As we saw a few days ago, Facebook is on the way for the PS3. It’s looking pretty sweet and seems to be well intergrated into the XMB. Now all your friends will get innundated with notifications of what trophies you’ve just earnt, what games you’ve just bought off of PSN and soon developers will be able to incorporate certain game events into notifications too. Hopefully this will become a requirement for games now, unlike the likes of custom soundtracks and screen shot functions which are optional for developers. The way you view pictures is also changed to a view that will allow you to see multiple thumbnails in one go and the final part for 3.10 is that you can now change those horrible grey friend boxes! Hurrah!

Heres a handy little video for you all to see:

So heres hoping you’ll be letting all your friends know you got a load of kills in MAG sometime soon.

Source

Source: PlayStation.Blog – PlayStation 3 Firmware (v3.10) Update Preview [http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/11/playstation-3-firmware-v3-10-update/].

I’m sure the majority of PS3 users have a Facebook account so this combination seems like a no brainer. Especially after Xbox Live added Facebook support just yesterday. Firmware Update 3.10 also adds improved Photo viewing support and some new friends list options. You can check out the new features in a video preview, before they become available on Thursday.

Click to watch the video

Okay, pretend to be surprised if you want, but Facebook and PlayStation 3 are coming together, sort of. We saw the tiniest bit of teaser last week via leaked photo, and now we’ve got details and a release date. Users will have the option of sending status updates for PSN purchases and Trophies whenever the user syncs up the account to the PlayStation servers, and developers can now integrate automatic updates when certain game events occur, similar to what we saw with the recent Uncharted sequel. Unfortunately, some of the very basic functions you’d come to expect from Facebook apps, such as writing your own status updates, aren’t there yet. Hopefully we’ll be seeing more integration sooner rather than later, as the company’s noting this is just the beginning of the integration with the social network. The fun starts this Thursday with firmware 3.10, just one day after Xbox Live’s Facebook integration debuts (how very convenient, indeed). Also in the update? New photo navigation and PSN gamer card options.

Für das webOS von Palm für das Palm Pre wurde die neue Firmaware Version 1.3.1 bereit gestellt. vorerst nur für die CDMA-Variante, jedoch soll bis Ende November auch eine Variante für den deutschen Markt bereitgestellt werden.

Palm Pre webOS 1.3.1 Firmware Update

Palm webOS 1.3.1 Yahoo-Kompatibel

Wesentliches Feature dieses Updates ist die Einbindung von Yahoo in das Syngergy-Kontakt-Management-System des Palm webOS. Wie bei der Google-Integration können nun alle Daten wie Kalender-Einträge, Termine,  Kontake aus Yahoo-Mail und dem Yahoo-Messenger auf dem Palm Pre verarbeitet und genutzt werden. Woher diese Aktion rührt ist fraglich, da entsprechende Entwicklungskosten im Vergleich zur Bereitstellung einer Schnittstelle mit Facebook, Google und Outlook im Hinblick auf den Marktanteil bezogen eher hoch ist.

Palm webOS 1.3.1 nicht mehr mit i-Tunes kompatibel

das Update auf webOS 1.3.1 ist nicht mehr mit i-Tunes kompatibel. Wurde das Palm Pre bisher von Apple als iPod erkannt, so ist dies nun weggefallen. in den USA wurde dies durch die Bereitstellung der Zwischenstufe webOS 1.2 gecovert, allerdings wird dies nicht in Europa angeboten.

Shortcuts auf dem Palm Pre mit webOS 1.3.1

Eine sehr interessante neuerung stellen ebenfalls die Shortcuts dar, die nun nach dem Update im Mail-Client des Palm Pre funktionieren. Als wesentliche Funktionen seien hier das Markieren von Nachrichten als Ungelesen, das Weiterleiten von Nachrichten, das Weiterleiten von Instantmessages aus den diversen Messenger-Systemen auf dem Palm Pre genannt sowie die diese ebenfalls zu kopieren.

Stay tuned!

Disponible una nova actualització de firmware per les SONY ALPHA 230/330/380

Abans d’instal·lar-la llegiu bé la informació, i comproveu que és del model de la vostra càmara i el sistema operatiu del vostre ordinador.

