Big News… extend your multimedia experience with the new DriveCast application for iPhone and iPod Touch that is now available from the App Store.

An external developer, Emanulele Fornaro, has created DriveCast for iPhone.

This app allows the synchronization of your iPhone with your Drivecast online library using the wireless networks (UMTS/wifi) without the needs to connect your device to a computer.

You can buy the application from the Apple Store:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=322969074&mt=8

Or get more info from the application webpage:
http://www.emanuelefornaro.it/iphone/drivecast/index.en.html

DriveCast has been developed thanks to the official Drivecast APIs, available for all developers. The API specification and documentation are available at:
http://wiki.drivecast.eu/index.php/Drivecast_API

Once we used to watch television in the evening and talk about the best of it at the water cooler. Nowadays we browse on the web and sometimes we don’t have time to stop at the water cooler. You can find everything on internet and keep it in DrivecCast.

How to talk about what have you found at the water cooler? “Tweet it out“! It is a great idea to bring up new subject to discuss on with your followers so they can look into your tweet and discuss about it together.

From now you can share your media experience on Twitter and you can bring to the attention your multimedia tastes to your followers..

Associate your Twitter account with DriveCast and you can decide if share automatically all your contents when you do the subscription or manage manually your tweets from DriveCast.

Follow DriveCast’s news on Twitter: http://twitter.com/drivecast

Despite the apparences, in these five silent months, we didn’t drop our activities on CarCast project, but we worked hard on it…

So hard that CarCast died and, from its ashes, is born a more innovative thing: DriveCast!

DriveCast is the natural CarCast evolution: all of old functionalities has been improved, but also new ones have been inserted: webradio recording, media conversion and more device support (not only USB pendrives).

These new featured has been inserted in a new environment, with a more dynamic and more engaging graphic, such as few other webservices can do…

The new service is available at http://www.drivecast.eu but, old users, don’t worry: you didn’t loose anything! You’ll be able to login with the same username and password used in CarCast, and you will find all of your contents as they were before…

So what are you waiting for? See you on DriveCast!!!

CarCast can do a lot of things. To simplify new users life, we shot a video to show the modules integration of this service: using CarCastWebRecorder Firefox plugin we can choose a video from YouTube, import it in CarCast and generate the MP3 audio directly from our USB pendrive, to listen it all the times we want. Take a look! (For now the video is only in italian language).

One of the most important CarCast function is the synchronization with the USB pendrive: up to now, this operation was done using specific software with a platform-specific look&feel.

Now, after some hard work, we are proud to present new CarCastUSB 2.0: most modern, most efficient and identical on any platform: now, the synchronizations done in Windows, Mac or Linux (for truth, for Linux version there is some time to patience more), will be exactly the same and, wonderfully, with the same GUI in every O.S.

There is also one more surprise: now it’s possible to extract the audio track from the video found in Internet and imported in CarCast by CCWR: at synchronization, without any need for manual operation, audio tracks will be extracted and saved in the USB pendrive, ready to be listened when we will
drive our car.

These are most important upgrades we have release now for CarCastUSB software, and many other are in development, so . . . stay tuned!!!

Most of times we haven’t time: while we surf the web, we found very interesting content but, for some reason, we cannot spend on it the needed time. Then, when we have time, we cannot get that intereresting content any more and, for us, it will be lost forever.

Instead, with CarCast WebRecorder, everytime we find some interesting media content, with a simple click we’ll be able to save it in our CarCast.

At next syncronization, we’ll get that contents in our USB pendrive: from now on we will be able to use it whenever and wherever we want!

Where WebRecorder is coming from ? Why was it developed ?
Well WebRecorder in not just coming “out of the blue” by itself, it’s based over more than one year of work and experimentation on the Firegrab add-on for Firefox.
After one year of work on it we decided, in order to be able to exploit all the advantages of the original idea to rewrite it as WebRecorder, so that we can to provide a more complete environment on the web (CarCast) and on the actual computer platform (CarCastUSB).
Old Firegrab user will already notice the new ability detect more type of items, and the ability to convert the format of the files using CarCastUSB, look for more since we are working on a better detection on rtsp:// and mms:// streams, that are also to be recordable by the integration with CarCast/CarCastUSB.

CarCast project has new component: “CarCast Web Recorder” (CCWR).

CCWR is a powerful Firefox extension that records Internet multimedia contents: it detects and records what you listen/watch over the Internet. Then, with just one click, you will be able to save on your computer or to add to CarCast.

At the next synchronization the new content will be saved (and, if you like, converted in your favourite format) inside your USB key to be played in your car or by your other multimedia devices.

CarCastWebRecorder can be installed on Firefox from: http://labs.carcast.inrete.it/WebRecorder

In order to show what CarCast is really for, we have made this video with the hope to better explain it:

Watch it on YouTube with English captions

CarCast Labs allows you to preview and use the new functions that we are developing for the CarCast platform.
Since CarCast Labs is not a full production environment, there is a limit to the number of item you can manage: you can save on CarCast Labs and on you USB memory stick 50 files at most.
Anyway in order to test the new invitation function and at the same time to get more input from advanced user we have added in “MY AUDIO” page the action “Get more Items” which allows you to send an invitation to a friend or colleague, these invitations besides allowing your friends to register will give you 50 more items for each of them that will complete the registration.
If you don’t have already a friend using CarCast Labs nor an Invitation Code, and you are a blogger or interested for your work/profession/study to try and give us your feedback about CarCast and its new development, you can ask for a Invitation Code sending a mail to us at carcast@staff.inrete.it