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Get your Portable ID!

OMG, according to Joystiq there is an update coming this week to the Portable ID…..it is about freak’n time.   I actually was wishing this would occur and blogged about it previously and wishing the UK’s version was here.  Very glad to hear this is coming…..add a crap load of Home rewards or tie them to the trophies and then I think we’ll finally be getting somewhere.  Happy to see this coming.

Well since there isn’t a Google Voice app available for iPhone and may not be one, I thought I’d post one of the workarounds that I found at MacOSXHints.  The following code you will need to execute, make sure to update the variables located at the top of the code to reflect your information.

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set pin to "YOUR_PIN_HERE"
set gvnum to "YOUR_GV_NUMBER HERE"

tell application "Address Book"
  repeat with thePerson in people
    set nums to the phones of thePerson
    repeat with num in nums
      if the (label of num) contains "GV" then
        tell thePerson
          delete num
        end tell
      else
        set gvPhone to {label:"", value:""}
        set label of gvPhone to "GV" & the (label of num)
        set value of gvPhone to gvnum & "," & pin & ",2," & the (value of num)
        tell thePerson
          make new phone at end of phones with properties gvPhone
        end tell
      end if
    end repeat
  end repeat
end tell

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This is a really cool application, LiquidMac, it uses the SMS on Apple laptops, this is from the author website, I think it explains it better than I will….

“Liquid mac requires a macintosh laptop computer with a sudden motion enabled sensor. This includes MacBook family, MacBook Pro family, and some of the latest PowerBooks. It mimics the behavior of liquid by creating a particle system that reacts to the computer’s orientation.”

Been listening to Rude Jude and Lord Sear, it is awesome. Play some good tracks as well during the talk show;  should check it out if you have Sirius / XM.

Listening to satellite radio and they were discussing “Foreskin Restoration“……I knew nothing about it….NOT for me….

NiceCast allows you to broadcast your audio (iTunes for example).  This application seems to cover all the things one would require for broadcasting, allows multiple sources to be used and well it is very easy to share any audio or a specific audio source.  If you have a need to share/broadcast any of your audio via iTunes or other sources, I would highly recommend NiceCast.

Why don’t we have this in the North America Region? This has been available to the UK for a LONG time now, why can’t they just duplicate this feature???  The Gamer Card in the U.S. sucks.

I don’t really use the PS3’s Home very often, just on occasion I will log in and check out some of the new content they add.  I still think for as much time that has gone by, PS3 Home is missing a lot of stuff and missed the mark on a lot of features and content.  I actually purchased my first thing from Home which was the Ghostbuster’s Firehouse called “On Location”.  It didn’t feel like as near a rip-off as some things, since you can control Slimer, get into Ecto-1 (which you can pop the hood and truck and all doors).  The siren is a little lame and very short.  After picking up the premium place, I started adding the content that I had from RE5 to many other games I’ve played.  I discovered fairly quickly that there is a furniture limit in Home that is set to 50 items (no matter the size).  So basically, 50 items in the little apartment wasn’t really enough, but a 3 floor pad with crap loads of space and 50 item limit, well I know its a beta and I know it has to have a limit in regards to the social platform, but that sucks for private rooms.  Hope they change that, but odds are, that will be updated in like another 2 years.  Home was one of those things that I could see the potential in, but on the other hand the development of this service has really been extremely slow and well the hype died with it after 2+ years of waiting for it.  I enjoyed the couple minutes of running around in the Ghostbuster’s Firehouse and checking it out, but the lack of ability to add much content, no trophy rooms still, little support for Game Launching, its still got a long way to go and it is totally understandable that it is still a “Beta”.  Also, where are the picture frames, TVs, etc?  I think I could almost make this post a rant about Home, but I think its on the border of that already.

My daughter absolutely loves this game, which I picked up on the release date and played through and spent some time playing and would periodically play it when my daughter would request. Lately, I’ve been replaying a lot of the games I currently own. I am two trophies away from the Platinum on this game (HEART ME PLEASE) and have to say that this game has really been enjoyable and the community has tons more content, very creative stuff like Contra and Spong Bob for example. Thought I would give LBP some perks……especially since I got absorbed into it this weekend. Forgot how fun the MGS pack was too…..good stuff…..if you’ve been living under a rock, well you should probably just stay there….Also would be awesome if they release some more ‘official’ levels sometime soon, maybe a new planet and a new batch of trophies.