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If you are one of the users who has been trying to get into home recently, only to find out you need to update to 1.36 and while waiting for the download to start, your playstation instead decides to shut off, your in luck. Whew…

I have a fat ps3, you will notice that when you open up Home it will tell you that you need to upgrade. Dont press anything. On the lower side of your ps3 you will see the yellow Hard drive light flickering or on solid. You have to wait until it is no longer active before pressing (x). For me this took about 30 seconds or so. Once the light was off, the update worked perfect.

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I just finished a quick look around with the new system update to version 3.0. As always, I think it is easier to see what’s wrong and the bugs than to see the benfits. One item that I immediatly love is that the battery indicator no longer covers the clock. One thing I hate is the “what’s new” news ticker that shows up below the clock. They have moved where you go to disable it, it’s now under the system settings but apparently they forgot to make it work. You can set it to on or off and it makes no difference. Hopefully they will patch it soon.

The only other change I was not thrilled about was how clunky the buddy list seems now. I have yet to find a way to slim it down. It seems like the older version seemed a little cleaner. The new one seems more cluttered although I didn’t see any major updates to that area.

I do like that you can now access your recieved messages by buddy instead of having to view them all throught the recieved folder. There are a couple more features that have been included as well, such as a greater integration of the playstation store into the XMB, but I am still not sure how I feel about that. I can already see my XMB becoming the next ad space for Sony, and it is starting with 3.0. Overall I have mixed feelings about this update with some features I love and others I will have to live with and hope they address at a future date.

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The latest update 2.70 came out today and I just wanted to write up a couple of the features that this update will have.

• You can now have text chats with your friends while playing games. This could be a nice feature to have instead of sending messages and constantly checking your recieved box. I am still waiting for the ability to view a recieved message when clicking on your friend, it shows a notification by there name, but you have to check your received box for the message.
• You can now get information on a game by opening the options (triangle) while you are on the icon of the game and selecting “internet search”.
• Copy and paste, copy text on a website and paste it into a chat window. I cant say I will use this much.
• Option to reduce the difference in volume level between tracks so that the music doesn’t suddenly get loud. Although I am not sure yet, I hope this works on the music that a game plays when you have the icon selected. There are a few games (Iron Man Demo) that blare out every time I select them.

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