XBMC Media Center has an interesting history, as it originates from the Microsoft Xbox game console – thus the name XBMC (Xbox Media Center). It has a long history as the project goes back to as far as the year 2002. XBMC can be considered as one of the killer applications for the original Xbox [...]
The famous documentary movie director Michael Moore has released his latest as a free download on the Internet. The movie Slacker Uprising is available at slackeruprising.com, but for some reason the download is restricted to US and Canadien IP addresses only. I have no idea what is the idea of this restriction, which is technically [...]
I love WordPress. In a matter of just a couple of hours we just performed a huge update to the site. There are some rough edges and dirty workarounds, but overall things seem to work great. Most obvious change of course is the new theme, which I think is a nice upgrade from the previous [...]
Couple of years ago Google released a nifty little Mozilla Firefox add-on known as Google Browser Sync. This little tool had the sole purpose of synchronizing the personal data in between multiple installation of Mozilla Firefox web browser. In other words it synchronized user’s passwords, bookmarks, saved form data and cookies in between multiple PC. [...]
Pioneer BDC-202 is an interesting combo drive that brings you the features of a Blu-ray BD-ROM drive and a DVD recorder. As such it is an interesting choice for any home computer, but especially for HTPCs due to the Blu-ray playback features. We have just started testing the drive, and as usual our primary interest [...]
Marble Maze for Nokia N95, N95 8GB and N82 by Cahoona Games
Marble Maze is a labyrinth game that utilizes the orientation sensor built inside some Nokia mobile phones (like Nokia N95, N95 8GB, and N82). In the game you control a ball inside a labyrinth by tilting the device in your hands. Currently there are [...]
Pioneer Electronics just sent out an interesting announcement regarding their Blu-ray BD-ROM / DVD-RW combo drive. According to their press release, the BDC-S02 combo drive can now be purchased for less than €150 or £100 in Europe. While it is still somewhat more expensive than a plain DVD-RW drive, the price range of Blu-ray [...]
Yet another proof that no copy protection is unbeatable, which again makes one wonder why do they put so much money and effort in developing them. Usually the protections get cracked and the one to beat the protection gets famous, like Jon Lech Johanssen aka ‘DVD Jon’, who craked the CSS protection used on DVDs. [...]
The momentum is high for the PlayStation 3. Price reductions brought the console quite close to Xbox 360, the game line-up is constantly improving and the Linux capabilities makes it a versatile platform with many uses. The most important factor however is the ending of the Blu-ray vs. HD DVD format war. The Blu-ray is [...]
BitBurners.com has always been an hosting and website platform services provider for interesting software projects. We are hosting the websites of the famous HC Encoder and QuEnc, both high quality and free MPEG encoders. Today we have expanded to whole new areas by adopting a mobile phone game developer Cahoona Games to BitBurners.com. They are [...]
