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Putting it graphically, its @#%^&*! beautiful
By Sylvie Barak
Thursday, 9 April 2009, 12:20

AMD IS TODAY showing off the latest member of its Fusion brand – the Fusion Media Explorer (FME) – a highly-attractive 3D media browser complete with social media integration.

The INQ actually got a sneak peak of the FME last month in Austin, but was told finishing touches were still being added before it was ready to step out as the firm's spring debutante. Now, however, all touched up, it looks like FME is ready for the spotlight.

On his blog, AMD's Director of Product Marketing, Casey Gotcher, says the software "does a great job of showcasing the power of our CPUs and GPUs and what our platforms are actually capable of when the software is designed to take full advantage of them".

Actually, in our INQpinion, FME isn't particularly innovative, but it sure is exceptionally good looking and user friendly!

A scrollable 3D ribbon displays all a user's local media, pulled directly from their hard drive, removable USB or SD cards and a plethora of online sources like Facebook, Flickr and YouTube.

Alongside the user's own media, FME will also throw up a load of related online content it hopes its master may find interesting. For example, if a user is looking through their holiday snaps from Brazil, FME will pull up related online pictures of half-naked carnival beauties, videos of street dancing, and the latest Samba hits. All these are handily displayed in a right-hand column for the user's perusal.
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The whole thing is actually managed by a particularly well-developed integrated search engine which, for people with extensive mp3 and video libraries, is something of a godsend, allowing for really quick pinpointing of files with minimal hassle.

AMD is saying the platform has been specially developed for its Puma and Dragon-based notebook and desktop systems and will be provided free to AMD customers.

But a little birdie tells us that Intel processor users shouldn't be too blue. Although untested and PURELY speculative, we've heard there's a hack which contains the words "inferior technology" which allows FME to work on Chipzilla machines too.

Happy Cracking! µ

L'Inqs
Check out Casey's blog and download a trial here
YouTube video of FME

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/new … a-explorer

The YT vid is on AMD's channel (didn't know they had one, but who doesn't nowadays, I guess), viewable in HD.