In a recent article by iStartedSomething they wrote about a new Zune commercial brought to us by Stewart Hendler , it feature a boy walking through a bad part of town who comes across what would appear to be a deceased bird while listening to music on his Zune, he kneels down and places his […]

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Microsoft certainly thinks so, says Xbox Live Arcade’s worldwide portfolio planner David Edery:
“I certainly think from an innovation perspective it’s going to help us leapfrog the competition, effectively until they find a way to duplicate it, assuming they ever do”
The hope is that eventually we will not only see these games hitting the Xbox 360 […]

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This is not necessarily about free downloads but it’s news in regards to something us Zune people do quite often, copy copyrighted content on to our Zunes. The New York Times reported a couple of weeks ago that Microsoft had intended to setup measures to block copyrighted content from the Zune. Here’s a qoute from […]

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This isn’t a freebie. so we thought it over for a few days before posting this. However, it is a pretty good value and thus we’re writing about it now. At Amazon.com you can get a free set of Premium Zune Earbud headphones (you can get these for free anyway if you call 1-877-Get-Zune and […]

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Lets face it the standard earbuds that come with Zune are not of very high quality, however, that’s easily rectifiable. All you have to do is place a toll free call to 1-877-GET-ZUNE, the only information they should need is the serial number for your device, along with your name and address.
I know some people […]

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Here are some more Zune Games to download, these are from Focused Games. The first is Galactic Wars 3, as you can see it’s a space shooter with some cool graphics, the goal of the game is to protect the colonies from extinction by the evil alien race (you can’t let too many spaceships by), […]

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XNA MVP Nick Gravelyn has developed a couple great games for the Zune 1) is Alien Aggressors its a cool little game that is reminiscent of such classics as Space Invaders and Galaga (one of my favorites of all time) and a sliding puzzle game named Scrambled Albums which allows users to:
re-assemble any cover art […]

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Microsoft has an internet survey available for Zune aficionados. It’s a pretty simple and straight forward survey that only asks a few questions. such as, “How did you hear about Zune?” and “Which three of these music types would you say you listen to most often?”. [more after the jump]

You can take the survey here.
As […]

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Image via WikipediaThis is a great hack brought to us by PityOnU over at ZuneBoards.com, this allows you to modify the Zune software to allow it to use other applications, such as, Windows Media Player 11, MediaMonkey and the popular WinAmp player.

The program is called , Im not going to link directly to it because […]

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Adrian Vinca from over at MSDN has developed a new digital clock for the Zune using XNA (hey, I thought this was supposed to be for games?), his most recent addition allows for you to update the Zunes internal clock (who knew it had one?) with the actual time of day.

It looks pretty cool to […]

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