Archive for 'Tech'

PC gaming made easy?

October 15th, 2007 – 7:25 pm Posted by: Colin
Filed as: Games, Tech

It’s time the industry got its act together and made hardware more than a bunch of meaningless numbers… By creating one meaningless number to help us figure out what game will run on our PC.
Why are we not all throwing out our PCs, ditching them in a mix of despair and exaltation as we let [...]

Australia software pirate extradited to the US

May 8th, 2007 – 12:30 am Posted by: Liam
Filed as: Tech

Australian Hew Griffiths is facing up to ten years in a United States prison for pirating, cracking and distributing American owned software. The US authorities are boasting this as a big triumph as it is one of the first extraditions for intellectual property crime.

NSW Chief Judge in Equity, Peter Young had this to say [...]

Daily dose of Gates

February 1st, 2007 – 5:33 am Posted by: Liam
Filed as: Tech

Super software tycoon and Chairman of Microsoft, Bill Gates, was recently a guest on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart to discuss and promote the new edition of the Windows operating system, Windows Vista.
Bill Gates on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart:

Revision 3 v2.0

September 28th, 2006 – 7:50 pm Posted by: Liam
Filed as: Movies, Tech

One of the lead companies in the online television scene is Revision3. Revision3 was formed in Los Angeles, California by Jay Adelson, Kevin Rose, Dan Huard, Keith Harrison and Ron Gorodetzky in April, 2005. Kevin and Dan bringing the original source of viewers as the both used to appear on the cable channel TechTV (also [...]

Mod chips soon to be illegal in Australia

September 14th, 2006 – 11:25 pm Posted by: Liam
Filed as: Games, Tech

New laws starting on 1st of January 2007 will make it illegal to sell or own a modded videogame console. Owners are susceptible to a $6600 fine, and those that distribute, sell or install mod chips or modded consoles can be hit with a $60,500 fine and/or up to five years in jail.
Minter Ellison law [...]

Xbox 360 Laptop.

September 12th, 2006 – 12:24 am Posted by: Liam
Filed as: Games, Tech

The net famous and talented modder Ben Heckendorn has released pictures and video of his latest masterpiece, The Xbox 360 Laptop (If his site is still down here is a mirror).
Ben has made many a great mod in his time but this has got to be up near the top, I would (if I had [...]