Dashboard Update Today?

R5Rich said:
just found this as well so the browser isnt out of the question
“I was messing around with the Media Extender interface on the X360, and noticed that the "More Programs" linked to a couple of apps installed on my PC as part of the Media Center Package, including MS Instant Messenger and some other stuff. All of these run when you access them from the 360 Media Extender client. The 360 essentially seems to act as a dumb terminal, interfacing with the application running on the PC.

Here's where things really get interesting: It's apparently very easy to integrate Windows applications into the MCE "More Programs" tab. All you have to do is build a link in a format specified by Microsoft and do some minor optimization, and the app will run in MCE. Here is how Microsoft describes the process of building games for MCE: msdn.microsoft.com.

So I downloaded a couple of apps and installed them on MCE, switched over to the 360, and lo and behold, most of them run perfectly. I was able to run apps with modified browsers to pull down news stories, stock quotes, sports scores etc., as well as several Internet Radio clients."
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Liking the sound of this! Have you got a link?
 
R5Rich said:
So I downloaded a couple of apps and installed them on MCE, switched over to the 360, and lo and behold, most of them run perfectly. I was able to run apps with modified browsers to pull down news stories, stock quotes, sports scores etc., as well as several Internet Radio clients."
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Yep good point R5Rich, loads of plugins for MCE here:-

http://mcesoft.nl/

Outlook on MCE (and therefore Xbox360) anybody :)

or how about MAME

http://mcesoft.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=132

HEADRAT
 
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Boogle said:
You need to hook your Xbox up to your network :)

A WAP is cheaper than the wireless adapter too, if you're on wireless :)
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Im sure you can just do what i said also, as when i got my 360 i could download and burn to disc what was needed to play old xbox games etc... then bung the disc in the 360 and it would automatically update it. :)
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Im sure you can just do what i said also, as when i got my 360 i could download and burn to disc what was needed to play old xbox games etc... then bung the disc in the 360 and it would automatically update it. :)
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I meant you should hook up to Xbox Live. Its free and has all sorts of cool things :)
 
Update details are supposedly on teamxbox.com but I can't get at that site from work to confirm it.
 
Well the update has been released.....

"Today, the Xbox team released a mandatory update for the Xbox 360 dashboard. This free update, is now available over Xbox Live. There are no new features in this release, but rather a series of fixes and enhancements. Some of the items the update addresses are:


Improved logic around deciding if saved games should be deleted and offer the option to only delete the profile and to leave all save data.
Users reporting blank Friends List on the Xbox 360 dash after muting a friend while playing a game in Backwards Compatibility mode.
Improved synching of games played to Web and in console.
Network settings: keyboard does now allow entry of - (dash) character in the keyboard."

Dunno how long it will take to get through to uk servers though
 
Update available now!

Er, but my memory card is full :(


*edit*

Working now...

and updated...

Only thing I've noticed is it's faster :D
 
lol what a waste of time, sod all useful, not even a background downloading feature.
 
Im not seeing the update, where did you get it.

My dashboard is 2.0.2241.0 which i assume is the old version.
 
What a waste of time, just asked me to install the update, downloaded, updated only thing different i can notice is the blades seem to swap a little bit quicker.

Paul ...
 
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