I am not a gamer, and I haven’t paid attention to what is happening on E3. But Microsoft’s keynote has not been about gaming, but rather how they are expanding the Xbox ecosystem – with, among other things, Internet Explorer and Xbox SmartGlass. Yes, battle for the living room is on! The SmartGlass announcement came as a surprise to me. According to Microsoft “Xbox SmartGlass” is a system that integrate your big-screen TV with your console, your tablet, your […] Continue reading →
The best way to stream media from an iOS device, is of course with Apple’s AirPlay technology. But what if you have a XBOX360 in the house? I have already written about how you can connect your Mac to the XBOX with Connect360. It is also possible to stream music from an iOS unit to the XBOX. The technology used is then DLNA. This is my first play with DLNA, so before I bought a DLNA app for my iPhone, I read a little bit about the technology. You should know this about DLNA: Digital […] Continue reading →
I am not much a gamer, and not a singer either. But having said that, I must add that I simply love the karaoke game Lips for XBOX 360. I saw a commercial of the game, where they played Young Folks (by Peter, Bjorn & John) and I was sold. I just had to buy the game and it was released just in time for the holiday season. My sister and her boyfriend are SingStar champions, but now I can finally be at least an outsider. I can’t wait to compete against them. It’s a social game, […] Continue reading →
Later this autumn Microsoft will release a bigger firmware update for the XBOX 360, and they recently released a video of how to create avatars through the new interface: Video: Avatars in the new Xbox experience The improved interface looks awesome! […] Continue reading →
It’s time to upgrade my XBOX 360 with Microsoft’s latest patch. The new features are mainly the video codecs H.264 and MPEG4. Nullriver Software was out with updating their Connect360 for MacOS X. Version 3.0 is now released with support for the two new video codecs, including full HD (1920×1080) H.264 in both the MPEG-4 and QuickTime containers (in addition to the previous WMV). This is substantially higher than Apple TV’s support for 720p video, making the Xbox 360 […] Continue reading →
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