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Filed under: Home Entertainment, Storage

Those not following TiVo hacking may want to gloss over this one, but it would appear that the latest version of spike2k5′s MFSLive TiVo volume hacking tool (v1.2) enables support for both internal and external expansion. (Remember, you were bound to run into trouble if you tried the Series3 eSATA drive expansion technique if your internal drive was already upgraded.) We haven’t given this a go — any luck for you peeps?

[Thanks, Bill S.]

Read – MFSLive v1.2 release notes
Read – MFSLive download page

 

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

Microsoft has been sued by a group of interactive television patent holders who claim that Microsoft duped them into granting a royalty-free license on the grounds that the company was not planning to release its own DVR system. Only weeks after negotiations took place between the group of patent holders — operating under the name Intellivision, unrelated to the 80s game console — and Microsoft, the corporation launched and started advertising for its Ultimate TV DVR product. The negotiations apparently took place way back in 2001, so it’s slightly odd that the inventors waited until January of this year to file their claim to revoke the original licensing deal (and gain unspecified damages, naturally). Microsoft hasn’t yet responded to the case other than to file a purely procedural motion, so we’ll have to wait to see how this one plays out.

 

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Filed under: Gaming, Laptops

Confirming something that we had already seen hints of, Intel has announced that it is looking forward to quad core laptops hitting the scene throughout 2008. Mooly Eden, GM of Intel’s mobile platform group, said that we won’t see these quad cores in business class laptops for a while, even being honest enough to admit that there aren’t enough multi-threaded applications out there to justify it. In practically the same breath, PC World mentions that the chip will target high-level gaming laptops, which is cool because gamers will no doubt lap the new chips up: even if gaming is for the moment a very much single-threaded activity. Architecturally the new chip will have to differ from Intel’s current offerings such as Santa Rosa, so you can probably expect to pay quite a premium until they hit the mainstream. (Not that you didn’t know that already.)

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P.S. Bonus points for most imaginative insult in response to the fatal mistake of using Apple’s Intel logos to illustrate this post.

 

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

I recently added a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page to StevePavlina.com to address the most common questions I receive.  It’s been linked from the sidebar for a few weeks now, but I’m announcing it here in case anyone missed it.
The FAQ is pretty basic right now – about a dozen questions answered — but it’s already saving me a lot [...]