I know this is not something that is really new...at all. I have always found internet radio to be interesting and I like the fact that nearly anyone is capable of at least running a small station. I used to run a station back before my senior year in high school. It was fun and only five or six of my friends listened to it. I have actually decided I may get back into that, once I do I will think about throwing up a link to my station so you can check the status, the broadcast won't be set on a definite schedule. I have far too much going on in my real life to be able to put aside a set time each day to broadcast. I wish I could do that though.
So this may definitely be the revival of Shadow Underground internet radio station.
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December 25, 2007
December 6, 2007
Random
I carry on with the occasional posting on this blog because I choose to. I am doing my best to support myself while I attend college and work a relatively dead end job at a McDonald's. I want to play with computers more than I do and I wish to expand my current collection. I offer a free service of downgrading PSP's as stated in my earlier post. I need to figure out a way to make some money on the side so I offer tech support as well. Along with that I put up the Google Adsense in the top right corner along with the Google search. I want to ask those who visit this site to occasionally do a search or click one of the ads to help me out a bit. If there are any readers yet that is :P I'm not exactly that well known.
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December 5, 2007
PSP Downgrade/Unbricking Service
I now officially run a PSP downgrade/unbricking service. So far I have downgraded: my brother's, mine, a guy from Springfield, and a few other of my local friends. I charge nothing for this service and instead I do a donation based approach, you can donate money or unwanted hardware to me for the service. If you want more information about where to get your PSP downgraded or unbricked, you should check out this thread in the Noobz forums to find someone close to you.
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November 3, 2007
Fun at Work
So tonight at McDonald's (yea, yea. I know already) I decided to mess with a coworker. He was listening to a local station, 105.3 FM, and I grabbed my PSP then set it to loop Venga Boys - Boom Boom Boom. With that all set up, I popped in my slightly modified FM Modulator and set it to 105.3 then with the gator clip that I use to extend the antenna...I walked right by the radio and it switched over to my techno. Needless to say this pissed off my coworker to no end.
I toyed with him the entire time we were closing the store with my PSP nestled nicely in my pocket. Everyone in the store knew what was going on but him and he beat the crap out of the radio by the night's end. I had my manager doubled over in hysterical laughter for about five minutes straight.
I did tell him before we left what I did and he was pissed off for awhile but he got over it and said it felt good to release some anger on a poor innocent electronic. I laughed at him for part of the way home as I followed him since we live about eight blocks apart. This is one joke I will keep in my book of tricks for the future. :P
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I toyed with him the entire time we were closing the store with my PSP nestled nicely in my pocket. Everyone in the store knew what was going on but him and he beat the crap out of the radio by the night's end. I had my manager doubled over in hysterical laughter for about five minutes straight.
I did tell him before we left what I did and he was pissed off for awhile but he got over it and said it felt good to release some anger on a poor innocent electronic. I laughed at him for part of the way home as I followed him since we live about eight blocks apart. This is one joke I will keep in my book of tricks for the future. :P
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November 2, 2007
Halo 3
Well then, I know it has been a bit late for me to post something up but I doubt there are any readers of this blog as of yet. Disregarding that, Halo 3 turned out to be an interesting game alright. Finished up the story, had an ending that was split into three parts: one for completing on Easy, an extra scene was added if you finished it on Normal or above, and finally there was yet another scene added for beating it on Legendary.
I wont spoil the ending for those of you who haven't played...I'll leave that to the people on Youtube. Seriously though, there are several videos that show you the ending. But if you don't want to watch those...go watch the ending to Portal from The Orange Box...I'll wait right here for you to be able to breathe again :P Jonathan Coultan at his best if you ask me.
The game is everything that you'd expect it to be. Pretty and fast paced but with a hint of awesomeness in the fact it automatically saves videos of recent games played. Now you can really talk crap on that guy you stuck from across the map since you can go back and watch it in, yup you guessed it, slo-mo.
