Amazon Cloud Player

Today Amazon has announced its brand new Cloud Music service. It seems that it has beaten Apple and Google in what many are calling the future of Music. Amazon are giving each user 5GB of free storage to upload their own music which can then be streamed to the Cloud Player (Mac or PC) and Android mobile Phones. If you buy a MP3 Album though you get a free upgrade to 20GB of storage (promotion only) or you can buy anything from 20GB to 1000GB of storage with all files located on the Amazon S3 Servers.

At the moment it seems the Cloud Music Player only works within the US but hopefully Amazon will open it up to the rest of the world soon. Would you use a cloud service for your music or are you happy storing it locally and syncing it?

Today the long awaited Firefox 4 update was released globally. It actually slipped out earlier than it should of via the Mozilla FTP site but now can be officially downloaded. So far there has been over 3 million downloads, and Mozilla will be hoping this will bring Firefox back in-line with the likes of Chrome and Safari who have been dominating recently.

Firefox 4 released to the world!

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Today Google released their brand new logo for their browser, Chrome. From the 3D chrome effect logo to a new 2D Matt finish logo, Google hasn’t stated why it’s changed the design of the logo. This also leads us to wonder will they change to logo of any other of their services, who knows?

The First Google Chrome Logo

The New Google Chrome Logo

So what do you think of the New Logo? Personally I like and don’t like it. However I do feel it is more “logo like” now.

10 years ago the Internet was a relatively novel and new idea in the UK. The ability to communicate across the world and receiving information from around the world in several seconds (or minutes on 28kbps) was an amazing achievement. It was the start of the true digital age in which we live and rely upon now. With the increase in speed and the lower cost, the higher the usage became. Now it feels like everyone and everything is online. Sadly however there are people out there who like to take advantage of the fact we are all online, and this is where online protection comes in.

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So today there has been a huge update to the BBC iPlayer, the On Demand TV and radio Service from the BBC has now got personal!

So far the BBC iPlayer team have focused on getting the technical aspects of the iPlayer working bug free and improving reliability. Also iPlayer Version 2 focussed on creating a complete cross platform player which now works not online  but across many desktop platforms, mobiles, iPhone, TV Sets, Consoles (more than 40 devices actually), a list of compatible devices can be found here.

Version 3

So version 3 makes the iPlayer more personal by introducing many new features plus a fantastic new sleek design.

• Favourites – So one of the big new features are favourites. You can now select your favourite programs be it radio or TV and they will appear right at the top of the iPlayer page. This makes it really easy now to find the programs that interest you the most and they will appear right at the top as soon as they are available. This is one Feature I have really been waiting for so its great its finally here!

BBC iPlayer - New Favourites feature.

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