Archive for the ‘Other’ Category

Custom Firmware Petition

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Do you want to really ‘Make it You’?

Do you want to be able to fully customize your Zune device?

Of course you do,

Sign the petition at HERE

All you have to do is click the ‘Thanks’ button at the bottom of the thread and your user name will come up on the petition list.

You can leave a comment of what you’d like to be able to do with custom firmware as well

-Zunesi

Anniversary Week Has Begun!!!

Sunday, July 6th, 2008
Dark Zune Anniversary Week!!!

It’s officially begun!
I won’t ruin it all for you by telling you every little detail but I’ll just give an overview and save the surprises.
All the stuff for the anniversary week is located here:
http://forum.darkzune.com/anniversary/

The things we have so far are:

- 25+ Competitions
- 327 New Wallpapers (Many more better wallpapers on the way)
- Dark Zune XNA Project information and screenshots

Things on the way:

Sorry but you’ll have to wait till we release them but we have even more things coming!!!

Enjoy!

zInternational

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Great News for International Zune Users!

Introducing zInternational,
this hack:
-Unblocks Marketplace for the latest Zune Software.
-Lets you update your Play count in Zune Social.

Giving international zuners full functionality of the Zune

After the latest Zune Software update the Zune Marketplace was blocked for International Zune users. This took away their ability to use the Zune Pass and download Music, Videos and Podcasts. Aden, Administrator and part of DarkZune’s Hacking Team worked hard and got this hack ready.

Visit the official thread here to download

Please Digg also and say thanks below.

DarkZune’s Anniversary Week

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Anniversary Week

Next week, DarkZune is celebrating it’s first birthday! It’s been a long hard year of site rivalries, server moves, and vBulletin upgrades, but we overcame them all, and are now one of the largest Zune forums on the web! To celebrate this achievement, the week of DarkZune’s creation (the week of July 9) we will be putting our staff and other resources on total overhaul to give back to the community what you gave to us.

What to expect? Who knows. It could be anything really. There have been rumors of zSuite upgrades, new Zune-sized wallpapers (A LOT of wallpapers), Zune software backgrounds, screensavers, podcasts, and in general just a whole bunch of stuff celebrating what we love about Zunes. There may even be a glimpse at a TOP SECRET project we have been working on…

Join us at DarkZune.com next week to celebrate our grand site turning one and to net yourself a whole bunch of Zune flavored goodies!
Thanks Kent
Official thread Here

So this is the place to be Monday 7th of July till Sunday 13th of July

1days left

Under Construction.

Friday, June 20th, 2008

We recently added a wordpress blog for Dark Zune Homepage.
A sitewide theme is being worked on.
Please be patient and we apologize for all the awkwardness of different styles for different pages of Darkzune.com.
Click here to continue to Zune Forums.

–Fez

zSuite 2.0- A hacking suite for Zune software 2

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

The second version of the legendary ‘zSuite’ is out!
This program is basically a compilation of existing hacks all fitted into a very easy to use application.

Currently Included Programs

zAlternator
Enable Zune users add their device and sync with WMP 11 and 10, iTunes (still alpha stage), MediaMonkey and many other media programs that function using the Generic WPD protocol. This still requires the Zune Software to be installed on the users computer to activate a sync (and unlock the device). Despite this, it greatly enhances the Zune, by allowing more in depth Meta capabilities and the ability to use Smart Playlists.

zThemer
A simple way to change your Zune Software’s background without using patches or editing the software yourself.

zExplorer
Allowing you to use your Zune Device as a portable HD on computers that have the Zune Software and zSuite installed. The hack enables you to toggle whether you want your Zune to display as a portable hard drive in Windows Explorer (my computer etc), as well as letting you choose your AutoPlay support for Zune.

zIconer
A simple way to define an icon file for your Zune when using zExplorer. Custom icons for Zunes will be available via the DarkZune Forum.

Extra Screenshots

Zune Detection

zSuite About

Comments

Zuneboards.com-
‘I gotta admit, the new zSuite v2 release is pretty awesome’

Zune-Online-
‘zSuite is maybe the best effort to add new functionality and enhance the Zune Software experience’

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Zune 101: Configuring the Zune Software to Find Your Videos

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Jason Dunn over at Zune Thoughts has prepared an awesome video tutorial on how to set up the Zune Software to find your videos. Check it out

Buy & Sell Marketplace on DarkZune

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Hey, i am going to keep this short, but over at DarkZune is a Poll within ZunerTuner on whether or not we should add a “Buy & Sell Marketplace Forum”.

This would allow users to buy items of any sort, sell items of any sort (i am sure there will be some rules on this) and trade items between each other.

If this all goes ahead we will add a feedback system to users profiles so that finished transactions can have users feedbacking on each other. We would also try and keep users aware of spammers and scammers in the forum.

To vote please visit this weeks ZunerTuner.

We are guessing that if this does go ahead with enough support it will help Zuners worldwide to trade Zune goods, sell other items and buy the things they want easily within the community environment.

Zune Users Favourite Earphones - The Zune Premium Earphones

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Thats right. Our long lasting poll of “Which of these is your most favourite set of earphones?” has finally finished. The results are clear that the Zune Premium Earphones took a large majority of the votes and seem to be the most popular earphone among the Zune owners. Whether its due to their great price (which is now even lower due to the 2nd gen version earphones release), their handy case which is included or their amazing functionality.

Here are the final results:

  • Zune Premium Earphones (34%, 59 Votes)
  • Skull Candy (20%, 35 Votes)
  • Other (14%, 24 Votes)
  • Zune Included Earphones (13%, 22 Votes)
  • Shure (10%, 17 Votes)
  • V-Moda (6%, 10 Votes)
  • Sennheiser (5%, 9 Votes)

You can clearly see that the

Zune Europe not until 2009

Friday, March 14th, 2008

There have been reports from France that Microsoft has stated that Europe will not see Zune until Fall 2009.