This is the first guide in the series about modifiying (modding) GTA: San Andreas. We’ll be starting modding by adding new vehicles with cool designs to GTA: San Andreas. There’ll be more guides about modding GTA sereis games here on TechLighten. Today, we’ll cover about replacing the default San Andreas cars with new, cool ones. We’ll be taking San Andreas’ Police Car as our replacement example. The default police car looks pretty dull as you can see in the image. But San Andreas is gonna rock after we replace this dull police car with a shiny new Aston Martin DB9 (designed by a friend, Jack).
GTA: San Andreas default police car
Default Police car replaced with a DB9
You’ll be needing IMG Tool 2.0 to replace the necessary car files in GTA: San Andreas. After downloading, extract the compressed file, and run IMGTool.exe contained within. Read the rest of this entry »
Sony responded to the recent rumours about a PS3 price drop by saying those coming to the upcoming Games Convention to hear about a price-drop “will be disappointed”. You heard it peeps, Sony’s pretty confident about its business and seemingly, doesn’t feel the need of dropping prices anytime soon (unless of course, Micrsoft tries givin’ them a tough time by lowering Xbox360 prices first).
There were similar rumours about Xbox360 price drops a few weeks ago, which MS declined happily. Looks like both companies think they are doing great business, with Wii still selling more units each unit than MS & Sony can ever combinely wish.
Good luck Sony & MS, hope to hear something good from you too sometime soon. Oh, and by the way, those of you planning to visit the Leipzig Games Convention in Germany, it’ll be running from August 20th through 22nd.
Nintendo has sold millions of Wii consoles each with a DVD drive of course, but with the DVD movies playback functionality locked. Big N wants to make some more money by selling seperate DVD playback units for the Wii. Well, ‘the scene’ has been workin’ on adding DVD movies playing functionality to your Wii lately, and with the advent of hacked channels, there are now apps to actually play DVD movies on your Wii without any modchip.
The mod takes advantage of the current ‘soft hacks’ and allows you to install a version of mplayer that lets you play DVD movies on your unmodded wii.
Stanford university has been working on autonomous helicopters for a while, and their helicopters are different in the sense that the onboard computers aren’t programmed telling them how to maneuver the helicopters, instead, the helicopters learn from human pilots directly.
The said RoboCopter first watches a human-controlled helicopter, while “watching” that helicopter’s trajectory, it also computes how to further improve the trajectory to its needs. The team involved says the RoboCopter performs and maneuvers much better than the human controlled helicopters. Check out the RoboCopter in motion below.
The Dutch botnet called Shadow which seems to have affected 150,000 victim computers has been neutralized by the Dutch High Tech Crime Unit with the help of Kaspersky Labs. The 16 and 19 years old creators have been arrested. The botnet has seemingly been (ab)using windows Live Messenger to contact its victim machines’ users via a message (that’d appear as being from a friend) asking the user to visit a link, which in turn would download a file and hence infect his machine once run.
Shadow apparently had a majority of its victims in Netherlands, and all the messages etc were sent in Dutch, but there could be many victims worldwide. Read the rest of this entry »
Apple’s value of stock shares summed up to $157 billion today, hence exceeded the $156 billion stock shares value of Google, says Slashdot. Thats quite an achievement surpassing a giant like Google, but its mostly because of the the superb marketing tactics Apple uses to sell its products. Apple has also left alot of big players like Intel, HP & Dell way behind now, infact Apple’s worth 3 times the value of Dell now.
What do you think about Apple’s current position in the Market? Is Apple gonna keep conquering the market at pace or is it just a temporary jump because of the current Iphone & MacBook Air hype? Share your thoughts by commenting.
You wont be needing to wait patiently till Nvidia releases its laptop drivers Caz you can now enjoy the more-regularly released desktop drivers by Nvidia. Driver Heaven has created a software that modifies the desktop version of Nvidia GPU drivers to make them work for your laptop Nvidia GPU. So if you’re a mobile enthusiat gamer, head over to Driver Heaven for there Mobility Modder Tool.
This Mobility Modder Tool is created by the same DH team that created the famous ATI mobility modder tool and which has already been downloaded over 10 million times. The current version 0.3.0 for Nvidia drivers is in public beta stage, but if you cant wait to get your hands on the recently released Physx-supporting desktop Nvidia drivers, here’s your chance to join the bandwagon.
after we replace this dull police car with a shiny new Aston Martin DB9 (designed by a friend, Jack).
The Dutch botnet called Shadow which seems to have affected 150,000 victim computers has been neutralized by the Dutch High Tech Crime Unit with the help of Kaspersky Labs. The 16 and 19 years old creators have been arrested. The botnet has seemingly been (ab)using windows Live Messenger to contact its victim machines’ users via a message (that’d appear as being from a friend) asking the user to visit a link, which in turn would download a file and hence infect his machine once run.
