the city to request information on how to comply and are in the process of having their use changed," she says.
By city standards, the operation has been successful. Owners of 85 percent of padlocked businesses have met with city officials to make corrections.
Broughton says 121 of the 514 potential closures were postponed because people visited city offices of their own volition. The most common problem found is that businesses are not zoned appropriately and need to make structural adjustments to meet standards or receive a permission to rezone the property for different usage. The most egregious properties that inspectors closed down so far were:
A resale shop on West McNichols Road that was filled floor-to-ceiling with appliances, TVs and furnace parts. The situation posed a fire hazard, and they also were selling on the sidewalk, which is against the law. The building was not zoned for resale and did not have the required business license.
Property on Lyndon Street operating as a tire-recycling center that had 60,000 tires stored on site. After closure, the owner left the stockpile of tires, posing an environmental hazard. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and DPW are searching for grant funds to clean the site.
Owners of a tire store on East Seven Mile Road that used an open fire in a barrel as a rigged-up heater, which posed fire and safety hazards. Inspectors also found a rifle and a .357 pistol. Children ages 11 and 17 were running the business.
In a statement, Bing stressed the city's objective was to bring every Detroit business into full compliance: "Proper permitting and ordinance compliance is essential to operating a business in our city."
Nathan Ford, director of the city's Buildings, Safety Engineering & Environmental Department, puts it this way: "We are sending a message that if you are doing business in the city, you need to follow the law," he says. "We want the world to know that the City of Detroit is doing business differently and implementing programs that can assist the growth of business in the city."
Although few business owners dispute the importance or need to correct code violations, most are skeptical about the new policy.
Among them are Jack Taylor Jones and her husband, Claudy Jones.
Owners of a quaint Christian-themed card and gift shop, Lighthouse Cards and Gifts at 16143 Wyoming St., the couple has run the business for seven years since moving to Detroit from Los Angeles. They've seen numerous neighborhood businesses come and go. Recently, they considered closing their store because business has been so slow. And, despite Bing's pronouncement that his aim is to improve neighborhoods through Operation Compliance, the Joneses believe he's taking the wrong approach.
Many independently owned businesses are too fragile to withstand even the threat of city closure or the burdensome red tape and extra taxes they'll have to pay to become fully compliant—since so many barely generate enough income to stay afloat, Jack Taylor Jones says.
"As much as I understand the need to be up to code, you're going to end up shutting down how many businesses in the city?" she asks incredulously. "Aggressively enforcing the regulations and closing down just one of the small neighborhood businesses that couldn't afford to come up to code in the allotted time is undermining the city's own economy by putting Detroiters out of work.
"Now, think about the trickle effect. If my family is living off income provided by the business, then you've got a snowball effect, and it's not just the store or us affected by it.
"Many of these customers can't go to Kroger or Meijer because they are too far away or prices are too high," she continues. "And if they do go there, they're taking their money outside the neighborhood and giving it to people who don't live in Detroit, much less this neighborhood—so this has a ripple effect through out the neighborhood and city."
Her husband agrees. For the Bing administration to get aggressive now, after years of successive administrations failing to force the issue, raises questions about the motivation.
"I really want the mayor and his team to sit down and think this through," he says. "If they did, they would see what an opportunity this is to pull the small businesses together rather than kill them."
Only vaguely aware of Operation Compliance, he says he found it disquieting that the mayor seems to be focused on small struggling neighborhood businesses, but less so on the franchises and larger neighborhood party stores, gas stations and retail outlets—many not owned by Detroiters.
"The people that own these small neighborhood businesses are citizens of your city and have been here longer than you. If they only pay sales tax, they're making a contribution, because the state reimburses you from it."
The policy should be less punitive and more education-focused, says Claudy Jones. "We've been running out of compliance for 20 years. How do you expect to make a change on a dime without any prior education or information?"
Moreno Taylor, a senior city building inspector and a compliance leader, says he understands the role many of these small businesses play in Black neighborhoods, and it's not his or the city's intention to run them out of business.
"Operation Compliance is as much an educational opportunity as a policy enforcement vehicle," he says. "Many owners thank inspectors for showing them how to get proper permits and zoning approval. We even had a meet-and-greet in October to inform local businesses of the new program and compliance process and offered to work with owners who needed assistance. We're not just plopping in that day and saying, 'Hey, we're shutting you down!'"
