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CRM Magazine Announces 2009 CRM Market Awards (Social CRM gaining ground)

This morning, CRM Magazine released their 2009 CRM Market Awards to be announced at the CRM Evolution Conference.

Somewhat surprising recipients appear in the area of Rising Stars include Google, Facebook, Lithium Technologies, and Visible Technologies – internet and social media platforms. In addition to traditional CRM leaders Marc Benioff and Anthony Lye, more social and traditional media stars showed up in the Influentials category including Chris Brogan, Guy Kawasaki, Tony Hsieh, Tim O’Reilly, Jeremiah Owyang, and Ross Mayfield.

One key takeaway for me is this high profile validation of the rapidly merging worlds of Social Media and CRM – recently officially named Social CRM.  Please join the conversation on Twitter by using the #scrm hashtag.

CRM Magazine Announces Winners of 2009 CRM Market Awards

Companies, Customers, and Industry Visionaries Honored for Successes in the CRM Marketplace over the Previous 12 Months

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CRM magazine, the industry’s leading publication, announced the winners of its 2009 CRM Market Awards here today, in conjunction with the magazine’s CRM Evolution 2009 conference.

With its eighth annual CRM Market Awards, CRM magazine honors the vendors, consultants, and end-user companies that focus on customer relationships and the customer experience through the sophisticated integration of people, processes, and technologies. In each of 10 categories, the magazine named one Market Winner, denoting the highest score compared to its peers. Each category also produced four Market Leader awards and “One to Watch.”

“To stay competitive in a challenging economy, companies must come up with innovative ways to improve their customer relationship efforts. This is exactly what the recipients of the 2009 CRM Market Awards have done,” said David Myron, CRM magazine’s editorial director. “Congratulations to this year’s award recipients for their achievements over the last year. May their CRM efforts continue to succeed.”

Recipients were determined through an extensive three-month process and a proprietary rating formula that involves industry analysts, financial and corporate information, product and functionality assessments, and scores reflecting customer satisfaction.

* Enterprise Suite CRM — Winner:
Leaders: Microsoft, Oracle, RightNow Technologies, SAP
One to Watch: NetSuite
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One to Watch: Makana Solutions
* Marketing Solutions — Winner: SAS Institute
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One to Watch: Marketo
* Business Intelligence — Winner: IBM’s Cognos Software
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One to Watch: Microsoft
* Data Quality — Winner: SAS Institute’s DataFlux
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One to Watch: Pitney Bowes Business Insight
* Open-Source CRM — Winner: SugarCRM
Leaders: Compiere, Concursive, SplendidCRM, xTuple
One to Watch: vTiger
* Consultancies — Winner: Deloitte
Leaders: Accenture, Capgemini, Hitachi Consulting, IBM Global Business Services
Ones to Watch: Appirio and Bluewolf

Eight members of the CRM community were named by the magazine as 2009 Influential Leaders: Marc Benioff, cofounder, chairman, and chief executive officer at; Chris Brogan, president of New Media Labs and social media thought leader; Tony Hsieh, chief executive officer at online-retailing trailblazer; Guy Kawasaki, author and cofounder of aggregation site Alltop; Anthony Lye, senior vice president for CRM at Oracle; Ross Mayfield, chairman, president, and cofounder at collaboration specialist Socialtext; Tim O’Reilly, founder and chief executive officer at publisher and event producer O’Reilly Media; and Jeremiah Owyang, a senior analyst at Forrester Research.

The magazine also named six Rising Stars for the year, including nontraditional CRM players such as social networking behemoth Facebook and search-engine giant Google; information-from-the-cloud upstarts InsideView and Jigsaw; Lithium Technologies, a community-platform provider; and Visible Technologies, which offers brand monitoring and social media analysis.

Lastly, the magazine named four customer implementations as winners of its CRM Elite Award: ISS Belgium, for a large-scale Microsoft Dynamics CRM rollout; NBC Universal, for a sales and marketing effort using; ShipServ, for its holistic use of Marketo,, and social media; and Wrigleyville Sports, for its NetSuite e-commerce success.

The 2009 CRM Market Awards are being presented at the CRM Evolution 2009 conference at the Marriott Marquis in New York ( An expanded version of the results have been published in the September 2009 issue of CRM magazine—available in print and, as of September 1, 2009, in digital NXTBook format ( and online at

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CRM magazine is the leading publication of the customer relationship management industry, covering sales, marketing, customer service, and strategy. The magazine also administers and hosts the annual CRM Evolution conference. Each of these properties is designed to serve customer-centric business initiatives, and leaders who recognize CRM as a key strategy for creating enhanced customer value in any industry. For more information about the magazine, its editorial calendar, or CRM in general, please visit us on the Web at, or on Twitter at @CRM ( and @destinationCRM ( The destinationCRM Web site (which is updated daily) and the monthly magazine are properties of CRM Media, a division of Information Today, Inc.

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UPDATED: Peddling home energy management gear and software successfully is harder than it seems, and some startups as well as big companies such as Microsoft (s msft) and Cisco (s csco) are ditching this market. EnergyHub is staying, and on Thursday announced a $14.5 million funding to help it sell products to service providers and consumers.

The New York company will use the Series B round to commercialize its home energy management system, including the recently announced software and service to enable people to program their thermostats and cut unnecessary energy use. EnergyHub designed the service to sell it to cable TV providers, home security service companies and equipment makers, utilities and thermostat manufacturers.

The company also is working on an online portal to sell its equipment and services directly to consumers. