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Sony nails down music peripheral compatbility with upcoming titles

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 by admin

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With all the incompatibility out there surrounded by Guitar Hero / Rock Band instruments, it is a true treat to see somewhat want this. The Director of Publisher Relations at SCEA has requested an update such a promises compatibility between instruments and service for following titles; for instance, Guitar Hero: World Tour’s guitars and drums ought to try amid Rock Band 2 and Konami’s Rock Revolution software, and Rock Band 2’s guitar and drum set is planning to job investing in Guitar Hero: World Tour and providing Rock Revolution. Furthermore, the bunch is even “working hard to ensure compatibility between the Guitar Hero and Rock Band titles by now on the market,” even though we are imparted upon the an announcement on the would surface “shortly.” Rock ‘n roll harmony, baby.

iPhone experiencing GPS problems after 2.0.1 update?

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 by admin

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While particular charges once any firmware update are to be expected, there appears to be a reached the conclusion uptick in the rate of studies of queries investing in the iPhone’s GPS (ranging out of total wonkiness to all out failure) following the several current 2.0.1 update. As the responses on the MacRumors forums indicate, however, the topics are far according to throughout the council (or confined to the iPhone 3G), and GPS matters haven’t spot on continued which rare of an arrival before presently current update either. So, we will open it up to you, dear readers — suffer you had any newfound iPhone GPS problems?

Nokia Software Update goes gold

Thursday, May 8th, 2008 by admin

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After a rather lengthy “trial run” that really had all the markings of a released product, Nokia is calling its Software Update good and dialing up the publicity. The updater, which allows end users to re-up the bits ‘n bytes in their phones without the heartache of a trip to a service center — or worse yet, a mailing — supports a healthy percentage of Nokia’s modern mainstream models (at least, the ones complicated enough to warrant occasional updating) via a PC connection or, on a few handsets, a quick, painless over-the-air zapping. We trust the bricking incidents have been ironed out at this point, but as always, proceed with caution.

[Via Tech Digest]

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TomTom RIDER 2nd Edition gets updated with new features

Thursday, April 24th, 2008 by admin

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With prime motorcycling weather nearly here, TomTom has prepped an update to bring a handful of new features to its RIDER 2nd Edition. Aside from including Map Share technology and the “Help Me” menu, the enhanced 2nd Edition GPS will also provide a latest map guarantee, trip statistics and itinerary planning. Reportedly, the upgraded unit will go on sale early next month for £349.99 ($691) / £399.99 ($790) depending on whether you’re picking up UK / Ireland maps or all of Europe, but existing 1st Edition / 2nd Edition owners can snag the update gratis via TomTom HOME. No word on a North American release just yet.

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New iPhone SDK and firmware builds in the mix, now with more OpenGL

Thursday, April 24th, 2008 by admin

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Once again, the time has come for a fresh beta build of the official iPhone SDK — and if you’re lucky enough to be involved in the firmware seeding program, a fresh build of the 2.0 firmware, too. The big change this time around appears to be support for OpenGL ES in the SDK’s emulator, enabling easy, breezy access to 3D acceleration for testing all those spellbinding games we plan on playing the heck out of in a couple months. So yeah, shouldn’t you get cracking on that? Seriously.

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PS3 firmware v2.30 is out: new PS Store and DTS-HD MA now yours for the taking

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 by admin

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It’s April 15th which means one thing: taxes PS3 firmware 2.30 is due. Right on cue, Sony made good on the new PlayStation Store and DTS-HD Master Audio sound reproduction sure to make audiophile-types lean in for a listen. The Store is acting a bit sluggish at the moment, something that’s likely to get sorted once the rolling update is completed. Nevertheless, users are claiming easier navigation and richer experience. So whatcha looking at — get out of here kid, there’s on-line updating to be done.
source:engadget

Sony mylo 2 firmware version 1.100 adds WMV and SHOUTcast support

Sunday, April 13th, 2008 by admin

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Sony’s do-everything-except-for-make-calls mylo has been updated to firmware version 1.100, and is now available at Sony’s support site as a 61MB download. Because you ran out of things to do with your mylo about, say, ten minutes after unboxing it, rejoice — the update adds WMV file support, SHOUTcast widget support (the widget is a separate download), a “Game” item on the HOME menu for easier access to all those games you downloaded to the COM-2 unit, and, of course, improved “system stability”.

source:engadget

iPhone 1.1.4 firmware jailbroken

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 by admin

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If you have already upgraded your iPhone to recently released 1.1.4 firmware, then you should know that there is a way to jailbreak it.

Zibri’s ZiPhone is now updated to version 2.5 and it allows you to jailbreak your iPhone.
Firstly you will need to restore your phone, and not update on iTunes.. This will get rid of all the installer cashed files. After restoring to 1.1.4, just use “ziphone -Z Y” in command line version or the first button on GUI version.
Yes it is as simple as that!

ZiPhone is available for both Mac and PC. Download it from