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Life With PlayStation Updated to 1.2
Posted by Tosh in Folding@home, Life with Playstation on December 15th, 2009
Update 1.2 adds support for video playback and photo slideshows. For those in the US, a new channel is available to you. It’s the PlayStation Network Game Trailers Channel. Which has trailers for games on the PlayStation Store and info about the game. Plus you can even purchase the games without leaving Life With PlayStation. There is a auto playback mode, which plays trailers from the PlayStation store continuously.
If you haven’t joined our Folding@home team, feel free to join up! Our Team Number is 55054
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New Channel added to Life With PlayStation
Posted by Tosh in Folding@home, Life with Playstation on August 14th, 2009
Sony added a new Channel to Life With PlayStation called World Heritage. I tried this out last night and it was kinda cool, more info is below. Wish you could zoom in on the photos or make them full screen. I want to check it out at different times of the day to see what photos come up. The photos change every 2 hours. What other Channels would you like to see added?
The World Heritage channel utilizes the power of the PLAYSTATION®3 to differentiate itself from the α CLOCK website currently available for PC’s. Each location is plotted onto the Life with PlayStation® globe. 12 photos are available for each World Heritage site; which photo is available depends on the time of day. Find your own favorites using Life with PlayStation®. In autopilot mode, images for each location will be shown automatically
This project will cover several sites picked from UNESCO’s World Heritage List from all over the globe, including: France, Switzerland, Croatia, Italy, China, Japan, Thailand and others.
World Heritage by α CLOCK channel for Life with PlayStation®
Do you still use Life With PlayStation / Folding@home?
Posted by Tosh in Folding@home, Life with Playstation on August 11th, 2009
When Folding@home first started it seemed like a huge hit for the most part. But it seems to have died down. I haven’t “folded” on my PS3 for a while. I just use it for whatever reason then I turn it off. If I happen to leave it on remote play while I’m at work. I will leave it folding.
If you do use Life With PlayStation / Folding@home, you might as well join our team. Our team number is 55054. It’s been pretty dead lately, but we are still ranked pretty well. We currently sit at 488th place. I still use Folding@home on my work PC all the time, and my wife does at her work too.
Life With PlayStation did add some interesting things to the Folding@home application. With the Live Channel you can now cruise around the virtual globe looking at news headlines and weather from cities around world. That info is provided by Google News and The Weather Channel. For some cities there is a live web cam provided by Earth Television Network. I thought I heard that the clouds are real time, but not 100% sure about that. The United Village Channel shows school children all over the world. It’s interesting to look at. Folding@home actively runs while your using Life With PlayStation too. I wish they would add more cities or give you an option to add your own city.
So how often do you use Life With PlayStation?
Click Here for our Folding@Home Team Website
Here is another website to check our stats. It’s more detailed.
It’s very simple to join our team. Once you’ve launched Life With PlayStation, hold square and select Folding@home. Press the triangle button to bring up the Options, select “Current Channel”, and then select “Identity”. Here you can change your donor name, which I suggest doing. If not it defaults to PS3. After that select “Join an exiting team” and enter PS3Blog.net’s team number 55054. And that’s it, your now part of the team. To get more points on your PS3, choose the advanced option in the settings.
Here is a nice option for people that use the remote play option of the PS3. Just start remote play and start the Folding@home app. Then you can turn off your PSP, and the folding@home app will continue. Then when you try to connect again via remote play you will get the folding@home screen. From there you can go back to XMB if you wish.
Even PC users can join the team. I have my work PC running the folding@home software as well. You can download the PC version here.
For those who are yet unfamiliar with the term, Folding@Home is a project which was started by researchers from Stanford University. The project involves the study of protein folding which has been thought to be the root of diseases such as Alzheimer s Disease, Parkinson s Disease, Huntington’s Disease, cystic fibrosis, and some types of cancer. The aim of the project is to help the researchers to build models and simulations of these proteins by lending them some CPU power and a bit of bandwidth.
My Donor name is xBerserker
Life with PlayStation gets updated to 1.10
Posted by Tosh in Folding@home, Life with Playstation on May 12th, 2009
The main update is a new channel called United Village. Right now there isn’t much there, but hopefully it expands quickly. They describe it like this “a project designed to provide an experience of sharing a sense of community and culture from locations around the world.”
Added support for adding and removing channels dynamically. Added a local time display in the LIVE CHANNEL. Updated Mood categories for automatic music selection. Added support to enable Folding@home[TM] Expert Mode which disables all other channels and features that may impact simulation performance. Folding@home[TM] Expert Mode can be activated by navigating to: Options Menu > [Configuration] > [Folding@home].
I still think it’s strange that there isn’t more cities listed, you should be able to at least add your own. Google news has info for every city pretty much anyway. Only thing missing would be the webcam which isn’t a big deal.
