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REMINDER: Geek Dinner Tuesday Night

Just a quick reminder that the Geek Dinner with Shawn Wildermuth will be held tomorrow night at Damon's in Chantilly, VA. If you haven't already, please RSVP by email to hold your spot (and help us get an accurate number for the reservation). It's shaping Read More...
Posted Monday, June 16, 2008 9:07 AM by gduthie | 0 Comments

zune game development with xna game studio 3.0

The XNA Creators Club website has a nice step-by-step walkthrough of creating a game for your Zune , including a cool sample game with very nice graphics and play style: Are you ready to start programming games for your Zune? All you need is the XNA Game Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:07 PM by gduthie | 0 Comments

Kudos to Dean Kamen

For all that I've definitely been a skeptic of some of his other projects, particularly the hype-ridden (but nonetheless fun-to-ride) Segway, Dean Kamen's latest project is nothing short of inspirational: If Kamen and his team can pull this off, and bring Read More...
Posted Friday, May 30, 2008 9:02 AM by gduthie | 2 Comments
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JD, Nic, and Brian Podcast - Episode 7

I was privileged to join JD Lewin, Nic Fillingham, and Brian Johnson for the latest episode of their podcast. Among the topics, Maker Faire, sensitive robots, the EEE PC, Zune 2.5 (including Zune games), and more: JD, Nic, and Brian Podcast - Episode Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:56 AM by gduthie | 0 Comments

Zune 2.5 Available for Download

The Zune team has dropped the latest software and firmware, and you can download it from zune.net , or update from within the Zune client. Among the features of note: Gapless playback (yay for Pink Floyd fans everywhere!) Video Marketplace (get your Heroes Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 9:39 AM by gduthie | 1 Comments
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3D LED Cube - Do Want

OK, so now I'm torn...should I pine for the day when I can have my own Surface device in my living room, or instead transfer my geeky affections to this incredible 3D LED animated display: I wonder if someone's already hard at work on a Quake 3 port to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 12:06 PM by gduthie | 0 Comments
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Zauri Video

Gizmodo's got pictures and video of Zauri, the Zune game prototype that was shown at the Game Developer Conference. Click the link at the bottom to check out the video: I got a chance to see first hand what the newly announced Zune gaming platform could Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 26, 2008 12:09 PM by gduthie | 0 Comments

XNA Games for Zune Photo Gallery

Engadget has the first pics I've seen of an XNA game running on Zune, take a look here: http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/games-for-zune-details-hands-on/ Games for Zune details, hands-on - Engadget Read More...
Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 9:04 AM by gduthie | 0 Comments

The Elite Handheld Gaming System

OK, so perhaps "handheld" is a bit of an exaggeration, but this XBOX 360 laptop mod is nothing short of brilliant. Would be a hoot to crack that puppy open on a plane. Definitely the work of someone with far too much time on their hands. But way cool Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 05, 2008 9:03 AM by gduthie | 2 Comments
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Can someone make this, please?

I'm deeply familiar with the dust experience described below, so it would be fantastic if I could add a couple of these to the desk in my home office: This grommet is just a design, but we wonder why it took someone this long to come up with such a genius Read More...
Posted Friday, February 01, 2008 2:15 PM by gduthie | 1 Comments
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Zune 80 in Red...just in time for St. Valentine's Day

This looks pretty sweet: Now available at Zuneoriginals.net . I've already got an 8GB in green and a 4GB in red, but this is pretty tempting, since I gave away my 30GB old school Zune, and I do find that I miss the capacity to have everything on it all Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 15, 2008 10:21 AM by gduthie | 1 Comments
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Zune Media Collection Reset Tool

If you have been seeing issues with your song/album metadata after upgrading to the V2 Zune software, you may want to try the Zune Media Collection Reset Tool . I was able to resolve the few issues I had with my collection by wiping and re-syncing my Read More...
Posted Friday, December 07, 2007 12:05 PM by gduthie | 0 Comments

A new Day, a New Zune

So I've installed the new Zune desktop software, and updated my brown (yes, I have brown and I like it, thank you very much!) Zune 30GB to the new 2.2 firmware, and having had most of a day to use both, I'm pretty pleased, particularly given that the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2007 4:48 PM by gduthie | 0 Comments
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Happy Halloween!

Boo from the .NET DEvHammer: (picture taken with the built-in webcam on my new ASUS R2HV UMPC ...more on that later) Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 9:07 AM by gduthie | 0 Comments
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Happy 30th Atari 2600!

Dave points out an anniversary of interest : Debuting in 1977 at $199 it brought gaming into the family household in a big way. I remember getting a used Atari 2600 from an ad my parents found in the paper (200 Bucks was a lot to spend on electronics Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 04, 2007 9:05 AM by gduthie | 0 Comments
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