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Month: December, 2007

How I spent the Christmas Holiday - Modding My PS3

26 December, 2007 (12:59) | Computers, Fun, Hacks, Projects | No comments

One of the cool features of the PS3 is that it is a serious computing device and Sony provided the option to easily upgrade its hard drive as well as install an alternate OS. So I did both.
By far, the easiest HDD upgrade known to man (presently). Simply remove a panel and a [...]

My new PS3 - Go! Go! Blu-Ray!

24 December, 2007 (23:00) | Computers, Fun, HDTV, TV, rant | No comments

Today I made the plunge and finally got off the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray format fence and bought a PS3 system.
There were several reasons for this; first I did NOT buy it because I love Blu-Ray. I like that it has multiple studio and vendor support as well as about 25GB storage per layer, but the hardware [...]

Modding tech is like a lame drug deal

17 December, 2007 (15:14) | Fun, Hacks, Projects | No comments

I heard a story about a guy, not me mind you, that wanted to mod his PSP to a “homebrew” firmware which would allow him to run far more software than the lame games that were made solely for the platform. We’ll call this dashing and daring fellow “Mr. X” - kinda like Racer [...]