The ACTA is an international trade agreement currently negociated by the European Union, the United States, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Australia as well as a few other countries, whose aim is to enforce copyright and tackle counterfeited goods (hence its acronym: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement).

The main problem with this treaty is that all the negociations are done secretely. Leaked documents show that one of the major goal of the treaty is to force signatory countries into implementing anti file-sharing policies under the form of three-strikes schemes and net filtering practices.

Hey readers!

In the past few months since I’ve gotten my custom built computer, I’ve been really getting in to the realm of PC gaming a lot more. I’ve been playing a lot of Modern Warefare 2, GTA IV, GTA IV: Episodes from Liberty City, Counter-Strike: Source, the list goes on. I’m starting to think about upgrading my hardware from the basic USB media keyboard and optical mouse to equipment more tailored to gaming. I’m already in the process of aquiring a G15 gaming keyboard which will provide tons of fun programming the display. I also started researching mice for use in gaming environments when I found a great little devil coming out soon. It’s called the Razer Naga and it’s a pretty great looking mouse. It’s got 12 programmable macro keys on the side that look pretty awesome. If I end up getting one, I will be sure to review it here for all you PC gamers out there. If you wanna check it out, click on the link below.

Razer Naga with programmable macros on the side

Hey all!

After submitting SoundFrag to FreewarePPC.net I received some helpful feedback on the project. SoundFrag 1.1 addresses all of the issues in the previous version. It allows you to install it to anywhere on your device.  There have been varying results on devices with WM6 and up. I can not guarantee that it will work on WM6 devices. It also includes a fix for VGA devices so that the background fills the screen.

Please report the success or failure with your device so that I can keep making this better.

EDIT: CAB file has been fixed and now includes the shortcut.

Hey everyone,

The homebrew scene has given me a lot over the years, taught me C/C++, some ARM ASM, some C#, and various other things. I want to give back to the scene by offering something to people wishing to gain what I did (and still am) from the scene. I’m now offering free hosting for anyone who has a homebrew related project (or general technology related things). With this deal you get:

• Unlimited Storage Space
• Unlimited Bandwidth
• Unlimited MySQL databases
• Unlimited email
• I can host your domain(s)
• Unlimited subdomains

All of it for free. There are a few basic restrictions:

• Nothing illegal in the US or Canada.
• No porn.
• Must actually use it.
• Must be secure (Not an entrace for hackers).
• Must follow my host’s rules (http://vexxhost.com/aup.htm)

Also, if you are looking forward to AIMDS, send an email to aimds[at]teendev.org so I can get an idea of how many people will actually use it.

Hey everyone and happy 2010. It’s been an eventful few days. An Egyptian hacker got into my FTP. He then proceeded to upload a phishing site. The bank he was phishing found out, told my host, I got suspended, and spent the next few days trying to rectify the situation. Thanks Egyptian hacker. You just got Africa, Asia, and South America banned from accessing any site I host. I would like to thank Brian V. of Vexxhost who helped me resolve the whole “hacked” thing. Hopefully your New Year’s celebrations did not involve support tickets like mine did.

I was hit with a stroke of luck this Christmas. I finally got a new computer, one that will be with me for the next decade. It will allow me to have less problems with software development. No more worrying about losing source code. All my projects are on hold right now as I figure out how I will set up my new environment. I do not have a copy of Windows right now, so PPC development will be stopped until I get Windows 7. Nintendo DS projects will resume as soon as I get the environment set up. Also, I have reopened my PayPal account, so donations are being accepted again.

Hope it will be a good year!

Hi all! I’ve got a new application for you. It’s the previously announced SoundFrag!

Description:

SoundFrag is a clone of Sound Grenade (The popular iPhone and iPod Touch app). It emits a high frequency sound effect that copies the effects on someone’s hearing after a grenade blast.  SoundFrag uses 3 different grenades:  Fragmentation, Flashbang, and Smoke Grenade.

Requirements:

Touch Screen Pocket PC or Pocket PC Phone Edition (Smartphone Edition is not supported).

Windows Mobile 2003 (SE), Windows Mobile 5, Windows Mobile 6 (6.5 probably works too).

.NET Compact Framework 2.0 or greater.

~1MB free on Main Memory

Installation:

Must be installed in Main Memory

Install SoundFrag from the CAB file using File Explorer.

Downloads:

Source code is available upon request. It is licensed under the GNU GPL v3.

SoundFrag is Copyright © 2009 Max Fierke and XtenDesign Inc.

Some people have been asking why homebrewcast.net has a stupid GoDaddy domain parking page. The reason is, because I didn’t renew it in time. It is pending a domain name transfer over to x10hosting (our host before our last host that I use for domain name registration).

It’ll be back online very shortly.

Another year down and only one more to go until I have to find a new name instead of TeenDev. I want to stop thinking about me for a second and tell you about whats happening with AIMDS.

I haven’t worked on it for a little while, mostly because of summer school. Summer school is ending on Tuesday, so I intend to work on AIMDS endlessly for the next week. I want to have a fixed version out very soon. After that I will start adding in new features. I don’t want to put out a release date like I did for Halo 2D DS because it just disappointed people if I couldn’t meet the “deadline”.

I’ll just say, I want a fixed version out as soon as I can figure out the problem I am having with libFB.

Hey all,

I just want to let you guys know about some issues you may encounter while browsing the site. In the latest version of Joomla (1.5.11) there is a problem involving the modification of an SQL table which causes an override in the template loader which only alllows the default template to be loaded. I have come up with a workaround until the Joomla team finds a way to fix this. So, if after reloading a page and the page has a white background and has no style, please shoot me an email and I will try and take care of it.

-Max

Everyone, I have some more good news. Good new for you developers anyway. I have decided that because of the huge changes with libnds and devkitARM, I really do need to update bootlib. It doesn’t really work with the new stuff, so might have to rewrite it. I am going to mmostly make the next release a maintenance release by fixing it for the new DKA and libnds. I am also porting (for lack of a better term) to C++ for all you OOP freaks. Hopefully it will be a little more stable and easier to use.