The Sonos Player/System is a very easy and modular system to set up. I just set one up in my own home and it was very straight forward to set up. You just plug in one of the components such as the zone 90 bridge to your router/network. Install the included software and connect one or more ZonePlayers.

Zone, any Zone

Having different zones is the name of the Sonos game. I have the ZonePlayer S5 in the living room and one in the master bedroom. The S5 is also very portable, it can just be unplugged and placed outside on the deck for instance. I also connected a ZonePlayer Z90 to my home theater system in the Man Cave to play music from the centralized iTunes library. The Z90 may be put into serve to connect to a pair of powered outdoor speakers if I can find some that I like.

Internet Raido

The Internet Radio stations that are available on the Sonos system are extensive. Several of my favorite stations are available so you can listen to local stations or international stations as well. You also have the option to add stations to a Favorites list for fast access to those stations.

iPhone and iPod Touch

If you have an iPhone or iPod TouchThere is a free app that connects to your Sono System which enables you to control the Sonos system. If not you will need to purchase the Sonos controller which is a bit pricey. If you don’t have an iPod Touch I would purchase one to control the Sonos because it can so so much more than the Sonos remote solution.

More to Come

There is an iPad app in development that Sonos has already previewed and it looks to be a very nice way to touch and control your Sonos system.

I will be using and listening to more music and experimenting with multiple iTunes libraries and I will post those impressions at a latter date.

I updated the blog page with a site navigation thanks to WP-Blog’s header/Footer option. I used the plusKit plugin to import the navigation into the header which allowed each post to have the navigation showing

I was finally able to get “Pretty Permalinks” to work on both of my blogs. I had to get my host support on board. Apparenty I did not have a .htaccess file in the root directory of each of my sites. They added it and I was able to modify theme with the code that WordPress generates when the Apache mod is not present on your server. Once that was done I now have nice, neat permalinks.

Why So Important?

Permalinks on a blog are important especially the pretty type. They lend themselves to a more professional look on your site as well as if someone links to your post they seem to track better with search engines.

The ViewPort Lab has a new blog now powered by WordPress and the WP-Blog plugin for RapidWeaver

I will add content here based on testing of different RapidWeaver stuff…plugins, themes and stacks plugins etc

Stay Tuned

Just stay tuned for updates and experiments in the lab.