Flickr’d Team Xecuter, whose X2 Pro modchip I used on my Xbox1 back in the day, appears to have developed a kit that fixes red ring of death-affected Xbox 360s. The kit, which costs $12.95, includes all the necessary Torx screws to open your console. The kit was developed by an Xecuter member whose 360 rrod’d […]

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Team Xecuter, whose X2 Pro modchip I used on my Xbox1 back in the day, appears to have developed a kit that repairs red ring of death-affected Xbox 360s. The kit, which costs $12.95, includes all the necessary Torx screws to open your console. The kit was developed by an Xecuter member whose 360 rrod’d on him recently. Rather than send it in to Microsoft to be repaired, he tinkered with it, trying to figure out what went wrong.

The kit is said to have worked on 18 of 18 broken 360s.

If the kit works as advertised—it’s due for release “soon”—it would represent a superior alternative to sending in your 360 to Microsoft. We all know how well that can sometimes go. At least it’s not a widespread problem or anything…

Team Xecuter Back from Dead: 360 ROD Repair Kit [Xbox-Scene]

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So I had to wait an extra day for some reason, but last night I got my Take Two upgrade for my Apple TV up and running. I rented an HD movie (The Simpsons, for those who’re curious) and it looked and sounded great. The 5.1 Dolby Surround was flawless and the video looked just […]

So I had to wait an extra day for some reason, but last night I got my Take Two upgrade for my Apple Television up and running. I rented an HD movie (The Simpsons, for those who’re curious) and it looked and sounded great. The 5.1 Dolby Surround was flawless and the video looked just amazing, far superior than what I get with Comcast HD.

The update itself took just 7 minutes from start to finish. My Apple TV itself now works great. But then I ran into a problem that took me hours to fix.

See, after the upgrade, the Apple Television wouldn’t show up on my MacBook Pro’s iTunes. So I tried re-pairing the two, but no luck. It did recognize the Airtunes built-in to the Take Two upgrade, but couldn’t connect.

I quit and restarted iTunes to no avail. I threw away libraries and preference files, and nothing. A reboot didn’t work either.

Then I rebooted my router and lo! The Apple TV showed up in iTunes. I paired them and was good to go. But hark! What’s this treachery? My MacBook lost its Internet connection. It was on the network, but for some reason it couldn’t connect to the Internet itself.

Firefox wouldn’t even try, and iTunes was trying to access the iTunes store, but couldn’t. I couldn’t ping anything. Jabber worked, but iChat wouldn’t connect to the AIM network. Odd indeed.

I tried new DNS settings, but that didn’t help. So I killed iTunes and restarted it, the Apple Television was gone, but my Internet connection was fine.

Dubbya-tea-eff.

I know many MBP users have had many Wi-Fi problems after upgrading to Leopard, but this is just weird. Apple Television and iTunes 7.6 aren’t playing nice, and I can’t seem to figure it out. Round two is this weekend, I’ll let you all know what I come up with. And I’m open to recommendations from the geek crowd here.

And now, images of the Take Two install.

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If for some strange reason it wasn’t before, thin is officially in as far as notebooks are concerned. At least that’s what seems to be the case with Lenovo as it answers the MacBook Air with the ThinkPad X300. It’s thin, yes, but not quite as thin as the Air (the Air fits in an […]

If for some strange reason it wasn’t before, thin is officially in as far as notebooks are concerned. At least that’s what seems to be the case with Lenovo as it answers the MacBook Air with the ThinkPad X300. It’s thin, yes, but not quite as thin as the Air (the Air fits in an envelope, the X300 merely fits on top of a newspaper or whatever that is on the left there — hell, maybe it IS an envelope).

What it lacks in the not-as-thin-as-the-new-MacBook department it more than makes up for in the actually-comes-with-useful-stuff department, with a built-in optical drive, removable battery, three USB ports, Ethernet jack, and optional integrated high-speed cellular modem and/or GPS chips.

States Walt Mossberg, who got a sneak peek at the X300…

Like the MacBook Air, this is a rare small laptop that’s built around a full 13-inch-wide screen display and a full keyboard, rather than the tiny screens and cramped keyboards common in subnotebooks. And, like the Air, it offers a fast, rugged solid-state drive instead of a hard disk.

But, unlike the Apple, Lenovo’s new skinny ThinkPad comes with a hefty complement of ports and features, some of the very things critics complained Apple left out. It has a built-in DVD drive, removable battery, three USB ports, and a wired Ethernet networking jack. Inside, in addition to Wi-Fi, it can be ordered with a built-in cellphone modem and even GPS. It comes with either Windows Vista or Windows XP.

It’s not as thin as the Air but it still falls in at under an inch thick and at roughly the same weight (3.12 pounds). Also — and here’s some fodder for flaming, should you select to accept it — the X300 will only come with a solid-state drive, so it’s hugely pricey right out of the gate. Mossberg states “it will begin at between $2,500 and $2,800″ and it’ll sit staunchly at 64-gigabytes of hard drive space.

Super-Slim ThinkPad Sneak Peek [AllThingsD]

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