The Forge added a much needed multiplayer element to the game, the ability to customize maps is just what this game needs to be playable for the thousandth time on Xbox Live. Hell, thanks to a buddy of mine (just met him so really don't know him too well) Pink Shade, I have two really fucking cool maps that I downloaded from him.
Xbox Live gold membership also comes with the File Share ability on Halo 3. This allows you to put up to eight files ranging from maps, videos, game varients, and saved pictures. You can extend this to I think twenty if you go get the Bungie Pro membership. I really haven't looked into that much. The cool thing about this is you can go on Bungie.net and find files you want to download then set them to download the next time you log onto Live while in Halo 3. This is how I have all of the Canvas maps, they are a copy of all the maps but with everything completely removed from them so it is like starting Forge with a clean slate.
Well, that about covers everything without going too far into detail about the story. Halo 3 is definitely a fun game and I give it my recommendation so go out and play it. Game on, gamers.
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I wont spoil the ending for those of you who haven't played...I'll leave that to the people on Youtube. Seriously though, there are several videos that show you the ending. But if you don't want to watch those...go watch the ending to Portal from The Orange Box...I'll wait right here for you to be able to breathe again :P Jonathan Coultan at his best if you ask me.
The game is everything that you'd expect it to be. Pretty and fast paced but with a hint of awesomeness in the fact it automatically saves videos of recent games played. Now you can really talk crap on that guy you stuck from across the map since you can go back and watch it in, yup you guessed it, slo-mo.
The Forge added a much needed multiplayer element to the game, the ability to customize maps is just what this game needs to be playable for the thousandth time on Xbox Live. Hell, thanks to a buddy of mine (just met him so really don't know him too well) Pink Shade, I have two really fucking cool maps that I downloaded from him.
Xbox Live gold membership also comes with the File Share ability on Halo 3. This allows you to put up to eight files ranging from maps, videos, game varients, and saved pictures. You can extend this to I think twenty if you go get the Bungie Pro membership. I really haven't looked into that much. The cool thing about this is you can go on Bungie.net and find files you want to download then set them to download the next time you log onto Live while in Halo 3. This is how I have all of the Canvas maps, they are a copy of all the maps but with everything completely removed from them so it is like starting Forge with a clean slate.
Well, that about covers everything without going too far into detail about the story. Halo 3 is definitely a fun game and I give it my recommendation so go out and play it. Game on, gamers.
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Shadow Ryo Nightfall
August 31, 2007
Bioshock
Fucking awesome. Enough said.
......Damnit, not going to be that easy? Fine, fine. The game has really taken things to a new level as all games seem to strive for. I will not ruin the storyline, which can be easy to miss if you don't collect audio diaries, but I can say the physics engine did it's job all too well. The fact they hired a team of programmers just to work on the physics for the water is a bit odd...but for a good reason, water is a major element in the game. The water has to give you a sense that it is trying to close in on Rapture to reclaim it as part of the ocean. Definitely go check this one out.
Game on.
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......Damnit, not going to be that easy? Fine, fine. The game has really taken things to a new level as all games seem to strive for. I will not ruin the storyline, which can be easy to miss if you don't collect audio diaries, but I can say the physics engine did it's job all too well. The fact they hired a team of programmers just to work on the physics for the water is a bit odd...but for a good reason, water is a major element in the game. The water has to give you a sense that it is trying to close in on Rapture to reclaim it as part of the ocean. Definitely go check this one out.
Game on.
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Shadow Ryo Nightfall
August 18, 2007
PSP Downgraded
Today marks the first time that I have downgraded someone else's PSP, the process went smoothly enough for me being about half asleep through most of it. :P It worked out nicely though. I am certain that Kevin will enjoy his newly downgraded PSP quite well, and to anyone who actually reads this blog: I will downgrade any PSP free of charge but you must cover shipping and you can not hold me liable for any damage done to the PSP system. I do accept donations for the service (Kevin gave me $40 ^_^) that can be in the form of money or some old hardware you no longer want or need.
