Games on your Zune!?! What? How? When?
Friday, den 29. February 2008There are many happy Zune owners right about now. At GDC last week Microsoft announced that XNA Game Studios games can now also be made for the Zune. If you didn’t know, XNA is a game development toolkit available to “do it yourself” enthusiasts for about $99 / year. You don’t need to create [...]
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Xbox Live Increases Video Library
Friday, den 29. February 2008
Watch out, Netflix and pay-per-view: You have some serious competition from the Xbox 360. Microsoft is reporting that video-on-demand monthly sales have been doubling month over month and are up more than 70 percent since last September. More important for videophiles is that much of the content available is high-definition, and the Xbox Live Marketplace [...]
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How to Negotiate - Tips for Yahoo! - Video
Friday, den 29. February 2008Thanks Mony for pointing this out
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Online Multiplayer games for Zune
Friday, den 29. February 2008
XNA Game Studio platform will be supported on Zune with 1000 games available by the end of the year. Additionally online multiplayer games will be supported on Zune. According to ZunInsider, Microsoft won’t change the orientation of Zune project to games (yet?) and is not announcing consumer availability for games, just the support of the [...]
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Exclusive Heroes Video Podcast Series to Debut on Zune
Friday, den 29. February 2008
Five exclusive music video podcasts are coming to the Zune marketplace free of charge. Download the first here. The first video features the title "Weightless" by Nada Surf and clips from the NBC hit series HEROES. The videos promote the the upcoming release of the official HEROES soundtrack. By subscribing to the podcast the [...]
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Eyejot - the easiest way to send video
Thursday, den 28. February 2008I’m a fan of Eyejot, one of several online products that makes it very easy to send a video message. Eyejot uses Flash and your Webcam to skip the annoying video upload stage: you just just look at your camera, press record, and you’re making a video. Eyejot messages come as e-mails with links to [...]
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View antique books with Silverlight (or WPF)
Wednesday, den 27. February 2008
Turning the Pages 2.0 is an amazing example of what can be done with WPF and Silverlight. Using a high-end scanning device, the British Library has taken a number of precious books, which you would normally only be able to see under glass, and open to a single page chosen by a curator, and allowed [...]
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Browse and Play Your Ripped DVDs with DVD Play
Tuesday, den 26. February 2008
Windows only: Browse and play the DVDs you’ve ripped to your hard drive using DVD Rip with freeware application DVD Play. Just point DVD Play to the folder DVD Rip is saving your backed up DVDs to, and DVD Play displays them with thumbnails you can browse. Similar to how DVD Rip is a companion [...]
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How To: Recover Files Using Vista’s Built-In Shadow Copies
Tuesday, den 26. February 2008
Windows Vista only: Shadow Copies, an automated file version saver built into all copies of Windows Vista (and enabled by default), isn’t a complete backup solution, but it could be a life-saver in certain situations. As The How-To Geek blog points out, however, it’s pretty hard to find, let alone extract files from. Luckily, a [...]
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Zune survey points to video downloads
Monday, den 25. February 2008
Apparently, video is all the rage these days. Just ask the folks who received a survey from Microsoft about services which may or may not be coming to the Zune. It’s possible your heart might skip a beat when you read questions like, "I would rather download a movies from an online service than buy [...]
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Microsoft to launch beta of Internet Explorer 8
Monday, den 25. February 2008
Microsoft will shortly make available the test version of Internet Explorer 8, which is set for final release in the first half of this year.
The Web site ActiveWin on Monday published the contents of a beta invitation, which said Microsoft is nearing a launch date for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, which will be available [...]
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Microsoft Mulling Zune-Windows Mobile Integration
Monday, den 25. February 2008
Is Microsoft considering some sort of integration between its Zune digital music player and its Windows Mobile platform? InfoWorld.com speculates that this might indeed be the case. The Web site reports on a series of postings on the Windows Mobile blog over the weekend that include a Microsoft developer asking bloggers for ways that the [...]
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Hands-on: LinkedIn’s new mobile site
Monday, den 25. February 2008
What do you do if you’re billed as a business professional’s Facebook, and a substantial portion of your more than 19 million members are jet-setting business types with fancy mobile phones and jobs that lend to schmoozing? You build a mobile site so they can invite contacts as they meet them or identify in real [...]
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Is Yahoo the right mate for Microsoft? Yes…
Sunday, den 24. February 2008
New friends? Steve Ballmer and Jerry Yang
With Microsoft’s pursuit Google…I mean Yahoo… going into the end game, some are questioning the wisdom of plunking down about $45 billion on such a prize. Last week, Robert Breza, an analyst with RBC Capital Market, made the case for Microsoft chipping away at Google’s search/ad lead in a [...]
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The Daily Download: UltraExplorer is nearly perfect
Sunday, den 24. February 2008
UltraExplorer combines customization and a wide range of useful features.
UltraExplorer overhauls the file-browsing experience. Many things will seem similar, yet several key features have radically different work flows from the Microsoft file navigator. It also combines the best aspects of Windows Vista’s explorer with those from XP, and then throws in a few spices of [...]
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Messenger Plus! Live
Friday, den 22. February 2008
Messenger Plus! Live is an add-on for Windows Live Messenger that lets you add features and extras to the IM software. With Messenger Plus! Live, you can download new skins, emoticons, scripts, or even options that let you log and search your chats. The service, which currently boasts 27 million users, offers so many features, [...]
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Panasonic’s Titanium Flat Road EB electric bicycle is almost cheating - Engadget
Friday, den 22. February 2008
Yeah, there’s already a few folks out there depriving themselves of adequate exercise by choosing to cruise on an electric bike, but those who’ve yet to take the plunge now have yet another alternative. Panasonic’s Titanium Flat Road EB electric bicycle isn’t likely to be certified for use in the Tour de France, but it [...]
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Livestation Begins Beta
Thursday, den 21. February 2008
Livestation, the new video streaming service that features Silverlight technology, has begun its invite-only beta this past week by sending out invites to those who signed up for on the Livestation web site.
With Livestation, you can watch a range of live radio and television channels on your computer if you have a broadband connection, with [...]
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Write Once - Game Anywhere
Thursday, den 21. February 2008
You may have heard a little announcement today - that developers now can develop a (multiplayer!) game once and gamers can play it on a Windows PC, Xbox 360, and Zune. Wait, what?!?! Zune??? Yes, that’s right, the new XNA Game Studio 3.0 available this Spring will have the ability to let devs make Zune [...]
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Skydrive Now 5 GIGS!
Thursday, den 21. February 2008
That is not a typo. Today, the SkyDrive team announced that they are increasing the amount of free storage to five times what it was before, going from 1 GB to 5 GB. With this new release of the service, some other improvements to the site have been made to make the service faster and [...]
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