16. The device of claim 15 wherein the computer program further configures the processor to: asynchronously playback the produced visual items of playable content stored in the queue in a player window of the launched player application, independently of a web browser window of a launched web browser application.
15. A mobile device comprises: a processor; a memory coupled to the processor storing a computer program product that configures the processor to: launch a player application to playback visual items of playable content in one or more player windows; receive in the player application information feeds, the information feeds including web pages including web folders of images, text, and video data and ad hoc feeds including syndication feeds and podcast feeds; convert information content from the information feeds into a specified mark-up language format; apply parsing rules to parse the converted information content from the one or more feeds into code functions and data elements to provide one or more datasets comprising one or more of image, text, audio and video portions of the one or more feeds; load a first one of the one or more data elements and code functions into a player window of a player application to render the one or more datasets into one or more of the produced visual items of playable content playable in the player application, where the visual items of playable content comprise one or more components that are text, audio, video, and/or images parsed from the information feeds; store in a queue, the produced visual items of playable content; render produced visual items of playable content during a playback mode of the player application; apply one or more user focus operation tools by a user to one or more of the rendered visual items of playable content, with the one or more user focus operation tools applied being based on at least one of device context, characteristics of the one or more visual items of playable content, and user preferences specified for user focus operations; store new content resulting from the application of the one or more user focus operation tools to the one or more visual items of playable content; and render in a new player window the new content from applying the one or more user focus operation tools to the visual items of playable content.