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Epson released firmware for P-6000 and P-7000 multimedia photo viewers

By Daniel Lim on Wednesday, Jan 21st 2009 No Comments

Epson has released a major firmware update for its P-6000 and P-7000 multimedia photo viewers to improve a variety of camera RAW file supports, correct storage card writing errors and make changes to player behavior.

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iRiver SPINN firmware 2.0 released

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jan 21st 2009 No Comments

iRiver’s SPINN media player has received a new firmware update, version 2.0, bringing with it increased GUI usability and a handful of new features. Among the changes are a new memo pad feature, allowing handwritten notes and sketches, new picture handling tools, bigger album art displayed during track playback, and timed recording of FM and, where supported, DMB digital radio.

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Sony PS3 firmware 2.60 now available

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jan 21st 2009 No Comments

Sony’s update for the PlayStation 3 has been released, and is available to download now. PS3 Firmware version 2.60 includes a new Photo Gallery that offers face detection – similar to the new iLife ‘09 iPhoto app Apple announced earlier in the month – and automatic sorting by individual, individual’s age, landscape and color, among other things. There’s also improved codec support for the PS3’s media player.

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Nikon got Black Dots problem too, claimed on a firmware fixes

By Daniel Lim on Tuesday, Jan 20th 2009 No Comments

What do you know? With all the complaints on 5D Mark II’s black-dot glitches ( we reported a hands-on firmware fix) , no ones seems to notice there are similar occurrences on Nikon lineup as well, not until the manufacturer pointed it out on a recent firmware fixes. According to Nikon, in an extremely rare occasion, images taken in a long exposure from D3 and D700 may exhibit black dots if the Noise Reduction feature was on.

“- An issue that, in extremely rare cases, resulted in noticeable black dots in images captured with Long exp. NR in the shooting menu set to On has been resolved.”

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New PS3 update to include photo sorting

By Staff Editor on Tuesday, Jan 20th 2009 No Comments

The Sony Playstation 3 is about to get a new update that will include a new Photo Gallery application that will sort your photos. This new application can detect faces and interestingly enough determine if the person is smiling or not and sort the photos accordingly.

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Canon 5D Mark II black dots firmware hands-on : problem fixed

By Daniel Lim on Wednesday, Jan 14th 2009 No Comments

While attending CES 2009 at one of the Unveiled Pre-Show event, I had a small chat with Canon’s tech guru Chuck Westfall regarding the 5D Mark II black dot issues. He remained mum about the problem and technicality, and said to wait a month for the fixes. To my surprise, I returned to hotel just to find out Canon has released the new firmware version 1.0.7 to mitigate the strange spots phenomenon. Afraid of a brick, I decided to stay put on the update until the show is finished.

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Nokia N96 NAM edition gets very large firmware update

By Staff Editor on Friday, Jan 2nd 2009 No Comments

Nokia somehow has managed to quietly release a major update for the North American (NAM) edition of the N96. This update is not like your typical bug fix; this improves everything from overall stability of the handset to improved responsiveness to the camera’s image quality.

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yellowsn0w iPhone 3G baseband unlock released

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jan 1st 2009 5 Comments

iphone 3g dev team yellowsn0w After surprising iPhone 3G owners with the news that the yellowsn0w baseband unlock would, in fact, work with the latest 02.28.00 baseband (released as part of firmware 2.2), the team have now released the software itself. The yellowsn0w app itself launches whenever the iPhone boots (together with when there is a baseband reset at any point) and, after initial install, works invisibly.

In order to use yellowsn0w to unlock the iPhone 3G, you’ll need to be running the latest firmware and then use QuickPwn on your handset. SIMs with embedded application menus, such as those used in pre-pay contracts which add “Top up credit” style menus to the handset may cause issues, which can be fixed by removing and replacing the card at each boot.

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iPhone 3G baseband unlock only for latest 02.28.00 firmware; release imminent

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jan 1st 2009 1 Comment

iphone 3g dev team yellowsn0w December 31st has been and gone, at least where I’m sitting, and right now there’s still no yellowsn0w iPhone 3G unlock from the Dev-Team. The group of Apple hackers had previously promised a version of their baseband unlock tool on New Year’s Eve, but that has seemingly been delayed.

Before you get too frustrated, though, it sounds like it may be worth a few more hours: over the past few days, the Dev-Team have managed to add support for the latest iPhone baseband, version 02.28.00.

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Apple releases firmware updates for all late 2008 MacBook models

By Staff Editor on Thursday, Dec 11th 2008 No Comments

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Today Apple released a number of new updates for their new “Late 2008” MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. For those of you who are wondering this firmware update comes in two pieces, an EFI update and an SMC update.

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