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  • Kevin Butler Retweets PS3 Jailbreak Code

    // Gradly // blog, Funny, PS3, Rants & Raves 1 Response

    Sony’s awesome, yet not actually real, Vice President of, well, anything Sony PlayStation related has today made a mistake that is sure to not be forgotten for the months or even years to come.

    Travis La Marr, or “@exiva“, sent a tweet over to Kevin Butler’s Twitter account which contained the PlayStation 3 METLDR root key and more-or-less challenged the VP of everything to “Come at me.” Apparently, Kevin Butler hasn’t heard the news recently as he confused it for a Battleship reference and retweeted the code for everyone to see.

    The tweet has since been removed, but Engadget was able to snap a screenshot of the tweet, found above.

  • Google Translate for iOS released

    // Gradly // blog, google, iPhone 2 Responses

    Google just released their native translation app for iOS (iTunes download) which allows you to speak translations and hear results.

    OK, this is friggen awesome!  details, below:

    Speak to translate
    The new app accepts voice input for 15 languages, and—just like the web app—you can translate a word or phrase into one of more than 50 languages. For voice input, just press the microphone icon next to the text box and say what you want to translate.

    Listen to your translations
    You can also listen to your translations spoken out loud in one of 23 different languages. This feature uses the same new speech synthesizer voices as the desktop version of Google Translate we introduced last month.

    Full-screen mode
    Another feature that might come in handy is the ability to easily enlarge the translated text to full-screen size. This way, it’s much easier to read the text on the screen, or show the translation to the person you are communicating with. Just tap on the zoom icon to quickly zoom in.

    And the app also includes all of the major features of the web app, including the ability to view dictionary results for single words, access your starred translations and translation history even when offline, and support romanized text like Pinyin and Romaji.

    Get it here.

  • Verizon iPhone 4 Supports Both CDMA & GSM

    // Gradly // Apple, blog, iPhone, Rants & Raves No Responses

    We always say that folks over iFixit are just too quick. The have already got their hands on the Verizon iPhone 4 to reveal many interesting facts. There is only one interesting thing that have found in it. The Verizon iPhone 4 uses a Qualcomm MDM6600 baseband chipset which is not only supporting CDMA but also the high-speed HSPA/ AT&T GSM.

    Only the CDMA part is enabled which means you can activate the GSM part to switch between both networks using the Verizon iPhone.

    According to the iFixit:

    “It may be that it was easier to design antennas for a CDMA-only phone-this phone supports two cellular frequency bands, while Apple supports five bands in the GSM version“.

    “This is the same chipset as the Droid Pro world phone. It supports both GSM and CDMA-which means that Apple *could* have supported GSM!”

    May be it was less complicated for them to use such infrastructure. They could have release single phone to support both networks (AT&T and Verizon) on it. It seems that iPhone 5 will also have a similar structure or may be Apple has something interesting to reveal which we cannot predict right now.

  • The Hobbit to start Shooting on March 21st

    // Gradly // blog, Movies, News, Rants & Raves No Responses

    Production company 3Foot7 Ltd, is pleased to announce that the first day of principal photography for The Hobbit will be Monday 21 March, 2011. It was supposed to start shooting this month, but director Peter Jackson was recently in the hospital for an operation, which kind of slowed down production a bit. He’s OK though, and here’s what the director had to say,

    Despite some delays we are fully back on track and very excited to get started.

    3Foot7 Ltd (who released this news) added,

    This date has been chosen following practical considerations of the filming schedule requirements, actor availability and the NZ seasons. Shooting will take place at Stone Street Studios in Miramar and on location around New Zealand.

    Confirmed cast include Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Ken Stott, Graham McTavish, William Kircher, James Nesbitt, Stephen Hunter, Rob Kazinsky, Aidan Turner, Peter Hambleton, John Callen, Jed Brophy, Mark Hadlow, Adam Brown, Cate Blanchett, Andy Serkis, Mikael Persbrant, Sylvester McCoy and Elijah Wood.

    The two Hobbit films will be released in December 2012 and December 2013.