How I used my PlayBook last weekend
Hi Everyone. I thought I would share my latest experience with my PlayBook this past weekend. Totally unplanned.
I am the chief engineer of a major market radio station in Canada, and this past weekend I agreed I would fill in for one of my techs at a live-to-air event at a local night club. Basically what happens is the music for the evening is played from the club, we pause three times an hour for commercials to be played from our studios downtown.
Well as it turns out the operator at the studio end didn't show up for his shift at the appointed time. The DJ who was finishing his show had another gig to go to and was adamant that he could not stick around. I told the DJ to go saying to him I would figure something out.
What I had in mind was to remotely connect to our studio music automation system using my PlayBook bridged and tethered to my 9860 and my logmein account. Up until this point I've only used logmein on the PlayBook to troubleshoot computers back at the studios. I also used my Blackberry phone as a mouse because it's more accurate than my fingers given the size of the desktop on the PlayBook screen.
I figured if this didn�t work that I would be driving back to the station to operate the show missing one commercial break in the process.
Surprisingly all went very well. I was able to play the commercials from the club, deleting the filler music out of the system, back-up music in case the live-to-air doesn�t make it to air, and lining up the next set of commercials as well as dropping in station id's.
I called in the missing studio operator who was across town. I was able to remotely run things for 1 1/2 hours until he arrived, at which point my phone battery was almost dead.
Needless to say I love this thing! The benefit to me has been that I don't have to carry my laptop as much. In situations where I wouldn't carry my laptop, I'm always have my PlayBook because it's so portable, I don't even think twice about not carrying it everywhere I go
How I used my PlayBook last weekend
Great story! I love hearing how people use their playbook in different situations.
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Re: How I used my PlayBook last weekend
Is that a sideloaded Android app?
Re: How I used my PlayBook last weekend
wow that's a pretty cool story of how versatile the playbook can be :)