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Overprotective Internet Browser
by Squirrel- 1 follower
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I use a website to help me download video's from Youtube. It's free and easy to use and can get a decent copy of any video I need. Obviously as it's a free service the website makers need to make money so they always have annoying pop-ups and lots of adverts. I can deal with that, I know not to download anything or install anything from these dodgy websites as I'm fairly internet savvy. The downloads I get from the site are either an audio or video file, never a zip or .exe file that could contain harmful malware. Today google chrome has started treating that site differently. I can still use the site as normal but just as I get to the download file point (whi…
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PSN Connectivity Issues
by Jaggy- 1 follower
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Is anyone else having issues staying logged into PSN ever since Friday? This afternoon was the first time I tried logging in under my name on PS3. It worked and I was able to play GTA Online for about 20 minutes. I got signed out of PSN, but was also getting the "Saving Failed" message from Rockstar while parachuting. On Saturday & Sunday, Torrid was having all sorts of issues staying connected to PSN. I think he said he got signed out every 5-10 minutes from PSN. We've never had these issues before and they only started happening since "maintenance" on Friday night. I'm kind of at a loss and not sure if it's just our PS3 having these issues or if others …
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Thrustmaster T500/T300RS Racing Wheels
by DavidCore89- 1 follower
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Today I sold my trusted Logitech G27 as it's not supported on PS4, Logitech have also stopped making and supporting racing wheels. For a long time this wheel was the benchmark and almost nothing could rival it on PS3, but now I'm looking at Thrustmaster as their wheels seem very good and the high end products have interchangeable parts and upgrades. So, I'm really looking to buy a new racing wheel set before the upcoming release of F1 2015 and Project CARS and naturally I look at the top of the range . Does anyone have the Thrustmaster T500RS Racing Wheel? http://www.thrustmaster.com/products/t500rs. If you do have it or have used it, what are you opinions of…
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PS4 Default headset - Any Good?
by Nazrill- 1 follower
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Afternoon guys n gals! So the good news is I finally have a PS4 Bad news is that I'm still waiting for Amazon to get my copy of GTAV across to me so just a quick question in the interim. There's a 'default' headset which comes with the PS4 (well, an ear bud with a mic built into the line) Whats everyone's experience of this like? Will it do the job or should I look at spending the extra on a new one? (I'd like to avoid this if poss, but if has to be done then so be it) Thanks & see you all in LS soon Nazrill
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Broken PS3
by Lann- 3 followers
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So I have had a fat ps3 since they came out, and many years ago i put a 500GB in it. Everything has been working fine until recent. First the cd/dvd reader died last year, solved it by buying and downloading digital gta Now it will just give me a blinking red light when i try and turn it on. Took it apart removed all dust, still same problem. Now, my real concern is all the family video and pics that I still have on there (yea. i know, backup eh). Does anyone have had a similar issue, or even a solution to this problem? I have been told that a disc cant be moved to a new system (Fat or slim) without formating. Thanks for even reading this far! /La…
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PS3 Youtube App
by PapOiteE- 0 replies
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Hello everyone I have a little question about this app. Does it support 60 fps videos?
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PS Vita?
by JustHatched- 15 replies
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I was just curious who has one, how often do you play it? I do have one and it is an amazing little handheld. I don't game on it often, issues with my right hand prevents me from hanging on to it for very long. But I do use it quite a bit for music unlimited and skyping with my daughter.
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Spotify for Playstation
by Squirrel- 1 follower
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http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/30/8303279/spotify-sony-ps4-ps3-launch Spotify comes to the Sony consoles. For PS3 this is just a separate app to be used but on PS4 it can be used in the background so can listen to music while gaming. Goodbye car radio!
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PS4 Software 2.50
by rofur- 1 follower
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So a new software update comes tomorrow with some interesting new features. Here's the Playstation blog post with details: http://bit.ly/1Iue1ek Looks like we'll have the ability to join friends directly from the What's New tab on the XMB. Could come in handy.
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PS4 deal at U.S. GameStops
by SeymorScagneti- 1 follower
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Get $175 credit when you trade in a 120+ GB PS3 or 250+ GB Xbox360 towards a PS4. http://www.gamestop.com/weeklyad
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Now it's been a while since some of you moved from the PS3 to the PS4 I'm interested to hear what your views are on whether you still think it was a good move and why, and if anything, what you miss about the PS3 (although I know some of you have done what I'll do and keep the PS3....in my case it'd probably live the rest of it's life as my Son's Minecraft machine). My reasons for not moving just yet is I only play a very very small number of games (mainly GTA V) and would probably just end up buying and playing the same games, so whilst there are still some great Crew members on PS3 I'm not sure I'd notice that much of a difference.... although I do miss playing with…
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Playstation TV
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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http://www.playstation.com/en-us/explore/playstationtv/ I was in Walmart today and I seen this, didn't know what it was till I googled it. Anybody have it? How does it work?