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firmware per mac

My wife brought home “Drag Me to Hell” – a silly horror movie starring er well no one in particular except the stupid “Mac guy” from the TV ads. Bowl of popcorn in hand, beer sitting next to me, I’m ready to watch this flick. In goes the Blue Ray disk and after getting thru all the menus, pffffftttt…nuttin. WTF? I tried without any luck for about 20 minutes. Finally I noticed a little popup screen that  said something about “this might not work if you don’t have the latest player firmware”. Ugh – not good. Anyway enough of that for the night, I had “V” on the DVR so we watched that instead.

That popup got me thinking. Maybe I should update the player’s firmware. A couple of Google searches found this page:

http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/bd/download/bd80/bd80_na.html

Sweet – Panny’s got it going. Ok this looks easy. I follow the directions (I actually had to dig up a blank CD-R), get the CD in the drive restart the player and….ugh. Its not working. It gets about half-way thru, stops, and ejects the disk, and the screen just says “upd ing”. Oh nooo! I google…nuttin…I check the Panny site…no help. I try turning off the unit and back on again and it just wants a disk to eat. Well that’s just great. $200 down the crapper I’m thinking. Argh.

After a lot of searching I noticed several comments about ISO formats and re-burning the disk because of corruption, and eventually connecting the player to the  internet as the only possible way to get this to work, but no concrete solutions. The ISO comments seemed funny/odd to me  – all the instructions said was to decompress the firmware and burn it to a CD-R. The brain is going now – and sure enough they forget to tell you “as an ISO file!”. Duh. That’s an important detail to leave out.

So here’s the procedure I used.

1. Grab ImgBurn  – a great freeware CD burning package.
2. Take the downloaded .exe file and extract it to your hard drive
3. Startup ImgBurn and select the “Create Image file from files/folder”
4. Run the “write image file to disk” and select the image file you just created.
5. Stick that into the BD-80 player and follow the Panny instructions.

That worked – sweet – I had two beers after that to celebrate not destroying my player. 

The firmware really does improve the player too – and yes that movie magically worked after the update. Too bad it is a really stupid movie…the Mac guy survives unscathed which was a real disappointment.

This is old news but I intend to share it about how camera firmware upgrade can improve picture quality. Firmware actually is the software that running camera system, just like our computer requires operating system. Sometimes an error or defect can be fixed by upgrading to new firmware. It is common for DSLR because the system is complicated and users tend to discover new error that engineer never thought of. When there is a firmware upgrade we should thanks the manufacturer because their responsibility in correcting it. Of course they can just shut the door and release another better camera.

Here is Sony Alpha A700 picture comparison after firmware upgrade from v3 to v4. Left is v3 image and right is v4 image. It has improved the noise reduction logic and produce slightly cleaner image. These entire images are shot and applied low noise reduction from camera. I have to enlarge the picture up to 100% in order to find the minor changes. As a gear head sure I am happy about this improvement. The visible changes will be at ISO3200. But practically, how many will blow up my image to check every single details or compare the noise?

Image noise for me is less important because it is part of the digital sensor natural behavior. In old days anyone complain about ISO1600 film grainy? Many historical pictures were captured and still preserve until today. The picture is so harsh and lack of fine details but what is the matter? General photography is about capture moment and preserving memory.

First, for those that don’t know. Psystar is a company that sells “hackintoshes”, IE, pc boxes that run OS X. How is that possible, you say? Well, since Apple’s move to Intel hardware, the Mac is pretty much all typical hardware inside. Just like any Dell, HP, etc. Apple just writes their software to work on said hardware and well you have the latest and greatest multi-core Macs. Well, Psystar decided to sell boxes with OS X on it. Granted, some features were disabled. But some still bought them to save a few dollars. Well you get what you pay for.

Anyhow, Apple sued Psystar and just WON BIG TIME! Here’s an article from MacRumors:

Groklaw reports on the early outcome of the Apple vs. Psystar case from a report filed on Friday. According to the court documents, Apple’s motion for summary judgment on copyright infringement and DMCA violation is granted.

