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Do You Like the Xbox 360 Dashboard Experience?

Chris — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:20:59 +0000

Do You Like the Xbox 360 Dashboard Experience? is a post from Chris Pirillo

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About two weeks ago, we saw the new Xbox Experience. The Dashboard was reinvented. If you ask what I think… I like it a lot. This is radically different from what I’m used to. It’s a richer experience.

The New Xbox Experience reinvents home entertainment from the inside out, changing the way we play games, watch movies and TV shows and interact with friends and family. It all begins this fall with a bold new look and feel that is fun, social, and simple to use.
The New Xbox Experience represents the first time in history that a mass market consumer electronics device has been reinvented through free software. Now you have more fun and intuitive ways to interact, play and enjoy entertainment. To get the free update, connect to Xbox LIVE® today.

The new Dashboard will explain how the new avatars can be integrated into your games. This is just so much easier to navigate and find where you want to be. Xbox 360 is the only game console to offer instant streaming of over 10,000 videos from Netflix, with approximately 300 titles in HD! I mean, how cool is that?

The new dashboard divides content, settings, and functions into eight categories, each represented by a horizontal row of boxes. The new look is clean, easy to navigate, and aesthetically pleasing. You’ll have a blast with all the new features.

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What are Widgets?

Chris — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:18:01 +0000

What are Widgets? is a post from Chris Pirillo

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http://live.pirillo.com/ – A widget (also known as a gadget) is a small program that runs on your desktop all the time, which replaces the need to constantly visit a website in order to get common information.

Konfabulator started the widget craze, which was then bought by Yahoo.

Dashboard is OS X’s implementation of widgets.

Windows Vista has the Vista Sidebar, but the user interface is junk in comparison to OS X.

The Google Desktop offers an alternative experience, but its user experience is even worse than Vista’s sidebar.

We have our own widget which lets you watch Chris’s camers right on your desktop without having to visit live.

What widgets do you use? Have you made any widgets?

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How to Handle Remote Tech Support

chris@lockergnome.com (Chris Pirillo) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:30:00 GMT

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VMware and Parallels for Virtual Machines

chris@lockergnome.com (Chris Pirillo) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:30:00 GMT

It doesn't matter if you're running on Windows or Mac OS X - every power user needs either Parallels or VMware (or both). There's never been an easier way to test software without destroying your primary operating system's stability. Think of how many times you wish you could press a 'reverse' button on your computer. Plus, there's no easier way to try new Linux distributions - see what all the fuss is about. Run Windows in OS X, run Linux in Windows, but the best way to do either is with VMware and/or Parallels.

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