Live from 39,000 feet
What is it about new toys?
My flight back from Las Vegas this afternoon (Southwest 1159) was on one of the airline’s few planes that have WiFi hotspots. Apparently they are still testing out the system and it was free.
So – having a new iPhone, 5.5 hours of flight time and free Wifi – of course I had to check it out. First up was Qik:
Not too thrilling – but my son did get to watch the live video for a while which was fun.
I also tested out Skype- which worked like a charm on my end – though Annette could not hear much over the engine noise. Need a noise-canceling mic apparently.
The VPN connection into my office network was no problem. More fun was the SimplifyMedia app for the iPhone – which let me stream my home iTunes library for awhile – till I decided to save my battery I can imagine the Slingbox app would be pretty cool as well.
In the end I spent a fair amount of time watching our flight progress on FlightExplorer.com mostly just to watch the weather we were routing around.
And of course, I had time to write a blog post…
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