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I don’t have a Wii so creating a new Xbox live avatar was a new experience for me. I like the fact they’ve made them addressable, although for how long we’ll wait and see. Anyway here’s mine, and yes –as the wife said– I do look camp don’t I.

My gametag is whomwah if you’re interested too. See you online sometime.

Nullriver have updated their connect360 software (See related post). This is after the latest Xbox360 software upgrade that allowed you to watch streaming movies from your media center (and now Mac, if using the connect360 software). The only caveat seems to be that only WMA or WMA movies are supported so you will need to have the Flip4Mac plugin installed in order for connect360 to find them.

This is a fast turnaround by the Nullriver team and is what I have been waiting for for. That DVD player is becoming more redundant by the day.

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.

Well it didn’t take long. Not even realised in this country and already someone has pulled apart an xbox360 to show you the insides.

I look forward to ownership but heck! that power unit really is a monster.

Here’s a link to some Xbox 360 game trailers in high definition. I’d been looking for some game trailers to wet my appetite for a while. They’re all pretty hefty downloads, but worth the wait I’m sure. I have only downloaded the Ghost Recon file so far, and it looks amazing. If this is what the real in-game graphics will look like then it’s mind blowing.

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.