the mini Blog

So you now you can put your Mac to sleep wherever you are, using your MMS capable phone. MSS is rather like a text message, except you can set it to send to an email. Which is how this funky Automator workflow works. The above version is the most basic form, without the reception of [...]

… or was sick. After having my mini for over 2 months this was the first problem that had arisen. It seemed that when I tried to launch Word or any Office application as well as a number of other programs they would crash for some unknown reason. The screenshot can be seen above. After [...]

So you know how I mentioned a while ago that someone spotted the 360 crashing in Wal-Mart, well now someone has actually experienced it on their retail version of the 360. Some early adopters are discovering that waiting on line in the cold for two years to snag a box was the least of their [...]

For those of you lucky enough to be in the US you may or may not have bought an Xbox 360 (if you don’t know what one is then you don’t belong on the internet!) With the launch last night many shops (including Best Buy) closed early at around 6PM to get everything ready for [...]

Hopefully you’re all clued up about the Xbox 360 Zero Hour event. If not well then, simply put it is an exclusive party for selected people (From the European ‘OrigenXbox360′ contest or the American ‘Hex168′) to try out the new Xbox with Live, hang out and chill. It is a really fun even (from what [...]

First of all I’m going to say I do not condone hacking nor piracy. What I have done is purely for educational purposes only. So please don’t sue me Apple, I don’t have any money. Because of the nature of this ‘experiment’ I cannot provide links from where I got the files. All I can [...]

I decided to upgrade to the latest version of K2 (my theme in wordpres) after noticing that they have had another upgrade and I had some free time. Mostly I didn’t want to upgrade because I made a lot of changes in K2 that I really didn’t want to re-write. But I will have to [...]

For some it can be annoying to find out that just when you are about to order your 360 from a site such as Gamestop.com, that they place a banner saying they have ran out of 360′s and the next allotment will ship in 2006. Michel Cassius, Head of Xbox Europe, told the Official Xbox [...]

Here are the pictures: Kameo: Elements of Power Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter Call of Duty 2 Perfect Dark Zero Condemned: Criminal Origins Project Gotham Racing 3 Quite a few games had commentary behind it to show what is new in the 360 and how the games have managed to utilise these features. Pick up the [...]

So I was looking around town today and I bought a copy of the latest Official Xbox 360 Magazine. This is the second issue which you can see above. It came with a free DVD showing footages from games, both in game footage and trailer/teasers. There were also interviews included with some devlopers of some [...]