Just about a day ahead of the big launch, a video showing off the XPERIA’s media capabilities was leaked. Seems like it will pose a definite threat to the iPhone. It looks a lot like the Zune HD’s UI and no one thnks it is a coincidence. Still, even that is a good thing because [...]

Categories: Gadgets, Google Android, Mobiles

Recently I have had a lot of people asking how to play various media files in Linux. Since most users are migrating over from either Mac or Windows, they are either used to one single application handling their media files or at least knowing exactly what apps handle each media type. When they migrate over [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Music and Video, Open Source

Following up on last week’s much commented article about how you guys use your Firefox, I decided to also take a look at how you use your media player applications. This is perhaps a bit more complex than last week’s question, since we are covering multiple applications. Nevertheless, which media player do you use, and [...]

Categories: ask the readers, Software

When creating a presentation, a web design, a leaflet or a brochure, it is important to find suitable images to use. Whilst one option is to pay for stock photos to use under a restrictive licence, another option is to find free (gratis and libre) photos. Wikimedia Commons is the repository which Wikipedias and other [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Open Source, The Web

I never quite understood why most people shy away from going to a library. After all, 9 times out of 10, the information you are looking for is available at your local library. In fact, libraries have an excellent collection, not only of books but also CDs, DVDs, scientific journals, etc. One common reason people [...]

Categories: Cool, Knowledge, Online Services

Joshua is a regular gHacks author, if you like the type of posts you see here then check out his own blog; Extendably – a site dedicated to everything extensions related. So far in this series of posts I’ve taken a look at Windows Media Player, iTunes, Media Monkey and Helium Music Manager. Today I’m [...]

Categories: Software

Yesterday I began this series of posts which I hope will be a very comprehensive review of every music player alternative. I started off with Windows Media Player 11 and iTunes. However in my review of iTunes I admitted I personally didn’t use it for myself. I decided after posting that, that it would be [...]

Categories: Software

I was hoping all you gHacks readers could help me out with some feedback on one particular topic; Music jukeboxes. I have written up my thoughts, but I would genuinely like to hear all your opinions. I’m sure we all have our favourites, so I would love to hear exactly what it is that has [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Online media converters have several advantages over their software counterparts: They do not bog down the system and do not require software to be installed on the local computer. They are usually also easily accessible and convert media rapidly due to servers in the background that are used for the process. One of the best, [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Online Services