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Month of Apple Bugs: So VLC is Apple software?
0 Comments Published January 4th, 2007 in Apple, Internet, Microsoft, Noteworthy, Software, Technology, Virus & SpywareI have been reading up on this ubiqutous ‘Month of Apple Bugs’, and in light of this article, I have become increasingly angered with the website. The article on AppleGazette makes very valid points, as to why effectively the MOAB project has lost all of its credibility. I want to state upfront that I’m not [...]
DIY Component to VGA Adapter
1 Comment Published December 15th, 2006 in Gaming, Microsoft, TV's, TechnologyThe way I connect my Xbox 360 to my LCD Screen, is using Elgato’s EyeTV Hybrid tuner and the EyeTV software. This works fine, however the picture produced is only SD. I wasn’t happy with the way the picture looked, especially on my 17″ Dell Monitor. I looked around the net and I found a [...]
Gaming News in Review: Part 2
1 Comment Published November 14th, 2006 in Gaming, Microsoft, Movies, Noteworthy, PC, Software, TV's, TechnologyPart deux of the gaming news round-up over the last few weeks.
Could the Wii not support game saves to SD memory cards? According to the manual it is, but not according to the console itself. That’s what Joystiq found out. Lets hope Nintendo fix this in time for the release, as we wouldn’t want to [...]
Gaming News in Review: Part 1
0 Comments Published November 14th, 2006 in Gaming, Microsoft, Movies, Noteworthy, Technology, WirelessWhile I was unable to post during the last two weeks, there has been plenty of gaming news floating around, so be prepared for a awfully long post.
New Halo 3 Info: 1up.com have revealed lots of new information about Halo 3. There will be three different editions of Halo 3, a standard, a collectors and [...]
Gaming News in Review
1 Comment Published October 25th, 2006 in Gaming, Internet, Microsoft, Noteworthy, Software, TV's, TechnologyA lot of gaming news has happened while I was away, so I thought I’d summerise it all.
Sony sues games importer Lik-Sang out of existence. Sony originally filed a motion against Lik-Sang in August of 2005 for exporting PSP’s to the UK before the release of the console there. Just last week a high court [...]
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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Microsoft to offer discounted versions of Vista
0 Comments Published October 8th, 2006 in Microsoft, Noteworthy, Software, TechnologyMicrosoft may be making an ingenious move by offering Vista for free or at a discounted price to those who buy a new PC with Windows XP after October 28th. Those who buy a new computer with either Windows XP Pro, XP Tablet Edition or the 64-bit version of Windows XP will be eigible for [...]
Windows Vista RC2 not working on Macs via Boot Camp
0 Comments Published October 8th, 2006 in Apple, Microsoft, Software, TechnologyDavid Chartier from TUAW has found that on his iMac, he has had no success of installing Release Candidate 2 of Windows Vista. Even with the new Boot Camp 1.1.1 update, which was supposed to offer compatibility with the new iMacs, the installation fails. Windows Vista reports that it doesn’t like the drive Boot Camp [...]
Microsoft updates firmware of Xbox 360 DVD Drive
0 Comments Published October 5th, 2006 in Gaming, Microsoft, Noteworthy, Software, TechnologyAs a counter measure by Microsoft to stop people from using the Xbox 360’s DVD drive to copy Xbox 360 games, they have updated the firmware of the Hitachi/LG drive. As seen in the picture above, they have also put a lot of plack glue over the chip, as if to stop hackers from physically [...]
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