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Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard Update Details

Here's what we just learned from Microsoft in their round-table discussion on Xbox Live and the new Dashboard. First, the impetus for re-designing the dash was that the current content navigation is too difficult. They only planned on a couple hundred/thousand items, but they currently have 20,000+ pieces of content in their marketplace. There needed to be a change, and the change is the streamlined dash. Here's what else we found. More »

6:16 PM on Mon Jul 14 2008
By Jason Chen
19,632 views, 41 comments

Latest by n/a: Oh great, there goes gameplay for a bunch of my games...boosting will be even easier, and Chromehounds will be completely changed b/c u need to capture combas's in order to keep verbal contact with your squad. Thanks ms for making more »

clips

Old School Digital Car Dashboard Roundup Is an LCD Light Show

Motive mag takes a look at the digital dashboards of the 1980s; a time where men were men and electronic car computer technology barely made anything fancier than some green LCDs. Despite this handicap, auto manufacturers came up with some fancy displays, as typified by this predecessor to my own 350Z, a Nissan 300ZX Turbo. Man, we'd like to see more of this kind of digital Knight Rider-esque readout in modern cars, but we have a feeling that the tach on the Prius would look pretty pitiful. [Motive Mag]

5:40 PM on Wed Jul 9 2008
By Jason Chen
2,408 views, 31 comments

Latest by bailey_ca: @WMyers: Hehehe. It looks better because it's replicating the design of analogue gauges which, of course, look better than a digital dash any day. Check out the digital dash of a 1988 Cavalier if you want to see GM's take more »

kitt

Knight Rider iPhone-Inspired Interior Officially Revealed

The new KITT's dashboard has been officially revealed, confirming the previously leaked image (in high resolution after the jump, along with a gratuitous—but necessary—photo of the new car and the Hoff at the Playboy Mansion) and Knight Rider's producer David Bartis' words about the interior design's similarities with the iPhone: More »

8:20 AM on Thu Feb 14 2008
By Jesus Diaz
28,812 views, 52 comments

reminder

Xbox 360 Dashboard Update Available Now

The oh-so-hotly anticipated dashboard ("fall") update for the Xbox 360 is fresh out of the oven and ready for you to download. If you only caught the headlines that it'd come with DivX and XviD hotness, have a look back at what else is baked inside. [via Destructoid]

9:45 AM on Tue Dec 4 2007
By Matt Buchanan
25,466 views, 12 comments

divx on xbox 360

Xbox 360 Fall Update Full Details (DivX! XviD!)

Update: Apparently there's actually something good in this update! Too bad they didn't actually include it in the press release, but the Xbox 360 will support DivX and XviD! Hurray! Here's what we got from the Xbox team: More »

12:40 PM on Fri Nov 30 2007
By Jason Chen
41,313 views, 45 comments

software

Google Gadgets For Dashboard Available Now, Fairly Unnecessary

The Google Gadgets Dashboard integration we told you about yesterday is here, but the bad news is that you'll need to install Google Desktop to use it. With Spotlight, (pretty great) Widgets, and other applications already native to OS X, is there really a need for Google Desktop just to use Google Gadgets? If you just want that functionality, you can actually get it separately as well. But if you swear by Google as a platform, check out the video to see what you're getting. [Google]

4:00 PM on Thu Nov 29 2007
By Jason Chen
2,932 views, 17 comments

Latest by ZitosGhost: If your a political dissident, do not install this on your computer. more »

software

Google Gadgets Getting OS X Dashboard Compatibility Tomorrow

Google Gadgets, the widget-like plug-ins for your Google start page, is getting a huge port onto the Apple Dashboard platform starting tomorrow. G-Gadgets are nice, and actually have been port-able onto the Dashboard using another widget for a while now, but official support is always welcome. Google slobberers will definitely be happy, but Apple slobberers will probably just throw up a collective "meh." [MacWorld]

3:30 PM on Wed Nov 28 2007
By Jason Chen
3,273 views, 11 comments

xbox 360

Question of the Day: Xbox 360 Fall Update Brings What?

We already know that the fall Dashboard update for Xbox 360 will bring expanded friends list viewing, parental timers, and original Xbox game downloads, but what else will it bring? There's got to be a reason why the fall update has dragged on past fall into winter (last year's update came in October), but what is it exactly? We really hope it's the rumored DivX compatibility, what with the PS3 and Microsoft's own 3rd Gen Media Center Extenders getting in on the DivX and XviD action as well. What do you think is coming? What else could possibly be added to the Xbox experience to make it better? A friend in his PJs to play with you with every purchase?

