Sony PS3 OS 3.0 Update First Impressions

September 2, 2009 ub3rg33k

Well, if you’ve got a PS3, and turned it on in the last 24 hours you will be greeted by the happy “Dude…there’s a software update, you know what to do…”..message. What do you get I hear you say, well let me tell you. The first thing I noticed was the new startup screen with the PS3 logo…looks kinda cool, and then was met by the “sparkly” new theme…looks kinda cool. In the top right hand corner of the desktop you get your icon, number of friends online, date and time (digital and analogue ?) Each time you start up … Continue reading Sony PS3 OS 3.0 Update First Impressions

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Broken my iPod Touch again

July 21, 2009 ub3rg33k

Well another week goes by, and I break something else. This week it’s my iPod Touch again. Over the past couple of days, it’s just been hanging and I’ve had to manually restart it a number of time, however tonight it finally broke…big time ! While syncing my podcasts this evening, it flash on and off a few time, and then all I got was the Apple logo…and this is how it stayed for about half an hour…oops. So, as I’ve locked up my iPod before, I knew that if it locks up, all I need to do it hold … Continue reading Broken my iPod Touch again

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PS3 Hard Drive Upgrade

July 20, 2009 ub3rg33k

Around Christmas time I bought a Sony PS3, with a 40Gb hard drive, feeling this would be more that sufficient. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve found myself having to delete demo, audio and video file, just so I can install games. Last weekend I bought Ghostbusters (blog coming soon), but was unable to play the game as it insisted on installing content to the hard drive before I could play, so time for an upgrade. I browsed the web and found a pretty cheap “Western Digital 500GB 2.5″ Hard Drive SATAII 5400rpm 8MB Cache – OEM Scorpio Blue” … Continue reading PS3 Hard Drive Upgrade

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Wolverine finally beat

July 20, 2009 ub3rg33k

About 2 months ago I downloaded the demo of Wolverine on my PS3, and loved it !, However with not seeing the film, I wasn’t willing to buy the full game in case of spoilers. About a month ago, I finally got my butt into gear and and went to the cinema, and say Wolverine…which was an ok film. About 3 weeks ago, I was in my local Tesco’s and noticed that it was available on the Xbox 360 for £25 !…Bargain. Luckily I have both consoles so bought it. How is it ?…It’s fantastic !, I read many reviews, … Continue reading Wolverine finally beat

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Tallinn Stag Do, the journey there

July 13, 2009 ub3rg33k

The plan My bro (The groom), leaves sunny Huddersfield at 2am on Wednesday 8th July 2009, picks me up around 3.30am, then picks up another guy from Watford Gap services, then down the M1, round the M25, up the M11, to Stanstead airport for around 5.30am ish, meet the other 4 in the other car, check in, have a few bevies, fly at 7.40am, and land in Tallinn around midday (+2 hours time difference), drink some more beers, goto the Beer Festival, see Moby, have a good time ! What actually happened We did well, we got to the airport, … Continue reading Tallinn Stag Do, the journey there

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iPod Touch OS3.0 First Impressions

June 17, 2009 ub3rg33k

Ok, I’m a little sad, ever since the WWDC I’ve been counting down the days until the version 3.0 software for my iPod Touch. Today as most of you are aware is d-day. I’ve spent the day checking the net to see if it’s out, but to no avail. 5.30pm came, I got myself home in record time, sync my iPod, hit Refresh of the update page….and got the, the latest firmware is 2.2.1…Booo ! Had a quick look on twitter, and and there was a tweet from TrekkyGeek to suggest the firmware wouldn’t be out till around 9pm. Great … Continue reading iPod Touch OS3.0 First Impressions

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ScutterCast

March 22, 2009 ub3rg33k

Apologies for no posts for a while, however I’ve been mad busy on one of my other projects. About a month ago, myself and a couple of my resident posters over at Red Dwarf Forum decided it was time to do a Red Dwarf based podcast. We’ve been discussing who will do it, what we’ll talk about for a while, and last Monday we recorded the first episode. The podcast itself took about 5/6 hours to edit together, which for me was quite good, as I’m still quite new to all this podcasting stuff. Below is the software I’ve used … Continue reading ScutterCast

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Halo 3 Finally beat !

February 3, 2009 ub3rg33k

As some of you may know, back in October I got a Xbox 360 Elite for my birthday, with Halo 3. Now before I could play Halo 3, I had to complete Halo 2 on the PC, as I’d done the first, but needed complete the play and complete the 2nd, to fill in the story arc. The 2nd problem I had was that I’ve been a PC gamer for a long as I can remember, and playing a FPS (First Person Shooter) with a controller, it’s just not natural. Over Christmas I spent a fair amount of time playing … Continue reading Halo 3 Finally beat !

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Acer Aspire Easystore 2TB NAS drive

January 15, 2009 ub3rg33k

I’ve added to my toy collection, I’ve bought (as the title would suggest) a new NAS Drive. I’ve has for the pass couple of years a 500Gb Western Digital MyBookWorld, which as ….well ok, well, slow, unstable, and over heats all the time. I had quite a manual process to back this up too, I had to keep a machine on all the time, to run a scheduled task, to sync all the contents on the NAS drive to an external 500Gb hard drive, this was effective, however kind of overkill for a simple backup solution. btw, the reason I’m … Continue reading Acer Aspire Easystore 2TB NAS drive

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Apple day ! Hurray !

January 9, 2009 ub3rg33k

Well, as planned, we went to the Apple store in Leicester after work today. If you’ve never been to an Apple store before, then I can highly recommend it. If you asked me to describe what heaven looked like, it would be an Apple store. We walked though the …… looking for the store as we’ve never venture to …. before. Walked through the carpark, through John Lewis (the store, not a person, LOL)….saw next, new look and the I saw it, no words outside the shop, just a huge 10 foot illuminated apple logo above the door. I swear, … Continue reading Apple day ! Hurray !