If you are curious about anything I have said in this very short post, drop me a line. My e-mail is ryokea(at)gmail(dot)com.
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If you are curious about anything I have said in this very short post, drop me a line. My e-mail is ryokea(at)gmail(dot)com.
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Shadow Ryo Nightfall
July 25, 2007
PSP
Amazing little thing if you ask me. I look around on the net and keep finding stories and posts of people finding all kinds of useful things to do with their PSP system. When I first received mine, I was an idiot and I updated mine so I could have the browser. But thanks to my impulsive decision to buy Lumines when it first came out quite awhile back...I was able to downgrade my PSP.
I have tried many of the custom firmwares because I missed having a browser, and I do not own Wipeout Pure so I couldn't use the hidden browser in the game. But now I have settled on M33's firmware. I used Dark_Alex's firmware and was satisfied but since he has left the homebrew scene, I am moving on to someone who is still actively developing.
With my PSP currently getting ready to update to M33's 3.52 firmware, I wonder what I am going to do now with it? GPS navigation is one of my top priorities when it comes down to it really. Also I would love to be able to use a programmable universal remote program on it. I do love IR Shell 3.1 and I am testing out another universal remote program.
We will see what the future holds. Till then, Game on.
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I have tried many of the custom firmwares because I missed having a browser, and I do not own Wipeout Pure so I couldn't use the hidden browser in the game. But now I have settled on M33's firmware. I used Dark_Alex's firmware and was satisfied but since he has left the homebrew scene, I am moving on to someone who is still actively developing.
With my PSP currently getting ready to update to M33's 3.52 firmware, I wonder what I am going to do now with it? GPS navigation is one of my top priorities when it comes down to it really. Also I would love to be able to use a programmable universal remote program on it. I do love IR Shell 3.1 and I am testing out another universal remote program.
We will see what the future holds. Till then, Game on.
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May 16, 2007
Money
Ah yes...everyone's delima is they have no money. This is my case as well, so for now I am exploring all sorts of avenues of earning some dough in order to fund a trip to Texas. Currently I have at least one source of income, my job at McDonald's....ugh.
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Just some info that no longer needs to be put up.
May 11, 2007
Harddrive Woes
As the title says, this post is about harddrives. Particularly just one harddrive. The one that held my operating system for my desktop pc has completely been fried. Joy. This means that the little bit of posting I have done will more than likely come to a dead stop again due to "technical difficulties."
Well if this doesn't pan out like I wanted, if Shadow Underground never gets off the ground to make a company or something like that. This blog was a good idea none the less, and fun while it lasted.
Potential goodbye to any readers that dropped by. If no one reads this, I suppose it doesn't matter much as well.
Well if this doesn't pan out like I wanted, if Shadow Underground never gets off the ground to make a company or something like that. This blog was a good idea none the less, and fun while it lasted.
Potential goodbye to any readers that dropped by. If no one reads this, I suppose it doesn't matter much as well.
May 3, 2007
Halo 3 Beta Leak
Ok, it seems someone has played the beta and released a video of it on Youtube. Anyone surprised? No? Yea, I wasn't either. I was actually waiting for something like this to happen. But since I currently am at school, it is difficult to watch videos since my bypass the filter deal isn't working at the moment. Damn crappy computer at home probably shut off again. Ah well, my recommendations to all Halo franchise fans....go to Youtube, and quick. I have noticed alot of the videos I used to watch have been disappearing because of copy wright issues. When I get the chance later tonight, I will do a search myself and post up the more interesting videos just as a quick reference.
Not much else to throw up here, other than the game F.E.A.R. for the Xbox360 is really damn cool. I can't wait until I can get Xbox Live back to try out the multiplayer. Another good game for the Xbox360 is Guitar Hero 2. Love the fact I have a second guitar controller for those head to head matches.