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Fragfx shark
by iriekine- 2 replies
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I'm old school. The mouse/keyboard combo is my wheelhouse. The sixaxis PS3 controller always seems to be a struggle (obviously!). This Splitfish fragfx shark is intriguing but kinda spendy. Thoughts? Anyone used one of these, or something like it?
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No mic? Tesco got you covered for £4.
by Shinsou12- 1 follower
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Seriously. That's ridiculous. £4 online for a mono wired. It's going to be utter crap but it will allow for comms for the budget conscious buyer. http://www.tesco.com/direct/gaming/other-acessories/cat29730027.cat
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[For Sale] Capture Card
by JustHatched- 0 replies
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I am selling my capture card if anyone is interested. Soon (not real soon) I will be parting with my PS3 and I am no longer in need of this device, rather than have it sit around I will make a deal with a crew member What is it? Elgato Game Capture HD https://www.elgato.com/en/gaming/gamecapture-hd It will record PS3, PS4, XB360, and XB1 game play, you can use it to live stream from a PS3 (and the others) as well. I have not used it much, and the reason is that while it is and HD capture card, some deal with Sony (legal shit) the PS3 can not be hitch to it using and HDMI cable, you have to use the supplied AV cable (graphic are effected). (there is a software update…
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Gaming Glasses
by markt112- 1 follower
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Was just wondering if anyone has any gaming glasses and if they are any good? I can barely manage an hours worth of gaming now without my eyes becoming strained and headaches. Can anyone recommend which are the best to get? Was looking at a pair of Gunnars for around £150 - not sure if these are any good? Thanks
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Joomla website help
by ScottyB- 1 follower
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Hey Guys, I have a very basic website for my business and was wanting to know if anyone knows a good free plug in that i can use to display pictures. I dont have any coding experience but would be able to slightly edit stuff if needed (through the help of google) but would rather not. It will be a portfolio of current work and i would like a layout to have a main picture that you click on and then it will go into the other pictures for that job. If any one can point me in the right direction i would be very grateful. Thanks in advance!
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PS4 Controller Stick Condoms
by ronin- 1 follower
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As you can see in the pic below, the left controller stick cap of my PS4 controller, the rubbery thing, is already worn out completely and it is getting worse by the day, though I only have it for not even 4 months and I don't bite it nor do I have a dog ... Was thinking about replacing it or put a little cover on top of it. I heard it mention in one of the PL's so I was wondering if anyone had any advise on what was the best solution. I did google a bit and noticed there are two methods: replace the cap or put a 'condom' on top of it. Are these PS4 standard caps that you put on top of he existing ones any good or am I better off replacing the whole rubber?
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Ps4 problem
by grjkie- 1 follower
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Hey guys, since you all probably have the ps4 system for longer than I've had mine I'm posting my issues to see if any of you have already had similar problems. I've had my system for a couple of months now and this morning when I turned it on it wouldn't respond. I would hear one beep but no lights or anything else. Unplugged everything, it booted. Just to turn itself off a couple of minutes later. Googled a bit, unplugged everything again and booted in safe mode. There was a system update, did that, played gta for about 2 hours and the issue reappeared. Now it only beeps, no lights or anything... Faulty unit perhaps? It sucks to have a new system die on me like this, n…
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Playstation App/Sending messages over PSN 1 2
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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I didn't know this existed until yesterday and I assume they they something for the iOS stuff Anyway if you do not have it you should get it. Best thing IMO to use it for, if you do not have a Vita or PS4 then thru this app you can have more than 100 friends on your list. I always used my Vita to accept new requests, but now can do it from my phone as well. You can also send PSN messages, shop the PSN store and link to your PS4 from it as well. Check it out, it's free so why not. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scee.psxandroid&hl=en
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Broadband Help
by markt112- 1 follower
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We are switching over to BT infinity tomorrow. Ive noticed on the setup instructions it says to connect to the master socket. Does anyone know if this really matters? I also haven't got a clue which socket in our house is the master socket - a friend told me you can tell by the face plate but a while ago we changed all the face plates to brass so all 6 look exactly the same. If it does matter about the master socket is it easy to move? Cheers
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Party Chat
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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Just curious what you think the pros and cons are of using, I see many crew members do use it, even when in a crew playlist so I am wondering what is better than being in game chat?
