On Monday night, my nephew watched a documentary on Netflix about the making of Indie games on the XBox platform. After the show, this committed PlayStation Fanboy decided to download the Super Meatboy trial, one of the games featured in the documentary, to my XBox. Thirty minutes later he and a friend got sucked in … Read more
A few days ago I purchased a few songs from the Zune Marketplace and as usual I received a purchase confirmation detailing the transaction. Who charged my account? Zune. Well today something caught my eye. I bought a song today from the Zune Marketplace but it wasn’t Zune who charged me. The purchase was … Read more
Not sure if this is a known fact and I missed it but in any event it’s annoying. If you open Zune and look for a Windows Phone app that’s Mango compatible you get nothing. Searched for Tango…nothing. A few other Mango apps also return nothing. Plug in my phone and bam, they’re there. Unplug … Read more
Microsoft has detailed the improvements to Zune 4.8 and one new feature that’s not specific to Windows Phones is 48 hour movie rentals. I just checked and it was $4 which is fair (not RedBox but inline with other services). Anyway, if anyone tests this, share if you can watch it on your phone as … Read more
Microsoft has released Zune 4.8 which is the Mango compliant version of Zune in preparation for Mango’s availability. They also provided this chart of available services by country: Still lots of gaps to fill.
I just recently procured a Windows Phone for a project that I am going to be starting up. And well I’m really loving it so far. I do miss a couple of items from the Apple ecosystem but I’ll leave that for another post when I can get around to it. Now for the … Read more
Hope the title clarified enough but Microsoft and AT&T are running a promotion now and if you buy a Windows Phone between 5/1 and 6/26 you get 3 months of Zune Pass for free. “A 3-month Zune Pass gives you access to music from the over 11 Million (US) songs in Zune Marketplace. You can … Read more
The Windows Phone Blog has posted an interview with one of the guys responsible for the music search features that are built in to Mango and they laid out some new details. Notably, instead of capturing a large clip of the song and then uploading it once it’s complete, it works by ‘fingerprinting’ the song … Read more
How did this happen? Maybe we called up Balmer and asked for a favor, or maybe we’re just that big of a deal. Or, maybe it just happened Who knows, just install and use the thing and everything will be alright!
When Windows Phones first came out they gave a free game and free music and now part of that offer is back. With the purchase of any AT&T Windows Phone you get 3 months of Zune Pass for free, which gives you unlimited music (with access to their 11 million song database) plus 10 free … Read more