Note: this requires the Homebrew Installer. If you don't have it, please read this.

With Waninkoko's USB loader, is possible to load games saved on an USB drive, or even from an SD card inserted in the internal Wii reader. Wii.
How to do that?

1. First of all, you must install the Homebrew Channel. For doing that, you can use the new Wii exploit (not yet released), or with the "Twilight Hack" (soon I will publish an howto)
2. Then, you have to install the CIOS 36 rev 10. CIOS stands for Custom IOS, is something like a "system file" with some edits. For mnore information, read what is a CIOS
3. Download the CIOS from here
4. Unzip the file on an SD card in the X:\apps\cios folder and renaming the file cIOS36_rev10-Installer.dol in boot.dol
5. If you run the program from the Homebrew Channel, you will see that you are prompted to choose from two installation methods, networked or local method. The CIOS is based on the original IOS36 file, so it needs that for applying the edits. If your Wii is able to access the Internet, you can choose the "network" method, downloading it automatically from Nintendo servers; otherwise, you have to place the, IOS36-64-v1042.wad file in the SD card root. This file is copyrighted by Nintendo, so, you have to search it on Google, or get it legally (by extracting it from a game update - i will explain it later, if requested)
6. After having installed the CIOS; download the SD/USB loader from here.
7. Still, unzip on the SD card in the X:\apps\usbloader folder, renaming SDUSB-Loader_v1.5.dol in boot.dol
8. Here is the USB Loader:

With left and right buttons on the wiimote, you can choose to load from SD or USB.
Warning: The USB drive, or the SD card, must be formatted in WBFS. That means that you have to use a dedicated USB drive or a SD card for do that.
The program recognizes automatically if the drive is not WBFS formatted, and asks if you want to format it.
To copy a game on the USB drive, is a piece of cake: just insert a DVD in the Wii DVD drivem and press the + button. In a few minutes, the game will be copied on the drive, ready to be played! Moreover, the games will be "compressed; they will occupy less space! For example, Wii Play is just 100 mb.
After copying the games on the drive, it will appear a list with the available games - so neat, it isn't?

From a PC, you can manage and add new games with the WBFS manager:

Click to enlarge

You can download the WBFS manager from the official website

Have fun!

Recently, is appeared on Windows Update an Excel hotfix, the KB959995 update

But, on some computers, it is impossible to install... it simply fails, without any information

One of that computers, unfortunately, was my computer.... searching on Google, everybody was saying "you must reinstall office again".

But, i found a solution by myself:

First, download the patch from the Microsoft Website.

Run the patch and wait several minutes; after some time, you will get an error similar to "Impossible to find the installation files in E:"
Why? When I installed Office 2003 several years ago, I told him to save the installation files on E:
Over time, i added a new hdd, swapped partitions, and E: has become M:
E: has become an "unused space", so the patch is not able to find the installation files and it will fail

What to do? The easiest solution is making M: become E: again (I will write an howto on this, if requested)
If you managed to restore the original drive legger, you can go at the end of tutorial

If is not possible, you have to use the listool, downloading it from here.

After unzipping it, click on "move local installation source":

And then select a drive that can accept the setup files:

Now you are ready to install the patch. Run again the patch that you downloaded from the Microsoft website, wait several minutes, and you are done! 

The guys at the S60 on Symbian Customer Operations team, has done a Symbian S60 port for x86 CPU, the common CPU for PCs and Macs! That port, is for an off the shelf Intel Atom motherboard. Even them were shocked by the speed and responsiveness! Here are some pictures:

For now is just a proof of concept... x86 cellphones will ever come?

With the new anti-piracy law in Sweden, the Internet traffic was dramatically dropped by a whopping 33% in just a day.

After two weeks, the Internet traffic is still low, does not give any "positive signal":

Kinda a shocker: many were thinking that the law would have a limited effect in time

Moreover, according the biggest legal music distributor in Sweden (after iTunes Store), the legal downloads have rose by 100%!!

This table saw is so groundbreaking!

Usually, what happens if you touch the spinning blade of a table saw? That your finger will be cut away

Forget that days! This blade is constantly monitored by an electronic circuit: when there is a variation on the conductivity of the material that we are cutting, DLANG! The circuit immediately stops the blade hiding it in a trapdoor in just a fraction of seconds!

Look at this video! Awesome!! Think, how many fingers can be saved by this technology!

Nowadays, is possible to hide a camera everywhere... but... where? The Japaneses are expert on placing them in weird places, those are their best solutions

If you see a normal ID card like this, what will you think?

In some occasions, it won't be noticed.... let's observe it closely::

There is an hidden camera in the D, and, for making it looking it normal, also the other D has a "black spot" for making it look normal... smart!

4 gb of memory, is on sale for just 13000 yen

But, outside of a work place, it looks suspicious, so this is solution #2:

A "quite" normal watch that...:

8 Gb and for just 10000 yen, can be yours.

But, honestly, taking pictures with a watch it is quite suspect.

