Now that mobile carriers around the world are beginning to roll out updates to Windows Phone, many Windows PC users are finding that the update(s) cannot be installed because they encounter an error. The error, commonly 801811A5 for those who are interested, is caused by the Zune desktop software hasn’t enabled a particular service in [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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Games for Windows re-launches November 15th
It was a great idea that was sadly let down by poor implementation and poor support. Games for Windows, which was launched with Windows Vista, was intended to be the marker by which consumers would know any games they bought would work happily on their Microsoft Windows computer. The seal of approval, that was carried [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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Windows Phone 7 Sync for Mac coming by end 2010
If you’re an Apple Mac or iMac user and have been looking longingly at Windows Phone 7 then, up until now you’ve probably been disappointed. While it’s not necessary to ever synchronise the phones with a computer, it’s still the best way to transfer files and your existing music collection to the devices. So the [...]
Ask the Readers: Which MP3 Player Should I Buy?
In today’s world, owning a cell phone and/or a portable media player has practically become a necessity. The thing is I don’t own either. No, I do not live in a cave, I just took a conscious decision not to own one. Recently though, I’ve decided to invest in an mp3 player. I knew about [...]
The Zune: A Review
Yesterday I finally got my Zune 120, all the way to Australia from America through Ebay thanks to Microsoft’s failure to release the Zune internationally at this point. All I can say is it was completely worth it. The bad thing for Microsoft is it’s taken 3 years to get the Zune to meet it’s [...]
New Zune Won’t be an iPod Killer but it’s Just as Good
Microsoft announced it’s latest lineup of Zune products to a fairly underwhelming response, which was frankly also fairly well expected. It’s easy to get cynical about the Zune, especially considering Microsoft’s promises about delivering an amazing iPod killing device three years back. The original Zune was pretty ugly, far too bulky and came in an [...]
Complete Media Player Reviews (Part 4)
Joshua is a regular gHacks author, if you like the type of posts you see here then check out his own blog; Extendably – a site dedicated to everything extensions related. So far in this series of posts I’ve taken a look at Windows Media Player, iTunes, Media Monkey and Helium Music Manager. Today I’m [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Share Unrestricted Music with your Zune
Did you know that the Zune, the mp3 player from Microsoft, has a filesharing feature that is probably one of the best ever implemented in mp3 players ? Did you also know that Microsoft restricted playback of song shared using that filesharing option to three playbacks in the new Zune players ? The old players had an even tougher restriction set in place, their restriction was three plays or three days.
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Bypass Zune Guest Syncing
If you want to connect a Zune to a computer that is not its home zone you receive a popup asking if you want to connect the Zune as a guest or “sync with your library on this pc.” The second option would remove all content on the Zune and sync it with the library on the new computer. I suppose this is another feature to please the Music Industry by making it harder to add music from your friends computer to your own Zune. This spells troubles. Imagine if you have purchase a new pc or something gets messed up on your old computer.