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I’ve only just found this bit of software and boy is it cool. Since I got my Xbox 360 one of the things I really wanted was to be able to play music through it from my media storage. I have an external HD to store all the my music and photos on that I use with my Powerbook, but this HD is formatted for Macs only and therfore is not seen when plugged directly into the 360. I just want to be able to turn on my 360 and browse through my music collect or photos as if they were on the machine itself. This could easily be achieved if I had a PC or Media center as you can easily hook up a 360 to a Microsoft powered machine, but I’d don’t, I have a Apple Mac. I thought I was stuffed. That was until I found Connect360.

I already own the PSPware software by Nullriver for handling the moving of movie and audio onto my PSP. The Connect360 software is another work of genius and so simple to run. You basically install the software and start it up. That’s it! Then when for example you want to play music on your 360, you choose to play from a computer and should see a PC named connect360. Browse into this and you should see all your iTunes playlists and have the ablity to browse you music collection. It evens posts the play counts back to iTunes so that lastfm can still know what I have been playing. The same kind of process works for iPhoto too which allows you to view all your slideshows easily through the telly.

If you have a Mac and you have an Xbox 360 then you need Connect360, it rules.

This is a thread that is going on at Mini-Microsoft after a post named Vista 2007 Fire the leadership now! It started as a small rant, but has ended up with many Microsoft employee’s venting their anger at the Vista delay, Bosses and the lack of leadership from within. Certainly worth a look, if just to get an insight to what it’s like to work within the company and how pissed off everyone is.

I’m sure anyone who would want to know this already does but Microsoft have made IE7 available to the public in beta 2 release form.

I’ve had a play with it briefly on the girlfriends laptop and I have to say, on first glances it seems quite nice. I need to do more thorough testing with complex layouts but on the surface things are looking good, not great, but good. I know they’re working hard to do the best they can with this next release (and boy, they had to work hard) so hopefully they will continue to fix as many problems as they can before the final release.

Please go get IE7 and try it for yourselves and if something doesn’t work, tell them.

They unveiled the new version of the xbox on Friday night. Named ‘xbox 360‘, it is effectively a new improved xbox .. on nitrous. Just reading the figures (and I don’t even understand most of them) makes my mouth water. I imagine we, for the first time will be playing gamed that really are like movies. All that added power; Three symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each plus all the graphic hardwear means they have created a machine that is akin to the supercomputers of only a few years ago. I look forward to seeing some fo the games in action, I heard that EA having been developing games for up to 2 years in preparation.

As a side note off topic, what the hell are MTV.com playing at not supporting mac users with their movie trailers, poor show.