for a while i have been able to use my sportser at work. i could get two bars and sometimes three at work and i sit no where close to a window. however, with the summer rain coming, my signal has been getting worse and worse. the only time it will come in good is on a good clear day. i usually listen to howard stern in the morning and since he now has his feed online, it gave me an idea.
i can not access sirius' website at work due to it being blocked by the firewall. i got an idea that i could record it at home and then burn it to cd and bring it to work the next day. if i could only access my computer at home while at work i could get the file and listen to it the same day. i can't install anything on the computer at work so i can't ftp or anything like that or i can't use remote desktop either. this is what i did.
i found a program that i can send an email from my gmail account ( i can get gmail at work). i send a command line and it tells my computer at work to send me a file. my computer at home will then email the file to my gmail account. i tested this out with normal 128 quality recordings but gmail would not accept the file due to its size. so what i did is set up six timers in the internet recording program that i am using. i have it set up to record from 6 - 7 (named file 1), 7 - 8 (named file 2), and so forth up to 12pm. i wind up with six files names 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. as soon as the first hour is up, i can send an email to retrieve file 1. each hour i go in and send an email and it will send me a file. i had to use a low mono 16bit setting and the hour file comes out to be around 7.5mb. gmail takes that no problem.
please note, i could not get gmail to work as the pop server for this program. i have domains through 1and1 and set up an email through my own domain and it works no problem. once you see the program, most of the computer people will be able to figure it out if i could. very easy once i figured out gmail would not work with it. someone might be able to figure it out.
here is what you need.
an internet recording program with timers. i used this one. http://www.highcriteria.com/ someone in the pub suggested it. works great. costs about twenty bucks if you want to buy, but i guess anyone with timers will work if you can find a good free one.
this program to send the files to you. http://www.download.com/RemoteByMail/3000-2085_4-10511933.html?tag=lst-0-3 it is free
let me know if anyone needs help.
i can not access sirius' website at work due to it being blocked by the firewall. i got an idea that i could record it at home and then burn it to cd and bring it to work the next day. if i could only access my computer at home while at work i could get the file and listen to it the same day. i can't install anything on the computer at work so i can't ftp or anything like that or i can't use remote desktop either. this is what i did.
i found a program that i can send an email from my gmail account ( i can get gmail at work). i send a command line and it tells my computer at work to send me a file. my computer at home will then email the file to my gmail account. i tested this out with normal 128 quality recordings but gmail would not accept the file due to its size. so what i did is set up six timers in the internet recording program that i am using. i have it set up to record from 6 - 7 (named file 1), 7 - 8 (named file 2), and so forth up to 12pm. i wind up with six files names 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. as soon as the first hour is up, i can send an email to retrieve file 1. each hour i go in and send an email and it will send me a file. i had to use a low mono 16bit setting and the hour file comes out to be around 7.5mb. gmail takes that no problem.
please note, i could not get gmail to work as the pop server for this program. i have domains through 1and1 and set up an email through my own domain and it works no problem. once you see the program, most of the computer people will be able to figure it out if i could. very easy once i figured out gmail would not work with it. someone might be able to figure it out.
here is what you need.
an internet recording program with timers. i used this one. http://www.highcriteria.com/ someone in the pub suggested it. works great. costs about twenty bucks if you want to buy, but i guess anyone with timers will work if you can find a good free one.
this program to send the files to you. http://www.download.com/RemoteByMail/3000-2085_4-10511933.html?tag=lst-0-3 it is free
let me know if anyone needs help.