SCI FI Tech (great site) has a round up of headphones for your portable audio player (iPod, MAKE open source MP3 player, Zune…) – Link – A little too pricey for me, there’s only one noise canceling headset that’s under $50 that works, and you make it yourself… The Jackhammer headphones… These home-made hifi headphones […]
MAKE author Erica Sadun dropped the d0cs on the USB protocol for the Zune, the protocols inclcude: Device certificate, folder and device properties specifically Zune, plus its supported filetypes, sneak around bitrate limitations imposed by the Zune software, playable File/Object types and the object properties supported for each one, supported operations and other USB protocols. […]
UK Makers, good news you can now legally use a FM transmitter starting 12/6/2006 – “The devices fell foul of the Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1949, which forbids the use of radio equipment without a licence or an exemption. But strong consumer demand for the devices led Ofcom to rethink the legislation. Liberal Democrat MPs […]
Erica Sadun, one of my favorite Makers, has the start of what might be a way to get a Zune to work on a Mac, she writes – “Want to see your Zune from your Mac? You can. Okay. Reality check here. The Zune uses Microsoft’s Media Transfer Protocol. So you can use WentNet’s open-source […]
If you have a Zune, or know someone who does, you’re likely disappointed that it’s pretty much the only music player that doesn’t let you access the hard drive on it, all 30 GB are hidden because it’s “confusing” and we’re all “pirates” or something – but Dan seems to have figured out a way […]
Paul posted up a patch to run a Zune on Vista (see previous – Use a Zune with Vista) he writes – “As many of you will know, I recently purchased a Microsoft Zune player (to replace my lost iPod, which never surfaced no thanks to crappy Iberia!). Unfortunately, days before the arrival of my […]
The new Microsoft Zune ships without being able to run on Vista (new version of Windows) – weird huh? Well, turns you can use the Zune with Vista, you just need to do a little extractory – Paul from MoDaCo.com says you can extract the installer from the MSI file, using a MSI tool from […]
