Here are a few quick tips from Propellerhead to tidy up the Outlook Express desktop and make it easier to use. You should know by now what all of the icons and buttons do, so switch off the text labels and use small icons and you get an instant increase in screen area for your messages and mailboxes. Simply right-click on a toolbar and select Customize and in the two drop-down boxes (Text Options and Icon Options) select No text labels and Small Icons respectively. Click Close. There's more savings still to be had. Click on the vertical separator bar on the far left of the Icon toolbar and drag it onto empty space on the menu bar (to the right of Help).

 

Alas most home cinema style glasses we have played with so far have been well, crap. Nevertheless we are prepared to give the  MPGlass 230M glasses the benefit of the doubt for now.

The MPGlass 230M hook up to your DVD, VCR or games console. Once you've got them on, you can see a display that apparently gives the effect of watching a 30-inch screen at a 2 metre distance, plus stereo sound once you pop in the ear plugs. And it's personal - the images and sound can't be seen or heard by anyone else and you shouldn't be disturbed by enternal noise or movement once you're hooked up.

According to a story in the Hollywood reporter, support from Tinseltown's movie giants for Sony's UMD disc format, used in the PSP, is falling rapidly.

According to Games Digest, the article alleges that Paramount, Imagine and Universal have dropped UMD releases completely, with 20th Century Fox and Buena Vista said also to have scaled back their support. The piece blames a glut of too many titles, plus growing competition from the video iPod. Sony in return are said to be working on plans to let you watch UMD movies on home TVs.

For more on this, plus all the latest games news from across the consoles, check out Games Digest now.

Toshiba has unveiled the world's first commercially available HD DVD player - the HD-XA1, which, for a limited time, comes complete with two HD DVD titles.

Alongside the playback of pre-recorded HD DVD, Toshiba's HD-XA1 also offers support for up-conversion of standard DVD to a resolution of 1080i or 720p through HDCP capable HDMI output. Along with L-PCM 5.1ch audio, the HD-XA1 supports Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD.

Are you one of those people who quite happily snaps away with your camera phone, taking pictures of your mates, live bands or even the odd celeb in the street? It's easy enough to take them - but what about showing them off? If you want to display them quickly on the web, it's worth checking out ShoZu. if you want them on display at home, there's now the Parrot Bluetooth Photo Viewer.

The Photo Viewer, available in either leather or bleached oak, features a high-resolution TFT LCD colour screen, which can display up to 100 photos that can be uploaded from a Bluetooth-enabled phone in a couple of simple steps. You can decide which of the photos you keep on display or you can show as a slideshow at selected intervals. Software in the frame will automatically resize your photo to the frame size and re-adjust the image to portrait or landscape depending on whether the Photo Viewer is in a portrait or landscape position.

It seems like the transport companies are finally getting the message that we need to keep in touch and keep working, wherever we are, especially when we're on the move. We told you earlier in the month about National Express offering free Wi-Fi access on some routes, now train operator GNER is extending its trial of Wi-Fi access to all of its East Coast Mainline trains.

GNER began trialling on-board Wi-Fi in December 2003 and has since equipped ten of its Mallard-class trains, which run between London King's Cross and Leeds, Newcastle, Glasgow and Edinburgh. The company has now announced an extension of the service, bringing the wireless technology to the rest of the Mallard fleet and to its 13 remaining diesel High Speed Trains by this summer.

Bored of your Sony PSP in plain old black and white? How would you like one with wood panelling, with styling just like your gran's old wartime radio?

Sadly, this PSP doesn't live outside of a graphics package. It was created for Worth1000, a Photoshop competition site. Aspiring artists are given 48 hours to create a Photoshop masterpiece based on a specified criteria - in this case, modern technology with a vintage twist.