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Qunu is seems to be a really great idea. It is free live support with whatever you are having problems with. You type in the search engine keywords and the engine searches tags set up in profiles by the Qunu ‘experts.’ The Qunu ‘expert’ rates themselves on what their level of expertise in their tag. The level ranges from beginner to guru. Anyone can be a Qunu ‘expert.’ The big plus with this is you get the answer you want now without waiting. The problem with this is that you may not get the right answer to your question. This just does not seem as reliable as I would rather ask about something Ubuntu on the official forum rather then some guy who says he knows what he is talking about. I would not use this for checking out how to change my boot sequence, but I would use it to see what the best bittorrent application is. Just use your best judgement. Just check out the qoute after the jump and see how they describe themselves. (continue reading…)

Last month someone created a genius T-shirt that put a gamer’s spin on the age old "yo mamma" bag. The shirt read "Your Mom’s Rated E for Everyone." Who wouldn’t think that’s friggin hilarious. The ESA, that’s who.

Earlier this week the Entertainment Software Association sicked their lawyers on us. Demanding that we take down the post about the shirt, calling it an advertisement and saying that the shirt would create consumer confusion and a "substantial likelihood that the ESRB certification marks will face tarnishment and dilution."

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Windows only: Open source app MediaCoder is an audio and video batch transcoder designed to give you super-simple conversion to and from some of the most popular media codecs.

Among other great features, MediaCoder’s Devices tab makes converting videos for your iPod, PSP, smartphone/PDA, etc. a breeze. MediaCoder is simple to use but does a lot.

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Tags: Freeware, Windows, Converter

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s UK MD, Ray Maguire, claims that the heavily criticised UMD format has a future, despite a number of film studios opting out of producing movies on the format and numerous retailers scaling down their UMD* offerings.

Yeah…right! The UMD is doing poorly.

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Tags: Sony, PSP, Gaming

Awsome now I can get some homebrew on my 2.70 PSP. I have played two SNES games on it so far. There is an downgrader, but it is still…uh “buggy.” I don’t want to risk my PSP to bricking.

eLoader Version 0.99 brings us this. Read on.

The major new feature is support for v2.70 and v2.71 firmwares. That’s right, full support for these 2 firmwares is now added, using a new kernel-mode syscall-finding technique (which is why 2.80 support is not yet possible).

As well as support for the v2.7 firmwares, there is also limited kernel mode support on v2.5-v2.71. This means that the .init program section (which contains functions declared with the ‘constructor’ attribute) will be called in kernel-mode for homebrew built with the kernel mode attribute. Note that you cannot create kernel-mode threads from the init functions in this release, due to security checks in the firmware.

The increased kernel access has also allowed us to add a built-in exception handler to eLoader, so that crashes can be caught and debugged more easily, as well as usually preventing the need to reboot.

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“Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is my duty as Community Manager of Game Overdrive to inform you of something terrible. It has begun. In a stunningly unprovoked move, Iceland has started the end. It’s bombing of Denmark over their relationship with Sweden caused Britain to have to back childhood friend Denmark up by leveling Reykjavik. Having been looking for a reason to get back at Britain since that prom night mishap, Spain responded with a bombing of Liverpool. America was involved after that and well, you get the picture. In approximately 7 days, we will be engulfed in complete nuclear winter. What will it look like you ask? Well, you tell me.

For this contest, take any painting or photograph of the outside world, and use whatever picture editing software you use to simulate nuclear winter. Extra points for the usage of well known art as the source image. The prize? The ability to play out situations such as the one above in DEFCON. Many will enter, one will survive.

-Ben Halpern
Community Manager
Game Overdrive”

For details on the contest, visit the information page to see how to enter and win!