Still, that doesn't satisfy Ruby Alexander, a native Detroiter who has worked for Home Appliances—a used appliance, sales and service store at 15850 Livernois Ave.—for four years. The soft-spoken-but-feisty store manager rolls her eyes and waves her hand dismissively when told about the mayor's plan to more aggressively enforce the city building codes and regulations.
Pointing to the back of her store, she says the alley behind it has become a dumping ground for people in and outside the neighborhood. Now, it's so overrun with trash, they can't open the back door.
"The other day I saw a rat so big I thought it was a puppy!" she says with disgust. "They're all worried about what's going on in the front of our stores, as far as the inside of the building. They need to be concerned with keeping the alleys in compliance. That's city property back there."
The more Alexander thinks about Operation Compliance, the more agitated she becomes at the notion small businesses like hers are being targeted for possible closure as the city fails to maintain basic responsibilities such as public safety and city property maintenance.
"They should re-prioritize that policy," Alexander muses. "They're steady kicking the underdog because you forgot to paint the side of a wall, but the city needs to maintain its own business by keeping the public streets safe and clean."
She acknowledges a visit from city building inspectors, when she was ticketed for paint chipping in the showroom, plumbing issues and a lack of a fire extinguisher. However, even after fixing all the problems not long after being ticketed, Alexander claims she hasn't received a certificate of compliance—despite repeated calls to the city Buildings, Safety Engineering & and Environmental Department.
"You can't get through to anybody when you do call," she says. "And the traffic light out front of the store has been broken for three years, and they still haven't fixed that. But now they want to target us small businesses and ticket us or close us for not being in compliance."
Dr. Henry Louis Taylor, director of the Center for Urban Studies at the University of Buffalo and a professor of urban and regional planning, says good intentions notwithstanding, the potential risks from implementing a policy like Operation Compliance outweighs any future benefits the city might accrue.
Although small non-compliant neighborhood businesses may comprise only about 10 percent of the total businesses in a city like Detroit, he estimates they are so ubiquitous that they could serve up to 70 percent of the residents at one time or another.
"These types of businesses cater to that market; they produce a product that market can afford," he says. "The minute you start to layer stuff on them—licenses and fees—then you force them to pay workman's compensation, and you are pulling them out the informal underground economy."
Once that happens, those businesses begin to get regulated, and that dramatically increases the cost of them doing business—and forces them to charge higher prices, he explains.
"So now, the very market they formed to serve can't afford them, but they are not good enough to compete with higher market, and you end up driving them out of the business. All of which increases the pain and misery in the most distressed neighborhoods because instead of city officials looking the other way, they disrupted a functioning political economy they didn't understand.
"So unwittingly, Dave Bing is doing an awful, bad thing," Louis Taylor says.
Stressing that the city has been deteriorating for years, Broughton, the city business advocate, takes umbrage at Taylor's assertions and says he misses the reality of the challenges Detroiters must deal with every day in a city fighting for its very survival.
"Detroit had one of the largest waves of foreclosures which have led to significant instability in neighborhoods—and when you lose homeowners, you lose businesses," she says. "When the underground economy becomes normal and the physical degradation of the city is normal, how will you ever have a city that is a place to live for everyone?
"You shouldn't have to make a certain amount of money in order to have a safe and clean environment. We have gotten to a point where our norm is far too low, and we all deserve a better place."
At least one new business owner concurs. Thomas Riley, owner of Angel's Barber Shop at 7556 Puritan St., opened his shop a year ago.
Sitting in a chair in front of his business door, he points out the various streets in the neighborhood cluttered with strewn trash, littered alleys. Detroiters deserve better, he says.
"I agree with Operation Compliance. I grew up in this neighborhood, and I deserve to have a clean street and to be able to look out my window and be proud of what I see," Riley says. "There are a lot of kids in this neighborhood, and they deserve to be able to go into a store and see it clean and bright, not falling apart or looking dangerous. That is their right and my right, too."


