The Tech Loft

Over at the OUYA forum, I found a ‘tidbit’ of information for fans of old school retro games. The posting found on the forum states that several well known emulators will be coming to the OUYA. Those gamers who love the classic NES and SNES games should rejoice. According to the developer of  EMUya, the NES emulator  has already been submitted for review and should be available on the the OUYA at launch (March 28th). SNES & N64 fans will have a options as well. Both the  SuperGNES SNES emulator , and  Mupen64Plus N64 Emulator , will also be ported over to the OUYA. We have confirmed that the Mupen64Plus emulator will be available at launch. On top of this, today, we’ve learned via  twitter  that one developer is even working on an N-Gage emulator for the console. For me, this is exciting news, I always love kicking back old school and play an 8-bit or 16-bit title from back in the day. You can be sure that I’ll be keeping an eye on the emulator front. There i...

Here is my review of NodeBeat by AffinityBlue. I love using the iPad as music creation tool. There are a lot apps in Apple’s App Store and the Android Market Place that help aspiring musicians reach their potential or amateurs reach some kind of music creating level. The best music creation apps are the ones that are fun and easy to use. NodeBeat is an intuitive and a visual music app for all ages. Create your own music in a matter of minutes or listen to NodeBeat generate its own. You can easily share your creations with others, upload to SoundCloud or save them for later to show your friends. You create your own music by dropping Generators and Notes on the ‘music space’. Generators and Notes make up the two types of nodes. Generators pulse and play Notes within proximity. A Note is played in sequence, based on the distance it is from its connected Generator. Pause nodes to create your own beats or let them roam free to have them generate their own. Below you’l...

With the release of the PlayStation 4 later this year, Sony has posted few videos on how the company has changed the video gaming industry. I have to admit, as a PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and PS Vita owner, Sony has create fantastic gaming consoles. And I’ll be adding the PlayStation 4 to my media centre when it’s released. Below you’ll find 4 videos produced by Sony on the evolution / history of PlayStation: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7w5i_YCFmQ httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvcps5dFzfc httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XF2pu-4rXc httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_W1JQ5ubWQ

Are you waiting to get your hands on an OUYA Android gaming console ? If you’re like me, you may have already donated or backed the OUYA project through Kickstarter and are anticipating it’s arrival in March of 2013. It’s currently Feb 2013 and we’re a month away from receiving the console by mail. If you’re still skeptical about the console, or are looking for more information regarding the console, I decided to put together a ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OUYA post. The following facts below are from OUYA ‘s Press Kit: So what is OUYA?  OUYA is a new kind of game console for the TV that upends the console market: by bringing the openness of mobile and Internet platforms to console games for the first time. • A game console that plugs into your TV, and includes a beautifully-designed game controller • Built on Android, with a custom user interface and game store • Open to any developer to publish a game – unlike any of the current game consoles • Pow...

With owning a Apple MacBook Pro and iMac, I’ve asked myself what maintenance can I run on my Macs to keep them in running order. Apple brags that their other products “just work,” so many people never consider regular maintenance for their Macs. For the most part, there’s really little upkeep that you need to do, and much of the maintenance tasks are ones you would do on a PC as well. First thing you’ll want to perform is regular software updates on the Mac (under the Apple menu > Software Update). You can configure Apple’s Software Update to automatically check for updates regularly. Regular backups are also an essential part of computer maintenance;  Apple’s built-in Time Machine backup program is pretty good. You’ll find Time Machine in the Applications folder. Besides those two things, the Mac maintenance article on Apple’s support site recommends organizing your files, archiving old files, and physically cleaning your comput...

Encrypting bittorrent traffic in Windows and OS X. In Canada, there’s been a lot of chatter regarding our newly updated Copyright laws under Bill C-11. A big F-U to my MP representative and to the Conservative Party of Canada…leading the great puppet nation of Canada. Politics aside, let me tell you what’s happening right now. Voltage Pictures, the group that brought you The Hurt Locker and a whole list of shitty movies is taking action against user’s that have download The Hurt Locker  via Torrent networks. My guess to avoid being detected as a movie downloader, you should begin to encrypt your torrent downloads. Here’s how you can being encrypting torrent traffic. Windows users will want to user uTorrent, the number currently number 1 torrent client being downloaded right now. Open Preferences, select BitTorrent, under Protection Encryption select ‘FORCED’ and uncheck the box that says “Allow incoming legacy connections”. For uTorr...

AIRPORT UTILITY 5.6 NOT COMPATIBLE WITH MOUNTAIN LION If you’re like me, you probably own an Apple AirPort Express and MacBook Pro up to date with Mountain Lion. What’s the problem you’re asking? Well, for those with the same setup, Apple’s AirPort Utility 5.6 does not install onto Mountain Lion systems. Ridiculous? Yes!! Instead of bitching about Apple’s carelessness, I’m just going to post the solution to get you up and running and programming your Apple AirPort Express. USE AIRPORT UTILITY 5.6.1 ON MOUNTAIN LION Just in case you’d like to use AirPort Utility 5.6.1 on Mountain Lion (and probalby Lion as well), here’s how to install it: Download the disk image (you can find it here:  http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1536 ). Mount the disk image and drag the install package (AirPortUtility.pkg) to your desktop. Fire up Terminal and prepare to show off… Make a temporary directory and cd into it:  mkdir tmp ; cd tmp Extract the Payload file fro...