EMI, Apple 'deal on music locks'
EMI is to hold a media event on Monday with Apple boss Steve Jobs as special guest, prompting speculation of a deal over digital locks on music.

There was initial speculation that Beatles songs were to finally go online on download service iTunes.

In an invite to media sent out on Sunday, EMI said it was announcing an "exciting new digital offering".

Last week at a mobile industry conference, EMI chief executive Eric Nicoli praised Apple.

A spokesman for EMI would not comment on the subject of the press conference.

'Significant amounts'

The Wall Street Journal reported that EMI plans to sell "significant amounts" of music without digital rights management (DRM).

Earlier this year Apple boss Steve Jobs called for an end to DRM on music.

He said the abolition of copy protection software known would be good for consumers and music suppliers.

Copyright protection had failed to tackle piracy, he argued.

"This is clearly the best alternative for consumers and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat," he said in a statement on Apple's website.

EMI tested the waters earlier this year, offering a single by Norah Jones for sale without DRM.

Supporters of DRM say the locks protects the rights of artists and stop wholesale copying of music - or other content such as films.

But critics argue that DRM places unfair restrictions on how consumers can use music they have bought lawfully.

- Source: [BBC]

Finally!  Those companies are starting to realise, CONSUMERS!

Meh, 320kbps MP3s off torrents are still way better quality than iTunes' 128kbps AAC files.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/9309/

unless u live outside the us of course, cause then shipping is hell

i tried it it works but i have to pay $25 us to get it to Hong Kong :P

Changelog:

Quote:[+] Added frameskip option.
[+] Added framerate limiting option.
[+] Added adjustable stick deadzone.
[+] Allow pause menu to be activated even when rom emulation has hung.
[!] Fix crash when no roms found, added explanatory message.
[!] Fix flickering when small number of roms found.
[^] Fix texture hash frequency check.
[^] Finally got code compiling with -O3 optimisation flag in GCC.
[^] Use VFPU for InvSqrt (thanks hlide!)
[^] Improved VFPU code for clipping and tnl (thanks Raphael!)
[^] Improved inlining of AddTri.
[^] Reduced time spent searching for overridden blend modes.
[~] Remove debug console in public release builds (smaller footprint and slight speedup.)

- Source: [StrmnNrmn]

1.00 EBOOT
1.50 EBOOT
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Haven't tried it, but hope it's good :)

QJ Wrote:On this day of April, PSP homebrew coder Lucifer_V paid a visit to the QJ.Net Forums and announced an update to the PSP Theme Swapper homebrew. According to its readme, this application allows PSP users to "flash high-res backgrounds, icon sets, clicksound, volume bars, battery icons, fonts, and waves."

As compared to the past version,  the following major tweaks were made:

*Firmware check added

*Fonts added
*Recover function added
*More available slots to save
*Better navigating in menu
*Bugs fixed
*Graphics added

Usage instructions and contact details (in case you experience any bugs) are available in the readme file which the dev has included. Wee highly recommend that you check that first before trying anything with Theme Swapper v1.0. Also, please take note that this application writes to flash, and has been made only for use with 3.03 oe-c. Further details can also be found over at Lucifer_V's forum release thread. Enjoy

Download - http://dl.qj.net/Theme-Swapper-v1.0-PSP-.../catid/151

Holyhead Secondary in Handsworth, Birmingham, is going to give its pupils PSPs to use during French, History and Geography. They will be used to play media such as video and pictures.

The students are not allowed to play games on them, but there is now way to check this so i guess they will be having a lot of fun. The experiment will start after easter. The teachers have had training to use the PSP, so that may explain some of the noobs lately that spoke perfect english.

I don't really understand the use of a psp, when a classroom also has a beamer, ohp and some sort of cd player. Also, they should have computers available for accessing the internet, and the internet on the PSP isn't all that great either. One teacher says:

"Some people think it is an exclusively a gaming machine and don't realise all the things it can do. It can access the Internet and process information."

wooo, it can access the internet and process information. its very clear that you have had training. what kind of information do you want it to process without using homebrew? I bet if the school and teachers knew about homebrew and put it to use to create some sort of educational software, the psp would be much more useful. They would be sued by sony though.

Oh well. Lets just hope wee meet one of these pupils and convince them to flash hehehehe :P

That's right boys and girls Team C+D have done it again, they have Decrypted Sony's new firmware update 3.30.

Now all wee can do is wait and see what happens... Im sure that Dark_Alex and the Noobz team will be looking into this.


Great work  :great:


Via- - - http://forums.maxconsole.net/showthread....post473357

Via- - - http://pspupdates.qj.net/PSP-v3-30-Decry.../aid/87960

Quote:QJ reader aDcOoL informed us that the final release for version 4.109 of Winnydows' video-converting app, XviD4PSP, is out. As always, the developer notes that before installing the latest version of the app, you must purge the previous one first. Some parts of this changelog were already seen in his previous version release, but since this is the "final" version, a couple of other stuff have been added and fixed.

Full changelog for XviD4PSP v4.109 final:

    * Now possible select audio tracks from MKV, OGM and AVI.
    * Added [] symbols warning.
    * Thumbnails now create for PMPPlayer Advance too.
    * COPY audio stream now work for MKV too.
    * Added FLV format output, Sorenson codec only.
    * Added unlimited MPG output (any resolution, any framerate, high bitrate).
    * For AVI and PMP audio encoding to AAC sound now with NeroAACEnc too.
    * Audio bitrate change now more smooth - 8 kbit.
    * Fixed lost windows focus after preview player.
    * Fixed early exit form AviSynth Wrapper.
    * x264 updated to 635.
    * Mplayer and Mencoder updated to 22772.
    * DGIndex updated to 1.4.9 Beta 17.

For this release, you'll be required to have Windows Vista or Windows XP SP2, Microsoft Framework 3.0, and DirectX Update-Check for you to install it on your PC. The developer reports that the program might not work well with your existing codec packs installed, and he recommends you install ffdshow only.

Download: XviD4PSP v4.109 final

  Via: Winnydows

x3sphere Wrote:Sony has just released Firmware 3.30 for the PSP. The new update includes support for displaying thumbnails under RSS Channel, expanded support for PlayStation Notwork titles (PS1 games), an increased size limit for videos, support for displaying thumbnails for content saved in the VIDEO folder, and a new option to set the Disc-Load speed to Fast or Normal for PlayStation Notwork titles.

Of course, don't update if you'd like to continue running homebrew.

- Source: [Exophase]

Download if you really want to


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Official Features

Game:

• Support for PLAYSTATION®Network titles has been expanded.
  

Network:

• Support for thumbnail images of items has been added under [RSS Channel].
  

Video:
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Support for thumbnail images of videos that are stored in the “VIDEO