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PS3 Web Browser with page zooming – now an incredible web browsing experience from your living room

I was initially disappointed with the PS3’s build in web browser since on my great Sony 46″ XBR2 in 1080p most websites were completely unreadable unless you stood 2 feet in front of the screen. At some point however, and hardly publisized (but maybe added in the latest 1.54 firmware upgrade) the browser now supports a zoom feature. Holding down the square button and pressing R2 to zoom in or L2 to zoom out, you can zoom in to any degree you like on any page. This is completely awesome on any page that was previously unreadable. The amazing thing is it zooms in on any content in the page, so if you are viewing a video on YouTube for example you can zoom in and reposition the page so you can fill your whole screen with the video (yes I know the zoom to full screen browser was fixed on the YouTube Flash player a while back, but when it opens the second browser fullscreen there seems to be a longer delay before the page starts loading). Completely awesome.

At this point the PS3 is an awesome living room web browser, enabling viewing of any website from your sofa on your new HD flatscreen…

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Changing the default list method

the default list method in generated controllers looks like this:

<code>
    @Property list = {
        [ exampleList: Example.list( params ) ]
    }
</code>

This can be changed to return results however you need. For example, to execute an HQL statement to return the results in reverse order of id, use the following:

<code>
    @Property list = {
        [ exampleList: Example.findAll( "from Example order by id desc", params ) ]
    }
</code>
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Major changes for PS3 with next major firmware upgrade?

There has been rumors for a while that the next major firmware upgrade for the PS3 will come shortly after the European launch of the PS3 and will include the addition of some major new features. Expected features may include:

  • PSOne game emulation – downloaded PSOne games for playing on the PSP’s PSOne emulator will by playable on the PS3
  • inclusion of a download service for music, music videos and other video programs (see previous link), possibly by including content in the PS3 Store, but maybe via some other Sony backed website or service, similar to iTunes
  • upscaling to 720p and 1080i for PSOne and PS2 titles, using a combination of software and a hardware upscaling chip (that has so far not been acknowledged to exist)
  • remote internet access to your PS3, allowing it to function as a remotely accessible media server for all your photos, mp3s etc
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