scattered technology news

Sony Unveils The PSP-3000 - August 20, 2008

There have rumors flying around regarding a possible upgrade to the Sony PlayStation Portable for the past few weeks. Sony finally put those to an end by announcing the third revision of the PSP at the Games Convention in Leipzig. So what’s new? Not much actually, the PSP-3000 is essentially the same as the 2nd [...]

Tags: display, lcd, microphone, psp, skype, sony, updates

WordPress 2.6 Released - July 14, 2008

WordPress 2.6 was just released a couple of hours ago and it packed with plenty of new features. I had a chance to upgrade Skatter Tech, previously running version 2.5.1, and the entire process went through quite smoothly without any issues. I have included the official video demonstration of WordPress 2.6 above, however I [...]

Tags: blog, skatter tech, ssl, updates, wordpress

PlayStation Store Gets Revamped - March 31, 2008

There have been numerous rumors and mockups that have hit the web over the past few weeks regarding a whole new look that is coming to the PlayStation Network Store. We can set all those aside since SCEA has now officially put out a statement along with a few neat screen shots.
“The new design will [...]

Tags: network, playstation, store, updates

Upgrading To Vista Service Pack 1 - March 27, 2008

When Microsoft Released Service Pack 1 for Vista to Windows Update on March 18th, I upgraded immediately. The process took a while to download since the servers were being hit hard by the large amount people trying to get a hold of the update file. After the download it took about one and a [...]

Tags: auto, microsoft, updates, vista, windows

Apple Announces iPhone 2.0 And SDK - March 6, 2008

Earlier today Apple announced the iPhone 2.0 software and the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK). A beta version of the iPhone 2.0 software will be available today, however the finalized version won’t be available to consumers until June. The phone will also be getting much demanded business features such as the compatibility to function with [...]

Tags: apple, firmware, games, iphone, ipod touch, june, mail, sdk, updates

One Step Closer To Vista Service Pack 1 - February 4, 2008

Earlier today, Microsoft announced that Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista has been finalized and was released to manufacturers today. Unfortunately customers won’t have access to the upgrade which brings “enhanced reliability, security, compatibility and performance” until March. Consumer using the auto-update feature won’t receive the upgrade until April unless they manually download and install [...]

Tags: microsoft, sp1, updates, vista, xp

Mac OS X Leopard Ships On Oct. 26th - October 17, 2007

Yesterday, Apple announced that the final release of the Mac OS X series, Leopard, will go on sale on Friday October 26th 2007. OS X Leopard has over 300 new features including desktop Stacks, a newly designed finder, QuickLook, Spaces, and Time Machine.
“Leopard, the sixth major release of Mac OS X, is the best upgrade [...]

Tags: 2007, apple, backup, leopard, mac, october, os x, updates

Digg Gets Profiles, Images, & Alerts - September 19, 2007

This morning, Digg’s founder Kevin Rose announced a few new features that digg will soon be getting. The fist implementation, which will be pushed out tonight, will revamp digg’s user profile system by making it more “social”. Registered diggers will now have the ability to send each other quick messages called “shouts”. When the recipient [...]

Tags: digg, images, network, social, updates, web 2.0

Get Filezilla v3 - September 10, 2007

One of my favorite FTP Clients, Filezilla, recently got updated to version 3. The application, which began development in 2001, has now reached a new level. The client is now cross platform, supporting Linux and Mac OS X machines in addition to Windows. And to top that, Filezilla is still open source.
The application has received [...]

Tags: ftp, linux, open-source, os x, updates, vista, windows, xp

Media Temple Grid-Server v1.2 - February 24, 2007

Media Temple (mt) customers are in for a treat. The recently launched GRID server is getting a second major upgrade, v1.2. All customers using the new Grid-Server (gs) will soon receive an update which will consist of many stability enhancements, “micro-updates”, user request implementations, bug fixes, and plenty of new features.
GMR v1.2 System Upgrade:

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Tags: ftp, host, mail, media temple, server, updates