Extra-Life.org

I have signed up to help ‘Children’s miracle network hospitals’ make a difference to sick children all over the world. For my location this is done in partnership with the NHS. On the 15th October from 9am I will be participating in a 24hr gaming marathon. I would be very grateful if you can help me in this task by donating/sponsoring [...]

Eight – Browser Start Page

Eight was created by flatmo1 from deviantART, it is a very stylish home page replacement inspired by Windows 8 screenshots. It can be customised to any webpage you want with an easy to modify source page to change the panels to desired web pages. I have this currently running on Chrome on my mac and makes [...]

Dear BT/Virgin…

… Please can you get this to my house sometime in the near future! 26 Terabits/s Fibre - (BBC News) “Already a 100 terabits per second experiment has been demonstrated,”  

How to root a bootloader unlocked Xperia Play on OSX

I have been meaning to post this for a while, as things work a little differently on OS X to the usual tutorials given. Here is the variation I had to use on OS X. Bin4ry over at XDA-developers sorted out the root of the Xperia Arc and Play (over a week ago now) and has [...]

PSN update from Sony

Sony have issued an update on the ongoing issue with PSN after the attack on their network. The European Playstation blog gives a little more detail and a FAQ page. So it would seem those hackers who only want to hurt Sony and not any of its users have well not only hurt the users [...]

Sony Ericsson Bootloader Unlock Via OSX

After promising to offer the tools to unlock the bootloader of new Xperia devices, Sony Ericsson finally released a page on their developer site to do just that. You need to have a ‘Generic/SIM free’ handset to do this, obviously Sony Ericsson didn’t want to fall out with networks who customise and lock their handsets down. When [...]

Some Cool Game-Based Movie Trailers

Some Cool Game-Based Movie Trailers. via PS3Blog.net I’ve played a few of the games made into movie trailers here by youtube user ‘bloodrunsclear’ The Saboteur trailer is pretty good – i’m currently playing this game, although old-ish its really well made and i’m really enjoying playing it. the trailer gives a good representation of the [...]

Red Dead Redemption Trophy “Dastardly”

I have been playing through the story mode on RDR since I had it and haven’t tried any of the ‘games’ such as Poker, Black Jack etc nor have I attempted any of the trophies that require you to do things which are not following the story. I had a game update when I started [...]

Jony Ive hasn’t changed his shirt in a decade (via teqnolog)

If you look closely at the intro videos Apple plays whenever it launches a new product, you’ll notice a few constants. One: Apple’s design guru, Jonathan Ive, is in every single video. Two: Ive hasn’t changed his shirt since 1997 when the original iMac launched. Also, Cheryl Vedoe marks the only intro reel appearance by [...]

Playstation

If you have read my first ever blog post you may recall I stated that I had a Xbox360, well that was the case until February this year (2010) Although I had many friends and family members who used the Xbox360 and Live subscription I sold up and went for a playstation. I did this [...]