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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Russell Cocker over at etbe.coker.com.au has an interesting post on changing SMTP welcome messages to display disclaimers. After initiating an SMTP session with his mail server, it points the client to a URL with the conditions of use. Basically his conditions pre-empt any ridiculous claims made by signatures on incoming mails.
I quite like the […]
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Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
The Nokia N95 has a simple text to speech thing as part of the standard OS. This is used to playing back “voice tags” of contacts so you can get an idea of what you’re meant to be saying for the voice dialling. I never use the voice dialling on my N95, but I found […]
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Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
Details of another Wii modchip have emerged. The CycloWiz looks to have similar features to the Wiinja. This has a couple of extra features which might come in useful such as the disable. It’s available from cyclowiz.com but only shipping to the US at the moment.
Quicksolder (no wires required)
Plays Wii BackupsPlays
GC BackupsPlay
GC HomebrewPlay
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007
AJ’S Mii Editor is an application to edit miis which have been transferred to a PC. There’s no graphical interface, but in the world of mii sharing it looks like it could be really useful.
Via wiinewz.com
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007
It looks like there’s now a modchip available for the wii. The features are listed as:
First Wii Modchip
Run your own region (PAL/NTSC) Wii backups directly
Run your own region (PAL/NTSC) GC Backups directly
5 Cables to solder
Easy Installation
Modchip not upgradable
It’s priced at £25 (38 Euros) which seems pretty reasonable. Installation is easy with only 5 wires to […]
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Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
If you don’t know what FlashMe and NoFlashMe are then this probably means nothing to you, but to those of us who have flashed our DS Lite it’s kind of a big deal. Previously if you “unflashed” a DS Lite with NoFlashMe.nds you would lose the brightness settings and potentially have problems with picochat since […]
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Sunday, January 14th, 2007
sir crx has posted a few pictures and video of his wii remote multi coloured LED mod. This is actually pretty useful by lighting up in a different colour depending on which player the remote is for.
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Friday, January 12th, 2007
Now everybody’s got wants a Wii, Gamecube games are likely to be getting a lot more popular. The problem is, in PAL land we don’t get a load of great games, so we have to get down with the import thang with a Freeloader disc. Play-Asia.com has put together a compatibility chart of what version […]
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Sunday, December 24th, 2006
Wii Media Center X is a free multimedia server developed by Red Kawa. It allows you to stream certain types of pictures, music, videos and files from your computer (where the server running) to your Nintendo Wii. It runs on most major operating systems including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Features
Videos - Wii Media Center […]
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
I’ve tested streaming Recorded TV, Music, Divx shows, and Pictures all from Http://mycast.orb.com to my Nintendo Wii. Set the player default to Flash / Check Open in a new Window. Cover Art is displayed full screen while you are streaming music. You need the orb service installed on a local machine that […]
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