Archive for May, 2010


Are you looking for ways to improve the playback of your media in Windows Media Player 12? We’ll show you how to do that by using the enhancements in WMP 12.

If you are in Library mode, you’ll need to click the icon at the lower right to switch to Now Playing mode.
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The BBC has relaunched the website version of its popular iPlayer service in an effort to give the online telly catch-up service a Web2.0rhea sheen.

The Corporation said it had simplified its iPlayer by making TV and radio shows easier to search for via its website. The Beeb has also tweaked the interface to allow users to personalise their iPlayer “experience”, and dipped the whole thing in some social networking dye.
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The winner of the ninth season of American Idol is a choice between Lee DeWyze of Illinois and Crystal Bowersox of Ohio.
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June 7 is now a near-certainty to be the launch date for the latest iPhone, with Apple CEO Steve Jobs kicking off the firm’s Worldwide Developers’ Conference on that day (and with US retailer Wal-Mart halving the prices of the current iPhone 3GS in readiness). That would suggest that the new handset would hit the shelves in early July.

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Social network Facebook has said it will offer a one-stop shop for privacy settings in response to user concerns.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg admitted the settings had “gotten complex” for users.

It follows a storm of protest from users over a series of changes on the site that left its members unsure about how public their information had become. (more…)