Xbox360 Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Connect360 updated with H.264 support

by Mat Lu (May 14th, 2007)

A while back in our TUAW Guide to Xbox 360 and Mac we mentioned the forthcoming Spring Dashboard update on the 360 was to bring updated video codec support. Well that update dropped last week and Nullriver has correspondingly updated their Connect360 software (which we've mentioned before) that ...

Ask TUAW: Printing Finder window contents, CornerClick, a Finder hotkey, editing AVIs and more

by Mat Lu (May 2nd, 2007)

This week's Ask TUAW takes us into questions about printing Finder window contents, assigning programs to the corner of your screen, bringing up the Finder with a HotKey, integrating Apple productivity programs, recording TV on your Mac and editing AVIs . Remember new Mac users and Switchers who are ...

Use Xbox 360 Guitar Hero Controller with Frets on Fire

by Mat Lu (Apr 22nd, 2007)

A while back we posted on the cool open source Guitar Hero clone, Frets on Fire. Well I'm a pretty big Xbox 360 fan, and one of my favorite games on the 360 is the recently released Guitar Hero II, which ships with a USB X-plorer guitar-shaped controller. So of course the first thing I did when I ...

TUAW Guide: Xbox 360 and Mac

by Mat Lu (Apr 16th, 2007)

In many of the recent reviews of the Apple TV, the Xbox 360 was often mentioned as a competing Media Extender product. Having recently bought a 360, I thought it would be good to discover the ways in which my two pretty white boxes can work together. In this TUAW Guide to Xbox 360 and the Mac, I'm ...

Xbox incompatible with 802.11n Airport Extreme

by Erica Sadun (Feb 7th, 2007)

TUAW reader Bryan Hughes writes in to tell us that after many unsuccessful attempts, he was unable to connect wirelessly to his Xbox 360 via the new 802.11n Airport Extreme. Over at a discussion at Apple Tech Support, other users report no problem connecting their Wiis and Playstation 3s to the ...

HD TV shows and movies on your XBox

by Scott McNulty (Nov 7th, 2006)

The other day Microsoft announced that you will be able to buy and rent TV shows and movies directly from your XBox 360. The twist is that they are offering the videos in standard def and HD (720p will be the max resolution). Now, I know you're wondering why I am blogging about this on TUAW. What ...

Use your XBox 360 controller with your Mac

by Scott McNulty (May 19th, 2006)

I don't own an XBox 360, but I hear that it is the best thing to come out of Redmond for a long, long time. Now, if you are a Mac user and an Xbox 360 owner you might be keen to hook up your XBox's controller to your Mac for some Mac gaming fun. Sadly, you have been out of luck in that regard, that ...

Stream iLife media to your Xbox 360

by Dan Pourhadi (Feb 13th, 2006)

If you're one of the Crazy Ones who fought their way through hordes of game-addicted line-dwellers at Best Buy to get their hands on one of those swanky new Xbox 360s, this may interest you: Nullriver -- the same company that brought you Amaryllis and PSPWare -- has developed an app called ...