opera mobile abandons yahoo
February 28, 2008
Opera announced that it has made Google the default search engine for its mobile browsers, Opera Mobile and Opera Mini. From now on, mobile users that work with Opera can access Google’s search engine directly from the browser’s start page, for a quick and easy way to get the information they need.
free 50gb online storage
February 27, 2008
ADrive LLC (ADrive.com) leads the free online data storage community, offering the largest amount of free storage on the Internet. We provide our users with secure solutions for storing, backing up, and accessing files from virtually anywhere, at any time. ADrive serves as an online, centralized vault for all file types including: music, videos, photos, documents, and more.
the software awards scam
February 27, 2008
I put out a new product a couple of weeks ago. This new product has so far won 16 different awards and recommendations from software download sites. Some of them even emailed me messages of encouragement such as “Great job, we’re really impressed!”. I should be delighted at this recognition of the quality of my software, except that the ’software’ doesn’t even run. This is hardly surprising when you consider that it is just a text file with the words “this program does nothing at all” repeated a few times and then renamed as an .exe. The PAD file that described the software contains the description “This program does nothing at all”. The screenshot I submitted (below) was similarly blunt and to the point:
g-spot debate settled
February 22, 2008
This new research could revolutionize the life in your bedroom. The British weekly New Scientist has made a report on a new research published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine,
showing that the German gynecologist Ernst Graefenberg, in whose honor the G spot is named, might have been right six decades ago.
dax timemachine 0.1 released!
February 17, 2008
from the readme
TimeMachine 0.1
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The Timemachine is a program to load previous firmwares and custom firmwares from memory stick using pandora. Like devhook, but working throgh pandora and custom ipl’s, it would work even if the flash and nand ipl of the machine is destroyed. The timemachine is useful to run software that is not supported anymore, and also as a way of booting psp’s even if the internal firmware is destroyed. It can also be useful for developers to test their homebrew in different firmwares.
3.71 fatmsmod in 3.80/3.90m33
February 15, 2008
The purpose of this patch is to load the fat memory stick driver of 3.71 in 3.80/3.90 to make memory stick reading work better.
Instructions:
- Using psardumper get fatmsmod.prx from 3.71. It doesn’t matter if it is decrypted, encrypted, etc.
- Copy it from /F0/kd/fatmsmod.prx to the root.
- Copy the FATMSPATCH to /PSP/GAME and run it.
cfw 3.90m33-2 released
February 14, 2008
changes:
- Improvements in plugins loading code:
- Fixed some problems with problematic cards due to filesystem not mounted.
- Now plugins should read the faster.
- Problem fixed with lines with spaces at the end.
- Added the rest of regions to the recovery option fakeregion.
- (PSP SLIM): Added patches in nand ipl to allow Booster multiiplloader and TimeMachine iplloader to boot from nand.
yahoo! oneconnect
February 13, 2008
MWC 2008: Yahoo! Revolutionizes Mobile Communications With oneConnect.
bad work habits
February 13, 2008
Who doesn’t have at least one habit that drives everyone else insane? You might bite your nails, slurp your coffee or tap your pen incessantly. Annoying? Yes. Serious problems? Not really.In the office, however, some habits can go beyond annoying your co-workers; they can damage your career.
For the sake of your career and your co-workers’ sanity, here’s a list of bad work habits that can harm your career and how you can break them. If you’re guilty of one (or more), it’s time to get them under control.
10 funny flirting facts
February 11, 2008
So you’ve mastered the eye-contact game and can beckon a cute prospect with a few coy glances… but do you really know all there is to know about the fine art of come-hither? Just to make sure you’re up to speed, we culled some very surprising info that you can use to your advantage. Read on for some juicy tidbits that may up your cute quotient in no time.
