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Transformers 2 Coming Soon!

Best.news.ever. The first was amazing, so hopefully the second will live up to it's predecessor.

The internet is alive with sequel news this afternoon. Top of the heap is Transformers, which even though it hasn’t yet been released is riding a wave of tremendous buzz and seems almost assured to make hundreds of millions of dollars when it opens in the middle of next week. It looks like Paramount isn’t waiting around to make sure it’s a hit, according to a story picked up from Entertainment Tonight, they’ve already greenlit Transformers 2.

It’s too early to have any idea what the movie will be about or whether any of the current cast and crew will be involved in it, but having seen the movie last night I can assure you that it lends itself pretty easily to a long and incredible fun series of giant freakin robot films. More importantly, it’s good enough that it’s bound to leave audiences wanting more of it. Unless the impossible happens and the movie somehow underperforms, sequels are a no brainer. Good move on Paramount’s part. Now they need to lock up Michael Bay and Shia LaBeouf.

Vonage Sued By Sprint, $Million's Handed Over

In a surprising change of events, Sprint has sued the VoIP giant, Vonage $69.5 Million USD. The reason is that in 2005, Sprint sued Vonage for allegedly infringing seven patents from Sprint that dealt with connecting Internet phone calls. Vonage denied the claims and argued that Sprint's patents shouldn't have been approved in the first place. However, after the verdict recently released, Vonage will appeal the verdict and will try to develop workarounds that don't infringe on Sprint's patents.

This is the 2nd time Vonage has been sued because of patents. Verison has also sued them $85 million, and 5.5% of whatever revenue they earn whilst infringing patents.

New Ebuddy Beta, Designed for PSP

According to the company, the decision to come up with the PSP-friendly version was because of the steady rise of chatters who access the service through the Sony handheld. The current release is still in beta build but even so, a handful of features have already been incorporated to it.

Speaking of which, the new version of eBuddy Mobile comes with full emoticon support as well as a wide array of language compatibility: English, Deutsch, Espanol, Francais, Magyar, Italiano, Arabic, Nederlands, Portugues and Pt. Brasileiro. It was said that more languages will be added in future versions.

Link > Choose the PSP option

MMO's ban Men playing as Women

via /.

"In a bizarre move Aurora Technology the owners of the King of the World MMORPG has taken the unusual step of banning men who play women characters but the ban itself does not stretch to women playing men. If you want to play as a woman now in game you have to prove you are a women via web cam. This is something that people ask for in many mmorpgs I myself have seen people say people who play women in EVE online as being some kind of degenerate but how long can a policy of verification by web cam last since its so easy to get around it doesn't seem to solve much and is an insult to many."

...Really?


New Thing: Yoube Video Of The Day!

From now on, we'll post a good YouTube video per post. Or at least, one that we think is good.

This Week:

Nattliv - mensvärk

Over & Out. This is another day late, because I just noticed that it didn't get published.

More Apologise from Snappedarm.....

Hey,
As you guessed from the title, snappedarm (Joel) here.
Sorry guys for not doing many blogs, i have been very busy and Fraser hasnt been on much to remind me! But I Promise (and you have this as a digital Signiture) that i will try and do at least 1 post a week, hopefully more!
Anyway, on with some "News"...

Linux on 80Gb iPods
Fraser successfully installed linux onto his 80gb iPods, although I dont know too much yet, I know it is pretty similar to what he did on his Nano. (which he will hopefully post some pictures on, and a video of his new video in action aswell). Hot Stuff!

40Gb PS3?
Rumors have been spreading wildly lately that Sony plans to release a 40GB PlayStation 3 console for a bargain price of USD 399. These rumors have yet to be confirmed or denied at this point, but it seems that there may in fact be some truth to them.

USB Fingerprint Scanners... All they are cracked up to be? (and the most recommended one)
They are meant to make everything easier, eliminate passwords and using the pc quicker. And so far, they are actually decent, no-one has lied about it, and the software seems to go hand in hand with vista. How they work is they save up to 10 fingerprints, and you use your one (obviously) for your user, so you can only access certain documents, view restricted webpages or even log on to your user with your finger!
The recommended one from Jaffa, is the Microsoft Fingerprint Reader.
Partly because it is made with Microsoft, so just one update and they will have all the drivers and software for the reader.
So Buy One!!

Thats Probably all for tonight, although i will do a bigger better harder stronger post within the next few days.

See'Ya Guys

Insert Generic Title Here.

New post 10/09/07. Dicer here.

I know it's late again, but eh, Joel is away to some other country, and I've been busy as hell.

XBOX Mini

This is a freakin' sweet version of an XBOX [1] which some guy has modded. He has thrown the massive black case, in favour of a shiny sleek case. All I can say it that it's amazingly done! I mean, I would easily drop $200 on this biatch.
Pictures:



It in it's full glory.



That's it compared it the older XBOX, as you can see, it's TINY!

Fanjita and Noobz create a 3.11 Downgrader for PSP!

Yep, you read right, Fanjita and Noobz make a downgrader. Explanation follows...

I'm geussing your asking, "Why a 3.11 downgrader, why not 3.52 downgrader?" well, if you have used homebrew on you PSP in it's lifetime, and decided you didn't like it, you would upgrade to the latest PSP firmware, right? No. Sony put protection on it, and the highest you can go to is 3.11. So if you used homebrew to downgrade your 3.50 PSP to 1.50 with Lumines, then decided you want to go back to 3.50 again - you can't. This is why they made the downgrader.

The downgrader uses Lumines still, so try and grab a copy of it while stocks last!

Anyways, the team thanks Dark AleX because this certain release is based off of the source code for his HEN 2.71. Instructions and other relevant notes about running homebrew are found in the README. Additional notes:

This release consists of HEN for v3.11, plus a v3.11 downgrader, and an idstorage key fixer for v3.11. This allows you the choice of either:

1. staying on v3.11 to run homebrew
2. downgrading to v1.50 to run homebrew or install custom firmwares, or
3. upgrading to official Sony firmwares v3.30 or beyond.

Oh, and the reply to why is Fanjita doing this?

Quote, Fanjita:

Yeah. [I'm just] tidying up loose ends. This was promised ages ago.

M33 Teaser, 3.60 M33 for PSP Slim coming soon...

The last official release we heard from Team M33 was when they rolled out the fourth update of their custom firmware for PSP FW 3.52. Well, here's one of the biggest teasers in the history of homebrew: "3.60 M33 for PSP Slim, Coming Soon!"

That's what they currently have flagged (literally) in the middle of their website right now. How soon is soon? We have no clue. But in the homebrew scene, "soon" could be taken to mean within a day or two from now. Or just a matter of hours!

Sounds cool, though, I wanna know features! I'm guessing they will take advantage of the TV output things, and make it really good.




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And we leave you at that.