Windows/Mac (and Chrome/Firefox): Music discovery and sharing services are limited by their platforms. You can thumbs-up, “Scrobble” and otherwise feed songs to desktop players and YouTube, but those music channels can’t see each other. Like.fm aims to track your listening everywhere, then connect you to other tunes you might dig. More »
Something we love about Windows 7 is that it has much better native codec support, like H.264 and AAC. But the price might be high: It looks like Windows 7 might block third-party video decoders.
Windows 7 is Microsoft’s way of saying “We <3 Media”. Even other people’s formats—notably Apple favourites H.264 and AAC—are supported in the new OS, which comes with the newest Windows Media Player, version 12. But the biggest multimedia upgrade is Play To, a little WMP feature that eclipses all the rest. More »
