One of the best Xbox 360 online resources is gone. Dashboardthemes.com provided a fully interactive look at 360 themes, so you could try before you buy. This made up for an oversight in Microsoft's dashboard design, which doesn't permit any in-engine preview, and its sloppy, understaffed workaround of posting the flat-file images to Xbox.com - often weeks or months after they are released (we're still waiting for any BioShock theme previews!). Apparently the fan site didn't make money and the developers lost interest in maintaining it. Damn! Dashboardthemes.com, you will be missed. Microsoft should have funded you - or at least licensed your nifty preview engine for its own Web site...
R.I.P. - Dashboardthemes.com
One of the best Xbox 360 online resources is gone. Dashboardthemes.com provided a fully interactive look at 360 themes, so you could try before you buy. This made up for an oversight in Microsoft's dashboard design, which doesn't permit any in-engine preview, and its sloppy, understaffed workaround of posting the flat-file images to Xbox.com - often weeks or months after they are released (we're still waiting for any BioShock theme previews!). Apparently the fan site didn't make money and the developers lost interest in maintaining it. Damn! Dashboardthemes.com, you will be missed. Microsoft should have funded you - or at least licensed your nifty preview engine for its own Web site...
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