Keeping your computer and software up to date is very important in keeping everything running smooth and secure. It’s also important to keep your geeky gadgets updated as well. Here we take a look at updating a Zune HD. Note: In this example we’re updating a Zune HD out of the box which hasn’t been updated yet.
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Simaudio claims that the Moon 750D contains not only its most advanced digital-to-analogue converter yet, but that it’s the first true 32-bit fully asynchronous digital audio player to reach the market. It also describes this substantial machine as a DAC plus a transport, which is odd given that in most respects it seems to be an integrated player. It’s the plethora of inputs and the fact that it can accept high-res digital signals that explains this approach. The 750D is a superbly built player from a company that has extremely good form, so expectations are high for this new midrange model. DAC or player?
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Listening to many gamers and critics prattle on about Mass Effect 2 is kind of like listening to a teenager talk about their first love. The game, they say, can do no wrong. It’s a pure, perhaps even blind sort of love, and at first glance, it’s well-deserved. But no videogame – no matter how much of its dialogue is delivered in Martin Sheen’s seductively raspy warble – is perfect. Problem is, many of Mass Effect 2’s detractors are picking on the wrong “flaw.” For Mass Effect 2, the word of the day that’s got nitpickers screaming like they’re on an episode of Pee-Wee’s Playhouse is “streamlined.” Or, in many cases, its more derogatory cousin: “dumbed-down.” “Mass Effect 2’s not even an RPG anymore,” many of them hoot and holler.
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Problem: You have a ton of awesome jams on your iTunes / Zune / Windows Media Player / multimedia organizer of choice, but you don’t always use the PC that contains your ultimate rock collection. What do you do? There are a few answers, but all require some software setup in order for you to be able to access your music from afar. You could use Hamachi-based networks to access a shared iTunes library; You could also set up your primary machine as a radio server, which you can then use to stream your files via an easy-to-operate, Web-based interface! Still, that’s a lot of work. There has to be an easier solution, right? There is. It’s called TunesBag , and it offers the same functionality you’d otherwise get by building your own Internet radio station the hard way. Although the service is limited to one GB of music for free accounts, that’s still a hefty amount of rocking out for your average listener. And uploading, playing, and categorizing music using TunesBag’s Web-based interface couldn’t be easier–or faster! Here’s how it works: Sign up for the free service and you’ll be given one gigabyte of space to upload music to. You can either dump your files into your TunesBag… bag… using a Web-based upload tool or a desktop updating client that integrates nicely with iTunes, Windows Media Player, and Winamp libraries.
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The Samsung BD-C6900 is the beating heart of Samsung’s 3D ecosystem. First unveiled at CES 2010, the Blu-ray player is a sleek-looking machine that’s been given a slightly see-through chassis. You get a feeling that Samsung has made it transparent so that consumers can peer into the system and see the next-gen technology that is on-board. As you would expect from a Blu-ray player of this calibre, the C6900 has a number of innovative features.
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As I have mentioned before in how to make WMP play songs at a specified time guide, I use the default Windows Media Player as my primary media player. But for some unknown reasons, Windows Media Player stopped working this morning. In fact, I am not even able to run WMP now.
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Steward Butterfield, one of the original co-founders of photosharing website Flickr, is currently developing a new MMO game called Glitch . Glitch has been put together by Butterfield in association with the developers over at Tiny Speck and is intriguingly described as a collaborative and rather psychedelic-looking 2D platformer. How has Butterfield moved from photo-sharing into games?
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With its unconventionally curvaceous design, touch-sensitive controls and a glossy fingerprint magnet finish, the DVD-H1080 deserves a place in the middle of the coffee table. In these Blu-ray-dominated times, a DVD deck can’t rely on looks alone to compete, and thankfully, the Samsung has a few tricks up its sleeve, the most important of which is video upscaling. The deck will automatically choose the appropriate resolution for you, but you can also manually make it output 720p, 1080i or 1080p. To benefit from this quasi-HD wizardry, you’ll need to hook the player’s HDMI output to the corresponding input on your TV
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One media streamer to play them all High-definition video files were meant to be seen on big-screen televisions, not your 19-inch PC monitor. But getting these files—either personally ripped from high-def sources or downloaded from the Internet—from your desktop to the living room has always been a cumbersome process. Users previously had the option of streaming over a network to devices like the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3, which have restrictive file compatibility, or they could use a dedicated video player like Western Digital’s WD TV, which could only play back files from attached USB drives. The new WD TV Live, however, comes with a much-needed Ethernet port, and along with the addition of other new hardware and software features, is the best video streamer we’ve tested yet. Like its predecessor, the WD TV Live doesn’t actually store any media
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When your playing music or a video in Windows Media Player in Windows 7, you can toggle the playback controls on or off by hovering the mouse over the window. Here we show you how to always have the playback controls show in Now Playing mode. In this example I’m playing a song from the band Early Day Miners and we can see the album cover in the Now Playing mode and the playback controls are hidden. When I hover the mouse pointer over the window the controls pop backup.
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