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Sky are running a new and improved introduce a Friend scheme, where you can invite a friend and received a free Apple iPod Touch 8GB. This is a welcomed improvement from the M&S voucher…

Love Sky? Introduce a friend to Sky TV

Do you know someone who would enjoy Sky as much as you do? Invite them to join and we’ll give you an 8GB iPod touch to say thanks. What’s more, we’ll add 1 month of Sky Mobile TV for free.

Your friend could take a free Sky+HD box with standard set-up online (normally £30), plus £25 M&S vouchers if they join Sky TV online with their first HD package. Once your friend has joined and made the first payment on their subscription, we’ll send you your iPod touch.

Your friend must join Sky TV by 24 March 2010.

Go on, sign them up!

If you want to join Sky send me and email and I will set you up with my ID

PSN is now back for users in the uk! waiting on confirmation about US!

Remember all the hysteria about the Y2K Bug? Well, something like that just happened to PlayStation 3.

I was on my PS3 last night, and saw people going crazy on forums about this error.. and at the time nobody really knew what it was.. I thought it was weird that it was around 12GMT on a leap year but thought no thats not right sony wouldnt cock up that much… how wrong I was!

basically, there are 2 clock in a PS3… a system clock and an OS clock. The system clock never stops and only ever counts upwards, it cant go down. The fault lies in this as it thinks this year is a leap year and therefore changed the time to 00:00 Feb 29th (this clock never stops and isnt connected to the internet so even if your PS3 was unplugged from mains and internet its still fucked) so when users turn the PS3 on.. the system clock trys to update the OS clock… and it just goes WTF!?!? this aint right so changes the date back to 1999 for some, 2000 for others and even some as far back as 1600

So far there is only one fix and it hasnt been mentioned by Sony.. that is to take the PS3 apart and disconnect the battery from the system clock (yes there is a battery in there, its kinda like a watch battery) as this resets the system clock and is the only way (i know of) doing it. Its also only the “phatt” models that are affected, so the slims are fine!

Its going to be interesting to see what Sony do to fix this as it is a hardware fault not a software fault that im pretty sure cant be updated with abit of software… unless they release a new firmware that disregards the system clocks time/date and only uses the time difference between switching the PS3 off and then on again and then adding it to the system clock.. but who knows

They will release a statement/fix on the problem tomorrow so dont expect anything today as i recon they are waiting for the system clock to tick over again tonight… and see what it turns out at as it could fix itself!

Google Buzz has been developed by Google to rival the likes of social networking giants Facebook and Twitter. Google buzz is currently being rolled out to everyone, so it should be appearing in peoples Gmail accounts soon.

Features:

No setup needed
Automatically follow the people you email and chat with the most in Gmail.

Share publicly or privately
Publish your ideas to the world or just to your closest friends.

Inbox integration
Comments get sent right to your inbox so it’s easy to keep the conversation going.

Photo friendly
See thumbnails with each post, and browse full-screen photos from popular sites.

Connect sites you already use
Import your stuff from Twitter, Picasa, Flickr, and Google Reader.

See updates in real time:
New posts and comments pop in as they happen. No refresh required.

Just the good stuff
Buzz recommends interesting posts and weeds out ones you’re likely to skip.

This comes at the time when Facebook have just launched their new and imporved ‘home’ design, which has a more web 2.0 feel to it.

Personally I cant see it rivalling Facebook’s 400 million users, but seemingly its trying to target Google’s 170 million Gmail users. Google have previously failed to create a social network with the site orkut, which has only really seen success in Brazil and India.

Watch this space.

Over the past few weeks interwebz.co.uk has been getting so many irrelevant and dam right shit comments, posted by people who are just commenting for the nice juicy do-follow link. Im sure alot of bloggers agree with me on this, its just a dam right SPAM.

Granted I have done my fair share of blog commenting to gain an extra bit of link juice, but I bloody well read the article and attempt to make a comment that I feel is relevant and contributes to the topic in question. I mean the least you could do is post a decent comment seems your getting a backlink out of it, YOU LAZY GITS. Im sick and tired of seeing 5/6 comments a day like this:

Im a troll: Hi, I dont always agree with your post but ive bookmarked your blog. Have a good day mate.

Firstly you have not bookmarked my blog you little fibber you and secondly im not your mate, MATE.

People are to eager to jump up the SERP’s and often this is their biggest downfall. Gaining a number 1 position in Google for a desired keyword is not going to happen over night.

If you want blog comments to help you your SEO then here are a few points that you might want to consider when commenting on blogs:

1. PLEASE, please read the article before commenting, it always helps if you know what the topic is about to post a decent comment. Most of the time you may learn something new, so there is no reason why you shouldnt read it.

I hope this will clear a few things up for you dam spamming trolls. Either leave a decent comment or ill just keep hitting “delete”.

Thanks

Alex Reid has just won Celebrity Big Brother 2010, the last to be commisioned by Channel4. He beat off close opposition from Dane Bowers (2nd) and Vinnie Jones (3rd)

Alex has only recently shot to fame after becoming Jordan’s boyfriend after her very public split up with Peter Andre. Named after Alexander the Great, cage fighter Alex is currently dating model Katie Price. Fighting under the names of Reidenator and The Detanator, he is trained in numerous martial arts including ‘Vale Tudo’ which he describes as “as near as you can get to total mayhem in a controlled environment”

Alex Reid (right, Big Brother Winner 2010) Dane Bowers (left, runner-up)

I personally wanted Vinnie to win, but in the last few days I went off him alot and he was shown to be abit of a bully that abused his power so I ended up happy with who won it in the end.

Who did you want to win?

Apple have revealed the Apple iPad. It seems that the rumours were right. Im still puzzled as to what the main function of the iPad is for? To me it looks like an overgrown iPhone. Looks impresive though.

Prices are set at:

16GB –
$499 WI-FI
$629 WI-FI + 3G

32GB -
$599 WI-FI
$729 WI-FI + 3G

64GB -
$699 WI-FI
$829 WI-FI + 3G

The 16GB seems a reasonable price. The iPad is going to rival most netbooks, with a high probability of dominating the market. I for one would prefer an Apple iPad rather than an eee PC.

If you think its too expensive… fear not! you can get one free from Free Apple iPad They will be up on there and available shortly so dont hang about and sign up for your free ipad (or any other gift) quick!

For full specs and features visit: Apple iPad

You can expect Wi-Fi models shipping in late March. 3G models shipping in April. (This is the Apple.com other country’s are awaiting confirmation.)

Thoughts?

BBC report suggest that the PS3 has been ‘hacked’ by notorious iPhone Cracker, George Hotz.

George Hotz claims that the hack has taken 5 weeks to create which he says allows users to pirated games or home-made software on the PS3. He plans to refine the technique but hopes to soon release the hack online.

The PS3 stands as the only console to not be hacked until now, which has lasted a few years. Hotz has admited that its “very secure system” but nothing is “unhackable”.

Some people may suggest that this will now allow users to install new OS which will allow for backward compatibility for PS2 games.

I can now do whatever I want with the system. It’s like I’ve got an awesome new power – I’m just not sure how to wield it.

LOL?!?!?

Read the full BBC report here: PS3 hack BBC

So what do you think about these claims?

Hey guys, I saw these on a forum I visit, they both had me in stitches. The videos are set in real life where an on-line gamer takes part in a game of monopoly. Enjoy

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