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Playing Zelda for a good cause

Hiya folks,

Earlier today, a thread was posted on the ZREO forums that caught my eye. It’s not a 100% original idea, but it’s for a good cause, which is what counts. One of the members from the ZREO Forum is going to be teaming up with a bunch of their friends to bring us a 72-hour (3 days) Legend of Zelda marathon to benefit the National Alliance for Mental Illness. The event doesn’t start until New Year’s Eve (December 31st), but it’s never too early to check out an event such as this.

For more details, click here to see the original posting on the ZREO Forums.

This message is a public service announcement. The Official ZREO Podcast was not paid to post this nor is involved in the organization of this event. This message was posted to raise awareness about this event because we care. Changes to the event may occur without notice. Please follow the link provided to stay up to date on the status of this event.

New Layout Preview

Evening folks,

I’ve got something completely new for you to check out tonight. You’re looking at it. I’ve decided to launch a brand new layout for the podcast site, one that feels a little more modern and less ugly (or so I hope). Please keep in mind that this layout is in a preview stage and is not  yet fully done (it will be finished a lot quicker than last time). That said, I know some things are a little funky right now. They will all be fixed for the official release. I turned the new layout on now to see if anyone had any comments or feedback before I go any further. So, if there’s something you want to see, just leave a comment and who knows, your idea might make it into the release.

Ta for now,

~ Stephen

Site Upgrades

Hiya folks!

Got a bunch of site upgrades to be rolled out today. First up, a mobile version of the site is now live for all iPhone, iPod Touch, Google Android, and select other touchscreen phones. This version will automatically load when you visit the site on one of those devices. Later today, support will be extended to all other mobile devices, including the Wii, DSi, PS3, and PSP. Also rolling out the door later today will be Facebook Connect support for commenting. This means you’ll be able to sign in using your Facebook account so you can bypass inputting a name, email, and Captcha. If you have an OpenID, you’ll be able to use that and receive the same benefits as well.

I’ll edit this post with status updates as everything goes out the door.

~ Stephen

Update:

All new features are live and should be working. If something is not working, please leave a comment to this post.

Blog Action Day 2009: Climate Change

Whoa wait. WT* is with this post? Caught you off guard huh? I’ll admit writing a post about climate change on a site for a podcast for a music group is kinda odd – but this post is intentional. Why? It proves a point. Climate change affects everyone. It affects the young and old. It affects the smallest of villages and the largest of cities. It affects households and enterprises. It affects you and me.

Sadly, some people opt to ignore climate change because they claim getting involved to do something about it is too hard. News flash: changing a standard light-bulb to a florescent one won’t kill you under normal circumstances. And yes, that’s getting involved. That’s doing something. Even the littlest action possible can make a huge difference.  Once you’re done changing that light bulb, here’s a bunch of other ways to get involved too that’ll take just 5 minutes of your time.

That wasn’t so hard now was it?

Re: Zune Support

This isn’t a question that comes up often but we’ve been asked about it on a few occasions: Does the podcast support the Zune/Zune Marketplace? The answer is no for three reasons:

1) The Official ZREO Podcast is produced on a Mac. The Zune Marketplace does not support Mac.

2) The Zune has a market share of 1.1%, which means there’s no major reason to look into supporting it right now as very few people actually have one.

3) Microsoft sucks. Plain and simple, the Zune is crap and we could better spend time working on something else.

A Special Treat

Howdy everyone! You know how season 1 has been missing from the downloads section of the site? How it was supposed to go up before season 2? Well, it finally is up – and with a special treat as well. To celebrate season 1 finally becoming available for download again on the podcast site, the complete season can be downloaded in one zip file. However, this is no ordinary  zip file. The complete pack is actually a special edition pack of season one.

This special edition collection features never before seen artwork, original edits of the first podcast, raw recordings of interviews, scripts of episodes*, every track from the first season, and a special introduction. This is one pack fans of the podcast sure don’t want to miss. Warning! This download is almost half a gigabyte in size. Downloading will take time.

*Where available. Please note what is actually said in each podcast maybe different than what is typed in the scripts. Please also excuse the typos. There are quite a few XD

I hope you will agree the wait was well worth it. Consider it an early birthday present from me since mine is tomorrow :P Thank you for be a loyal listener of the podcast. I hope you enjoy this special update. Head on over to the downloads page to grab it. You can also grab each episode individually if you choose.

Easter Egg Added to Site

Hey all,
It’s 1:15 AM and I’m bored as hell. To compensate, I’ve just added a secret easter egg to the site. See if you can figure it out. If you spoil it, I will hunt you down >:( Not really, but spoilers are lame.

Good luck and have fun.
~Stephen

Twit check

This is to test site integration with our new Twitter account. If you have a Twitter, go stalk us @zreopodcast :)

Monday Podcast?

Heya fans – Mycro_chip here.

I apologise for the late podcast so I’ll get to the point. Here is the podcast: 

Download ‘Monday Podcast?’ here.

Temporary host change

As a result of some resent events, I’m upping my personal security policy. Some changes are permanent and some will only be temporary. Nonetheless, Mycro_chip will be taking over as a temporary host while I get some personal matters squared away. I do plan to return next month.

Sorry for the sudden change, but this was completely unexpected and is still being dealt with.