1)connect your Xbox 360 to two screens at once
If you have one of the component / composite dual video cables - the one that comes in the box with most of the 360 - to display the console gamey goodness on two TVs at the same time. The trick is to shake the cable switch standard definition, but include the compound (yellow) cable to one screen and the component (red, green, blue) cables to another. It will not be high definition, but can be useful if you are organizing a mini-LAN party and want a display for bored spectators to point their eyes.
2) Play your own music in original Xbox games
Then you can your own MP3s in a game of 360 is common knowledge (and re-soundtracking horror games in a bad mood with Benny Hill theme song is not heard funny), but does not work when playing a song are from the original Xbox. There is a way around them - to play an album or playlist before you load the game and play as soon as you do to keep the fire up the title. Music from the game itself is not muted, however, so if you can not do in the settings, see the cacophony strange madness.
3) You can write your own blog
Ah, the internet - founded upon crazy men making crazy things for free. As a blog supposedly written by the 360 on what you have been using as a base. It monitors your Live account and automatically generates entries about what it was that day (or so it was not - expect many posts about neglect if you do not turn for a while). The sound is very American geek, but it's a fun album of their own gambling habits, and track what your friends are doing. Arise atwww.360voice.com.
4) Play Xbox 360 games online for free - without a Live account
That has a subscription for online gaming, something that a free press in other consoles and the PC has to pay, is perhaps the biggest nightmare 360. Staging its own form of peace process by playing online without paying a penny. You need XLink Kai, a free application that runs from a PC on the same network as the cheat console the 360 is in the thinking of the Internet, a LAN.
Therefore, it is to treat remote opponents as though they were in the same room with you - and you do not have to pay for local multiplayer. Clever! A small drawback - Microsoft is the 360 to boot to anyone with a ping higher than 30ms whole, which has to be selective about who to play. The local miners are the best, not your Chinese penpal.
5) Interact with your Xbox 360 music
Press X while playing a music CD or file (whether from the hard disk 360, an MP3 player, you may have connected, or streamed from a PC) and you'll enter Psychedelic Wonderland. Well, some displays of art, anyway. Grab a controller or two (or four, as is the case) and clicking on the buttons Thumbpad movement and to interact with the crazy colors changing. There are actually some fairly elaborate controls - read the full manual www.llamasoft.co.uk/x360manual.php http://. Good at parties, this.
6) Connect your Xbox 360 to a wireless network adapter without official
The good news is that you do not have to fall to £ 50 on offense expensive Wi-Fi adapter from Microsoft. The bad news is that you find a laptop with Wi-Fi to do so.Head of Control Panel - Network Connections (Windows XP) or Network and Sharing Center - Manage Network Connections (in Vista). Select the LAN connection and wireless connection at a time, and then the right mouse button and click "Bridge Connections".
Then drag the wireless network connection, use a network cable from the laptop's Ethernet port to the 360 is, and should be good to go. Unfortunately, you have to remove the bridge (repeat the process and you get the chance to see) if you want to surf the Internet with your laptop.
7) Play music from your iPod
It is no secret as such, but Microsoft is not exactly shout about the fact that a device plays nice with uber-rival Apple. Hidden in the depths of the Fair, you'll find a teeny download called 'optional iPod support. Once he took that, connect your iPod (not iPhone compatible, however, sadly) and head of the media sheet of communication. You'll see your pod appear there, and now you can search by album, artist, genre or whatever. It is also through the USB port that makes sense.
8) Place your Xbox 360 video settings
Remember this when you comrade in the habit of using the houses of the console and connect to different screens. It can be treated in the end, output the wrong signal, so that you can not see anything, not a flickering screen. Fortunately, a fairly simple solution, if this is the case. Remove any CD from the tray and turn the thing.Then turn with a gamepad. At startup, hold down the Y button, then press and hold the right trigger. The video settings are reset to their default values, and will stop crying.
9) Play multimedia files, plus online videos on Xbox 360
Free app Tversity carefully avoids the pointless video / audio restrictions Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo consoles, both in its impact, so play the position of each format.Once again, you need a PC on the same network, but it's only a matter of installing the program and to explore the folders to keep your media in. It is the standard network file sharing system Windows uses to replace but behaves pretty much the same way as in the 360 at the end. And that is incompatible files on the fly to convert - but you have a pretty beefy PC, this need with large video files, or you will be waiting for ages. You can also online video URLs on the PC end - including Youtube - and then from the console.
10) Use the HDMI cable and digital surround sound set
Despite the new 360 have an HDMI output for optimal video quality, have ports so that is not based on the standard component / composite video cable, with the crucial optical audio output, connected at the same time, as HDMI. Instead, it is really an alarming amount of money on the official HDMI cable with audio adapter fall. Balls to it. See the big plastic box at the end of the standard video cable that connects to the console? Join wedge with a knife or a screwdriver and turn-off pop.The result looks messy, but small enough to connect to the side of a standard, cheapo HDMI cable.
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