So that means damages ahead for Psystar on the copyright issues just decided on summary judgment, at a minimum. The court asked for briefs on that subject. In short, Psystar is toast. Psystar’s only hope now is Florida, and frankly I wouldn’t bet the house on that one. Judges notice if you were just found guilty of a similar cause of action in another state.

Psystar and Apple have been in legal battle after Psystar began selling Mac clones back in April. Psystar provided modified versions of Mac OS X to run on their generic PC hardware, opening the door for lower-cost Mac clones. Psystar’s efforts generated a massive amount of attention and Apple eventually filed suit in July citing copyright violations.

This judgement appears to end Psystar as a business despite continued efforts to establish a legitimate business on generic Mac OS X computers.

So I see someone searching for “t-chl7dauc” which looks like a firmware search as the U.S. version is “T-CHE6AUSC”. At least my B650 is, maybe “T-CH(lang)(vers)????” the mystery continues.

Anyway, you might check samsungs site and select your language, then search for your model and see about a firmware update or what ever it is you are looking for.

Good luck!

” ixtreme LT is coming along nicely … does not care about waves”

This was the latest quote from Commodore4eva – the man behind all previous, and the latest iXtreme Firmwares. Judging by that quote, the new firmware will support all waves, current and future! I’ll keep you posted!

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Finally, Microsoft is starting to access that noggin. Firmware update 4.3 was released for the Zune HD a couple of days ago and on Wednesday some 3D games popped up on the Microsoft Marketplace (MS’s iTunes Store). They’re all free, but feature a tiny ad before the game loads. Most impressive appear to be Audiosurf (a music rhythm game) and PGR: Ferrari Edition.

The Tegra GPU inside the Zune HD powers the HD video, so in theory it should also allow for beautiful games that rival graphics on a PSP.

According to Nilay Patel over at Engadget, PGR: Ferrari Challenge looks as good as the visuals on a PSP game. It’s funny how he doesn’t make any comparisons to FerrariGT or Real Racing on the iPhone/iPod touch. Control-wise, the accelerometer does most of the job for PGR.

This is all so exciting. Maybe I might mosey on over to the new Best Buy and see if they have these on the demo units, and finally get to manhandle a Zune HD.

Engadget

A Apple liberou hoje, sem barulho algum, uma atualização para o firmware dos novos iPods Nano 5G. E nem há tanto motivo, já que a versão 1.0.2 vem apenas para corrigir alguns bugs. Confira:

• Controles de reprodução de músicas (mais rápido, mais devagar etc.) também disponíveis para os podcasts;
• Resolução do problema que o Genius Mixes estava enfrentando quando usado combinado com o acessório Nike+;
• Função Mono consertada;
• Corrigido problema do VoiceOver, que pulava quando os botões de volume eram utilizados.

É, não é muita coisa, mas é sempre bom manter-se atualizado. Se você tem um iPod Nano 5G, pode baixar a atualização direto do iTunes. Ela irá aparecer como opção assim que você plugar seu player.

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The white-on-blue screen that shipped with the #twatch really requires the backlight to be visible. Here’s an updated firmware that has the backlight on at power-up. The new firmware is loaded over the network using tools already available in most operating systems, Windows instructions here.

We apologize for the lack of refinement. We prototyped with a cheap grey-on-green screen that didn’t normally require the backlight. The firmware posted to the Google Code project page went into the Seeed #twatches unmodified to ensure that yours matched the original. Everyone would probably have preferred that the #twatch ship with the backlight enabled by default.

In the next update we’ll tweak the refresh rate and scrolling speed. Do you have any other specific requests for the standard #twatch firmware?

Image by andrewholmes.

Leaked images of the next PS3 firmware all over the internet. This time, this “rumored” firmware is to have facebook integration. It’s sorta not hard to believe that the PS3 will have this on there firmware as the Xbox 360 has Facebook and Twitter integration.

Some people don’t understand we can just use the PS3’s web browser to use facebook and twitter, and even more. I would find it pointless for these “rumored” facebook integration, since we can already do it on the web browser.

An update from the main himself in the #fw channel tonight, regarding the new “Lite Touch” firmware, suggests that all is going well:

<+c4eva> work is continuing, there is light at the end of the tunnel

I will keep this blog updated with information about the new firmware as it is made public.