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In a statement issued by his spokesperson, he reiterated the commitment of the United Nations to support the country in building the future for all Egyptians, with dignity, freedom, responsible governance and development that inspired the uprising of 2011, which toppled President Hosni Mubarak nearly three years ago after mass protests.
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Sonos Play:5 £349
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Wireless multi-room music system that just works
Sonos Play:5: Overview
The Sonos Play:5 is the wireless multi-room music system formerly known as the Zoneplayer S5.
The first Sonos music system, the ZonePlayer 100, launched in 2005 – the same year that Apple launched its first colour-screen iPod. So Sonos has been right there at the forefront of the MP3 revolution from the start.
The basic idea of the Sonos Play:5 is that you can put one in each room of your home and wirelessly stream music to all of them.
You can choose to sync up all your Play:5s in party mode so they all play in unison, or you can choose to play different selections on each player.
The Play:5 units themselves have no controls on them, other than volume and mute buttons, which you can also use to get each device in your house talking to each other.
Controlling Sonos
You actually control the players in three different ways; through the desktop PC client (your PC will need to be switched on if you want to play your MP3 library over the system); by using the free iPhone and iPod touch app which works as a wireless remote; or by using a dedicated Sonos CR200 touchscreen remote which does the same thing but costs £279 (gulp) extra.
Which brings us on to a fairly significant point – if you want Sonos in your house, you're going to have to dig deep because it doesn't come cheap.
A setup with two Play:5 speakers, a ZoneBridge to wirelessly link them together and a CR200 remote will cost a bed-wetting £1,045.
So is it worth it? Or is the Sonos a waste of time and money? Read on to find out.
Sonos Play:5: Setting up
The boffins at Sonos HQ have clearly gone to a lot of effort to make the Play:5 system as easy to set up as possible.
It's not often we get to test a product as potentially complicated as this, but which is made so startlingly idiot proof. It's quite remarkable – especially when you consider what a hash many electronics companies make of this type of thing.
It really is a case of plugging it in, pushing a couple of buttons and it's done.
Connecting your system
If you want to use a player in a room other than where you keep your wireless router – which is fairly likely – you need to also purchase the ZoneBridge. It's a small wireless box which plugs into your router via Ethernet.
The ZoneBridge uses 'SonosNet' to wirelessly link your players. It's a proprietary peer-to-peer synchronous mesh network, which combines MIMO with 802.11n to create a robust wireless connection for your system, so that you don't have to use your own (probably flakey) wireless network.
Once you've done that, it's just a case of unpackaging the Play:5 (or Players if you've bought more than one), and plugging it/them into power sockets where you want to keep them.
You then install the desktop app on your PC and it'll ask you to press a button on each device in order to sync them all up together. For us, it worked first time without a hitch.
The Sonos asks you where each Play:5 unit is being kept, so you can easily tell them apart when you want to keep them separate.
And once you're there, you simply tell the app where you keep your digital music library (the Sonos literature talks about using your iTunes library, but really, there's no meaningful integration with iTunes at all – it's all about where you keep your MP3s on your computer or NAS drive) and away you go.
It's really that simple. You can just navigate your music collection and play anything you want.
And it doesn't stop at the end of your music collection, either. The Play:5 gives you access to a wealth of assorted content, including 25,000 internet radio stations, shows and podcasts – all free of charge and pre-loaded.
Take the Adam and Joe Show on BBC Radio 6 Music as an example.
If you want to listen to any of their Saturday morning shows, you need only search 'Adam' in the Radio section and you'll be given access to the last few months' worth of Adam & Joe Show podcasts.
Sonos Play:5: Controlling the music
As easy as the desktop client is to use, you really don't want to be returning to your computer every time you want to change the music. And that's where the controllers come in.
If you already have an Apple iPhone or an iPod touch, you're in luck – you can download a free Sonos Controller app from the App Store which can be used to sync your iPhone up to your Sonos system.
From here, you can do everything you can do on the PC version of the app, only the iPhone fits in your pocket and a laptop, er, doesn't.
The great thing about the iPhone app is that its control over the Sonos system is instantaneous. If you drag the volume dial down a few notches, the volume on your selected Play:5 will change completely in unison with your finger movements.
Official controller
The other option is to purchase the Sonos CR200 which is a large, dedicated touchscreen controller, performing the same functions as the desktop and iPhone apps.
