“The Zune hasn’t lost the slate-like design that Microsoft has been rolling with since its inception, but it certainly has changed over the years. Screen size grows to a heady 3.2 inches on this model (much larger than the 2.5-inch screen Apple offers on it comparable iPod Classic), and only back in the fall, Microsoft ditched the rather overdone glossy black styling for a matte version that we much prefer, though the company would have been wise to carry it from the back over to the front as well.”
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Microsoft Zune 120GB review from i4u
Friday, February 20, 2009
Fixed: RSS feed info
Small problem on the feeds displaying “noreply@blogger.com” before the author’s name is now fixed. Apparently Blogger uses a proxy email address to authenticate itself on FeedBurner’s servers, or something like that.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Windows Mobile 6.5 far from Zune UI
Is it just me or is anybody seeing these shots of WinMo 6.5 as a step back from the Zune interface? The icons are not consistent and they look cluttered and complicated. The text is not even anti-aliased and the alignment is somewhat off. The honeycomb interface wastes space on the left and right that can accommodate 4 column icons. (maybe made that way for touch-screen devices) and about that wallpaper, maybe they could have used some cool landscape or abstract graphics that would be consistent in every screenshot of the operating system (ala clown fish for the iPhone).
I don’t know if these are the final shots of Microsoft’s next mobile OS before WinMo7, if this is it, expect Google Android or Palm’s WebOS to take some of their OS’ market share.
See more hi-res photos of Windows Mobile 6.5
UPDATED OFFICIAL SCREENSHOTS: 02/16/2009
Now these are waaay cooler than the initial screenshots above. Nice icons, beautiful wallpaper and good balance of graphical elements.
If I’m not mistaken, the system font of this OS is Verdana. Hope they consider using Helvetica, the Microsoft font Segoe, or just any other sans serif fonts. A perfect example would be Palm’s WebOS’ very hip Avenir font.
See more shots of the official Windows Mobile 6.5 from Engadget
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Thief takes everything but the Zune
Super-clear CCTV camera, inefficiently and idiotically focused on a single desk captures this unrealistic video. You have to credit the creator of this video trying to recreate the horizontal refresh scan lines… oh it’s from collegehumor.com… never mind..
Friday, February 06, 2009
Zune Themes for Symbian Phones (S60 version 3)
Cool S60 themes by Flahorn. Tried on Nokia e61i and looks good. These should display well in portrait-mode phones though.
Only for Symbian S60 3rd devices. Check your compatibility here on S60.com.
240x320px (Nokia 5700, N73, N95...) // 320x240px (Nokia E61, E62, E71)
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