Life with Playstation / Folding@Home update

[patsu]

Perhaps veering off-optic but I would be happy if they would just let us use the dynamic themes as a screen saver. The $3 I spent on the Afrika theme seems like a waste since I can't change the lame icons without losing the background and there is no way to view it independently of the XMB. And a big wet raspberry for the huge "Afrika" logo and Sony copyright marring the screen.

Would be cooler if the LwP channels can be run standalone as a dynamic theme. I my LBP and Demon's Souls themes even though they don't do anything useful. But yes, would be splendid if they do more.

I cannot help but feeling that the same folks that make the UI decisions for products with 2 x 24 LCD displays are deciding what we get with the PS3 GUI and built in apps.

For example, why not embed a user configurable RSS feeder into Life with Playstation? Presumably they have all the code sitting around for their existing feeds and this could be trivially combined with a GEOIP database to map it to the globe. At the very least they should let users enter their own weather locations (or pull them from the profile data).

Yap ! The channel UI needs some improvement. They should also allow the channels to share data and presentation, if possible.

This application also desperately needs to be optimized, the start up time is brutal and also requires user interaction to get by the "oh noes, don't turn me off!" prompt which means you are forced to sit and wait around after launching it.

=)

I think that's the Folding@Home part. It's probably syncing with the server, scheduling and exchanging data. To make it start faster, I'd say give us an option to drop F@H !

We can move on to other topics like clean environment. Let us update and change the big picture.

The new camera channel would be cool if you actually had any control over display times. As it is, the tiles are shown for far too short a time. It also sucks that the times are shown without dates or timezones which makes them pointless.

Haven't checked that out yet....

 

[patsu]

The new camera channel would be cool if you actually had any control over display times. As it is, the tiles are shown for far too short a time. It also sucks that the times are shown without dates or timezones which makes them pointless.

What channel is this ? I couldn't find anything similar to your descriptions.

Is this the United Village channel or World Heritage ? Something else ?

 

[deathindustrial]

The "World Heritage" channel is the one I am talking about, it seems to be intended as an advertising thingy for Sony digital SLRs which is why I called it the camera channel.

Initially when the channel loads (or at least yesterday it was like this as it was the first time I tried it out), each location would show a loading dialogue as it loaded the image data. Once the data was loaded it would then show the close up view of the given snap shot. However, the length of time for each zoom state is preset and does not take account of how long the download took. What was happening yesterday (when things were still caching) was that the image would load and then very quickly flash the image before rotating the globe to a new location. This would also happen when you manually chose a location.

Now that the images are cached it is not quite as pronounced a problem but it still is lame you cannot tell it to spend longer on each location.

I was also unable to find an obvious game video channel after today's update . . . is this regionally locked or something? Sony at times seems to have a hate on for Canada (aka "not available in your region" syndrome).

=)

Cheers

 

[patsu]

The "World Heritage" channel is the one I am talking about, it seems to be intended as an advertising thingy for Sony digital SLRs which is why I called it the camera channel.

Initially when the channel loads (or at least yesterday it was like this as it was the first time I tried it out), each location would show a loading dialogue as it loaded the image data. Once the data was loaded it would then show the close up view of the given snap shot. However, the length of time for each zoom state is preset and does not take account of how long the download took. What was happening yesterday (when things were still caching) was that the image would load and then very quickly flash the image before rotating the globe to a new location. This would also happen when you manually chose a location.

Now that the images are cached it is not quite as pronounced a problem but it still is lame you cannot tell it to spend longer on each location.

The "World Heritage" channel was introduced in v1.1. The loading you talk about is the HTML/XML caching or loading. The globe would rotate based on some idle time routine. If the globe rotates back to the same spot, you should be able to see the complete info.

I think v1.2 introduces the new video channel for US folks only (according to here), and added video playback to the United Village channel. I can't find the United Village videos yet.

I was also unable to find an obvious game video channel after today's update . . . is this regionally locked or something? Sony at times seems to have a hate on for Canada (aka "not available in your region" syndrome).

Yes, it seems you're out of luck here. ^_^

 

[patsu]

Just downloaded Life with Playstation v1.21.

"Network error handling has been improved"