- Read:Sonos CR200 review
If you have an iPod touch or iPhone already, we can't see any reason to recommend the purchase of the CR200, even though it's a great bit of kit.
In fact, even if you don't have an iPhone, you can buy an iPod touch 8GB for £139 these days, so we'd absolutely advocate that as a better option than dropping £279 on the official Sonos hardware.
The fact that Sonos engineers built the iPhone app in the first place suggests that they feel the same.
Sonos Play:5: Sound quality
Despite the moderate size of the Sonos Play:5, the quality of the sound is fantastic.
Inside the unit sits a total of five drivers which include two tweeters for the high end, two mid-range drivers and a single, meaty subwoofer which pumps out bass with such clarity as to rival some compact hi-fi systems.
The five drivers deliver a felty smooth sound which is both creamy and vibrant in equal measure. Compared to a full hi-fi system with full-size speakers, it's no match. But we're talking about a system the size of a shoebox.
Depending on what kind of rooms you put the Play:5 units in, you will want to change the music equalisation settings.
For the Play:5 in the TechRadar kitchen, we had to turn the bass down a bit, as the hard surfaces were causing some distortion.
Luckily, changing these settings is very easy, and it made a big difference to the over all sound.
Playing Sonos music on your PC
Incidentally, each Play:5 unit has both a line-in and line-out plug on the back. This gives you the option of hooking up to a bigger speaker system for a bigger sound, or alternatively to plug in an MP3 player and play music from that over the Sonos system - if you plug it into one, it'll play on all the systems in the whole house if you want it to.
It's here that we get to one of the only slight flaws with the system. Let's say you've got your computer in your living room, and a Play:5 in the bedroom and in the kitchen. What we really wanted was to play music on both the players, but also through the speakers connected to our PC – effectively adding another room, or zone, to the system.
Slight hiccups
However, it's not possible to do this. The Sonos help forum (which is excellent, by the way) does address this issue, and suggests that the way to fix this would be to trail an audio cable from the line-out port in your Play:5 to the line-in port in your computer's soundcard.
This option, however, completely misses the point as it requires you to have a ZonePlayer in the same room as your computer.
We spoke to Sonos about this, and the reason it gave for the absence of this feature is that your PC cannot be hooked up to the SonosNet wireless network, therefore it can't sync with the system.
That's understandable, but if the music is being streamed from the PC in the first place, we can't see a big reason why the music couldn't be played there too.
Sonos Play:5: Verdict
The Sonos Play:5 is a dazzling bit of kit. When used in conjunction with a ZoneBridge and the iPhone app, it's impossible to not fall in love with it.
We liked:
Normally, tech products like the Sonos would be out of reach of non-techy types, mainly because most products are so fiddly to use and tough to set up.
The Sonos is so straight forward in this regard, we can even see even the most staunch technophobes getting to grips with it fairly easily.
The system is just as easy to use as it is to set up, and rather a lot like a lot of equipment that Apple makes, it 'just works'. It does exactly what you want it to do, and all the options are exactly where you expect them to be.
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We'd love to see Sonos adding the ability to playback music on your PC via the desktop app, but presumably it won't because it would prefer you spent money on an extra player.
This leads us to the main – possibly only – drawback, which is the price.
A Sonos Play:5 costs £343 and the ZoneBridge costs £79.99. So even if you use the free iPhone app instead of buying the CR200 controller, a setup of two players and one bridge will set you back a back-breaking £766.
It's a massively expensive option, and for this reason we simply can't give it the five stars it probably would otherwise deserve.
There are cheaper – albeit far less complete – options out there, so it's a real shame that most of us will be priced out of buying such a system.
A brilliant wireless option, which will instantly seduce anyone who craves an inter-home music system, it's just a shame it's so crazy expensive.


