Tim's tech blog
Welcome! This is my tech blog, my personal feed, and generally home to some of my private ideas, thoughts, rants, etc...
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Xbox 360 gets Twitter, Facebook, Zune movies, and more -- new apps and services launching 17 November (14 November 2009)
Yesterday an email was sent out to Xbox customers to announce the new features coming to Xbox Live with the next service udpdate on 17 November. A range of new apps will be added to the Xbox 360 platform, offering new services, including: ...
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Flash is lame -- a list of things I dislike about Adobe's browser plug-in (14 November 2009)
A few of my frustrations with Flash as a web developer These are just a few of the friustrations I've experienced while devloping web applications using Flash in recent years, which I wanted to vent on my blog. Thanks for listening, I feel bett ...
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Modern Warfare 2 game released today! (10 November 2009)
Modern Warfare 2, the new game in the highly popular Call of Duty series, is out today! It's likely to become the best-selling game to date. This state-of-the-art first-person shooter is arguably one of the most eagerly-anticipated games ever. Here in the ...
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Halo Waypoint launched (06 November 2009)
Halo Waypoint was launched today. A compact, free app for Xbox 360 offering progress tracking, bonus content and unlockable rewards for every game in the Halo franchise on the platform. (I purchased Halo Wars purely for the Halo 3 multiplayer Mythic ma ...
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MSN Music store launched today! (04 November 2009)
MSN Music was launched today, introducing an important new online shop for music! This will provide welcome competition to other big players, like iTunes and Amazon. iTunes has arguably abused its position as a well-known, trendy designer ...
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