Resetting iPod if it appears frozen or doesn’t respond
In the words of Strong Bad, “You dodged a bullet there man.” I’ve heard of several people sending their iPods back because they simply stopped working. That happened to me today. I was listening to a podcast and paused it to run an errand. When I came back, my iPod wouldn’t turn on. Thankfully it had just frozen. If this has happened to you, try the link above before making that call to Apple.
Techtree.com India > News > Hardware > IBM Develops Xbox 360 CPU
According to this report, IBM designed the CPU for the XBox 360. I’m thinking if IBM could come up with a tri-core PPC variant able to be clocked over 3ghz in 2 years, surely they could apply that experience to the G5. Obviously some of that experience has already been applied to producing multiple-core G5s. I’m thinking Apple may have jumped ship too soon.
After spending $50 of hard-earned cash for a look at Id & Raven software’s latest release, I can say that for the most part, I’m pretty impressed. The graphics are nothing short of amazing. Quake 4 is based on Doom 3, and it shows. To a degree, that’s a problem as it’s pretty obvious that a large majority of the textures & models in Quake 4 were recycled from Doom 3. Though to Raven’s credit, they at least took the time to distress them a bit. One definite improvement was the rendering of the characters in the game. I was particularly surprised by the realistic look of the marines heads. The gameplay is pretty good too, though I would’ve expected it to be a little harder. I started on the next hardest level (Lieutenant) and for the most part went unscathed for the 1st hour. It’s still loads of fun though. If I had to rate it now I’d give it 4 of 5 stars, definitely a must-have for FPS fans.