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May 09
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48gixxer says:
Ok fair cop he got caught. If the plod bike was marked would the chase gone on as long? Much as i hate it, i grin and bear the rules BUT, how many sport bike riders see a sportbike in the mirrors and ramp it up. This form of entapment is playing on the ego of the sport bike rider, so plods your bike is unmarked and suddenly weve got 2 riders smashing the limit, one thinks hes in a race,the other knows hes in a chase, IF IT WAS THE FREAKING SERIOUS WHY DID YOU LET IT GO ON FOR SO LONG F$%K me dead. And what if hed crashed when you goaded the poor sucker into speeding.The Guy was wrong fair enough. Personally im sick of being protected from myself. Ive ridden 39 freakin years (road track and dirt) yet that does not make me anywhere near an expert in the eyes of these knob jockies.
Sep 10
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Lifelongbiker says:
The problem here is that this guy may be a fantastic rider, you can wheel out all the excuses but a fundamental fact remains.
He is doing 150 on a clear(ish), bright and sunny motorway. Dolly Daydream in her Clio is overtaking Gerty Goslow in the middle lane doing a perfectly acceptable 65mph, she is singing along to Take That, she glances in her rear view mirror and sees a light in the distance in the outside lane, thinking she has enough time she pulls out to overtake.
Meanwhile mateyboy doing 150 arrives very quickly, has nowhere to go and it's carnage.
I believe that we all know the risks of motorcycling, but we have responsibilities to others who use the road to ensure that they are able to go home to their families at night too.
We are our own worst enemies. You morons that are trying to justify this sort of riding are just as bad, There is a place to ride this fast, it isn't on the roads of Britain I'm afraid.
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supermario says:
For sure, police drivers and motorcyclists are given extensive training on how to ride at high speed. But that dosen't make them any less likely to have a collision. If this was such an unsafe thing to be doing, it should and could have been stopped earlier. But as someone pointed out earlier, its less about preventing unsafe situations and more about ensuring a conviction.
An interesting little story. Many years ago while racing at Snetterton with New Era, a team of riders from the local police force turned up to the meeting to take part. Now, one of the things I have always loved about motorcycling is the whole fraternity bit. You know what I mean. I could walk around that paddock (and often did) and go up to any body and strike up a conversation about bikes, or whatever, and be treated as a friend.
Not these boys though. They made it very clear that they wanted nothing to do with the motorcyling riff raff. They were there to show us how to ride a motorbike properly with their superior training and skills. They were there to teach us poor stupid bikers how it was done. They literally stood in a huddle in the middle of the paddock, about a half dozen of them, sneering at everybody. A few people even tried to offer help and advice, but were turned away.
So it was with much joy that I found out at the end of the first 600 race that these idiots had come in very much at the back, and far from giving anybody a lesson in high speed riding, had been recieving a lesson of their own from us poor stupid bikers. They really didn't have a clue. So much humble pie was eaten............it was great :-)
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tockie says:
Perhaps he was going a little fast,don't we all.? The wheelie looked like a text book affair,much as described by MCN in the recent how to wheelie video by the excellent Neavsie. I - like most red blooded motorcyclists love to see a bike with it's front wheel in the air. as I suspect most members of the general population do. How many times has the bloke up the road on seeing your new bike has said (go on do us a wheelie then).? There are far worse things that inflame people's anger, how about that unspeakable cunt burning Poppies and getting fined just £50. Let the punishment fit the crime and I don't think it does sometimes. GRRRRR.
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greenturbobob says:
Personally, i think if his riding was so bad then they should have stopped him earlier. But they didn't they wanted him to hang himself.
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GixxerFixxer says:
Perhaps he should've been more aware of the devious methods employed by todays law enforcement agencies, probably thought the guy on the blacked out Fireblade was going to race him! It was his choice to throttle on but I think, considering nobody was hurt, the sentence he recieved is meant to put off the rest of us unshaven, law breaking motorcyclists rather than be a proportionate punishment for his speed.
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kl595 says:
The punishment does seem wrong considering there are worse things going on in the world and compared to the punishment dished out to some car drivers, it seems rediculous. He didn't kill anyone and didn't cause an accident. That said, the bloke was a fool and he got caught so your sympathy can only go so far.
From my point of view, this isn't criminal activity and as such doesn't deserve a prison related sentence. It's a civil thing and by all means dish out the bans and fines but prison? It's madness.
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jabba8 says:
Why do you appear to assume that anyone who makes any comment remotely critical of this guys speed is one of 'THE FILTH?' I don't know why you are preaching on to me about my beating members of the public and being too lazy to sort the real crime problems when i drive a forklift in a F##cking warehouse for a living!