Regards

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By Jonathan Fildes
Technology reporter, BBC News

Modern Warfare 2 on shop shelves
The ban may have been timed for the release of Modern Warfare 2

Thousands of Xbox 360 owners who have been cut off from Microsoft’s Xbox Live service will have to buy a new console if they want to play online again.

Microsoft told BBC News that banned machines will be permanently barred and “unable to connect to Xbox Live”.

A message displayed on affected consoles said there was “no recourse for terms of use violations”.

Microsoft has barred as many as 1m gamers from Xbox live for modifying their consoles to play pirated games.

“Users of banned Xbox consoles can recover their profile to another, unmodified Xbox 360 console to resume their Live service,” the firm told BBC News.

“The banned console will be unable to connect to Xbox Live.”

However, modified consoles will still work offline.

‘No recourse’

Microsoft said barring gamers was part of an ongoing drive to curb piracy.

But a statement from them suggests this latest wave was timed to prevent people from playing pirated versions of the widely-anticipated Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

We believe that even one modified console on the system is one too many
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“We can assure you that if an Xbox Live member follows the Xbox Live terms of use, purchased a retail copy of Modern Warfare 2 and played the game on an unmodified Xbox 360, no action will be taken,” the firm said.

Microsoft said that it had banned a “small percentage” of the 20 million Xbox Live users worldwide.

Many gamers modify their consoles by installing new chips or software that allows them to run unofficial – but not always illegal – programs and games.

Close-up of Xbox 360 Elite, Microsoft

Xbox gamer on being cut off
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Some BBC News website readers claimed that they had “modded” their consoles to allow them to make back-ups of games that they had already bought.

“Discs are very fragile things and some users like to have their games backed up,” said Donald Glass of Aberdeen.

“After all you will have paid £40 for a new disc. It is my opinion that once you buy a disc you should be allowed to do whatever you want with the media as long as you do not break copyright laws.”

Microsoft has not said how it was able to determine which gamers to disconnect.

“We do not reveal specifics, but can say that all consoles have been verified to have violated the terms of use,” the firm said in a statement.

It said that gamers who had been barred were using their modified consoles to “play illegally pirated games”.

“We believe that even one modified console on the system is one too many”.

Industry figures suggest that piracy may cost the video game industry as much as £750m a year.

Reports have speculated that new “mods” could soon be on the market that allow gamers to get round the blocks.

HyperWRT
Hyperwrt é um firmware para poder aumentar o roteador Linksys WRT54G e WRT54GS. Hyperwrt acrescenta mais recursos e melhora a performace do seu roteador com definições configuráveis. O objetivo deste projeto é adicionar um conjunto limitado de recursos para o firmware Linksys, ampliando suas possibilidades, mas vai ficar perto do firmware oficial. Hyperwrt é baseado em firmware Linksys e adiciona as seguintes funcionalidades: *ajuste de potência e da antena. * 13 Wireless Channels. *Protecção Boot Wait’ flash. *Aumento Port Forwarding & Campos Triggering. *Aumento Qos Device Application & Campos. *Aumento Políticas de Restrições de Acesso de Serviços e bloqueadores. * Command Shell. * Telnet Daemon. *Startup Firewall & Scripts. *E muito mais.

Intel PRO/Wireless 2100/2200BG/2915ABG native drivers for *BSD
Este projecto visa suportar adaptadores de rede sem fio Intel PRO/2100/2200BG/2915ABG (principais componentes da tecnologia Intel Centrino) em BSD. Os drivers são distribuídos sob os termos da licença BSD. É um trabalho em progresso. Você deve ter notado que os controladores de Linux desenvolvida pela Intel estão sob GPL e o IPW e drivers iwi não são. A IPW e drivers iwi portas não são dos controladores de Linux, mas são completos re-escrito (a partir do zero). Absolutamente nenhum código foi retirada da Intel que não suporta nem oficialmente nem extra-oficialmente esses drivers de alguma forma.