Life with PlayStation 1.10 update adds United Village channel
Over 1 Million PS3 Owners have used Folding@Home
Posted by Tosh in Folding@home, PS3 on February 5th, 2008
Folding@home first arrived on the XMB March 22, 2007. And since then, if you average it out, around 3,000 PS3 owners register each day since then. Now it’s over 1 million strong.
In line with this another milestone, Stanford Associate Professor of Chemistry Vijay Pande had this to say:
Since partnering with SCEI, we have seen our research capabilities increase by leaps and bounds through the continued participation of Folding@Home users.
Now we have over one million PS3 users registered for Folding@Home, allowing us to address questions previously considered impossible to tackle computationally, with the goal of finding cures to some of the world’s most life-threatening diseases.
That’s great news, keep those PS3′s folding. Maybe next year we’ll hit 2 millions users or more! We actually have our own Folding@Home team here at PS3Blog.net and we are doing very well. Currently we are ranked at 345.
We have even out folded Joystiq’s team 
To join our team, just enter 55054 as the team number, for more info check out this post.
SCEI: Over one million PS3 units now registered to Folding@Home
New Folding@Home Features Coming Soon [Update]
Posted by Tosh in Folding@home, PS3 on December 19th, 2007
Ever thought to yourself, I wish the PS3 would shut itself down after it completes a work unit. Well now you can. With Folding@Home 2.1 will come a few new features. You can choose to automatically shut down your PS3 after a work unit completes and uploads the results to Stanford University. Or you can choose to have it shut down after so many hours. Pretty handy.
This holiday season you can now play music while running Folding@Home. Now you can entertain your guests and tell them your helping cure cancer at the same time.
Good to see more PS3 games and application taking advantage of using customisable soundtracks.
The Team Number is 55054
Current at rank 357
New Folding@Home Features Coming
[Update]
It’s now available, just run Folding@Home and you’ll be prompted to upgrade
Folding@home gets a Guinness World Record Title
Posted by Tosh in Folding@home on November 14th, 2007
The Folding@home project gets a Guinness World Records Title as the World’s Most Powerful Distributed Computing network. Mostly thanks to the powerful PLAYSTATION 3. In September the PS3 alone hit the one petaflop barrier, quite a achievement.
If you don’t know what the Folding@home project is, it’s a user-friendly application for the PS3, and pretty much every OS out there (Windows, Mac, Linux). You just choose a donor name and join a team if you wish. By the way our team number is 55054 
Then just let the app run and that’s it.
Here is more info about Folding@home:
For those who are yet unfamiliar with the term, Folding@Home is a project which was started by researchers from Stanford University. The project involves the study of protein folding which has been thought to be the root of diseases such as Alzheimer s Disease, Parkinson s Disease, Huntington’s Disease, cystic fibrosis, and some types of cancer. The aim of the project is to help the researchers to build models and simulations of these proteins by lending them some CPU power and a bit of bandwidth.
Our Folding@home team is doing very well. We are currently at rank 376! Keep those PS3′s & PC’s folding!
Folding@home project nabs Guiness World Record title, thanks to the PS3
Also the PC side of Folding@home is getting a new GUI similar to the PS3. They don’t have a ETA on the release but they are trying to get it out ASAP.
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And here is another way the PS3 has helped science.
Gaurav Khanna is using a cluster of eight PS3 units as a supercomputer replacement (donated by Sony) for his space research. More details below.
Join the PS3Blog Folding@Home Team
Posted by Tosh in Folding@home, Life with Playstation on March 23rd, 2007
Come join our PS3Blog.net Folding@Home Team
The Team Number is 55054
Click Here for our Folding@Home Team Website
Here is another website to check our stats.
It’s very simple to join our team. Once you’ve launched Life With PlayStation, hold square and select Folding@home. Press the triangle button to bring up the Options, select “Current Channel”, and then select “Identity”. Here you can change your donor name, which I suggest doing. If not it defaults to PS3. After that select “Join an exiting team” and enter PS3Blog.net’s team number 55054. And that’s it, your now part of the team. To get more points on your PS3, choose the advanced option in the settings.
Here is a nice option for people that use the remote play option of the PS3. Just start remote play and start the Folding@home app. Then you can turn off your PSP, and the folding@home app will continue. Then when you try to connect again via remote play you will get the folding@home screen. From there you can go back to XMB if you wish.
Even PC users can join the team. I have my work PC running the folding@home software as well. You can download the PC version here.
For those who are yet unfamiliar with the term, Folding@Home is a project which was started by researchers from Stanford University. The project involves the study of protein folding which has been thought to be the root of diseases such as Alzheimer s Disease, Parkinson s Disease, Huntington’s Disease, cystic fibrosis, and some types of cancer. The aim of the project is to help the researchers to build models and simulations of these proteins by lending them some CPU power and a bit of bandwidth.
My Donor name is xBerserker
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