PS3 Third Party a.k.a. The P3 Controller

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The PS3 (Playstation) Third Party P3 Controller.

For those who do not play much on eBay there was a lot of issues with purchasing controllers for the PlayStation 3 in regards to china making a ton of knock off controllers. These third-party or P3 controllers looked like a Sony PlayStation 3 controller except that if you ever picked one up and start pressing the buttons or pushing the analog stick around you know that there is something not quite right with them.

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CheapCast – A ChromeCast daemon for Ouya

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Download softwareCheapCast coming to the rescue on Ouya!

In my previous article, I have discussed a lot of AirPlay and DNLA action with AirPin for Ouya. But what if you don't have an Apple phone? What if you got an Android phone or even a laptop that is running Google Chrome? This is where installing another service onto your Ouya called "CheapCast" will aid you in your multi-platform streaming woes.

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AirPin – AirPlay and DLNA streaming on Ouya

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My experiences with AirPin AirPlay for Ouya

If you have read our previous articles about AirPlay. You'll know that we are no stranger to Apple and their magical protocol of transferring audio data from one device to another with the protocol known as "AirPlay". However, when it came to Ouya it has been almost a dead topic. After all; The Ouya is a cheap game system and could never be able to act as an AirPlay receiver of content like that. Or at least, so we thought. This is not going to be a step-by-step guide as that would involve us showing you how to root your Ouya to access the GooglePlay store. Although this program works without your Ouya being rooted. You would have to think of more creative ways of getting those APKs onto your Ouya without the assistance of Google Play and we can't show you that! We like my web provider very much thank you!

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IBM SurePOS 4800-742 AP04 and Chemi-Con Capacitor fail.

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More IBM SurePOS hatred from a computer technician.

Another IBM product (which is now Toshibas nightmare), another capacitor fails. Unlike Dell and Samsung which moved away from the Chemi-con capacitors quickly after the lawsuits and disasters of PCs and servers dropping over dead in less than a year. IBM stayed the course and decided to make this capacitor the "Industry Standard" kinda like how industry standard for generating power is using a water wheel. Unlike my previous article I don't think I have illustrated exactly WHY the capacitors blow apart so easily in these SurePOS units.

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WinAmp – The end of an era that never really ends.

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Amiga Version of WinAmp - AmiAmp

WinAmp's humble beginnings from this bloggers perspective.

The news of WinAmp has been sending shockwaves with their announcement of finally shutting down the program and closing the doors after 14 years on December 20th, 2013 along with all sister media servers associated with it.  Throughout most of the older internet community and since we haven't posted a blog update in a while we thought that we should give our views and insights about WinAmp since in a very strange way we had WinAmp even BEFORE we had a PC.

We had a version of WinAmp Called "AmiAmp" for the Commodore Amiga computer which possessed a 68020 processor or better the first MP3 we ever got was on some french server on Lyon that had lots of anime p0rn, but for some reason, they also had "The Cranberries - Salvation" in MP3 format on there. It was the only song on that FTP site. If anyone from the Cranberries is reading this

Relax. We did get the CD a few years later. -S

My Amiga 3000 with a 25Mhz 68030 processor was not strong enough to play the mp3 at 128kps stereo, I could only play it in mono with %100 CPU power.  When we eventually stopped drinking the kool-aid and left the Amiga scene and got a PC we of course got Winamp right away.

Read on to continue our diatribes of old software.

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Raspberry Pi – CGMiner – Bitcoin adventures.

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Raspberry Pi with CGMiner making the bitcoins.

My Raspberry Pi runs almost 24/7 with some of the projects that we've done in the past such as OpenSIM and installing Airplay onto it so that we can send music to the amplifier to my living room and even running some P2P programs to get my latest Linux distros faster. Because it runs on a 24/7 basis that means that I'm pissing 3 watts of power non-stop. We decided to out my Pi to work on getting me bitcoin currency.

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Xela the Cat – Stepmania Character

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Xela the Cat - for Stepmania

Xela the cat is a revamp of a character for Stepmania that we had on my hard drive for a while so we decided to push it out to the net. Compatible with Stepmania 5.0 (If you don't mind the randomizes instead of actually CHOOSING your character) and of course backward compatible with Stepmania 3.9.

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The Ouya Review on Launch – Part 1 of 2.

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Ouya Review gaming console - What does it do? How well does it do it?

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This is a mirror of a review I did for Industrial Strength Gaming back in July. Part two will be available there shorty.

It's important to start off the Ouya review with the two greatest questions the military asks of anyone or anything that appears in front their their eyes. Which to answer this call, we will discuss in a two part review. For those who want the TL:DR abridged version of the review I’ll give it to you straight up for this section.

"Pretty console, won’t turn off, crap OS, requires a credit card. But at least they kept their word. And it's cheap. Part two coming soon! - S"

Chapter 2 of 2 is available to read on Industrial Strength Gaming. Check it out!

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