RB-Chu-02 Varsity Blue Chumby Smart Internet Companion so, what's chumby anyway? chumby takes your favorite parts of the internet and delivers them to you in a friendly, always-on, alwaysfresh format. It's a window into your internet life that lives outside your desktop, so content like weather, news, celebrity gossip, podcasts, music, and more has a place to play away from your world of documents and spreadsheets. Just plug in your chumby, connect to your network, and use your computer to create a lineup of favorites from over 1,500 apps in more than 30 categories, with new ones arriving all the time. Then let your chumby do its thing streaming everything you like, from sports scores to stock quotes, from video clips to interactive games, from photos to trivia. free content What is FREE content? It's a collection of over 1,500 apps in more than 30 categories, such as weather, social networks, photos, sports, news, entertainment, videos and much more. The free content is always evolving we're constantly bringing the most interesting information on the web right to your chumby so you don't have to search for it yourself. And the best thing about all this content is that it's FREE! No subscriptions to pay, no plans to sign up for. It's paid for by chumby industries and by sponsor companies who will be sending you apps such as music, games, movie previews, customized alarm clocks, and special offers for products. chumby industries is 100% dedicated to keeping your app channels new, intriguing, fun and FREE. Check out all our categories and the latest hot apps on the browse apps page. If you've got a programmer's touch you can even publish your own apps.
news & entertainment Stay informed your chumby can keep you up-todate with popular local, national, and international news sources like The New York Times, Reuters and NPR. Need your fix of celebrity news? We've got plenty of ways to keep you in the gossip loop, with dish from sites like MTV, VH1 and ET. The chumby RSS Reader also lets you follow the RSS feeds of your choice. Check out all of our apps in the news andentertainment categories. music & podcasts Tune into one of our many internet radio options. Pandora Radio builds personalized music playlists based on artists or songs you like. SHOUTcast streams thousands of free online radios stations from around the world. The New York Times, CBS, and Mediafly offer podcasts on a ton of topics, like news, sports, comedy, fitness, science, travel, languages, entertainment, and much more. Blue octy radio has a dozen stations you can quickly tune into. Own a Squeezebox device? You can stream your music collection over the chumby. Want even more internet radio options? You can enter a URL for any stream in MP3, M3U, OGG or PLS formats. You can also listen to any MP3, M4A, AIFF and WAV files on your ipod while recharging it*. chumby will also play music from USB storage devices that are in MP3, OGG, WAV, FLAC or M4A formats. *Details on Apple product compatibility. Note: Pandora and iheartradio services are only available in the US. photo viewing & sharing Got an account on Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket, or Facebook? Perfect! Use the chumby as a digital photo frame to show off your favorite photos (or your friend's photos). You can view public or private photos, or search for specific photos using tags. It's also easy to share your photos with chumby friends surprise them by sending pictures straight to their chumbys of your latest get-together! Check out all of our apps in the photos
Social networking Stay connected view the latest activity on your social network accounts like Facebook and Twitter. See who sent you a friends request, check messages, and keep in touch without being a slave to your computer. If you have "friends" (friends with a real or virtual chumby), you can even surprise them by sending an app you've customized to their chumbys. Check out all of our apps in the social networks games Take a break every once in a while! Play classic games like Blackjack, Reversi, and Sudoku, as well as offbeat originals. Select a two-player game to play with a friend who has a chumby. Take advantage of the chumby's motion sensor and play great new games like Chumball. Check out all of our apps in the games Weather Want to see the weather forecast as soon as you wake up? It's easy with any of chumby's many weather apps. Personalize your chumby to show you weather wherever in your hometown, vacation spots, family favorites anywhere in the world. Get the current weather, forecasts, and even radar images. To check out all of our weather-related apps, visit the weather
videos View and share popular video clips, off-beat animations, anime, vintage cartoons and media mashups from YouTube, VH1, CBS, and more. Enjoy videos from sites like YouTube and VH1, or build your own using the Animoto app. Check out all of our apps in the video Sports chumby is perfect for the sports fanatic. Get the latest scores right on your chumby, or keep track of headlines through sources like CBS Sports and ESPN News Wire. You can even customize the information to only give you the scoop on the teams you care about. Check out all of our apps in the sports catego auctions & classifieds Tracking the progress on any ebay auction is as simple as entering the item number. Got an ebay account? Your chumby makes it easy to keep tabs on the items you've placed in your Watch List. If you're a craigslist follower, you can check local classifieds and forums for 450 cities worldwide. Select your location, category, and search terms and see the results on your chumby. Or, enter a URL on the Advanced customization screen to include any location or search term. Email search results to yourself straight from your chumby! Check out all of our apps in
the shopping Auctions & classifieds Tracking the progress on any ebay auction is as simple as entering the item number. Got an ebay account? Your chumby makes it easy to keep tabs on the items you've placed in your Watch List. If you're a craigslist follower, you can check local classifieds and forums for 450 cities worldwide. Select your location, category, and search terms and see the results on your chumby. Or, enter a URL on the Advanced customization screen to include any location or search term. Email search results to yourself straight from your chumby! Check out all of our apps in the shopping personalized alarm clock With a chumby, wake up exactly when and how you'd like: to the adrenaline rush of rock music, The New York Times headlines, weather, sports, stock updates any audio or visual content you choose. You can set a quick alarm, or customize alarms for sleeping later on weekends or reminding you of special events. Any type of content can be selected to play at a particular time. Visit the alarms page to learn about its features, or check out how easy it is to create a custom alarm that wakes you up to the internet radio station of your choice. Messaging Waiting for an email message? Use the Email Notifier to see the latest messages in any POP or Gmail account. Or use the Flashcan ecard tool to create a unique message to send to a friend's real or virtual chumby. Check out all of our apps in the communications category or try out the Flashcan ecard builder.