Cool tips n tricks related to smartphones, tablets and computer

Hulu has finally updated their iphone and iPad video player with the much-needed support for the Retina Display of the new iPad.

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Though BioWare has not tied the two situations together as thus, the fact that Star Wars : The Old Republic has already lost 400,000 players since launch and that they’ve got a new set of layoffs in their staff on the books is fairly clearly connected. What we’re seeing this week is the CEO of BioWare Ray Muzyka announcing with co-founder Greg Zeschuk that they’d be saying “farewell to some talented, passionate, and exceptionally hard-working people” from the Star Wars staff. Hopefully this does not point toward an end-of-life sequence for the game itself.

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The concept of ‘floating apps’ is fast transforming into a pretty handy way of helping android users extract the maximum performance out of their immensely powerful devices, while at the same time, letting them enjoy the true essence of multitasking on a mobile device. Previously reviewed calculator app, AirCalc, is a very fine example of a neatly-designed and simple floating app, which remains persistently visible on any android screen that you navigate to. Over a period of time, the concept of floating apps has been employed on far more diverse app categories, and android users these days find themselves surrounded by a healthy number of floating video players in the google Play Store. However, the catch with most of these ‘floating players’ is that they come tied with a hefty price tag, which is not the case with Super Video, Floating & Popup – a comprehensive video streaming and playing android app that lets you simultaneously play multiple local and YouTube videos through various resizable and movable floating windows.

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If you’re like me, you remember the day that Netflix’s streaming video service first launched. And at that time, you would shut off the TV and spend hours watching movies and TV shows on your computer. Now, though, there are millions of people who no doubt have a Netflix streaming subscription and have never even watched any content from the confines of their computer.

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With each passing day, the pace of life is increasing all over the world for most of us. Compared to our ancestors, we are required to perform a lot more in much less time. With so many things to do in a day, one sometimes forgets about the all the tasks one has to perform. Nowadays, it is almost a must to have a good task reminder to help you remember and manage yourself efficiently. We have covered some very good task managers for both windows and Mobile platforms, such as Conqu (reviewed here) and Concenturio (reviewed here). Today, we have another task manager called TimeTask that combines the features of a task manager, music player, shutdown timer and timed application launcher. More on TimeTask after the jump.

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Among the plethora of video players available for windows (and other cross-platform applications), MPlayer has earned a name of its own, owing to its support for various media formats and open source nature. Although Mplayer relies on a command-line interface, you can easily obtain optional media players off the internet that provide its GUI front-end. Rules Player, for the windows operating system, is one such solution that uses MPlayer binaries and provide a simple and easy-to-use media player. It supports a wide array of video formats including AVI, MKV, MOV, SGP, MP4, OGG, NUTT, OGM etc., as well as various audio formats such as MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC, AC3, FLAC and so on. Additionally, the application lets you play videos while they are being downloaded, thus saving you the agony of having to wait for the download process to be completed first. Lets delve inside and see if it’s worth a shot.

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Previously reviewed MX Video Player is dubbed by many as the best video player for android, courtesy of the app’s ability to flawlessly play almost any known video format. This, coupled with its great controls, and all the various additional features that it brings to the table, makes MX Video Player the first choice of most android users when it comes to free video players. Ever since we reviewed the app, not many alternatives have been able to impress a great deal. However, this perception seems to be taking a pleasant turn with the release of Wondershare Player – a good-looking, comprehensive video player for android that, apart from borrowing most of its features from MX Video Player, supports the additional ability of exploring and streaming high quality videos from top video-hosting web services, including YouTube, Hulu, Vevo, Dailymotion and many more. The app combines high quality video streaming with seamless playback of locally stored media, presenting you with what is arguably one of the most feature-rich android video players available today.

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We all appreciate fascinating storylines in movies, videogames, television shows and theatres – and sometimes most of us dream of creating our own. If you were looking for a simple tool that could help you in script writing for various media projects, you should consider giving Interactive Theater a shot. As every great story is backed by a powerful script, this software is developed to make script writing a lot easier. It lets you play script-related media files from within the application, while allowing you to write script in a separate rich text editor. It can be quite handy for those writers who often work on parody projects and theater shows etc. Moreover, all this comes with an extra topping of ergonomically friendly interface design. Read past the break for more details.

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You may know that windows 7 uses its own set of media codecs to decode certain type of audio and video formats. This can be a major hindrance for folks who watch videos using windows Media Player or windows Media Center, as the default decoder is a little bland when compared to third-party decoders such as ffdshow, CoreAVC, MPCVideoDec etc. Although you can use a few registry tweaks to force windows to use third-party filters, we understand that not everyone wants to risk playing with windows registry editor. Win7DSFilterTweaker provides a simple solution to this very problem. It has been developed to force windows Media Player or Media Center to use your favorite DirectShow decoder. It supports both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of third-party DirectShow filters including LAV Video, ffdshow, MPCVideoDec, CoreAVC H.264, DivX MPEG-4, Gabest MPEG-2, Bitcontrol MPEG-2, MONOGRAM AAC and so on.

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There are numerous applications available out there that let you assign custom global keyboard shortcuts to a specific media player, so that you can easily play or pause a media file, control volume, etc., even if your media player is not active, but what if you want to assign hotkeys to not just one, but a number of different media players that you use? Meet MPH (Media Player Hotkeys) – an application that is designed to configure a single set of hotkey combinations for multiple media players including VLC, windows Media Player, KM Player, Winamp, Media Player Classic and so on. Apart from using hotkeys, you can use mouse buttons and scroll wheel to perform different tasks as well.

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