The contest is open to all developers, who can enter any app not currently in the iTunes App Store.
Winners will get a publishing deal with all the monetisation promise offered by Teletext, which has access to AND sister publications such as Metro, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Jobsite.co.uk, FIndaproperty, Motors.co.uk and Teletext Holidays.
The combined potential audience is 40 million people.
There's already been one winner after soft launch in April. That was MirrorMe, which uses facial recognition software and medical research to show what a person will look like in the future, depending on different lifestyles.
The App Factor competition deadline is the first Monday of each month. The next deadline is 5th July 2010.

Richard Titus, CEO of AND, said: “Since the launch of their first apps almost 90 days ago, Teletext Mobile has had almost 600,000 app downloads.
"It’s a great start and I’m sure that with our strong product pipeline, Teletext Mobile will soon achieve its aim to be the biggest mobile publisher in the UK and potentially Europe.”

http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/37406...pp-competition ...

The PlayStation brand has always enjoyed a strong following in Europe and, in particular, the UK but Microsoft’s VP of interactive entertainment business for EMEA Chris Lewis has revealed why it remains one of his firm’s key territories, too.
“We don’t break out figures by country, but the UK continues to be a very strong market for us with the highest attach rate in the world,” he told MCV in an exclusive interview in this Friday’s magazine.
“In the face of price drops, new form factors and massive marketing expenditure by the competition, Xbox 360 still grew full-year market share in EMEA from 2008 to 2009.
“In November, we also celebrated selling 10 million consoles into customers’ homes in EMEA. Our games attach rate remains the highest in the industry, by an increasing margin, which makes us both an enviable platform and a great partner for publishers and retailers alike.”
MCV has spoken to each of the three platform holders in its E3 Special Edition, which will be circulated at the LA event next week. To read the interviews in full, make sure you check MCV magazine this Friday.

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/39310/UK-h...60-attach-rate ...

The Terms of Use section of Wired Magazine's first iPad app offer clues to additional features that will be included in future issues.
They include paid subscriptions; sweepstakes and contests; the ability for readers to post comments, photos, and videos; third-party companies selling products and services through the app; and in-app online auctions.
I spent a bit of time yesterday reading the app from cover to cover (or whatever the iPad app equivalent is), including the Terms of Use at the end. There's some intriguing stuff:
1. Wired may get people to register their details in the future. "Service Provider may at all times require that you register and/or set up an account to use certain portions of the App, or the App as a whole."
In a later privacy section, it says this: "For instance, if you enter a sweepstakes or contest, complete a survey, make a purchase, subscribe to our publication(s), or register for any portion of our services..."

The Terms of Use also say that unless otherwise specified, "Service Provider may sell or share personally identifying information with our affiliates and with carefully selected companies who we think can offer you services and products of interest to you." Don't want this to happen? You have to write to Wired at its street address. Can't this sort of thing be handled with a checkbox at the time of registration?
2. The magazine may be planning to sell content and services. "Service Provider or third parties may charge you fees for products or services offered for sale through the App, and/or for access to portions of the App or the App as a whole."
It goes on to specifically mention credit, debit and charge card payments - hinting at an annual subscription perhaps. However, a separate section later on refers to merchandise, products and/or services sold by third parties through the app too.
3. Social features are clearly on the way, with the Rules of Usage section referring to posting "graphics, text, photographs, images, video, audio..." - it can't be spam advertising, defamatory or offensive or sexually explicit. "Do not engage in 'cyber-sex' (i.e. virtual or simulated sex) or solicit another to participate in 'cyber-sex' on or through the App" is one amusing clause. Chat-rooms? Users are also warned not to post content that will infringe copyright laws.
4. Another section focuses specifically on "comments, opinions, or statements posted on forums, blogs or otherwise contained in the App". Oh, and incidentally any text, graphics, photos, images, video and audio files posted by users of the app grant Wired a "royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license" to use, modify and distribute - among other verbs - including users' identities. Par for the course for UGC?
5. Could Wired do a deal with eBay? Here's the relevant section: "We may at times offer auctions on the App; should we do so, we may use third-party service provider(s) to administer the auctions..."
I'm naturally cautious of taking sentences out of a Terms of Use document and saying that they offer a clear roadmap of future features. Wired could just as likely be keeping its options open.
However, the sections highlighted above do give a sense of where Wired's app may be heading.

http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/37402...ireds-iPad-app ...

News via http://www.wii-addict.fr/forum/WiiXp...70-t20169.html

The pace of releases has slowed to WiiXplorer but here is the R170 file explorer on the Wii made by dimok and r-win.