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Play with any controller
by Smurf- 1 follower
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So I ran across this little innovative USB device recently called 'CronusMAX' an as my title states play with any controller I would emplore you to check it out on your own because I am not sure if Its allowable be pasting links in here but I am sure I will probably be getting one in the near future. Leave comments below of how you think it would help you and or what features stand out.
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Guys, make sure you use your one-time 10% discount in the Playstation Store this weekend. We are getting a 10% discount and a five day extension to our PS+ membership from the downtime at Christmas. Here's a link to the article with the discount code and what's included: Discount Code
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Microsoft HoloLens
by SeymorScagneti- 4 replies
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107Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
Curvature (2017) dir Dieogo Hallivis An interesting, low-budget sci-fi, but with a confusingly flawed plot and at times terrible script and support acting. Scientist Helen (Lyndsy Fonseca) returns to work a couple of weeks after her husband killed himself. He was also a scientist and his company has invented a time machine. What seems to her a day or so later she awakes a bit groggy and discovers she cannot remember the past 7 days. She then gets a phone call from a mysterious woman warning her someone is coming to kill her. She goes to her family hunting cabin and there she finds some things not quite as expected, as if someone was leaving her clues and eventually works out things are not what they seemed to be at first. As I said already the plot is confusing. What we are eventually meant to believe has happened involves someone using the time machine to travel into their own past, to get their past self to do something different. So now, in the timeline we are watching at least, there are 2 copies of this character. This ought to make for an interesting plot about the consequences of time travel, if it were possible. But it's just badly written and does not explore this the way a serious sci-fi film ought to. For example the fact that someone goes back into their own past, making two copies of themselves, surely means one of those two is also going to go back in time eventually, so then there then will be 3 of them, and then one of those will go back in time to make 4, etc etc. It also has some pretty cheap plot elements and crappy lines. There is one bit were someone is tracking another person down, finds them inside a locked room, and says something like “OK, come out or I'll count to 10 then smash the door down”. Why would you give your enemy a 10 s warning!? It's like a child wrote it at times. However it's still an interesting story and the lead actor manages to hold things together despite the poor support. 4 / 10- 2
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107Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
What I Watched This Week #120 (April 15-21) Of Time and the City dir. Terence Davies/2008/1h18m Of Time and the City is a documentary collage film made up of newsreel and archive footage that builds up a picture of the director's childhood in Liverpool during the 50's and 60's. This is like film as a memory, fragmented and broken into unrelated segments as if it were edited by stream of consciousness all scored to a majestic classical soundtrack. The narration, by Davies himself, is just like the rest of the film, at times he snarls about religion and the royal family, at others he rhapsodises about his working class upbringing, his s*xual awakening. Both incredibly personal and universal – he could be talking about a thousand cities, a thousand lives – the juxtaposition of dirt poor children playing in the streets set to highbrow classical music does become a little laboured over the length of the film, but that is my only small negative I have for this very moving picture of time and place. 9/10 Joint Security Area dir. Park Chan-wook/2000/1h48m On the border of North and South Korea two Northern soldiers are killed by a soldier from the South with the investigation uncovering what seems to be a very strange mystery – too many bullets fired, stories not matching up – but the truth is much simpler and much more tragic. Director Park Chan-wook is a master of unravelling mysteries in interesting ways – Oldboy and the recent Decision to Leave being two prime examples – and this is no different, with the investigation uncovering more information relayed through flashbacks. Saying anything more about the plot would be to spoil it, but the tension never lets up, even during moments of levity, because one wrong move would be disastrous for both sides. The two lead performances of South Korean Sgt. Lee (Lee Byung-hun) and the North's Sgt. Oh (Song Kang-ho, probably the biggest star in Korean film right now thanks to his work with b*ng Joon-ho) are excellent. The film also ends with a brilliant still image from a scene in the middle of the film that is given a whole new meaning thanks to the context we subsequently get. 9/10 Lime's Film of the Week! Dead of Night dir. Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer, Alberto Cavalcanti/1945/1h43m Dead of Night is an anthology horror film that stars Mervyn Johns as Walter Craig, an architect invited to a cosy little country inn to see about renovations, but when he arrives he realises that all of the people there, total strangers, are people he has seen in a dream, a dream where something terrible happens at the end, but he can't remember what. We then get four of the guests telling spooky stories of their own, which makes up the majority of the film. While the first three stories are good, especially the more comedic one about a dead golfer haunting his friend, it's the last one that really sticks with you. It stars Michael Redgrave as ventriloquist Maxwell Frere who goes mad with jealousy thinking that his d*mmy Hugo wants to leave him for another ventriloquist. It felt very much like an inspiration for the brilliant Anthony Hopkins film Magic (and every other creepy ventriloquist's d*mmy in media.) Chilling and charming in equal measure, this is a fun watch with some genuine thrills sprinkled throughout. 9/10 The Guard dir. John Michael McDonagh/2011/1h36m Mean, miserable, drug addled and prostitute loving small town Irish cop Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) is less than pleased when he's teamed up with FBI agent Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle) to bust an international drug smuggling ring. This is a black comedy with a real mean streak that you can't help but to compare to the works of the director's brother Martin McDonagh, particularly In Bruges. It's a testament to this film that it's not a totally unflattering comparison. Gleeson is always a joy to watch, even when he's playing someone so aggressively unlikeable. Cheadle doesn't really have a lot to do other than be amazed that Boyle is saying/doing the things that he's saying/doing, but he does it well. It does fell a little too mean spirited at points, but that is softened by a few scenes where Boyle meets with his equally foul-mouthed mother (Fionnula Flanagan), and I really liked Mark Strong's character of a drug dealer who feels like he's above it all. 7/10 The Party dir. Sally Potter/2017/1h11m Janet (Kristin Scott Thomas) is throwing a party to celebrate getting a shadow ministerial position but her husband Bill (Timothy Spall) seems distant and distracted, her best friend April (Patricia Clarkson) is splitting up with her partner, the very zen Godfried (Bruno Ganz), and Tom (Cillian Murphy) has turned up upset with a load of cocaine and a gun. A blackly comic social satire, this gets a little too verbose at times and feels like the characters are just spouting ideologies rather than having conversations for a lot of the very short runtime, but when it is as well written as this is you can forgive that for the most part. The performances are all solid. Clarkson's withering insults had me cackling every time, and I couldn't get enough of Ganz's Godfried, especially when he starts a therapy session for Bill and Tom. This film also has a really strong ending which I didn't see coming but that the script had seeded subtly throughout in a very smart way. 8.5/10 The Cure dir. Charlie Chaplin/1917/24m In this mid tier Chaplin short he plays an alcoholic who checks in to a health spa in order to sober up, but it's going to be a hard job when he brings a case full of booze with him. In the end the spa's well of curative water is spiked with alcohol and everyone enjoys getting blasted. During the film he makes classic slapstick out of revolving doors, the changing rooms and has a wrestling match with a burly masseuse. For me, whenever Chaplin strays from the character of the little tr*mp his films lose a bit of their heart and humanity. Rather than actually having anything to say this film is more like his earlier works in that it's just a succession of gags. They're really good ones performed by the best to ever do it, but when you know he's capable of more then you can't help but feel a little disappointed. That said, this is still better than the majority of films from the time and we're lucky to still have them. 6.5/10 Dilating for Maximum Results dir. Nyala Moon/2023/14m Trans woman Dreya (writer/director Nyala Moon) is going to hook up with her online boyfriend for the first time, but she has never been with a man and hasn't dilated in years, with this comedy following her as she tries to get ready. You learn something new every day, and the day I watched this film I learned that trans women need to dilate to stop from closing up, and that is what we get here in what I can only call a zany way. My main problem with this film is that the comedy is very TikTok if that makes sense. It's just not my taste, but that's me being an old man not hip with the kids. I do like how much of Moon's personality shines through here, she's very engaging and likeable. I also appreciate seeing a film about a trans woman that's not depressing and only focuses on negative experiences. 6/10 TRAY TRAY KO dir. Seba Calfuqueo/2022/6m (no trailer so here's the artist performing another piece in a gallery) This avant-garde piece of indigenous art see filmmaker Calfuqueo drag a long train of shimmering blue material through the Chilean rainforest to a sacred spot at the base of a waterfall. The only sounds are that of the forest and the water. The material is like a stream of man's making, leaving its mark on the landscape but only for a second, only until Calfuqueo hass passed by. There's a gorgeous overhead shot of the synthetic stream running next to a real one, man in harmony with nature. Hypnotic and meditative. 7/10- 2
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