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Not much else to throw up here, other than the game F.E.A.R. for the Xbox360 is really damn cool. I can't wait until I can get Xbox Live back to try out the multiplayer. Another good game for the Xbox360 is Guitar Hero 2. Love the fact I have a second guitar controller for those head to head matches.
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Shadow Ryo Nightfall
April 19, 2007
RIAA
Now, we all know about the RIAA. If you ask me, they are just a pack of extortionists who have nothing better to do than ruin the lives of people by placing large settlements on people so they won't have to go to court....or they go to court and get even bigger settlements placed on them.
This is the plight of a MIT student named Cassi Hunt. I know her story may be old news, but I consider it pertinent to now. I will post excerpts from an article here:
Cassi Hunt has recently been accused by the RIAA of being guilty of file-sharing. We all know what happens now: the RIAA will extort her for thousands of dollars (in Cassi's case, $3750) as a "settlement" to prevent her having to go to court. Or, as Cassie puts it in her highly entertaining and witty account: " Let us screw you over gently now, or with chains and whips in court."
Now, Cassi's remark is quite hilarious....and here is the RIAA's response:
But get this. When Cassi mentions she can't afford $3750, being an MIT student already up to her eyeballs in a lifetime's worth of debt, the RIAA helpfully countered: So? Drop out of school so you can afford it.
So the RIAA has shown it's true colors finally. Personally...I say the whole lot of them can go fuck themselves. They can't stop all of us, and they never will.
Here is the link to the full article: RIAA Tells MIT Student to Drop Out Of School To Pay Fines
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This is the plight of a MIT student named Cassi Hunt. I know her story may be old news, but I consider it pertinent to now. I will post excerpts from an article here:
Cassi Hunt has recently been accused by the RIAA of being guilty of file-sharing. We all know what happens now: the RIAA will extort her for thousands of dollars (in Cassi's case, $3750) as a "settlement" to prevent her having to go to court. Or, as Cassie puts it in her highly entertaining and witty account: " Let us screw you over gently now, or with chains and whips in court."
Now, Cassi's remark is quite hilarious....and here is the RIAA's response:
But get this. When Cassi mentions she can't afford $3750, being an MIT student already up to her eyeballs in a lifetime's worth of debt, the RIAA helpfully countered: So? Drop out of school so you can afford it.
So the RIAA has shown it's true colors finally. Personally...I say the whole lot of them can go fuck themselves. They can't stop all of us, and they never will.
Here is the link to the full article: RIAA Tells MIT Student to Drop Out Of School To Pay Fines
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Shadow Ryo Nightfall
April 7, 2007
Apple TV Alternative
OK, last post was about the Apple TV. Now for those of you who know me, I love to visit Hackaday. In fact it is listed in my links over on the right of the page. Well they had this electronics hack that caught my attention. I love the idea and I may consider doing it seeing as I pirate some movies here and there.
The basic idea behind the hack is to take an old Divx player and attach it to a wifi router, preferably running dd-wrt, and hook it into your network so you can host up media files from it. Another added benefit to this setup is that you are able to update the Divx player without having to hook it into a PC. Check out the post on Hackaday for the full write up and links to the site with instructions.
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The basic idea behind the hack is to take an old Divx player and attach it to a wifi router, preferably running dd-wrt, and hook it into your network so you can host up media files from it. Another added benefit to this setup is that you are able to update the Divx player without having to hook it into a PC. Check out the post on Hackaday for the full write up and links to the site with instructions.
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Shadow Ryo Nightfall
March 26, 2007
Apple TV
Interesting idea by Apple. I like the concept though, download a movie and put it on your iPod...but what if you could just put it on your flat screen tv instead? This would make my movie watching experience all the better...nothing like watching a move gained by questionable methods on a big tv with hi-def capabilities. What makes it even better is the fact the Apple TV uses your wireless network to get the content. Bravo Apple. We adore convenience here in the tech world and you are on the right track. Oh...and it didn't take long for people to hack it either. Read up on the tv itself here and the website for hacking your Apple TV is here.
