Here’s a neat little game I found on Digg:
 MotherLoad Use your digger to excavate as much ore as possible
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| Play this free game now!! |
It’s a neat little game about digging down to get to the sweet, delicious ore. Mmm… Ore…… Arrgghh…………….
Anyway, here’s a screen capture below. I think you should go check out the game NOW! It’s pretty cool.
You can digg it here. And of course, just go Here to play the game itself!
>> From gamefreax.de (translated from german):
Right now the dual-firmware mods coming out for the Xbox 360 DVD drives are 30+ wire solutions. These points are not only very hard to solder, but it also requires a lot of known-how to extract the FW from the drive, extract the key, patch, encrypt, write back, install external switch on Xbox 360 so you can switch between the 2 firmwares, etc …We received interesting information about a new DVD mod named NME-360, that will be released soon. This chip will be a universal chip for all Xbox360 DVD drives. It will patch the firmware of the drive on-the-fly. The original firmware on the flash of the drive remains untouched.The chip will recognize independently whether an original or a backup was inserted and switches itself to the corresponding mode (patched FW (on-the-fly) for backups and the normal unpatched FW for originals). That also means you will not have to install an external switch on your Xbox 360 to put the chip off.For the Toshiba-Samsung drive you will have to solder only 4 wires, the Hitachi-LG drive will require 11 wires. The official website of the team, named ‘Team Underdog’, will be launched early next week.News-Source: gamefreax.deDiscuss this news item on our forums: forums.xbox-scene.com(Wednesday 14 June 2006 22:14 EST) - (direct link to article)(Posted by:: XanTium)
Yep, you read that right. There’s a cool chip coming out for the 360 that will AUTOMAGICLY switch to the best DVD firmware for the job. Now, we still can’t run unsigned code (though Devil360.com is working on that), but it’s still a good step toward it, and running backups is no small matter in households with little children (I’m talking to you, Matt).
Now, about that site maintence, first I’ll mention: I’m posting this with the integrated posting tool in Flock. Now, I’ve spoken about Flock before, so I won’t go into the specifics here. Suffice it to say, Flock is now in Beta, and it’s now looking better then ever. There are still a few bugs to be worked out (ok, a crap load), but hey, what do you want? It’s free, OSS, and it’s pretty well integrated. My bigest complaint so far is that I’m not too impressed with it’s integrated blog posting tool, but hey, it’s still being cooked. 
And as for tags, I’m changing them. Until Blogger decides to support them natively (or until I switch over to another framework), they’re just not worth the hassle. I’ll leave all the old ones (not worth the effort, they are kinda cool), but I just think it’s keeping me from posting more (they’re a pain to set up manualy). So I’ve decided to just let Flock’s integrated tagger do the work for me! Yay!
Oh, and any of you out there with lots of pictures of family, friends, etc., check out Riya.com. It’s got this crazy face recognition tech that enables you to upload bajillions of pics and only have to waste time picking out faces of a few before it figures it out on it’s own (mostly).
Ok, that’s all for today. Thanks for reading!
technorati tags:Xbox360, Flock, Tech, Maintence, Tags, Photos, Riya, Mods
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DUDE! Sony just revealed their New Controller, and it’s a total rip off of the Wii Controller. It’s got “6 degrees of motion” which means it can detect pitch, yaw, and roll. Pfftt. It’s a BAD implimantation of what the Wii can do. Check out the Digg Post on the matter to see more info on it.
And the part about a 360 rip? They’ve got a “PS3″ button right where the “Live” button is on the 360 controller. I’m sorry, but that’s just sad. More so when you realize that Sony bashed Nintendo for their use of Motion Senseing as “Gimicky” last year.
They might just as well have called it the PS36ii. But hey, that’s just what I think. What I wanna know is what do YOU think? Then we know what Wii think, and that’s what matters.
Ok, so I’m not drunk now. Sweet. I’m friggin’ glad. I’m not sure the drinkie is so hot for me. 
But, in other notes, MY XBOX 360 CAN BLOG! Granted, it has a boring life (I almost never get to play) but it’s a cool concept none the less. Check out it’s blog at 360Voice.com. It should be pretty cool.
Also, many of you might know that Google.com came out with Google Calendar, a REALLY neat companion to Gmail. It’s a standard style calendaring application, but it’s integration and ease of use really seem to set it apart from the flock.
Ok, that’s all I got for now. Have a good one, everyone!
Tags: +Technology+; +Hacking+; +Xbox 360+; +Digg+
The fine folks over at Xbox Scene have brought us good news: we’re one step closer to sweet, sweet, hacked 360. We’ve got FULL READ/WRITE ACCESS TO THE HARD DRIVE AND THE MEMORY CARDS!!! That’s full game save portability (anyone out there have saves from their old Xbox?), and I assume music and video portibility (though that’s just a guess). I can’t wait to see what we come up with in the next few months!
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