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After the Wind Storm: I want my power back!
Monday, December 18, 2006It's been a few days since the big storm blew through, but I'm still without power (I'm at Microsoft now, so I can get connected and charge a few things)... which sucks when you have kids (and visitors, my in-laws arrived on the night of the storm). We aren't too cold now, we've borrowed a propane heater from a friend and we have a gas stove to boil water on for coffee/tea (and to boil hotdogs with!). The storm itself ripped through our area with a fair amount of damage, taking down one of the biggest trees in the area [read more...]Filed under | 2 comments »Share this -
Assault Heroes for Xbox Live Arcade
Monday, December 11, 2006I don't know about you, but I'm pretty impressed with the recent set of non-retro, original games for Xbox Live Arcade: Small Arms, RoboBlitz and now Assault Heroes [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Using your Zune as a Hard Drive
Monday, December 11, 2006If you are following Zune news, then I'm sure you've seen this 'hack' to let you see your Zune as a read-only hard drive. There are additional steps to make it so you can write to your Zune, but it seems so odd that you do it by starting a sync (a long sync I guess) that I haven't tried it myself. I honestly haven't thought of any reason I'd need to write to the device at this point either, but reading off of the Zune works fine and I've already found it useful to snag some converted videos files that I'd [read more...]Filed under | 5 comments »Share this -
Is XPS another Microsoft Reader?
Friday, December 08, 2006I loved Microsoft Reader, I had a ton of .lit files on my Pocket PC and I would save Word docs out as Reader files so I could read them while travelling or even just at home away from my main machine. Other than email, Reader was the 'killer app' for me on the Pocket PC. But Reader was never given the love it needed, the Reader plug-in wasn't available for some versions of Office (at least not right away), you couldn't find all that many downloads in .lit format. And their DRM/authorizing system was horrible... Now lately I've been [read more...]Filed under | 2 comments »Share this -
Laura Foy does a 360-inspired cover of Justin Timberlake's hit...
Thursday, November 30, 2006Video: I'm bringing XBOX back (from on10.net) Follow the link to get a high-quality WMV for your PC, a WMV for your Zune or a MP4 for your iPod/PSP... or a WMA/MP3 if all you want is the music :) Heck, I even have an Ogg Vorbis version up there. And yes, we know that Laura was known to bash MSFT a bit (ok, a lot...) when she was at G4... the irony is not lost on us :) [read more...]Filed under | 3 comments »Share this -
Two new wallpapers up on 360Style.net
Thursday, November 30, 2006Both are my style... but I had to go with the Star Trek Legacy one for now... Halo 3 & Star Trek Legacy Wallpapers Added ! Time to switch up your wallpaper, choose your sci-fi poison.Halo 3 vs Star Trek Legacy !!(Both available in resolutions up to 1600x1200) Halo 3Star Trek: Legacy [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Email interview with the Superman Returns team up on 10
Wednesday, November 29, 2006Normally I do video for 10, but in this case I had a bunch of questions and I decided to see if the team behind Superman Returns would be up for answering them via email. They were, and the whole conversation is up as a post on http://on10.net Quick Q & A with the Superman Returns team [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Check out the new Community Bar on on10.net
Tuesday, November 28, 2006One of my jobs over the past couple of weeks has been to build a javascript based 'toolbar' that could run across the top of on10.net and show folks headlines aggregated from a variety of Microsoft Community sites. So, along with a bunch of help from Adam and Erik, I managed to get it finished and deployed today. You can see it on top of the page on 10 If it overlaps with the logo for you, try forcing a refresh using ctrl+f5 in IE... or just picking reload/refresh in whatever browser you use... the css had to change to [read more...]Filed under | 2 comments »Share this -
Microsoft is working at home today!
Tuesday, November 28, 2006Wow, back in Winnipeg this amount of snow wouldn't likely cause much of a slow down... but here... I'm at home and so are lots of my team mates. Pretty snow though :) I have remote access and a laptop with VS 2005 though... fully productive and a coffee pot that is even closer than at work! [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Recording from my Motorola Cable Box via Firewire?
Sunday, November 26, 2006I had no idea this was possible, but has anyone managed to either: Pull video off of their Motorola HD DVR cable box onto XP/Vista? Hook up the DVR using Firewire to a Media Center Edition box? I'm currently using a IR Blaster and the standard definition outputs on the Motorola box to connect my cable box to my MCE 2005 XP box... works, but the quality isn't great... but then I found this guide to firewire connections [read more...]Filed under | 2 comments »Share this
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