There is a nice program called YouTube Robot that allows users to download YouTube videos and add them to your Zune for future viewing. The YouTube Robot program allows users to search YouTube, download the video, convert the video to to the format you want and then transfer to your mobile device. Currently, YouTube Robot. You can use this for almost any portable device like the Zune, iPod, iPhone, Pocket PC and PSP. YouTube Robot support almost all audio & video format, include MP3, MP4, WMA, WMV, M4A, AVI, 3GP, 3G2, WAV, DivX, XviD and more. You can download a trial version here.
One of the cool features is you can schedule the downloading and converting tasks to be executed automatically, even when you are not around. Downloading is followed by conversion to the format of your choice and uploading videos to a mobile device. For example, you can plug in your Zune (or other player), select multiple videos, go to bed, and by the time you wake up next morning, your Zune will be ready to play new YouTube videos.
I am downloading the trial version and will be testing YouTube Robot out. I will post a review soon with screen shots and possible some video. Discuss this topic on the forum here.
IpodMods has been to #1 place to go if you were looking to upgrade your Zunes harddrive (and void your warranty) to a bigger 40,60, 80 or more recently 100gig size. Due the the popularity of this service the company has now changed its name to cater for both iPods and Zunes. IpodMods are now known as RapidRepair.
With their Zune service being so popular, this does show that users out there are not so happy with the 30 gig size they are givin with the Zune, and hopfully Microsoft is noticing this and Second gen Zunes will have much larger capacity or even better just an updated Zune 1st gen with larger harddrive (and better wifi). There for, users dont run this risk with voiding their warrenty for takng it into their own hands.
Even though Microsoft is asking international users, including Australian users not to get the Zune yet, however it is pretty easy to get your hands on one. However, using the Zune Marketplace is where international users fall short as they can not use the store to purchase music from. Untill now that is. There is a work around that will allow international users to get their hands on music from the Zune Marketplace.
It takes advantage of the fact that the Zunetag can be related to an Xbox Live account. So what we will do is to sign up for an Xbox Live account, state our country as USA, and then sign up for the Zunetag using the Xbox Live info.
1: Go to www.xbox.com. Make sure that you have reached the English-language site by clicking the “International” link on the top of the page, and select “United States”.
2: Click the My Xbox button on the main menu (link), and click sign up to register an account. Note: Specify United States every time you need to fill out country details.
3: After registration, open your Zune Software, and Register a new account. Follow the instructions until you get the option to “Already have an Xbox live account or a ZunePass”. Select this, insert the details, and you’re all set!
There you have it, welcome to the social!
If your a bookworm or dont mind the odd book here and there, well here is some news for you. It was hoped by many that Zune team would release a firmware udate eventurally that would allow you to load ebooks (books on a computer, usally in .PDF format) onto your Zune and be able to read it where every you are on the go, unfortunately this has yet to happen or even been talked about to be happening in the near future. So the guys at Instructables.comhave developed a nice little solution to it.
Its pretty simple thing to do, first step is to grab your self a program called jpegbook (download)
So once you have that downloaded and installed hit CTRL + O to load up your docuent (needs to be a text file) then change the output settings to 320 x 240. Now change the output of the file to a folder on yout PC that is monitord by the Zune software. Once all thats done you are set.
Have you tried this? let us know how it went for you.
ZuneBoards is offering a hack that allows you to remove the guest sync feature off your Zune. For most Zune users this probably will not be useful. But if you are someone that swiches your Zune between computers then this hack will be beneficial for you.
The purpose of this hack is so that when you plug in your Zune to a computer (that is not your primary computer) you will not see the pop up asking you whether you would like to use your Zune as a guest on the new computer or clear the Zune’s hard drive and in a sense start fresh on the new computer. For numerous reasons this may cause issues for you. Some problems would be if you lost your old harddrive and needed to get your music back you would be unable to do that with the Guest feature and if you chose the second feature you would delete the files in the process. The hack could prove beneficial in that sense, but the chance of that happening are slim.
More information on the hack can be found here. But I would personally suggest burning a backup of your music, videos and pictures onto a CD.
A ZuneInfo.com user “Joey Skank cracker” has made a little patch, that once applied will make your Zune into a portable hard drive, and save you all the other hassle of the original registry hack. If you have any questions or comments on this head over to this thread and make a post.
If just want to get right into it, download it from here
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