6:00 PM on Mon Nov 26 2007
By Jason Chen
4,740 views, 37 comments

Latest by Acemonster: @Atlantys: Or, one could be in grad school - mainly, law school. Oh, and my combination of majors has been discussed by U.S. News & World Report and Princeton Review as among the best possible for law school preparation. ~ On a side more »

xbox 360

Xbox Fall Update Update: Voyeuristic Friends List

Not only does the upcoming Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard Update bring parental timers and downloadable original Xbox games, it's going to allow you to peep in on your buddies' friends list as well. As long as your friends set their list visibility to "Everyone" or "Friends only" (and not "Blocked"), you can see who your friend friended and send a friend request to them of your own. Think of it as looking through your buddies' cellphone when he's not looking, jotting down numbers, then calling people up and asking if they'll be your friend. [Xbox via Friends of Friends]

4:45 PM on Mon Nov 26 2007
By Jason Chen
3,230 views, 24 comments

Latest by BMErdin: Disabled this feature on xbox.com last night. Completely pointless. more »

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Apple Dashboard Widgets on Nokia S60 Phones

With Nokia's Web Run Time, due to be released in the next S60 operating system update, Nokia users can actually run slightly modified Apple Dashboard widgets right on their phone. The basis of this is that Nokia's widgets and Dashboard widgets both use the WebKit browser engine (the same fact that also allowed Nokias to use some of the iPhone webapps), so porting Dashboard widgets over is a pretty straightforward and manual process. No specific date on the Web Run Time rollout, but it could be as early as January, which is likely before the iPhone will get widgets. [NokNok]

3:05 PM on Wed Oct 10 2007
By Jason Chen
3,242 views, 7 comments

Latest by ChopSue-Me: Don't pee in your pants folks. Apple will have a response to this soon. You don't seriously think it's that difficult for them to implement this if they wanted to do you? more »

apple

iPhone Kinda Gets OS X Dashboard Widgets

Erica over at TUAW just managed to get OS X Dashboard widgets working on the iPhone. We say kinda, because some apps (Weather, ESPN and Calendar) work fine, but others work horribly. To get it on your iPhone, you have to upload the Widgets.app, copy over a support folder from your Mac, and then copy over each individual widget manually. See TUAW for further instructions. [Widgets Download via TUAW]

4:04 PM on Mon Sep 17 2007
By Jason Chen
4,900 views, 2 comments

Apple has released an update for the new iMacs which allows the new keyboard's F13-F19 keys to be programmed for use with Exposé, Dashboard and more. [Apple]

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Star Wars Characters Now Hassle You From the Dashboard of Your Car

In addition to all those saints and Jesuses you have on your dashboard protecting you from god-knows-what, now you can add Yoda, Darth Vader and C-3PO, blurting out an assortment of thirty Star Wars sayings with every bump and jostle. Take the jump for a video showing these characters nagging the driver, along with a further description of each one of these new sacred figurines.
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11:45 AM on Wed Aug 1 2007
By Charlie White
3,790 views, 5 comments

software

The Best Way to Track Your Packages

I showed this to Pash over at Lifehacker before, but I thought I'd share this with you all as well. If you order a lot of stuff (and you should, since you read Giz), you'll love this Delivery Status package tracker for Apple's Dashboard. Hands down the best package tracker we've seen on any platform, including Yahoo, Google and Vista Gadgets. More »

4:20 PM on Wed Jun 6 2007
By Jason Chen
2,203 views, 7 comments

apple

Leopard's Multiple Dashboard Features

Although this new patent by Apple may not make it into Leopard, it probably means we're going to get some new Dashboard features sometime in the near future. If you can remember back to last year's WWDC, where the multi-desktop "Spaces" feature was demoed, you won't be that surprised when you see where Apple's going with this. More »

6:27 PM on Fri May 4 2007
By Jason Chen
3,242 views, 11 comments

apple

First Third Party iPhone App Probably a Bluff


I don't know how this managed to pass Apple's Dashboard editors, but apparently there's a new widget that claims to be compatible with the iPhone: Scenario Poker. More »

4:21 PM on Tue Apr 10 2007
By www.gizmodo.com
1,835 views, 7 comments

home entertainment

Xbox 360 Dashboard Update Hits, Still Doesn't Fix 1080p Problems

After Microsoft's fall dashboard update promised to bring 1080p into your living rooms, a many people were dismayed over problems like screen tearing when using a VGA connection. Enough that Microsoft quickly promised another dashboard update to fix this one. That update landed today. More »

8:50 PM on Thu Nov 30 2006
By Jason Chen
2,733 views, 13 comments

home entertainment

Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard Update Fix Coming

It seems like the irregularities with the Xbox 360 dashboard update released yesterday weren't just imagined. John Porcaro of the official Microsoft Gamerscoreblog says they're going to release an updated version in the next 12-24 hours. More »

7:15 PM on Wed Nov 1 2006
By Jason Chen
644 views, 4 comments

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