Though many previously bundled applets now will ship separately to Windows 7, Windows Media Player remains part of the core OS. Windows 7 will ship with Windows Media Player 12, which includes some surprising new features.
The UI itself is brighter and lighter than WMP11. Some buttons and toolbar items have been moved around, but the [...]
Thursday AOL announced that social networks are front and center in the latest redesign of their homepage AOL.com. The company announced it will start to gradually roll out the new homepage to users over the next few weeks (unless they choose to opt in earlier).
A widget (or module, or whatever you want to call it) on the new AOL.com [...]
It’s something you can’t get on the Roku. Nor on LG’s BD300. Nor on Samsung’s P2500 / P2550 Blu-ray players. Nor through Netflix’s own “Watch Instantly” portal. It’s high-def Netflix streaming, and it’s coming first to Microsoft’s Xbox 360. Yes friends, when the all new dashboard hits on November 19th, with it will come HD [...]
Twenty-five years ago, The Flaming Lips burst out of Oklahoma City with deafening noise and ambition to spare. Today, it is one of rock’s most perplexing and productive bands in history.
Front man Wayne Coyne (at right, with the broken cross) and multi-instrumentalist Michael Ivins (at left, in the shades) may not have foreseen the future [...]
Increasing storage and probability of hard disk failure will crash into eachother in a year or so. Apparently, RAID 6 isn’t far behind. Disk drive capacities double every 18-24 months. We have 1 TB drives now, and in 2009 we’ll have 2 TB drives. With a 7-drive RAID 5 disk failure, you’ll have 6 remaining 2 TB drives. [...]
For those who no longer have a television or whose schedules don’t coincide with the timing, watching live TV events can be a challenge. Fortunately, in a definite sign of the times, tonight’s Presidential Debate has attracted the attention of most US broadcasters, many of whom will provide online viewing options. Leading the way is Hulu, a [...]
Blizzcon is a semi-regular convention held by Blizzard Entertainment to celebrate their major franchises: Warcraft, Diablo & Starcraft.
This year’s Blizzcon was on October 10 and 11, 2008 and once again held at the Anaheim Convention Center. It saw 15,000 gamers descend from 27 different countries to take part in two days of discussions, tournaments, and sneak peaks [...]
Through various sources, including a Fox News report, there have been large-scale and possibly ongoing security breaches at the World Bank.
“The World Bank Group’s computer network — one of the largest repositories of sensitive data about the economies of every nation — has been raided repeatedly by outsiders for more than a year, FOX News has [...]
Finally after nine years, on Tuesday the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) awarded Apple and inventor Steve Jobs a patent for their User Interface for Providing Consolidation and Access. Their what? It is more commonly known as “The Dock”.
If you’re a PC user, you may be unfamiliar with The Dock. According to [...]
Has gaming for “real dollars” left the internet and arrived on your favorite console? If not now, apparently very soon.
MTV’s Multiplayer blog reports on a company about to start offering a service that will allow players to compete in matches and tournaments over their PS2, PS3, or Xbox 360 using prize money as an incentive. Doing [...]
