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Pioneer’s VSX-1020-K Is Best $550 AV Receiver and Not Only Because You Control It Via iPhone [Home Theater]
Mar 4th
This week Pioneer introduced five new receivers, from $230 to $750. All have HDMI 1.4 switching for 3D, and all have Pro Logic IIz surround. But one model stands out, the $550 VSX-1020-K, a worthy successor to
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Closed vs. Open, Control vs. Chaos — What’s Best for Apple, the iPhone and iPad?
Feb 13th
Yesterday at Macworld two events helped clarify something I’ve been discussing with Dieter for a while now — Apple, the iPhone and iPad, and closed vs. open systems, control vs. chaos. These tow events were a presentation by John Gruber of Read more ...
Logitech Wireless Desktop MK710 Has Near-Undead Three Year Battery Life [Desktop]
Feb 10th
Both the keyboard and mouse of the Logitech
Wireless Desktop MK710 purportedly get a ridiculously hearty three years of battery life. Between that and its concave keyboard: that’s some weird voodoo, Logitech.
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PS3 Exploit: Hardware
Feb 7th
News via
http://xorloser.com/?p=175
This post will deal with the hardware required to trigger the PS3 hypervisor memory access exploit. The purpose of the hardware is to stop the PS3 from saving a change to a value that we don’t want changed. The PS3 saves this changed value by writing the value to RAM. Therefore in order to stop it from saving the changed value we need to stop this write from occurring.
The PS3 sends the write command to the RAM over some control lines, so we interfere with these control lines when the write command is sent. The result we want is having the PS3 think it has successfully written the Read more ...
What’s Happened To Nintendo’s "New Play Control"?
Feb 2nd
When first announced, Nintendo’s line of “New Play Control” games seemed like a great idea. Repackage games from the criminally unloved GameCube, then sell them onto a massive audience that missed them first time around. So what’s happened?
It’s been over a year since the first “New Play Control” title was released in Japan, and since then, only a handful of games have been “updated” for the Wii with new features like Wii Remote compatibility and 16:9 visuals. And not many of them are any good.
So come on, Nintendo. Where are the rest? There are dozens of titles released on the GameCube that are due a second lease on life. Titles like these.
We’ve gone ahead and made a selection of some of the games Read more ...