The best solution is this:

A normal, common necktie that...

Has an hidden camera with a 4 gb memory!!

And for taking pictures, you use the remote control, keeping the hand in your pocket, nobody will notice

Also this camera is just 13000 yen... with such cheaper cameras... we should start to be diffident of anyone!

The exploit has been released! Read more!

A "working title" group has discovered a new exploit to make homebrew run on the Wii!

With a "secret file" on the SD card, you can force a "maintenance mode", enabling the installation of "not-authorized channels", like the homebrew channel!

Here is the video:

Well, it's a bit weird that Bushing did not see this exploit... the "load from SD card" text will be looked suspicious...

This exploit was previously known as "bannerbomb", and there was an help request on tehskeen about reading a banner, and then running a report application; probably the exploit is a buffer overflow in the VC banners? 

When will be available? According to someone, it will available just before easter... that means we just have to wait a few hours 

Let's continue to talk about this in the forum

Hi, i am a PC, so this post should be biased... but it can't be that.

Today, on the official Microsoft Windows blog, there is a strange post:

You can save $3367 if you choose a PC instead of a Mac

What??? Ok, Macs are expensive, but, is possible that there can be a such difference? I can't believe, even if i am a Windows-fanboy

Let's see what comparison they have done:

Ok, Macs are more expensive, but just a few hundred dollars...

What's wrong:

1. You cannot compare a normal Pc with a Mac Pro (will you compare a Chevrolet Aveo with a Dodge RAM??)
2. The 5-years MobileMe subscription (why do that without an iPhone???)
3. Mac users are buying Office for $149, Pc users does not buy Office for $680 (source)
4. Mac users chooses all kinds of protection plans, PC users just a basic one

This is like comparing "apples" with oranges!

Why Microsoft did not add to the Mac expenses also an iPhone with a biennal AT&T contract, and an iPod, and other accessories?

From many years, the iPod shuffle has lost the USB connector, making it a bit unpractical to use it as a thumb drive: you have to bring back the special cable... bummer  .

So, this is an AWESOME accessory:

With this small adapter, the data transfer on the go is a snap, also charging with an AC-USB adapter is more practical!

Selling at $16, this is the manufacturer website.

I am sure that many readers knows Autodesk.
With their AutoCAD, they monopolized the CAD market, also using tactics like "buy-competitors-and-close-them". Every year they do a new version of AutoCAD, with invisible differences between them, except for the save file format, designed to be not retro-compatible. The update price it is a great deal, just 780 euro (source). Moreover, if you have a full version, you are practically forced to buy an update every 2 years, otherwise you won't be entitled to get the "discount" on the update.

Then, AutoCAD is not available on Macs, because, the price is just 5640 euro for a single-user licence, it is not worthy to do a Mac version: if you can pay 5640 for a license, you can buy a dedicated PC. However, they have several versions of AutoCAD on sale, mechanical, architectural, but the main versions are two:

• "Full" AutoCAD, just for 5640 euro (source)
• Autocad LT, a "light" version, for this reason it is sold for the bargain price of just 1581 euro (source)

The differences between the two AutoCAD are:

1. 4059 euro on the price tag
2. 3d drawings creation
3. Inserting images

So, since for the 3d graphics, there are better softwares, like 3ds max (still bought from Autodesk) o the free Google Sketchup, the only true difference is the possibility to insert images! Yes, you didn't misunderstood! A 2009 software, sold for 1581 euro, cannot import images! Even the most freeware of the freewares, or the most outdated of the WYSIWYG editors can insert images! Even MacWrite from 1984 could handled images.

So, a German firm had an idea: LT Extender, a plugin for Autocad LT, that enabled an "insert images" option  . This plugin was on sale from 2002, and was sold as an "authorized plugin". Of course it had some success .

Recently, since i own a genuine license of AutoCAD, i received an e-mail from Autodesk (click here to read), that, briefly says:

1. They sued the programmer of LT Extender
2. They won and they also got the customers portfolio of the German firm
3. If you bought LT Extender, and they can prove it, you have 60 days to pay 4338 euro and buying a full AutoCAD version with a 30% discount, otherwise they will sue you for copyright violation

Really!!! It says: (in Italian; i cannot find the Legalese text in English, translating in Plain English is senseless)

Gli utenti privati nonché le aziende, i cui collaboratori abbiano utilizzato LT Extender, hanno l'obbligo di rimozione (cancellazione di LT Extender), cessazione e risarcimento danni. Gli amministratori di tali aziende rispondono a titolo personale. Inoltre, l'uso non autorizzato di opere protette dal diritto d'autore è legalmente perseguibile.

Weird!! Why sue the customer??? I agree that Autodesk is entitled to a compensation from LT Extender, but why the customer, that has gave to Autodesk 1581 euro + 780 euro every year for updates, must pay a compensation????