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Maroon 5 for 99cents from Zune

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Zune has some great music deals and lately they have featured a lot of music from Common and other hip-hop artist. But not everyone is into hip-hop so Zune now has music from Maroon 5 for just 99 cents! That’s right 99 cents! Their new album Call and Response is now available from Zune. LA [...]

Zune Mixview available online

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

Zune’s Mixview is now available online in Zune Social pages. Zune’s couldy music discovery feature dubbed Mixview was announced this week. Mixview allows users to play ffrom any PC or Mac connected to the web and to explore related music, listeners, artists, influences, tracks and albums. Check it out on the Zune Social page. Mixview [...]

Nickelodeon’s True Jackson download on Zune

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Nickelodeon’s brand new show True Jackson will be debuting exclusively on Zune, for free! The comedy show is about a lucky fifteen year old who is given the chance to run her own fashion label. The show will premiere on Nick next week but lucky Zune owners get to download it now. -Ray [Source: zuneinsider]

Microsoft Job post hints at cell phone, Xbox and Zune connection

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Microsoft posted a job listing this morning looking for someone to help create a “Connected Entertainment experience, realized through the Zune service, that spans multiple devices such as Zune, Xbox, PC and Mobile phones.” Rumors of such a device have been all over the Internet for sometime but now it seems like Microsoft is really [...]

XNA games coming soon to Xbox live and the Zune

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Microsoft announced a while back that the next step in their XNA and Xbox Live plans is to have games available for the Zune. Plans are to have 1,000 games available for the Zune by the end of the year. At a game developers conference in San Francisco a space shooter game was shown being [...]

Guide: Tips To Avoid Illegal MP3 Downloads For Your Sansa MP3 Player

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

This article was originally posted on the Sansa Nation blog I found this article on the Shop Sansa blog. It is a pretty good guide if you want know the downsides of downloading music illegally.  Personally I hate the RIAA, but here you go. There are a lot of MP3 download sites from which to [...]

Got Zune reviews new Incipio silicone dermaSHOT case for the 4GB and 8GB Zune

Monday, July 7th, 2008

A few days ago Got Zune? posted a new article reviewing Incipio’s latest Zune case, the dermaSHOT for the 4GB/8GB models, giving it an 8.3 out of 10. Be sure to check out the review on their blog. Here is a quick excerpt: Tight fitting anti-slip case for your Zune. The Incipio dermaSHOT silicone case [...]

New graphic novel from Zune Arts

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Zune Arts by Zune of Microsoft, has recently released “The Lost One.” A graphic novel written by writer Steve Niles. Niles teamed up with visual artists Dr. Revolt, Gary Panter, Kime Buzzelli and Morning Breath to create the new graphic novel which takes readers on a journey through time and space. These new artistic creations [...]

Using MediaCoder to transcode videos for Zune

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

The Zune is great for watching movies, TV shows and YouTube clips of cute kittens, but sometimes it can take a good chunk of time and a bit of magic getting your videos ready and loaded on the Zune. There’s nothing worse than having spent a good 30 minutes transcoding an axxo-ripped XVID movie (yes [...]