What if you could find your favourite games, music, movies and TV shows, just with the sound of your voice? What if you could ask your TV to find “Aliens” and it did — instantly? What if you wanted to listen to Pearl Jam and all you had to do was tell your TV and it responded by playing your favourite Pearl Jam tunes? At the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) on Monday, Microsoft solved the challenge of finding the entertainment you want, quickly and easily, with voice search with Bing on Xbox 360. Put bluntly, Xbox 360 will hold all your entertainment together in one place — and you’ll be able to find it with your voice.

Microsoft is also bringing YouTube to Xbox 360 (you do need to be a member of Xbox LIVE). You’ll get access to the latest videos, gaming tips and a universe of compelling content, but the best bit is you can control YouTube videos just by talking to your telly.

Did you miss “The Social Network” in the cinema? You’ll be able to tell your TV what you want to watch and choose from the multiple sources on Xbox 360 that may be offering it live or on demand. Want to play the latest videos from YouTube from the comfort of your sofa? Just tell your telly and it’ll jump to attention.

Of course, there are tons of new games coming for Xbox 360 and Kinect, but my personal favourite is Kinect: Star Wars, which allows players to follow the path of the light-saber-wielding Jedi, speed to victory in a pod race and dance to the music of the cantina band. Scrubbing off my dancing shoes in anticipation…

These are just the highlights,there’s loads more games and other exciting stuff coming to Xbox 360 and Kinect over the next twelve months.

The new Xbox 360 was announced during E3 yesterday, sporting a 250 GB hard drive, built-in Wi-Fi and, most importantly, ready for Kinect right out of the box (Kinect will be launched in November this year). Yeehah!

Working with Drupal? Get this Drupal Cheat Sheet Desktop Wallpaper courtesy of Smashing Magazine – thanks!

Umbraco 4.1RC is out after 18 months of hard work, the biggest update to Umbraco boasts an updated XML Schema ensuring higher performance, completely new Back Office tree with caching and much clever loading of data and heavily reduced http requests and SQL queries.

Want to know what the Kinect (was Natal) experience is like? ‘Kinect’ first take: What it’s like to play games without a controller

3-D Without the Glasses – thanks to the latest Microsoft technology we won’t have to wear those ridiculous glasses (they’re fun at first but the novelty wears off pretty quickly, especially when you’re trying to be serious watching the footie, right)?

New Feature Pack and Power Tools Extend VS2010 improves code editing and navigation, along with new ways to work with files and tab behaviour, while the Visualization and Model Feature Pack extends the modification and validation functionality of UML 2.0 modelling and Layer Diagrams (C and C++) in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. The Feature Pack is available to MSDN subscribers.

Python language upgrade slithers toward final release – finished version of 2.7 should be ready by 3rd July and represents the last of the 2.x series with a long period of end-of-life support expected.

Countdown to the E3 conference (Electronic Entertainment Expo) in Los Angeles, June 15-17. Don’t miss the Keynote session streamed live tonight at 18:30 GMT!