Zune

As you may have heard me say before, I love Tower Defense games. In fact, I've always wanted to build one or two but the main problem is that I'm better with ideas than programming. On the other hand, TD games are all very similar—creeps go in, creeps (try to) go out. Meanwhile you try your best to…

This week Laura and Paul wax poetic on these stories, and more! R.I.P. Zune Hotmail is COOL Kinect Body Scan Steve Jobs, a legend

Fair Warning: You’re stepping in the undocumented land right now. Microsoft offers no support whatsoever for any of the endpoints mentioned below. Microsoft can also change any of these at any time without prior modification, so plan accordingly. IntroductionI use Zune a lot, having started with…

At home, we use a combination of Windows Home Server and Windows Media Center for all of our entertainment. It’s an awesome combination that gets better with each release of both platforms. If you’re yet to try out a server for home entertainment, then let me explain how it works. We store all of…

About a year ago I gave a presentation to a group of journalists about gadgets of the future and showed a video about a theoretical multi-touch computing system. When asked when we would see something like that in the wild, I optimistically ballparked 5-7 years. You can imagine my surprise when…

For entertainment purposes only we decided to invited our friend, established comedian Kirk Fox into the Ping lair...here's how it all went down: Jonathon Mann wins a BINGLE Secret Service SQL Server PhotoSynth and Facebook What does Zune HD mean for you? Do viral videos work? And…

They seemed a little giddy this week...maybe a little too much candy from the Easter Bunny At any rate, here are the top stories making their way around Microsoft this week:Plug in that vehicle!Windows Phone 7 desktop themeYour Zune is how big???Start developing NOW for WP7

O Zune recebeu uma pequena atualização hoje passando para a versão 3.1. Para quem já tem instalado, basta esperar que em breve você receberá o aviso de que há um update disponível. Para quem não quiser esperar, baixe o instalador do Zune no Zune.net para ter a versão mais recente. As novidades são:…

Part 2 of my Halstead York interview is now up, wherein we discuss VC-1, Silverlight, frame rate unsampling, and many other things. Part 3 talking about DRM (save the most contentious for last!) will be up soon.

O Zune é feito para ser algo bem particular do seu dono. Apesar de não termos aqui no Brasil a disponbilidade de comprar os dispositivos com um nível sofisticado de personalização, podemos alterar a tela de fundo do Zune dando um toque mais pessoal. Achei um site com vários wallpapers - telas de…