LinkFerret
LinkFerret produto de rede de vigilância para LAN sem fio e topologias, para fornecê-lo com um conjunto abrangente de utilitários de monitoramento e sniffers para capturar, análise estatística e decodificação de protocolo. O monitor da rede LinkFerret é um Windows completo e confiável baseada em solução de monitoramento disponível a um preço verdadeiramente acessível. LinkFerret Ethernet suporta tanto 802.11. Atualiza todos, os exibe estatísticas, bem como a breve decodificar em tempo real. LinkFerret capta e exibe o tráfego de rede no nível MAC. Você vê frames 802.11 reais, não apenas os dados depois de ter sido filtrada através de uma emulação Ethernet. Ela compreende vários formatos, tanto na entrada e saída. Os arquivos de rastreamento são lidos e gravados em vários formatos populares, e os relatórios são criados em vários formatos convenientes, incluindo HTML, CSV, texto e bitmap. LinkFerret fornece um rico conjunto de filtros que permitem apenas o que você está interessado dentro Opções incluem filtro por MAC ou endereço IP, por protocolo, e por uma string hexa. Ele suporta múltiplos condições de alarme cada um dos quais pode ter a sua própria ação de scripts.

Linux WPA/WPA2/IEEE 802.1X Supplicant
wpa_supplicant é um suplicante WPA para Linux, BSD e Windows com suporte para WPA e WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i/RSN). Suplicante é o  componente IEEE 802.1x/WPA que é utilizado nas estações cliente. Ele implementa negociação chave com um Autenticador WPA, e controla o roaming e IEEE 802.11 autenticação/associação do driver de WLAN. wpa_supplicant é projetado para ser um “daemon” programa que é executado em segundo plano e age como o componente backend controlar a conexão sem fio. wpa_supplicant apóia programas frontend separado e um texto de exemplo-frontend baseado, wpa_cli, está incluído com o wpa_supplicant.

linux-wlan
O pacote linux-wlan é um driver de dispositivo Linux e pacotes de subsistema que se destina a fornecer toda a gama de capacidades de gestão de IEEE 802.11 MAC para uso em utilitários do modo usuário e scripts. O pacote atualmente suporta os Prism2 802.11b Intersil, prism2.5 e de referência Prism3 para PCMCIA, PCI e USB. Além disso, o pacote inclui suporte para PLX9052 PCI para placa PCMCIA com um pouco e diferentes cartões PCMCIA.

Madwifi (Multiband Atheros Driver for WiFi)
Este projeto prevê um driver do kernel do Linux para dispositivos baseados Atheros Wireless LAN. O driver funciona de tal forma que seu cartão de WLAN aparecerá como interface de rede normal no sistema. Além disso, há suporte para as extensões Wireless API. Isso permite que você configurar o dispositivo usando as ferramentas habituais (ifconfig, iwconfig). Algumas das características são: *Permite a operação como estação, AP, ad-hoc, monitor. WDS é um trabalho em progresso; Supports wireless extensions API; *Um driver para dispositivos miniPCI e CardBus. Dispositivos USB ainda não são suportadas; *A maioria dos atuais chipsets Atheros WLAN são suportados; *Suporta WEP e WPA/802.11i; *Suporte para autenticação 802.1x em modo AP.

Net::MAC::Vendor
O Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) atribui Organizational Unique Identifier (OUI) para os fabricantes de interfaces de rede. Cada interface tem um Media Access Control (MAC) de seis bytes. Os três primeiros bytes são o OUI. Este módulo perl permite-lhe ter um endereço MAC e transformá-la na OUI e informações do fornecedor. Você pode, por exemplo, a verificação de uma rede, coletar endereços MAC, e transformá-los em fornecedores. Com informações do fornecedor, muitas vezes você pode adivinhar o que você está olhando (por exemplo, um produto da Apple). Você pode usar isso como um módulo como suas funções individuais, ou chamá-lo como um script com uma lista de endereços MAC como argumentos. O módulo pode descobrir. Este módulo tenta um cache com DBM Deep informações da OUI para que possa evitar o uso da rede. Se ele não pode carregar DBM Deep, ele usa um hash normal (que é perdido quando termina o processo). Você pode pré-carregar esta cache com a função load_cach(). Até agora, o módulo procura no diretório de trabalho atual para um arquivo chamado mac_oui.db para encontrar a cache. O autor trabalha em uma forma de permitir que o usuário defina a localização.