PS3 updates - Firmware 2.01

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Looks like the PlayStation 3 decided to catch up with the PlayStation Portable (PSP) on firmware updates.

Similar to the PSP update from 2.00 to 2.01, there are no feature releases in this version, but mainly bug-fixes - relating to improving game-play (no more freezes).

You can get the update by using the “system update” feature in your PlayStation 3 if it is connected online. Alternatively, you can download it from the official PlayStation site.

Validation: Who bothers?

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Great! Now that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is encouraging webmasters to take up standards, certainly that there should be some who bothered right? This is a measly list that takes the top 15 in Alexa (screening out sites that are similar) for this test.

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Vote it up!

Posted by multippt

We figured that maybe some people are too shy to use our posting feature, so we made something that allows you to voice your opinion. A little democracy never hurts anyone right?

The voting system in Tevine is similar to other voting systems - you like the story, you vote for it. Each vote contributes a little to the “bar” you see at the bottom of each post. Fill it up, and see what happens. ;)

We will enable guest voting soon.

Migrating from Digg to Sphinn

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Sphinn is a great social bookmarking site, similar to Digg. This is your one-off travel guide for migrating from Digg to Sphinn.

What is Sphinn?
If you know Digg, you can say Sphinn is Digg (their names are similar too). Like Digg, you vote for stories, which act as a sort of “online bookmark”, and submit them in the same way as Digg. Although Sphinn caters more for webmasters, any sort of topic works fine in Sphinn. This is unlike Digg, which although it is said that they won’t mind what topic is being talked about, the community generally distastes certain things (e.g. SEO). In Sphinn, getting to the top takes you about 20 Sphinns (a similar “currency” to Diggs), wherelse in Digg, it takes you about 60 Diggs. Of course, that may change soon in the future where Sphinn gets more members.

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Nintendo and Sony roll out big titles

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Two new video games from Sony and Nintendo have players exploring jungle islands for lost treasure or skipping across the galaxy to save a kidnapped princess.

On the face of it, Sony’s Uncharted and Nintendo’s Super Mario Galaxy can’t be more different.

Uncharted harnesses the PlayStation 3’s graphical muscle to produce a movie-like adventure, while Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii uses cartoonish graphics and simple controls to breathe new life into an aging franchise.

The games also answer challenges facing Sony and Nintendo.

Although Nintendo has been selling as may machines as it can make, players have started to grumble about the lack of must-have titles that offer a more rewarding experience than short minigames.

That’s where Super Mario Galaxy comes in.

A product of Nintendo’s legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, Super Mario Galaxy is being hailed as the most innovative and fun Mario adventure in more than a decade.

The portly Italian plumber once again has to save Princess Peach from the clutches of the evil Bowser, and this time his path hops across an amazing variety of planetoids.

Add in dizzying perspectives, weird gravity effects, and finely-honed motion controls, and you end up with a game that has scored 97 out of 100 on Metacritic.com and is expected to sell 16 million copies worldwide, according to online prediction market simExchange.com.

“It definitely captures the essence of what makes Mario so great,” said Jeremy Parish, features editor at gaming news Web site 1up.com, which scored the game a 9.5 out of 10.

“Some hardcore gamers might be turned off by how cutesy this is, but if you look beyond that, the gameplay is rock solid, it’s incredibly new and inventive,” Parish said.

For Sony, Uncharted is the kind of showcase game it sorely needs to drive sales of the PS3, which has languished behind the Wii and Microsoft’s Xbox 360.

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune puts players on the trail of a hidden treasure of Sir Francis Drake, the 16th century English privateer. It is set in the modern day but crafted in the style of classic adventure movies–think Indiana Jones meets Tomb Raider meets Lost.

Its lush jungle settings and mix of brawling, shooting and exploration set it apart from other popular games this year that feature heavy military or alien-invasion themes.

“There are lots of sci-fi games that are very dark and brown and grey and sort of post-apocalyptic. We wanted to do something more lush and green and vibrant,” said Evan Wells, co-president of Naughty Dog, the Sony studio known for cartoony games like Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter.

“The goal was to create this pulp action adventure and make it very cinematic and make it feel like playing the lead role of a hero in a summer blockbuster,” Wells said.

Uncharted has an average rating of 89 on Metacritic.com, the highest of any exclusive game for the system along with Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, which came out last month.

“It is another solid addition to the library and I’m sure that for some folks that is something that would push them to buy a console this holiday,” said Billy Pidgeon, games analyst for market research firm IDC.

Super Mario Galaxy was released in the United States on November 12 while Uncharted comes out November 19.

Versiontracker PRO in today’s technology

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Recently, I’ve got an email from a friend of mine, saying there’s a program out there now that did what we wanted ages ago. Check our hard drives for any outdated programs, updates, hard wares, that needs updating. Well we found it here:
http://www.versiontracker.com/

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Do what I say, not what I do

Posted by multippt

Its sad to know that people have some sort of wacko theory to achieve something. Yet, they are missing something - proof! As with making anything, you need substantial proof. No, I’m not talking about the theory only, you need practical.

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