April 2010 Archives

Eric Lempel, Director of Sony's Playstation Network Operation writes:

Hi everyone, in our continued effort to provide the best, most comprehensive entertainment experience possible, we'll be adding a few new features to PlayStation 3 (PS3) via the latest system software update, which is a mandatory update and will be available shortly. Most notably, you'll see some new sorting options within Trophies that make it easier to claim bragging rights among your friends on PlayStation Network.

As before, the firmware update is mandatory.

PS3 Firmware 3.30 System Update (US)
PS3 Firmware 3.30 System update (EU)

The new enhancements include the following:

• Trophy enhancements -- Now you can more easily sort trophies in the [Trophy Collection] and [Comparing Trophy] sections. Sorting can be done with [Trophy Collection] in the [Game Category] and also when comparing trophies with your friends in the [Friend Category]
• Trophy Folder (Title List) can be sorted by game name/ by title according to the date in which you earned your last trophy (ascending/descending)
• Add-on list (Group list) can be sorted by original/the date in which you earned your last trophy (ascending/descending)
• Trophy list can be sorted by original/trophy name/grade/date of obtaining the trophy (ascending/descending)

In addition, this update preps the PS3 system for some upcoming new features, including 3D stereoscopic gaming, which is coming soon to PS3, in time for the launch of Sony's 3D BRAVIA TVs.

Unlike your other friends on Facebook, you like to log onto the social website and play the various apps (e.g. Mafia Wars, FarmVille, Restaurant City, Mob Wars, etc.).  Most of those games have something in common, they depend on your friends to help out.  What this means is that you need to post messages on your wall.  Unfortunately, these game postings will appear on your friends' news feed and this might anger some of them, that they don't even play the games, why must they endure this nonsense?

Here's a quick way to limit who can see what you posts.

First, you'll need to edit your friends list (see image Facebook Friends #1)

It appears that I'm the only one experiencing problems with Facebook while using Firefox v3.5.9 (yes, I know that 3.6.x is available but upgrading to the newest version is not supported by F5 Networks plugins to establishing a VPN via Firewalker).

Anyways, just so you know I'm not talking crazy, I went to the main URL of Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com

Now I click on the 'Messages' link on the left sided menu and this is the resulting URL:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/?sk=messages

Now, I'm going from messages to my 'Profile' link that's on the top right corner of Facebook and the resulting URL:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/johnhighway?ref=profile

Note the malformed URLs.

In some cases, I go to my photo album:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/johnhighway?v=photos&ref=profile

Click on a specific album:


http://www.facebook.com/#!/album.php?aid=27439&id=503264990

And the click on the "Facebook" logo to head back to the main page:

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/?sk=media

What's up with that?

This malformed URL is plaguing my ability to accept new friends, gifts, etc. Now this appears to only affect Firefox, however the malformed URL also appears on Internet Explorer but IE is apparently more forgiving and not as strict. So, I'm having to switch to IE just so I can respond to requests but I would return to Firefox just so I don't have to deal with all the ads.