Taking the win for the last thing I expected to see in my Inbox this morning, here is a video of Ice Cube talking about dropping Flash for Silverlight in his UVNTV venture. As it turns out, our own Michael Scherotter paid Ice Cube a visit down in Hollywood, so give it a view if you want to see…

For those who have Media Center PCs, two new features are hitting the platform as free updates, CEPro reports. The first is Internet TV, which is an ad-supported section of content available from a tab next to "Recorded TV". This feature, not to be confused with Microsoft's IPTV, will…

Pelo número de visitas ao post de finalistas, tem muita gente interessada no 2o. XNA Challenge Brasil. Então tenho boas notícias para vocês, estaremos transmitindo o evento no site http://microsoft.directpresenter.com.br/. Para quem não puder assistir ao vivo, teremos um link permanente para…

When I heard that the Microsoft press briefing was being held at a High School in Santa Monica California I thought, "Really? wow, that's lame." But when I walked into a field of huge glowing balls and neon green lights illuminating the sky, my tune quickly changed. Stadium seating…

Windows Live Messenger is launching a revolutionary initiative to give back. I’m excited to let you know that today in the U.S. they launched the “i'm Initiative,” which connects users of Windows Live Messenger with nine of the world’s most significantcauses and the leading non-profit…

Meet Tony from San Francisco state.  He built a drum machine that takes a midi signal from a midi device that goes to another device which processes the midi signal.  Got it?  Yea, better to just watch the video. It's short, but sweet.   

Microsoft and Square Enix bring you the arcade classic and Xbox 360 exclusive "Project Sylpheed".  Here are some of the facts:The newest iteration of the “Silpheed” franchise morphs the arcade, side-scrolling shooter into a next-generation, intergalactic 3-D dogfight. Set in the 27th…

Join me down in San Mateo, CA as I check out Maker Faire! I chat with Dale Dougherty, editor and publisher of Make Magazine, to find out what this event is all about, and I learn about the Maker's Bill of Rights from Mr. Jalopy himself! Want to see more? No worries, more Maker Faire coverage…

Would you like to have your iTunes lists play on the Zune?  Avner Aharoni wrote an application in Visual Basic using LINQ to do just this.  If you want to view just the LINQ, you can head over to Code @ MSDN. So why is this possible?  Since LINQ can do XML and iTune's database is…

Clint Rutkas decided it was a good idea to drop 1000 super bouncy balls onto his CTO.  His rig has a Control Anything USB relay board, a slightly modified ceiling tile, and a drill. It uses the .Net SerialPort object to interface with the relayboard and was remotely executed through Remote…