Bringo is one of those applications that you wish for with all your heart while you’re tearing your hair out trying to navigate one of those endless corporate phone tree systems. You know the sort, “please press 1 for help, 2 for sales…54 for self-immolation…”. The service aims to cut through all the hassle, do the navigation for you and connect you right at the end when the human finally appears on the line to talk to you. Amazing and wonderful idea….

The folks at Finetune have launched a new standalone music player called Finetune Desktop based on the sparkling new Apollo technology from Adobe, which makes it *very cutting edge*. This ferret braved the dangers and downloaded and installed it all, and guess what, it works? And works well. Lots of eye candy, snappy performance, easy install. What’s not to like? So now you can listen to your favourite artists all day without tying up your browser. And did we mention the pretty cool iTunes integration? Golly,…

I’ve been trying out a closed beta of Zattoo over the past few days, and it’s pretty darn cool. For those who don’t know, it’s real live television beamed to your PC over your broadband Internet connection. No box, no aerial, no plug-in tuners. The image you see here is taken from standard daytime BBC television running at approx 5 seconds delay from the live transmission (yes I checked). Now setting aside what damage this could do to newbie services…