Bungie Confirms: Halo 3 Doesn’t Run Natively in HD
The latest Bungie Weekly Update has Luke Smith confessing that in fact, Halo 3 doesn’t run natively at 720p like all other Xbox 360 games…
Archive for September, 2007
The Progress Of The RadeonHD Driver (AMD’s Official Open-Source Driver)
At the time of writing, in about the past week and a half there has been about 90 commits to the RadeonHD driver, and can largely be attributed to Novell’s involvement with this AMD driver… The Novell developers hope to complete 2D work on the RadeonHD driver by the end of this year.
iPhone 1.1.1 “bug” unleashes music over Bluetooth
The iPhone 1.1.1 update has a hidden little surprise for y’all: Bluetooth audio streaming is now available off of your iPhone for whatever you darn please, meaning you can finally listen to music from the phone wirelessly.
iPhone Downgrade Baby! Go from 1.1.1 to 1.0.2!
Just what the title says. Looks like all that complaining might be for nothing! Take that Apple!
World of Warcraft 2.2 removes hardware sound engine, Creative Labs upset!
While there are a few little glitches and bugs floating around, it seems there’s a big problem with Creative sound cards (definitely one of the most popular sound card brands out there). And Creative has posted on their message boards that officially, they’re not very happy that Blizzard didn’t consult them when upgrading their sound engine.
Note to Apple: Stop thinking Like a Phone Company
Steve Jobs might be better served here to take his own advice and think different. Because, as he has so elegantly demonstrated with the iPhone, these devices are finally becoming little computers. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that consumers will expect them to act like computers. They will want to modify them to their exact, specifications.
“Heroes” and “Prison Break” Torrents Tracked by MiiVi.org
The latest episodes of Heroes and Prison Break have been downloaded over a million times already. However, quite a few paranoid downloaders noticed that the .torrent files, apparently released by EZTV, were using the MiiVi.org tracker. A trap perhaps?
Demonoid tracker back online?!
My BT client has just established a connection with the Demonoid tracker! The site at demonoid.com is still down however. If this is indeed the tracker back online, it is very encouraging news!
65nm Xbox 360s starting to trickle out?
We’ve been waiting and waiting, and after months of speculation, a hardware revision, a couple limited editions, and even a new SKU, it looks like Microsoft is finally shipping “Falcon”-equipped Xbox 360s with 65nm CPUs. According to the eagle-eyed posters in the official Xbox forums, Halo edition 360s from lot #734 appear to be the first machines
iPhone update: facts and fiction
If you haven’t already bitten the bullet and taken your unlocked iPhone down that scariest of paths, the 1.1.1 update, we’re here to sort out a bit of the hearsay from the actual and fairly inconvenient truth.
What does and doesn’t work with iPhone 1.1.1 (Continually Updating)
As iPhone owners examine what works and what broke with iPhone firmware 1.1.1, we’ll update this post to let you know whether it’s safe to proceed with your third-party hacks and software.
“txtor” tool circumvents basic torrent blockers
Some universities block the downloading of torrent files by not allowing users to access files with the wrong mime-type or file extension. This simple block is easy to get around, and that’s exactly what a new site called “txtor” does.