Are also available Forwarder v5 and Alternating Forwarder of Leathl & Jeanny

WiiXplorer:
- Copy / move / delete / rename files and folders from SMB / USB / SD / DVD
- View the properties of a file or folder
- Do a search on SD / USB / SMB / DVD / WiiDisk
- Launch a file .dol / .elf
- See the videos of Wii and GameCube
- Open files. TXT /. / XML. MP3 / .OGG / .wav /. SNB /. AIFF
- Read the images formats. PNG /. Jpeg /. GIF /. BMP /. BPD /. TGA /. TIFF /. GD /. GD2
- Slideshow and zoom images
- Convert images to formats. PNG /. Jpeg /. GIF /. BMP /. TIFF /. GD /. GD2
- Making screenshots
- Explore and decompress archives in formats. ZIP /. Rar / zip .7 /. BNR /. U8Archive /. RARC
- Read file. PDF
- FTP Client and FTP Server
- Text Editor
- Support with USB2 cIOS202
- Support for file system FAT and NTFS
- Address bar with road access
- Multi-language
- Support for different fonts
- AutoUpdate



QUOTE
R170
- Updated usb2 source to the same as Wii ™
- Fixed bug in shift with i OnScreenKeyboard Implemented in R169
- Fixed slow write for SD in the New libfat. Using a custom now till the end libfat IS fixed it devkitpro the trunk. This should "fix the 0 byte result.

R169
- The new IS libfat causing a major slowdown write SD. So going back to old libfat for now.
- Added support for up to 10 shares SMB / FTP Client mounts (like Wii ™)
- Added SD Gecko support. Not sure if it works because i do not have one goal it Should Be.
- Changed Configurable keyboard quick access button to shift has Caps button while holding it

R168
- Added Keyboard Shift and Backspace quick access buttons to control settings
- Made Backspace quickbutton holdable onscreenkeyboard it. The delete delay (speed) IS configurable in the settings.
- Made Some paths scroll INSTEAD of dotted
- Added a path for browse option for custom paths. Either you can type in or browse for 'em' em now.
- Fixed line Being Played after going to homemenu Even If It Was Stopped
- Made Browser return to the path That Was the settings from last browsedir Wherever gold
- Raised level optimization compiles
- Source cleanup
- A few "fix ups ...

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JzintvWii Intellivision emulator is focused on Wii jenergy.

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Instructions:
* Copy the application folder in the "apps" directory of the SD card
* Create directory "/ jzintvWii / Roma" on the SD card
* Put all your roms (. Int. Bin. Itv gold. Rom) I'm his bios directory Including Roma (exec.bin, and grom.bin ecs.bin)
* Boot the emulator from the Homebrew Channel
* Follow instructions, or press the "A" button to play a rom ...

POWDER 114-1 released by insin

A port of POWDER to the Wii using SDL Wii.

114-1 - 6th June, 2010
Updated to version 114 of POWDER, see the POWDER releases page for changes.
This version contains a new version of the Akoi Meexx 10 tileset with a larger font, in addition to the "distorted" version which is the default tileset for this port (screenshots to follow later). Try it out and see which you like best.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Powder ...

WiiMC 1.0.4 released by Tantric and rodries

WiiMC (Wii Media Centre) is an open source media player for the Nintendo Wii. The GUI is powered by libwiigui.

Features
Attractive libwiigui-based interface, designed with the Wii in mind
Most essential difference from MPlayer CE and the like: completely GUI based, no fiddling .conf files should ever be necessary (except for on-line media)
Picture viewer
Music player
On-line media support
FAT32/NTFS from SD and USB 2.0 (FAT32 recommended)
Network playback via SMB, HTTP, and FTP
Multi-language support: Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Spanish

Changelog
1.0.4 - June 3, 2010
Subtitle color/size adjustment
Added checkmark next to viewed files
Added sleep timer
Improved device mounting
Improved stability
Fixed artifacts issue with online media files (VP6 codec)
Synced to MPlayer r31303
Added option to auto-play next video
Add GIF image viewing
More codepages added
Thumbnail support for online media (Navi-X)
Hide folders beginning with '.' and '$'
Added screensaver
Add ability to view PNG's over 1024x1024
Added theme color options
Add more seek time options
Language updates

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/WiiMC ...

New from Consolesource



The PS3 IntensaFire from BGRMods brings rapid fire to the PlayStation 3 in a plug & play package. The PS3 IntensaFire modifies newer PS3 Dual Shock 3 controllers to enable blistering rates of fire and lightning fast reloads. The 8-mode sleeper settings, include rapid fire to the R1, R2 and “X” buttons. There are 8 total modes with 5 preset modes and 3 user customizable programmable modes. It uses the D-Pad to toggle modes, and on and off.

Compatible with all PS3 games, including gamer favorites: KillZone 2, The Call of Duty series, BattleField Bad Company 2, and other current and future first person shooter and fighting games. The IntensaFire promises to bring your gaming to the next level.

The PS3 IntensaFire is available now from ConsoleSource.com. ...

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