Posts Tagged ‘ZuneHd’
How To: Play Zune Pass Music on Your WinMo Handset [ZuneHd]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 21st, 2009
For $15 a month, a Zune Pass subscription is a pretty great deal. The only catch, seemingly, is that you also have to pony up a couple hundred bucks for a Zune. Except! Turns out you don't. PocketNow shows how:
The site makes the excellent point that the music you get on Zune Pass—unlimited song downloads, 10 of which you get to keep every month—is protected under the same DRM supported by Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center. The video above explains the process in detail, but the gist is that by using the Zune desktop software, you can sync your downloads to Windows Media Player and onto your phone. You may miss out on some features that the Zune HD carries, like the ability to stream music wirelessly and to email your content to friends, but that's a small price to pay for what you're saving yourself in hardware. [PocketNow via on10]
UPDATE: Zune HD Twitter App Updated to Show Cursing in Timeline [ZuneHd]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 18th, 2009
After yesterday's censorship brouhaha, Microsoft has released Zune HD Twitter app version 1.1, now with unfettered swearing. You may now return to your regularly scheduled vulgarity. [Engadget]
Zune HD Twitter app updated, dirty words no longer censored
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 18th, 2009
P.S.- Screenshot of the new non-censoring app in action after the break. Be careful, it could damage more delicate constitutions.
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Zune HD Twitter app updated, dirty words no longer censored originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | | Email this | CommentsMicrosoft updating Zune HD Twitter to stop censoring tweets
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 17th, 2009
Here's the entire statement:
Flack silliness aside, it's still the right step -- let's hope this update addresses the performance issues we noticed as well.The recently released Twitter for Zune HD application has been abbreviating some explicit words in tweets when viewed on the device; however these explicit words do appear in their full text on the Twitter site or on any other Twitter client. We have identified the issue and are taking steps to update the application as soon as possible to ensure Twitter for Zune HD users are able to view tweets in their original state.
Microsoft updating Zune HD Twitter to stop censoring tweets originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | | Email this | CommentsZune HD Twitter App Won’t Let You F#&$ing Swear [ZuneHd]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 17th, 2009
In the most random and unfortunate act of censorship we've seen since the iTunes Ninjawords debacle, the Zune HD Twitter app automatically whitewashes any bad words that show up in your timeline.
We've reached out to Zune to see if there's a way to adjust settings to switch it off, but if that's how Microsoft rolls, well, what a b%tch move. [Engadget]
Zune HD Twitter app now live UPDATE: it censors tweets!
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 16th, 2009
Update: Turns out there's a bigger problem here than just poor performance -- as reader Scott Zero points out, it censors naughty words out of tweets in your timeline. (Seriously -- here's his original tweet that we've highlighted above.) Sure, it's a free app, but this kind of active content censorship just rubs us the wrong way -- even worse than Apple's various Twitter-related App Store shenanigans. Bleh.
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Zune HD Twitter app now live UPDATE: it censors tweets! originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | | Email this | CommentsMSI’s MT-V660 goes to the Zune HD bank for design ‘inspiration’
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 16th, 2009
MSI's MT-V660 goes to the Zune HD bank for design 'inspiration' originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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iMP3 | Email this | Comments Twitter for Zune coming tomorrow, @Facebook where are you?
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 16th, 2009
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Twitter for Zune coming tomorrow, @Facebook where are you? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink |Twitter | Email this | Comments Zune HD getting magenta and purple flavors on December 1st
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on November 28th, 2009
Not enough variety in your Zune HD color palette? How about a friendly dab of magenta and purple to mix up the proceedings? Microsoft's Zune Store is now showing some grayed out selectors for purple and magenta color options for the player, which will apparently be available on December 1st -- just in time for something or other. No word on whether these will be available for both 16GB and 32GB versions, but pink already representing on the 32 gigger, we'd really hope Microsoft would spread the love down to the cash strapped.[Thanks, Jerel]
Zune HD getting magenta and purple flavors on December 1st originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink |Zune Store | Email this | Comments New Zune HD Colors Coming December 1 [ZuneHd]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on November 28th, 2009
Remember those non-existent Zune HD colors that popped up in the Zune software source code? Well, looks like some of them made it to production. The Pink and Magenta versions land on December 1. [Zune Store via @yegr]