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March 20, 2007
All is Well
I am going to work on the podcast myself since Steve and my schedule's make it nearly impossible for us to meet up at my house to record it. I may just have to figure out a decent way of phoning it in, if only my computer was able to run two instances of Skype at once. Ah well.
Let's see...news, oh yes. I heard about this interesting game disc that has it's own operating system, a linux distro for those of you who are curious. It sounds interesting for the fact is that it is trying to be an open platform gaming console for your computer. Apparently it was designed at a Nintendo conference. The system is called Gamix and here is a link to the website so you can request your own copy of the disc.
Other news, well, none off of the top of my head. I do recommend that you go and listen to some of the podcasts done by IGN. They are pretty interesting really. I have my PSP with a gigabyte stick in it set to download each new episode at six in the morning so that I have some form of entertainment during school.
Hmm...anything else. Well I think I have put quite a bit of stuff into this for almost one in the morning. Just think, I have a school day then a five hour work shift to do after all of this. Heh, lucky me and my poor judgement. Nah, it was worth staying up to play some video games and throw a quick post up. See you around on the net.
Shadow Ryo Nightfall
Let's see...news, oh yes. I heard about this interesting game disc that has it's own operating system, a linux distro for those of you who are curious. It sounds interesting for the fact is that it is trying to be an open platform gaming console for your computer. Apparently it was designed at a Nintendo conference. The system is called Gamix and here is a link to the website so you can request your own copy of the disc.
Other news, well, none off of the top of my head. I do recommend that you go and listen to some of the podcasts done by IGN. They are pretty interesting really. I have my PSP with a gigabyte stick in it set to download each new episode at six in the morning so that I have some form of entertainment during school.
Hmm...anything else. Well I think I have put quite a bit of stuff into this for almost one in the morning. Just think, I have a school day then a five hour work shift to do after all of this. Heh, lucky me and my poor judgement. Nah, it was worth staying up to play some video games and throw a quick post up. See you around on the net.
Shadow Ryo Nightfall
March 5, 2007
Delay
The podcast has been delayed due to illness (Steve) and some school competitions springing up. Now, I still plan on doing the podcast but I am waiting for Steve and myself to get a little free time in order to do so. Hopefully we will have time this Saturday or so. No promises are being made. I may be able to do crappy sounding podcast recordings on the go with my new toy. I have a Zire 72s PDA that has a built in microphone. The ironic part about this, I found it laying around on the ground. Not a bad find really. I have loaded games onto it and it looks like I can record around half an hour of audio with the small bit of memory left on it. The thing only has twenty-five megabytes of built in memory, but hey...I picked it up for free and it has support for SD, MMC, and I think one or two other types of cards. Not a bad find at all.
February 21, 2007
Next Podcast
OK, the next podcast's topic hasn't been decided yet. But, my friend Steve will hopefully be joining me in it. I now have a headset so when I record just by myself it will be a bit easier. Back to my friend's participation, he has already been in other podcasts so he has a bit of experience, and I have the tech knowledge to boot. So see you next time.
February 20, 2007
First Podcast
I finally got around to getting my first podcast done for my multimedia class, assignment is due tomorrow so I was running out of time. It is about Halo 3 and is over six minutes long. Listen in to find out more.
Halo 3
Halo 3
The Net
So, it turns out I get internet troubles right as I am needing it most. I have no internet at my house in other words. This has put a halt to all sorts of projects, including a majority of my school work at home. I am supposed to have the net back sometime around noon or so. Hopefully that will be the case so I will be able to get my podcast finished and posted. Steve won't be joining me in this one since it doubles as a Multimedia project for school.
That is all for now. Till next time.
That is all for now. Till next time.
