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Preview all 360 themes before you buy

by Dustin Burg on Jan 1st 2007 8:00PM

A new site just popped up on the net called Dashboard Themes and it looks to be quite useful. They have every theme released for the 360 on the site with screenshots of each blade and guide. Also built into the site is a ranking system, newly released themes list, and the layout is well thought out. Now how cool is that? So now you know where to go before you purchase a theme off of the marketplace or just a place to get an idea of what others like ... this is definitely a great resource.

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Tags: marketplace, theme, themes, xblm, xbox live marketplace, XboxLiveMarketplace

Reader Comments (25)

Now thats awesome!

It's too bad digg killed it already. Oh well, hopefully it will be back up soon. I'd really like to check it out.

Its not working, but if it was it looks like it will save me some points before i blow on some worthless theme.

its dead

Another shining example of the curse of Digg.com (oh how I hate you.)

I think this one is dead for good.

Why did they pull it? Microsoft?

Too much traffic...

Not dead for good, just for now. The app couldn't handle the load and got bogged down really bad. It was still online, but crawling so we took it offline for now. We'll bring it back later tonight.

People seem stoked so far, good stuff!

this is something that should be built into xbox live by defaut. The fact that you can't preview a theme thumbnail or even the gamer pictures is idiotic.

M$ needs to get their act together on this already.

That is great news, Matt. Has M$ given you a hard time at all? I must say this is a fantastic idea, hope I get to see it soon.

Hey all, this has always been available on XBOX.com. Just click the Xbox Live link, then click Xbox live marketplace and then Themes and it's all there for you to see each theme before you download.

#11
It doesn't show all of the themes on the marketplace though, usually only game themes and then they're just images so you're not really "previewing" them.

Oh one question if anyone can answer. I've always seen this theme in a lot of images: http://tinyurl.com/yyo62z
Is it available somewhere?

Colin: Check out this page-> http://www.dashboardthemes.com/about

Great idea Matt! The site is very nice, very clean! Very cool blog btw! Keep up the good work!

I thought the site looked good, and could be a 1 stop source for everything in terms of MarketPlace content... We would be interested in exchanging links once your site is back up...

What #9 said.

#9 agreed

Checked it out. What's there is good, but there's not much on it yet. If they get a complete catalog, it will be awesome. Honestly right now, I think I have about as many themes as they do. Also, the email verification doesn't seem to be working, or maybe it's just REALLY slow.

man this rocks, i love the site and it also got me to purchase 1 theme i never considered, but i caanot seem to find the forza 2 theme on the marketplace. the one for forza displayed on their pages looks awesome! anyone have any ideas why it is not on the marketplace?

I think I found the Forza Theme under one of those wierd areas; like E3 2006 or something like that. Nice theme! I've had it for a couple of weeks.

THANK YOU! I hate buying a theme.. only to find out how terrible it looks.

Excellent!

does anyone not know that you can preview all themes at xbox.com?

1.) Buy bunch of Xbox360 themes and capture card
2.) Take screenshots of said themes and put them on a site.
3.) ???
4.) PROFIT

Wheres the Family Guy Theme?! If your a fan of the show, getting the theme is a given! Due to this oversight, I find this website quite shallow and pendantic.

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