CyberKnowledge Technology Blog

With the latest consoles all having web browsers, optimizing your website for them might soon be an everyday thing. If you use WordPress however, you’re in luck. There is a neat little plugin to do it for you. When enabled it will auto detect if the visitor is on a PSP, Wii, DS, etc. It will then use the appropriate font size that the console or hand held device works with best, and optimize the screen width for it as well. Once enabled all the posts are resized, and corrected for the... (more...)

If you play the Wii a decent amount of hours a week, the batteries typically will list for 5-6 days. Batteries aren’t the cheapest things to buy, and there are alternatives. JoyTech is going to be selling a charging station that can fit up to two Wiimotes, and two nun-chucks. It appears to have a USB cord in the back in which you can plug into the back of the Wii, thus using the Wii as the power source. It will come with the needed rechargeable battery back. It will be available in 38... (more...)

If you’re like me and are sticking with wired internet for a while, then you’ll love this USB adapter for the Wii. For $25.00 shipped you can by a USB 2.0 to Ethernet adapter. It’s not known whether any USB adapter will work, or just this specific model. Hopefully Nintendo releases better firmware with greater support for USB products. Keyboards would be a good addition to extend the Wii’s usefulness. If on the other hand you don’t want that bulky addition, with... (more...)

As cool as Zelda is, the beginning is rather challenging and boring. After about an hour of figuring things out you finally get to start stabbing monsters and meet Zelda. Since I don’t have a strategy guide, it took me longer to get to the fun part. One of “quests” in the beginning required you to fish for food for a cat, but before that you needed a rod. Before you could get the rod you needed to find a baby’s basket. In that same area you also needed to stop a bull,... (more...)

The Wiimote now works on Windows”¦sort of. A person from Australia made drivers for it, without even having one to test with. The up down left and right keys are working so far, and are represented as the standard AWSD keys. While this may not be a huge deal, it will eventually work with the nunchuk as well. Playing emulated games will be awesome on your PC. To get this working you’ll need a blue tooth adapter, and his software. Even though he hasn’t tested his code, numerous... (more...)

If you haven’t gotten your hands on the rare PS3 this year, there is one last hope of getting it. You have to root a server and prove that you did it. You’ll need to replace the image of a baby holding a PS3 with one currently residing in root’s directory. You’ll also need to make a text file with your address in root’s home directory. A port scan turns up every port open, so it’s definitely going to be a challenge. The web server being used is publicfile... (more...)