Posted by Ub3rG33k on Feb 16, 2010 in
Tech Ok, just a quick blog post, but some people may find this useful . 
If you are like me and have a number of friends of facebook that play a lot of the facebook apps such as Farmville, Mafia Wars, Cafe World, etc and tend to hit the publish button every time they fire up the game, or what seems like every 30 seconds, your Facebook news feed, like mine can get a little crowded.
You could un-friend them, but that’s not very friendly, and if they enjoy playing the games, and I’m sure they have other friends that may finds the post of interest (eg, if they are playing the same game), but for me, it just makes my News Feed unreadable.
The solution is simpler than you think !, when you see one of the offending posts, just mouse over the top right hand corner, and click the hide button. This will hide this post, and give you the option to hide notifications from just this app, or from this user. Hiding the app, will hide all posts from this application.
I spent 5 minutes running through my news feed, hiding all the apps, and now my feed just has relevant information to me, it’s like the good old days of Facebook again.
edit : Just has a message from Chris, and apparently if you just use Lite version of Facebook, you don’t get any apps showing.
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Posted by Ub3rG33k on Jan 28, 2010 in
Nintendo If you are like me, and got very lazy and modified your Wii so you could play your games from a Hard Drive, then this takes laziness to the next level. 
Even with the mod, you had to fire up the homebrew channel, or fire up the CoverFloader, or WiiCoverFlow or whichever channel you had for accessing your hard drive, then select the game, then load….you can now remove a step, and have your games as channels, and below I’ll show you how.
Assumed prerequisites.
You have a Wii
You have a homebrew channel installed
You have your games installed to a compatible hard drive connected to the Wii
Assuming you have the above, lets continue.
Download the latest version of WBFS Manager if you don’t already have it installed.
Download the latest version of Loadstructor (Torrent link here)
and finally the common-key.bin (Torrent Link Here)
Once everything is installed, connect your hard drive to you PC. This should appear in my computer but you won’t be able to access it, this is normal.
Fire up WBPS Manager, and select the external hard drive with you games on it from the drop down box, and click load. You should see a list of your game, if so move onto the next step.
Unzip the Loadstructor zip file and copy the common-key.bin into the root of this folder.
Run the Loadstuctor.exe and you should be met with the below screen.
I personally left all the setting as default.
Click on Add from WBFS, and select the game you want as a channel, using the CTRL key you can select multiple games
Once you have your games selected hit the RUN! button, this will create the wad files on your chosen output folder.
Once complete (took around 20 seconds a game on my machine) you will have a number of wad files in the above folder. Copy these to your Wii SD Card into a folder called wads on the root.
Now we head back to the Wii, take your external hard drive and SD Card with you and plug them into your Wii
Fire up your homebrew channel, then run WAD Manager (assuming you still have this on your SD Card from installing your homebrew channel, if now version 1.5 can be found here or here
Select the newly created wads, and install, that’s it, jobs done ! You will now have Wii Channels for all you favorite games
Final Note :
If your game won’t load and you sat looking at a screen saying Loading ISO, try disabling the Fix 002 Error, as not all games need this, and it seems to be switched on by default, and secondly, I’ve found that I have to completely power off my Wii between games, I can only assume something gets cached.
Anyway, hope this of some help. If you get stuck, drop me a comment and I’ll give you a hand.
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Posted by Ub3rG33k on Nov 9, 2009 in
XBOX 360 
Just a quick blog post to show you what comes in the Prestige Edition Box. Basically, you get everything that comes in the Hardened Edition, but with the Night Vision Goggles too.
Night Vision Goggles
Collectors Stand
Steel Book with Metallic Finish
Art Book
Game Manual
Token to download the original Call of Duty
Images below
Finally a little video to show you how good the night vision goggles are
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Anyway, blog done, time to get my game on 
BassJunkie5120 if you want to add me on the Xbox
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If you are like me and have a number of friends of facebook that play a lot of the facebook apps such as Farmville, Mafia Wars, Cafe World, etc and tend to hit the publish button every time they fire up the game, or what seems like every 30 seconds, your Facebook news feed, like mine can get a little crowded.