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dare — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:49:41 +0000

PSP 2 on the works

dare — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:04:25 +0000

Imagination Technologies Group announced that a big company has signed a licence agreement with it. From the behind the scene stories that big company is Sony and the task is making the PSP 2 better than all the handheld consoles that are in the market. For This they will use a new GPU system namely a SGX55x graphics chip will be implemented in the new PSP. The chip is still under th works but we know the specification of the current standings. In comparison to the PSP this is what they have to implement.

PSP GPU Specifications:

166 mhz core speed

2 MB VRAM

Up to 33 million polygons per second

664 million pixels per second (fill rate)

PowerVR SGX530 Specifications:

200 MHz Core Speed

13.5 million polygons per second

1200 million pixels per second (fill rate)

DirectX 9 Shader Model 3 support / OpenGL 2.0

128-bit color precision

Multi-sampling and anti-aliasing

I’ll hope thats not the final state of the chip and they will make it better, because PSP just have to be the best portable console.

PSP Costum frimware 5.00

dare — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:15:32 +0000

The official firmware was launched 24 hours ago and we have the costum firware of it by the team M33 lead by Dark-Alex. No changelog yet, but the popsloader doesn’t work. The only change stated in the forum is, “Bug fix: when changing speed in xmb, and the psp turned the brightness to 0 automatically the speed was reseted to 222 again.” The update for the popsloader will be released shortly.

You can download the CFW 5.00 M33 here.

Nice job guys.

Site down

dare — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:19:58 +0000

Sorry folks!
The site was brought down by the hurricane in Ohio.
The servers of my host were damaged by it so I couldn’t keep the site up.
Everything is back online, so you can enjoy it as before.

HTTP Error 400 on tracker

dare — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:18:31 +0000

I presume that you are using the latest version of Utorrent. The problem usually appears in the 1.8.x versions, the program gets in conflict with the old version of Nod32 ( versions 2.x), more exactly with the IMON service. So if you want to get rid of the error then disable the service or put uTorrent on the exclusion list.

To do this bring up the Nod32 application.

There select IMON and go to Settings.

On the top tabs select the last one.

Click on exeptions.

Add the uTorrent.exe.

Done.

If you still have this problem then try this too :

1. Open ESET Smart Security by clicking the icon in your Windows system tray.

2. Enter the Advanced setup tree (press F5).

3. Navigate to Personal firewall. In the right, change Filtering mode to Interactive mode.

4. Go to Personal firewall > Rules and zones. In the right (at the Trusted zone part) click Setup and choose “Allow sharing”.

5. Navigate to Personal firewall > IDS and Advanced options. Make sure all services are allowed.

6. Confirm with OK.

Starcraft 2 delayed

dare — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:48:35 +0000

StarCraft 2 continues the epic saga of the Protoss, Terran, and Zerg. These three distinct and powerful races will clash once again in the fast-paced real-time strategy sequel to the legendary original, StarCraft. Legions of veteran, upgraded, and brand-new unit types will do battle across the galaxy, as each faction struggles for survival.

Featuring a unique single-player campaign that picks up where StarCraft: Brood War left off, StarCraft II will present a cast of new heroes and familiar faces in an edgy sci-fi story filled with adventure and intrigue. In addition, Blizzard will again offer unparalleled online play through Battle.net, the company’s world-renowned gaming service, with several enhancements and new features to make StarCraft II the ultimate competitive real-time strategy game.

Fast-paced, hard-hitting, tightly balanced competitive real-time strategy gameplay that recaptures and improves on the magic of the original game
Three completely distinct races: Protoss, Terran, and Zerg
New units and gameplay mechanics further distinguish each race
Groundbreaking single-player “story-mode” campaign
Vibrant new 3D-graphics engine with support for dazzling visual effects and massive unit and army sizes
Full multiplayer support, with new competitive features and matchmaking utilities available through Battle.net
Full map-making and scripting tools to give players incredible freedom in customizing and personalizing their gameplay experience

These feature are ready to go said Rob Pardo - Vice president of Blizzard Entartainment -, but they will wait till the end of the year to perfect the features above. So the hit strategy is only comming out at the end of the year.

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Update check for Yahoo Messenger

dare — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:20:34 +0000

Yahoo has brought out the new messenger Yahoo Messenger 9.0 BETA. Thats cool and everything, personally I don’t like the new look, but I’ll go with the flow. The problem is something else.

Did you ever check that you got the newest version of the messenger?

Here is the time go to Yahoo messenger –> Help –> Check for updates

Guess what, you got the latest version. But are you sure Yahoo checked it?

You’ll probably have a link like this http://messenger.yahoo.com/updates?intl=us&os=win&ver=9.0.0.1389

Change it to http://messenger.yahoo.com/updates?intl=us&os=win&ver=1035453.453.453 or what ever you want it will say that you have the latest version, no mater what you write after the ‘ver=’. This goes if you set a number higher than 8.

Shame on Yahoo. Eastereggs are all over the place :-).

Steam got extras

dare — Sat, 31 May 2008 12:55:56 +0000

The popular Steam is going to release some new enhancements to their application. They are storing all you purchased games that you can access from any PC, now when the update comes out they will store you profile preferences and your save games too.

Got your attention ?! This is just the beginning. Steam Cloud, is the name of the service, is going to back up all your data. Further more they will bring you localized currency for any purchase, driver auto updaters and a very big official communities.

PSP Mega Battery Pack X5 review

dare — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:17:28 +0000

There’s been a while since the Mega Battery Pack X5 got released, but I haven’t seen a decent review since then. All the other reviews talk about how big it is and nothing about functionality .
Well I bought one for myself, it doesn’t cost much only 10.90 $. So the price is pretty low on this product compared to the other battery’s. This caught my attention, but I still bought it.

When it arrived the case was bogus too, ass you can see it in the image below, not very professional. Got the battery out of the case. It looked big, my measurements are 5 x 3,5 x 2 cm. When I installed the battery in, it was a bit unnatural, after some time I didn’t even notice. The size isn’t that big if it really stays online as much as the brochure says.

After 3 total depletion of the battery I stated that it holds 8-9 hours playing. On stand by probably more like twice as much, still not what the brochure said.

So for 10.9 dollars I got a battery with a normal life. For this money I think it is good value. Low price = Low performance. It comes handy when I got to trips or travel.

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Windows Service Pack 3 schedule

dare — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:05:42 +0000

The long lost Windows Service Pack 3 is found! The most stable Microsoft OS product has got a time-line update for the next big patch (probably the last one). The delay might been caused by Vista not selling pretty well, but after a few months and after releasing Service Pack 1 for Vista, Microsoft realised that Windows Xp will remain a better choice than Vista for most users with average computers. As Bill Gates stated in the near future we will have a new Windows, so we can wait with XP until it appears.

So the final build for the Service pack 3 is 5512.

Windows XP SP3 - detailed by channel schedule

Channel / Release Vector

Planned dates (US)

RTM (release to manufacturing)

Apr-21

OEM Channel

Apr-21

Windows Update

Apr-29

Download Centre

Apr-29

MSDN/Technet Download

May-02

Windows XP SP3 Fulfillment Media

May-19

VL Customers via download

Jun-01

Automatic Updates

Jun-10

This information is obtained form WinBeta.org