Drake: Trophies
If you are chasing your PS3 trophies you will be delighted to know that if you play Drake on Hard you will be able to collect 3 trophies (for completing the game on Easy, Normal and Hard) at once. Contrary...
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PS3: Trophy whore
Ever since the release of the 2.40 PlayStation 3 firmware, PS3 gamers everywhere have been clamoring for titles beyond Super Stardust HD to earn Trophies in. While a slew of new titles coming later this year will offer support for...
How to hack your Belkin router
It innocently (like many cool things) started off with the replacement of my current modem router with a Belkin N1 Vision gigabit router: I would have gone with a Airport Extreme base-station instead, but the local Apple stores have been...
iPhone 3G: Sheit – it’s broked
So you got yourself one of those beautiful new 3G iPhones like the one below: BUT…. WTF???? Yeah, no photoshopping this one. If you head over to the official Apple iPhone forum you will notice dozens of posts like this...
DSTV – High-definition – WTF?
DStv operator MultiChoice announced at a press-release last week, that they will (finally) launch O-N-E high-definition channel on August 1. The channel, which will be available in a resolution of 720p, will be used to broadcast the Olympic Games from...
NAS: Enable SCP and password-less SSH login
DISCLAIMER: I am not going to educate about the risk of doing this with your root userid. This works for me, as I am behind a secure network. Once you have followed the instructions below, you will be able to...
Streaming 5.1 surround sound to PS3
Update (2008-12-23): I have discovered an alternative to the method below, which works equally well (although not as fast as the DVD is ripped and re-encoded) – details are posted here. Wow – it has taken me nearly 8 weeks...
OS X: Time Machine backups
I have been running Time Machine backups as described in my tutorial for more than a week. In the Apple forums there have been discussions that the above method does not work. However: Backups via Time Machine to a NAS...
NAS: Avoid data corruption from power failures
So I got this 1 terabyte beauty of network storage where I can stream high-definition video onto my TV (at a gorgeous 5MB/sec videorate) and suffered on the weekend the first power-outage. Although it was a self-induced incident (lesson learned:...
OS X: Garmin Bobcat beta 2.0.0.8 released
Get it from here. Fixes include: Added finding partial street names to Find Address Updated city search to work for ‘City, State’ queries Fixed issue where some route calculations could hang interminably Fixed ‘Displaying results within…’ string not updating for...
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