[Fifa World Cup 2006 - the Socceroos][Flahed my NDS]

Once every 4 years, the cream of the crop of football teams convene for the World Cup. There's no argument that it is the BIGGEST sporting event in the world. Residing in Australia, you do feel the lack of emphasis on the "beautiful game". However, this time round it seems that the atmosphere is there. It's a nice feeling supporting a team from the place I'm living now (even though most of the players are based in Europe).

So here's a post for the continued success of the Socceroos!

In other news, I've been clocking some serious hours on my NDS Lite. After receiving the Superkey and Supercard devices, I'm now able to run homebrew and backup games. It was unfortunate that the 2 devices working together causes the battery to run out quickly. So tonite I bit the bullet and fashioned a flash tool (out of some foil, tape and an unused cable tie), GBAtemp's excellent Flashme tutorial/Article really helped me out and now it's flashed. We'll have to observer how much battery is actually being saved.

Now that I don't need my superkey anymore, anyone wanna buy it?

naked Sansa e200.. toshiba gigabeat s30

It's always pleasantly surprising to look at the innards of gadgets these days. In that line, check out the innards of the Sansa e200 at http://www.flickr.com/photos/francilloscope/sets/281445/

Another 'touted' ipod-killer from Toshiba, the Gigabeat S30. Review available at cnet.com and then the people from anythingbutipod.com presents the innards of the S30. The growing market of Digital Audio or mp3 players only goes to show the uptake of technology. After all whats the point of owning an mp3 player with no device to feed mp3's into them... right?

Sandisk Sansa e260 review

MP3 or Digital Audio Players come in all shapes form and sizes. Growing popularity (thanks to apple's marketing) and an increasingly competitive marketspace has produced a whole truckload of players flooding the market with refreshes every 6-12 months. Heck, Steve Jobs was even quoted saying " .. you should buy an iPod every year... " in regards to keeping up with the best and latest.
I personally like the iPod, but I also like to support the non-iPod manufacturers, like Sandisk, iRiver and the sort.
The Sandisk Sansa e260 is being touted as the iPod Nano killer. Well, it may not be as slim as the Nano but with added features like FM radio, recorder and video playback, there is a good fight.
Continue on for the review of the e260 via engadget

My Nintendo DS Lite

After finding out about the Nintendo DS Lite's 1st of June 2006 Launch in Australia I was very much intrigued. After numerous google searches, youtube views and forum reads I caved and got myself one on launch day.

I have since got myself a copy of Project Rub, Nanostray, Metroid Prime: Hunters and Tony Hawk's American Sk8teland.

Let the gaming begin!