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I think that it’s incredibly interesting that the computer in the background sporting the Windows 7 logo is a MacBook Pro. Just sayin’. lol

That’s all.

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Just got word on Facebook from Danny Choo about a program that was created where you can turn your “Mac into a Media Server and play files over the network on your PS3.”

If you’re interested and want to know how, you can find it at http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver

These are the current features (this is taken direct from the link above):

Current features

• Ready to launch and play. No codec packs to install. No folder configuration and pre-parsing or this kind of annoying thing. All your folders are directly browsed by the PS3, there’s an automatic refresh also.
• Real-time video transcoding via MEncoder
• DVD ISOs images / VIDEO_TS Folder transcoder
• OGG/FLAC/MPC/APE audio transcoding
• Thumbnail generation for Videos
• You can choose with a virtual folder system your audio/subtitle language on the PS3!
• All formats PS3 natively supports: MP3/WMA, JPG/PNG/GIF/TIFF, and all kind of videos (AVI, MP4, TS, M2TS, MPEG) the ps3 is willing to play
• Display camera RAWs thumbnails (Canon / Nikon, etc.)
• ZIP/RAR files as browsable folders
• Support for pictures based feeds, such as Flickr and Picasaweb
• Internet TV / Web Radio support with VLC, MEncoder or MPlayer
• Podcasts audio/ Video feeds support
• Basic Xbox360 support
• Windows/Linux Only:
• Direct streaming of DTS / DTS-HD core to the receiver
• Remux PS3 compatible H264/MPEG2 video and all audio tracks to AC3/DTS/LPCM in real time with tsMuxer
• FLAC 96kHz/24bits/5.1 support
• Windows Only:
• DVR-MS remuxer

While I don’t own a PS3 I thought I’d pass the information along, because if I did I’d probably try this. Household only has an XBox 360.

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Word is that Microsoft is going to start retail stores. “What?!” I know right! That took me by total surprise, but then again I shouldn’t be, as Microsoft has been copying Apple for a long time now.

According to a little article on mercurynews.com, Walmart veteran, Dave Porter will be the retail store strategist for Microsoft. Read more…

Other sources:
Mercury News
Computer World

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