Archive for October, 2006
I know, I know. Though I was recently on holiday, we’re going back to Hungary to see the relatives and whatnot. It’ll only be for a week, and I’ll try to post as much as possible when I get back. Until then, I hope todays news will tide you over.
Apple to release a (RED) nano in conjunction with Bono!
0 Comments Published October 12th, 2006 in Apple, Noteworthy, TV's, TechnologyArtists rendition of the iPod nano
Oprah and Bono are getting ready to unveil a new red-coloured iPod nano to support the PRODUCT(RED) scheme on TV tomorrow. The red nano is expected to debut tomorrow, in a 4GB model, for the same price as the other 4GB iPods ($199) and Apple has agreed to donate $10 [...]
PS3 comes with composite cable and no high-def cables!
2 Comments Published October 12th, 2006 in Gaming, Noteworthy, TechnologyIt seems that Sony has decided to skimp with the cabling of the PS3. It has a blu-ray drive, the Cell processor and a HDMI port, everything needed to view High-def content, except the high-def cable. The latest issue of Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu reports on the cables that will be included with the Japanese [...]
Xbox 360 could get DivX support
0 Comments Published October 12th, 2006 in Gaming, Microsoft, Noteworthy, Software, Technology, WirelessA Dutch Xbox 360 fan site (X-life) is reporting that Microsoft will be officially supporting the DivX and XviD formats within two months. This means that no 3rd party software will be needed to stream XviD and DivX files to the 360, and presumably, it also means that XviD encoded DVD’s will also be able [...]
Links for 12/10/2006
0 Comments Published October 12th, 2006 in Microsoft, Random Stuff, Software, TechnologyThe shorts for Thursday 12th October:
The EggCuber in action - above (video) [link]
It’s been four years, but Windows XP SP1 support ended on Monday [link]
Developers are from Mars, Programmers are from Venus [link]
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Geek24.com went geek licence plate spotting (on Flickr of course), and found some very good ones. There are quite a lot of them; The above few are just some of the ones that I found funny. If you look in the comments of the article, you will find links to other pictures of similar types [...]
Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion!
1 Comment Published October 10th, 2006 in Internet, Noteworthy, Software, Technology, Web 2.0Yesterday Google announced what I think is the biggest news of the month, they bought YouTube. Yep, Google acquired another Web 2.0 company (remember Writely), this time for a massive $1.65 billion USD. And to think that some companies laughed at the thought that YouTube could ever be worth so much. I think most of [...]
myFairTunes6 now supports iTunes 7.0.1.8
3 Comments Published October 9th, 2006 in Apple, Noteworthy, Software, TechnologyIt sure didn’t take these guys long. I don’t think I mentioned that when iTunes 7 was released, it made the DRM-remover myFairTunes6 useless. However with some hard work and elbow grease, they managed to bump out a new version, which supports the latest version of iTunes, 7.0.1.8 (Honestly, why all the need for the [...]
Japanese 1st party PS3 games to cost ¥5980 ($50 USD)
0 Comments Published October 9th, 2006 in Gaming, Software, TechnologyIGN reported that PS3 games were supposed to cost in the region of $70/$85USD, and in all the anger from consumers, I guess Sony learnt that they need to tell people the better news, fast. Sony have announced that 1st party games like ‘Resistance’ will cost ¥5980 ($50USD), as well as future 1st part relesese; [...]
My Mac Mini receives its first kernel panic
0 Comments Published October 9th, 2006 in Apple, Software, TechnologyAwww, for the first time since I got my mini (around August of last year) it has received its first kernel panic. I was doing some work, and had my flash drive plugged in and boom; The grey kernel panic screen just showed up. Sorry for the rubbish picture, but as I have sent my [...]
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