February 16, 2007
School Woes and Games
So anyway, back again. I am sitting here during school being really bored. So I decided to post another entry on my blog with my extra time, that should be used doing research for a paper. Being able to e-mail entries in helps a lot just in case the school decides to block the blogspot site.
Let's see...I may do a podcast soon. My Multimedia class has a project going that requires us to do at least a one minute podcast and upload it to the blog they will set up. I am going to make one then link it here so everyone who starts reading will hear how I started out. Later on I may have my friend Steve join in on the podcasts. He used to do one here and there with a mutual friend of ours.
Anyway, back to the podcast. It will be about Halo 3 for the Xbox360. Basically I will just talk about the info released on it so far and spread out my knowledge to my classmates. I may cue up Halo 2's theme song to add into the background. So far I believe that I will use Daft Punk's song Digital Love for the background.
Let's see...I may do a podcast soon. My Multimedia class has a project going that requires us to do at least a one minute podcast and upload it to the blog they will set up. I am going to make one then link it here so everyone who starts reading will hear how I started out. Later on I may have my friend Steve join in on the podcasts. He used to do one here and there with a mutual friend of ours.
Anyway, back to the podcast. It will be about Halo 3 for the Xbox360. Basically I will just talk about the info released on it so far and spread out my knowledge to my classmates. I may cue up Halo 2's theme song to add into the background. So far I believe that I will use Daft Punk's song Digital Love for the background.
Talking Urinals? The Hell?
OK, I loled pretty hard when I read this on Reuters. In New Mexico, police want to remind drunks not to drive....so where do all people who drink end up? In the bathroom. So they have made talking urinals in order to do so. Interesting way of using technology really...here, read the news post yourself if you don't believe me.
Pretty interesting stuff. Here is the link to the actual webpage on Reuters: Talking Urinals
SANTA FE, New Mexico (Reuters) - In a novel move to curb drunk driving, New Mexico is using talking urinals to remind drinkers to not get behind the wheel when drunk.
The state transportation department said on Thursday it has put some 500 talking deodorizers in bar and restaurant restrooms in the state in recent days to remind drivers not to drink and drive.
"Hey big guy, having a few drinks? Then listen up!" a voice chirps in. "Think you had one too many? Then it's time to call a cab or call a sober friend for a ride home."
Transportation department spokesman SU Mahesh said the motion-activated devices were part of an attempt to "think outside the box" to tackle drunk driving in the state.
"We have a big problem here in New Mexico. ... Hopefully this will be a humorous and also serious way to catch men before they go to their cars and say to them 'it's not worth it to drink and drive,'" Mahesh told Reuters.
Mahesh said the devices, which are manufactured by New York-based Healthquest Technologies Inc., have been used elsewhere in the United States, but never as part of a statewide campaign.
If the project is successful he hopes bars and restaurants will continue to purchase the battery-operated gadgets, which cost $21 each and last three months.
Pretty interesting stuff. Here is the link to the actual webpage on Reuters: Talking Urinals
February 15, 2007
Star Trek
I have been out of the movie loop for quite awhile. So it is understandable I missed the rumors on the eleventh movie in the Star Trek series. So far the title rumors and the like say will be Star Trek: The Beginning. As you can tell from this title, it will take place before all the other movies in James T. Kirk's early days in Star Fleet.
Rumors say that Matt Damon will be playing the role of Kirk and Ben Affleck in the role of Mr. Spock. They better not screw the roles up.
I am still skeptical about this, but I hope this movie turns out to be a good addition to the Trek series. Maybe this movie will beat the Star Trek movie curse. For those who don't know what I mean, there is a reason I added Google into my blog links.
Rumors say that Matt Damon will be playing the role of Kirk and Ben Affleck in the role of Mr. Spock. They better not screw the roles up.
I am still skeptical about this, but I hope this movie turns out to be a good addition to the Trek series. Maybe this movie will beat the Star Trek movie curse. For those who don't know what I mean, there is a reason I added Google into my blog links.
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