July 31st, 2010 by Travis Pope Tags: Saturday Night @ The Movies

In light of last week’s Comic Con extravaganza, this week I needed action. I needed suspense. I needed high flying, gun shooting, caped ass-kicking action. Ladies & Gentlemen I give you the Batman!

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July 30th, 2010 by Travis Pope Tags: Apps

MSN Money is Microsoft’s second foray into apps for the Zune HD outside of social networking, the first being MSN Weather. While MSN Weather wasn’t exactly a showcase app by any stretch of the imagination, MSN Money is everything it’s earlier cousin wasn’t.

Read our in-depth review of MSN Money for Zune HD.

July 30th, 2010 by Travis Pope

Just in time to get the penny stock trader within you excited, last night Microsoft unleashed it’s new MSN Money application for the Zune HD. Features include the ability to ofcourse monitor stocks, get detailed information on past trends, and gather information on the company straight from your Zune HD. At the same time Microsoft has also pulled the covers off of a new game called Animalgrams. As always both are free and available right now in the Zune App Marketplace. We’ll have reviews on them shortly.

July 28th, 2010 by Travis Pope Tags: CommunityScene

Over the years the Zune Team has impressed me. When one of their devices has a short comings, they are straight forward. When a feature doesn’t go over well they aren’t afraid to can it. So when Microsoft updates Zune.net and breaks most of he features I use regularly, and then stays quiet on it for nearly a month, you can imagine how one may be a little, peeved.

Read on in the community forums.

July 27th, 2010 by Travis Pope Tags: Avenged Sevenfold, Your Music Tuesday

As many of you have no doubt realized by now, I am absolutely one of those people who stick to genres that they know best. So what’s a rap junkie to do when nothing of quality actually debuted this week? Easy, rock out to whatever shows up in Zune Marketplace first. We’ve got new material from Avenged Sevenfold, Tom Jones, and rapper Fat Joe.

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July 26th, 2010 by Travis Pope Tags: Comic-Con

Just this past weekend Zune and the Syfy channel teamed up to bring you all the latest news about your favorite comics, & television shows. They’ve also got video from all the different panels featuring your favorite stars, including ‘Warehouse 13’ and my personal favorite ‘Eureka’. Checkout the free footage at Zune.net. Oh and shout out Levar Burton, & Will Wheaton!

July 24th, 2010 by Travis Pope Tags: Saturday Night @ The Movies

One of the more vivid memories I have of my childhood is the day I my grandmother handed me my first book. It had no pictures, no illustrations, nothing but long chapters of Greek mythology. Printed inside were tales of the gods, and how they controlled everything that happened here on Earth. I was awed.

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