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The shorts for Friday June 30th 2006.

DocCRP’s Wii and PS3 comparison images. Looking small! (above) [link]
Beneath the Wii’s mysterious flap — SD Slot and Sync button [link]
Mac OS X 10.4.7 now available for download via Software Update [link] and re-release for Intel Macs [link]
Get iClip free only today from MacZot [link]

You know you can get those IR devices that turn of your TV sets? Well this is an awsome mod made to the most readily available one: the TV-B-Gone. This instructibles how-to details on how to mod that puny one IR-LED into 20 LED’s working in series and parallel (4 parallel blocks of 5 LED’s [...]

A FAQ section on Nintendo’s Japanese website, states that the new Opera browser for the DS will not have support for flash, video, sound and PDF content. Users will be able to bookmark pages, but not save them (eg. for offline use). This may not compare to the PSP which does support flash - though [...]

Ah, another IE 7 beta version for the public to test and scrutinise.
Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) Beta 3 has been designed to make everyday tasks easier, provide dynamic security protection and improve the development platform and manageability. End user improvements include a streamlined interface, tabbed browsing, printing advances, improved search functionality, instant feeds (RSS), dynamic [...]

PS3 Land is reporting that they’ve been contacted by Track7Games, who have told them that they stopped developing Thesis for Play Station 3. When questioned as to why, the developers said that they blame it on the high costs for developing games on the PS3. Thesis, will only be released for Xbox 360 and PS3 [...]

The shorts for Thursday June 29, 2006.

LAPD to trial GPS darts, like in the moves (above) [link]
Apple replacing some MacBook’s with the colour defect [link]
MacWorld’s 23 things we want in Leopard [link]

The first time this happened I wasn’t majorly concerned as this was a ‘one-off’ thing. But hearing it happen a second time makes me slightly worried, but only slightly. I was a bit skeptical at the last incident as to whetehr the furry kittens had any part of the problem. However, this time it is [...]

Now this is what a really devoted Nintendo fanboy does. He creates a real mockup of the Nintendo Wii, in both colours, as well as the controller and creating a working slot for the disc drive. The stand on the Wii can also be taken off (as above) to place in horizontal mode. DocCRP has [...]

The Shorts for June 28th 2006:

Rubik’s Cube Solving Robot with video (above) [link]
8 Invaluable Wordpress Plugins analysed [link]
DIY: Build your own pong game [link]

Two pictures have cropped up on a blogspot blog, apparently showing screenshots of Apple’s next Mac OS X version, named ‘Leopard’. The first picture (above) shows Finder with tabs, as well as IE 7 running. The ‘About this Mac’ screen also shows a listing for Windows, and spec is “XP with Service Pack 2″. The [...]