Having just bought several Chrissy pressos online. The Wowzune team decided it was time we let you in on one of our best kept secrets - Wowzune has its own store.

Yeah, we know, its not that obvious! (We have just never gotten around to making it a big feature - maybe our new years resolution!) But it does have every Zune thing you are gonna want to give for Christmas.

You can buy  Zune videos, Zune accessories,  Zune players (the 4GB version is currently just $67.99!!), there is  also a cool range of carru cases - like the one pictured on the right. Just take a look around, you will see what we mean about some very cool stuff.

There are also some amazing sales on Zune products right now, as well.

There is still time to order and get delivered by Christmas - but better hurry!

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Have you been trying to figure out how to get some of the great freebies from iTunes to Zune? Or, you can see there are some great movies or music etc on iTunes but don’t know how to get it onto your Zune?

Well, there is some great  FREE software available that lets us do just that. Vuze (yeah, we know, weirdly similar to Zune) have developed software that will convert files we have on our PC so that they can be synced to our mobile devices. So first step is to get the iTunes files onto our PC.

Download the iTunes music or film/video that you want to your PC (try this with a freebie first, just to get comfie with the system).

Then just follow the following steps:

First up: Download the Vuze software. Then follow the super simple directions on how to get your PC files converted by Vuze.

2) Put your Vuze downloads in a folder of their own.

3) Then go into the zune software; settings; software - and add a folder for music (and/or videos if you have movie or TV show files you want to watch on your Zune)

4) Map the location for the Vuze download section. The software will start to pull the songs (etc) in - then you can sync them to your Zune.

Finally, check out a previous WowZune post to see how to get a stack of free legal Movie and video files that Vuze can sync to your Zune!

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We know that Zune owners are special! Zune people love art and creativity and wild things and great music. The Zany Zune ads say it all.

So we know y’all  will love these free movies we have found for you. Martin Scorsese and others have put together a site with some fantastic free movies on offer - The World Cinema Foundation. There are free movies to be found around this site if you care to look around. Some examples are (click the image to go to the free movie):

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If you would like to watch your free movies on your Zune then you can! Remember we showed you how you can watch movies on Zune with just four-clicks or your mouse? Check the post out and get yourself set up for movie-on-the-go!

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In a previous post we showed you how to get free movies on Zune in four easy clicks.

This is a great system but has two problems. Firstly,  it does not convert “right protected” DVDs. Secondly, it has a big watermark in the middle of the screen!

And, the big problem is that all the videos we really wanted to convert are “right-protected”.

Now, the Zune is basically just viewing and listening device, right? - so why should we pay for yet another version of a movie we already have, just so we can watch it on our Zune?

We went looking for a solution! And we found one! Yeah, we know, we are great!

Firstly, you will need this great, super simple, FREE  bit of software called DVD43.  It sits quietly on your PC unlocking DVDs in the background, so that they can be converted and transferred to our Zune! (Rest assure,  it does nothing to the DVD, itself, just unlocks the code as it plays so that it can be “read”)

This free software allows us to now use TransferMy Video to convert all our DVDs to play on our Zune!

Which brings us to our second great find - we found a place where you can get TransferMy Video at a 15% of discount Check it out by following this link.

And that means - No more waters marks!! Just Super cool, FREE, great Movies on our Zune! (friends got any movies you’ve been wanting to watch?)

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Been thinking it might be time to upgrade your Zune? Well, the about-to-be released Zune HD is definitely worth considering. Why? Because it will have web browsing capabilities powered by Microsoft’s “Bing”!!

Looks pretty cool, doesn’t it? Having a browser will mean that downloads for Zune can be accessed directly - no need to go to our PC’s first! What Zune has to say about the new Zune HD:

• Zune HD will include a full-screen Internet browser optimized for multitouch functionality.
• Zune HD is Wi-Fi enabled, allowing for instant streaming to the device from the more than 5 million-track Zune music store.

It will also have a touch screen,  and ten hours of HD video storage!! The Wowzune team reckon this will be a major step forward in functionality and makes takes the Zune into the 21st century! And - compared to the iPod Touch, its super cheap!! The Zune HD will start at a price tag of $219.99 . Follow this link to pre-order the Zune HD. It is being released on September 15, 2009.

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We have recently done a post showing how to get videos onto our Zune for free. Basically this software converts video files into Zune compatible files, auto loads to iTunes (yep, we have to rely on iTunes for this) and then we sync to our Zune from there. The convert is super easy and very fast.

The problem with this software - called TransferMy Video - is that while it converts DVDs from our D-drive so that we can watch them on our Zune, it won’t copy “right protected” DVDs. And lets face it, most of our favorite DVDs are “right protected”.  But if we have already purchased the DVD, we should be able to watch it on whatever device we have, right?

Well, we have found a really easy to use piece of software  that simple runs in the background and allows TransferMyVideo to convert “right protected” DVDs so that we can watch them on our Zune!

Take a bow, guys! The software is called DVD43. Just download it and then you can forget about it. If you haven’t already downloaded TransferMyVideo, you can get it free from this link. (just scroll down find the download for the free version). Now, as we said in our previous post, it does have a watermark in the middle - so you might prefer the watermark-free version.  You can get that by following this link.

In any event, with DVD43 and TransferMyVideo, you will now be able to watch any DVD on your Zune.

All for free (if you don’t mind the watermark) or for the cost of just one DVD if you want to get rid of the watermark.

Either way, too good to pass up! Everyone on the Zune team has set themselves up with this (using either the free or paid version) and all reckon its the best thing since sliced cheese!! As you can see above, I have recently transferred Taken (staring Liam Neeson) onto a Zune to watch on a flight I am taking tomorrow.

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We have been checking out ways to get movies onto our Zune.  As a result we have been testing out some of the software that allows us to download movies to our Zune. There is quite a lot of software out now, that will do this. But we have found - having downloaded about a dozen different products and tried them out - that most are hard to use. Mainly because they give poor guidelines on how to use their software. Do software developers even think like the rest of us?

Well, we finally found a program that is literally click, click, click done! So we are gonna tell you about it. First up - they have a free version - which is the one we tested, and are reporting on.  It is free free. By that we mean that you never have to pay for the free version. It does not have a time limit on its use. What it does have is a watermark in the middle of the screen - which can be annoying, but otherwise its great. If that bothers you, well its pretty cheap to upgrade. A lot of the other products whose free version we trialed - had worse limits. Like having to click “continue” every 60 seconds, or only being able to do 2 minute cuts etc.

So I have just put Ocean’s Thirteen on my Zune  - we’ll cover how we got the file onto our laptop in the next blog post.

But for now, using the free version of TransferMyVideo software, it was a case of clicking ‘browse’ to find the video file, clicking on the image provided in the software to choose Zune, clicking ’start converting’, and barely a few minutes later -  the video was ready to be synced to my Zune. It was GREAT! And it was free!!

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