I am a BIKER, have been for 17 years. I don't particularly like the plod either and could rant on for hours about what I also feel is unwarranted time and money spent on persecuting us when other issues would appear far more worthy of their time. He probably should have been pulled earlier, yes the road was clear and dry but he knew the risks and he got caught doing more than twice the speed limit. It's a fair cop guv etc.
You seem to have a lot of inner demons and uncontrolled anger. Where you bullied at school? Oh, hang on, you sound an ideal candidate for the 'FILTH.'
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Its not madness. It's SPARTA!!!
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The Ducks and Kings will both be participating in the playoffs this season and could meet each other in the second round. The Kings will take on the San Jose Sharks in Round 1 while the Ducks will likely take on the Dallas Stars. What this means is that we may be watching a preview of the second round playoff series tonight.
While the Kings and Ducks will likely rest some injured players tonight we should be able to see a competetive game and, hopefully, some bad blood brewing. There is no reason for the Kings and Ducks to not go full bore tonight. Both teams are desperate to get hot heading into the playoffs, especially the Kings who have lost three of their last four contests.
The biggest matchup tonight, as always, will be between Jonas Hiller and Jonathan Quick, who should be back in goal tonight. Quick is 4-1-0 with a 1.19 GAA and two shutouts in his last five at home. He's 5-1-0 with a 1.63 GAA in his past six home matchups with Anaheim after making 18 saves on January 25th. Hiller, on the other hand, had gone 0-5-2 with a 3.25 GAA in L.A. before stopping 36 shots in a 3-0 win there in the January 25th matchup.
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It is like Christmas morning for a hitting coach when a pull-happy hitter hits the ball hard the other way.
He let it get deep. He stayed on top of the ball. He didn't drag the barrel. He used the big part of the field. Oh happy day!
For all the shenanigans a hitting coach deals with over the course of a Major League season, these moments are their pay-off. For all the rollover groundballs, for all of the backwards K's, and for all the runners stranded, they get to sit back and smile when a hitter hits the ball the other way, especially when it goes over the wall.
Imagine Rockies' hitting coach Blake Doyle's joy, then, when Wilin Rosario blasted an opposite field, three-run home run in the 7th inning of a victory on Tuesday night.
Doyle was as excited as you would expect him to be, immediately seeking high-fives from those around him.
Jorge De La Rosa obliged and gave Doyle some dap. Once Rosario returned to the dugout, having crossed the plate after his round-tripper, Doyle was jacked up to greet his slugging catcher after such a fine swing. Just one problem…
…Rosario totally left him hanging.
Upon seeing this highlight initially, I was not totally sure who that guy was. I had an inclination it was Doyle, but I was not nearly confident enough about that fact to say anything.
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Wilin Rosario totally left Blake Doyle hanging on a high-five when he got back to the dugout. Earned prerogatives after a big homer, 'spose.
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A lot of things happened in the NFL this week. Several others almost happened, only to be turned away in the fourth quarter.
Suffice to say, after the NFL Power Rankings have remained relatively stable for a couple weeks, things are about to get a bit more complicated. The top 10 has seen some reorganization, the bottom nearly got the same treatment, and the six teams on their bye week are going to move just because of all the craziness.
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Making Progress In Chant I
I had lunch with a colleague in a nearby parish today. It got me thinking about the implementation of chant–both in her parish and in my own. In no particular order, I'm going to address some challenges and make some … Continue reading
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"Dr Jaroslav Pelikan falls asleep in the Lord"
You've probably heard elsewhere about the recent passing of the eminent church historian; the announcement from St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary is here. Another notable church historian, Mark Noll, now of Notre Dame, wrote an article about Dr Pelikan in … Continue reading
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"The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean... Recently, we've managed to wade a little way out, and the water seems inviting." - Carl Sagan
Auroras dance over northern U.S
A thick green arc of aurora settled in for the night last night. It was about 5 degrees thick and some 10 degrees high. A faint but colorful diffuse aurora glowed above it. All photos taken with a 16-35 mm lens at f/2.8 and 30-second time exposure.
Image credit: Bob King