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How-to: adding album art to the Zen Vision:M retrospectively: using Zen Media Explorer and setting the view to “Album”.

Bye-bye scrollwheel, hello quad-directional joystick—Creative decided to change things a bit in their MuVo line. Question though: how is a leftie supposed to use this?

Now, to more changes: the 96×36-pixel screen is now a PLED (similar to the more expensive OLED in terms of performance but worse when it comes to battery life). The device [...]

How-to: rip your DVDs so they’re properly reproduced on the Zen Vision:M: “This guide uses DVD Decrypter and AutoGK which is free open source software so it will cost you nothing.” Read our presentation of the Zen Vision:M.
From the wicked cool department—How-to: turn your wireless mouse into an iTunes remote: this is great. Using a [...]

Creative launched ZENcast which is actually two things, a site and an application. As a site, ZENcast is a directory of podcasts/vidcasts, similar to Yahoo! Podcasts. As an app, the ZENcast Organizer (requirements: Windows XP or Media Center, plus Internet Explorer) manages the transferring of podcasts/vidcasts to the user’s device (for now, it’s compatible with [...]

Woah! Check out the screen comparison between Creative’s Zen Vision:M and Apple’s iPod video: evidence #1, evidence #2 [via]. Creative’s got a winner in the screen department, no doubt about that. Also, its TV output looks much better too. Good news for the competition.

Check out the rest of the photos to get a better feel [...]

Mac users/Creative Nomad owners (the 5 of you) your prayers have been answered, in the 4-letter goodness that seems to be XNJB.

XNJB is a Cocoa graphical user interface for Mac OS X for the Creative Nomad range of portable MP3 players.

As the owner of what is undoubtedly The Best. Portable Audio Player. Ever. (NOMAD Jukebox [...]

We’ve reported on it last week, and it’s finally here. Creative’s reply to the iPod Video, named Zen Vision:M (press release).

You can’t help but notice the clear similarity between it and the iPod Video when it comes to the graphical interfaces. “Couldn’t they have at least changed the battery indicator’s color?” is a thought that [...]

Yeah, yeah—Creative Zen Vision:M presentation coming: I’ve received a handful of emails regarding this, and yes, the Creative Zen Vision:M presentation is worked on as we speak and will be posted later today.

I’ve decided to skip the “for the sake of being fast, let’s just say it’s out, post the specs, and be done with [...]

Creative’s Soundbuzz Music Store launches: available from within the MediaSource app, tracks go for $.99 and albums for $9.99. Creative’s Technical Marketing Engineer says they’re working on an improved, refined version of MediaSource. There’s also the Creative Soundbuzz Music Video Store launched back in September.

Finally, some potentially exciting news from Creative’s camp. Sim Wong Hoo, Creative Labs’ CEO, is expected to present an iPod video (review) competitor in person in Paris, next week. [And man, at the risk of calling us Apple fanboys (you know that ain’t true!), that “I’ll present it myself” thing does make us wish Mr. [...]