According to the developers Zemote is the only remote in the Marketplace that’s capable of controlling your Zune player over WiFi with all functionality. Zemote can play, pause, skip songs, seek in a song, adjust the volume in Zune, shuffle and repeat. Besides all this basic things, you can also browse your collection trough an album, artist or song view. To find a particular song, you can search in your library and play it instantly. Zemote also provides your playlists, which you can play, edit or delete, or you can create a new playlist on the fly. Zemote also provides Zemote DJ, which allows you to queue up a list of songs you want to hear next (kind of creating a now playing list). Last but not least, you can also browse and play by genre. Press Release for Zemote
Zemote is a Zune remote that allows you to control the music playback of Zune on your PC. Browse your music collection trough the album-view to have all your covers under your fingertips and hit them to see the tracks on the particular album. Or find your favorite track in the tracks list or via a custom search. With Zemote you can also perform basic actions, such as setting the volume, mute, next track, previous track, play, pause and so on. You can also use, create, edit and delete your playlists. Zemote uses your local Wi-Fi-network to connect to your PC, all you need to do is make sure both your PC and your phone are connected to the same network and hit connect on your phone. When everything is set up, you can start using your phone as a remote!
Features
• Play, pause, skip and previous command
• Turn repeat and shuffle on and off
• Change volume or mute
• Find songs in a track list
• Find songs in a artist list
• Use the album view to find songs of a particular album
• Search everything you want with a custom search
• Nice and easy-to-use interface in Metro UI style, mixed with our own style
• Live Tile
• Playlists: create, edit, delete and play playlists
• Automatic PC discovery
Nokia Lumia 800 firmware 12070 available in Singapore
The Finns at Nokia have started rolling out their latest firmware for the Lumia 800 that addresses several bugs; primarily their third attempt at fixing the battery bug that has plagued many Lumia 800 owners, a camera mode change from Macro back to Normal which gives crisper close-up photos, Camera white balance has been looked at, the shutter sound option has been removed and there has been an audio fix which is claimed to give better bass when using headphones. Nokia have also updated the ‘on-device diagnostics tool’ which now has omissions in the Battery Status area. The update has been reported to still have a few bugs remaining, for example, if your volume is set to 10/30 and you plug the phone into the mains to charge, the phone beeps at full volume.
Over the past week Microsoft and Windows Phone have been busy unveiling changes to their logo, their image, and service names. A much needed change in Windows’ and WP’s image has been at the core of of many discussions as reasons for slow sales with the WP and the Microsoft has begun to address it. There are very high expectations this year in Redmond, Wa. for Microsoft’s Windows 8′s encompassing ecosystem. With Metro being incorporated into the entire Microsoft ecosystem with Windows 8, Windows 8 Tablets, and Windows 8 Phone an infusion of vitality was needed to capture the new generation of user’s and re-capture many user’s attention who abandonded the previous versions of Windows. With the MWC12 almost here and many new devices on the way, what better model runway could you ask for to show off the “new” sleek and simple Windows 8 image? [click to continue…]
Microsoft Australia has just announced voice control for Kinect along with Zune Music Pass subscription service , according to gizmodo.com.au.
Zune Music pass will launch on November 16 at $11.99 per month or $119.90 annually and will most likely be the same model as the service which was announced in Canada, and can be used on Xbox 360, Windows Phone, Windows PC, Zune devices and Zune.net.The plan will provide unlimited, on-demand access to more than 14 million songs and will not include 10 MP3s to keep each month. (Unlike the previous Zune Music Pass offering which was limited to US ). It looks like Music Video will also be supported ( according to @longzheng who is attending the event). Microsoft’s also announced voice control for Kinect today.
A lot of Windows Phone users might not be aware of the fact that when you transfer videos onto your device via the zune client the software re-sizes your video to a WVGA resolution using its own encoding codecs so that the video plays on your device without any resolution problems. [click to continue…]
HTC has recently partnered up with Dr.Dre to deliver phones with beats headset and the HTC Sensation XE has already been announced to be the first phone and we can expect the HTC Runnymede. So shouldn’t HTC also be thinking about integrating it with Windows Phone 7 when it is the only platform to have Zune ? [click to continue…]
Something I am not very pleased to write about but it seems like starting September 13, Microsoft will be reducing the number of sync devices by which you can sync with the Zune music service from a total of 6 devices ( 3 PC and 3 Windows Phone devices) to 4 (at least one computer and combination of other devices). You’ll also need to download at least one new song to each device to continue using the service. [click to continue…]
we did see that Microsoft was quietly testing Music and Podcast in Australia , I noted that I can now subscribe to audio and video podcast using Zune and can easily sync it with my Windows Phone. Unfortunately the marketplace does not offer the podcast tab and so you can’t browse for Podcasts via the marketplace but you can easily add a new podcast using the podcast feel URL. This was tested on Mango Refresh and Zune 4.8.2345
SAHITYA KUMAR: Is dis app available in indian market place..? [Posted from the 1800PocketPC app]
PADDY: Thank NOOK for something this cool and slip looking. I was losing hope for Windows developers :S [Posted from the 1800PocketPC app]
schlubadub: Yawn, they should think about extending Nook to other countries first. I can’t get any of this in Australia (even via web). [Posted from the 1800PocketPC app]
Nick: Nice work, cool ideas. Now, let’s hope MS has something to say in the joint-venture since B&N is not paying any attention to designers. In some ways, MS Reader was ten times better...
fatfingur: I’m not saying this mockup is legit or real. My only point is that using comic sans does not make you unprofessional. Balsamiq is a professional wireframing tool used by pros....
simphf: One paragraph reads ‘NOOK for Android’. Ha [Posted from the 1800PocketPC app]
Hog: Almost forgot, are you going to enter the Nokia X Challenge for over 2 million in prize money? The info.is at Nokia Conversations and with your IT background. Lots of ideas swirl around in my...
Hog: Very nice. I’m not familiar with the Nook at all for content but I really like your design. I hope the Barnes app is made available for all windows phones also. [Posted from the...
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