As a music fan, sometimes you feel as if you have heard it all. Every music playing application feels generally the same without too much difference. One music playing application stands out in this regard. MXplay is a different kind of music experience, in that it allows you to move the speakers, thus altering the sound in it's 2D panel (as seen in the gallery below). You can also move your head to make the music sound different, have more depth or sound closer, behind you are just right to the angle of your head.

Move my head? Yes, but a digital head, not your real head. This digital head lets you spin to hear at different angles or slide side to side for interesting audio perception results. This feature of MXplay is by far the most fun to play with and can take you a while to begin to stop playing with it, so you might not want to try it at work.

The real value in MXplay is in the social networking aspect, or so it would seem. The social features of the app include the ability to mix in videos from YouTube, Google, and others to add to your audiospace. Once done, you can save and share audiospaces (even though some contain video) with other users of the application. You can also make recordings of the various speaker moves in a pattern that is also saved as a part of your audiospace.

Running this app on Vista worked just fine and shouldn't give you to much trouble, however the use of certain features wasn't very clear in some cases, and there doesn't seem to be extensive documentation by any means, but it is at least worth playing with to experience the pseudo 3D sounds it produces.

There are MXplay plugins for Nintendo Wiimote, Last.fm, and even one in the works for MP3tunes.com as well. so stay tuned!

Google has quietly released a version of Google Reader that is optimized for viewing on a Nintendo Wii and navigating with a Wiimote.

Because most standard television screens have lower resolutions than computer monitors, the interface features larger fonts and no sidebar with subscription listings. You bring up your list by pressing one and navigate your feeds with the up and down buttons.

Here's the list of commands:

• Up and down scrolls up and down
  
• Right and left take you to the next and previous items
• The 1 button shows your subscription list in a transparent menu
• The 2 button show links to your Home, all items, starred items and shared items

[via ZDNet]

The thing about using a Nintendo Wii to browse the web is that you've got to use a remote control and a pretty basic web browser by Opera. Sure, it can show full screen and zoomed-in versions of web pages, but what about tabbed browsing?

Well, the folks at Warp Pipe Technologies pick up where Opera's developers left off, and have developed Wiiminder -- a tabbed browsing interface. There's no software to install, all you have to do is direct your Wii Opera browser to Wiiminder.com. If you visit the site with a non-Wii browser, you'll see a promotional video, which we have after the jump.

[via Wiifanboy]