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I was reading about some updates for the PS3 and notice mention about full screen flash. I was thinking that wasn’t possible unless they had Flash Player 9, previously the PS3 only had Flash Player 7. The details on the web are all fuzzy and I couldn’t tell what it really meant. But either way I power up the PS3 and in the browser went to:
http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about
On that page it shows that the Flash Player version for my PS3 with firmware 2.52 has Flash Player 9.0.124.0. That is news to me, and I thought would be big news to alot of people. Well go try it out and let me know if I am not going crazy.
Note I tried Hulu.com and was able to play videos but clicking on the fullscreen button it didn’t quite work. It didn’t go into full screen mode but it did get rid of the menu buttons and became smaller in its original place, which was a little weird.
I guess PS3 firmware 2.53 is due out anytime now (it was leak that it was going to be release on Thanksgiving Day). The 2.53 release is suppose to fix the Flash Player fullscreen issue, I guess we’ll see. Either way with Flash Player 9 you should be able to run Flex applications on the PS3 now.
December 1st, 2008
To bad there is not a Flash Player 9 for Linux PowerPC distros or I would be coding Flex right now. So I am writing this post on my Playstation 3 using Yellow Dog linux 5.0 (the free version was just released today) as the “Other OS” on the box. The installation process was not that terrible hard. I was not able to install the Flash Player 7 or 9, and am not sure there is any Linux PowerPC Flash Players out there, any one know?
I am running off the wired network port, it would be cool if I could find the driver for the wireless card in the Playstation 3 itself. Other quirks is the whole HDMI to DVI only capable of connecting to HDCP ready devices. I am currently doing a 720p out through component into a VGA box converter into my monitor. Its not bad but nothing like true 1080p would be. Been sick for the last couple of days, what a time to get the flu bug, so I haven’t had all the time I wanted to get messing around with the Playstation 3. Maybe you’ll hear more on it later from me for now I am off to play some games.
December 27th, 2006
On July 4th Opera release a press item about their new Opera Mobile 8.6 browser for Windows Mobile 5.0 will be the recommended browser for a new device, called Sharp W-ZERO3[es].
There is a bit of information that sparked my attention:
“Opera Mobile 8.6 for PPC is also the first Opera Mobile version to support Flash.”
Continue Reading July 7th, 2006
I have had my 2 new Viewsonic VX2025wm monitors working nicely with my eVGA 7600GT video card. The 2 monitors where hocked up through the DVI connection, but little did I know about DVI connections and the problems with devices. It happened after I played some games over at my cousin’s house. While there I had to hook up my computer to an old samsung CRT. I had to go into Windows VGA mode that night to get that working. When I came home and hocked up my computer the next day I got one VX2025wm working through DVI and the other would not come up on the DVI connection.
I spent an hour and half just trying to figure out what was the issue, and finally just hooked it up through the VGA-DVI connector. Well tonight I decided to really try and understand what was going on…
Continue Reading June 24th, 2006
I have some 5 year old CRTs and decided to make a jump into the LCD world. The two major factors that have kept me from buying LCD’s have been screen resolution and price. These are related because I have become accustomed to 1600×1200 or higher resolution for the past five years and didn’t think I could go lower….
Continue Reading May 8th, 2006
I finally broke down and bought an expensive Intel 670 3.8Ghz CPU. In the past I have successfully overclocked cheaper CPU’s to their more expensive counterparts. Last year I overclocked a Intel 2.4Ghz to 3.2Ghz (I posted this CPU at 3.6Ghz ). Between the 670 and the 2.4Ghz I bought a Intel 630 3Ghz L2 2Mb HyperThreading (HT) CPU where I became found of the higher L2 cache and HT.
I have bought the latest motherboard, RAM, Hard Drive, CD/DVD drive, Sound Card and Video Card, but up to this point I had not bought the latest CPU.
The Intel 670 3.8Ghz cost me $615 at newegg.com. I installed it into a Shuttle barebones as its the machine I take to work every day. The shuttle is running a 915 chipset and 2Gb of Corsair 2-3-2-6 DDR 400 RAM. The Shuttle’s heat pipe and adjustable 80mm fan offers decent cooling ( can’t do much more with a small case like this ). So I applied my Artic Silver 5 and popped the CPU into the motherboard.
After some tweaking and a couple hours of benchmarking I was able to run my CPU at 4.2Ghz, I stopped trying to push it after it would post at 4.3Ghz but wouldn’t go into Windows.
Doing my own tests I found the CPU has given me about a 24% increase in my most common daily task. That daily task was compiling mxml files as I developed Flex an application. Before adding my CPU the application took 13 seconds to recompile every time I made a change (of course different application will take different times). With the new CPU running at 4.2Ghz (old one was at 3Ghz) I was able to compile the application in 10 seconds. This doesn’t seem like a big difference but when you are compiling the application hundreds of times a day it adds up. Mostly the time savings helps me from wondering off while waiting for it to finish.
Was it worth $615 dollars? Probably not. The pros are definitely the bragging rights to be past the 4Ghz bar and I figure within 6 months it will have saved me enough time to almost pay for it self.
August 30th, 2005
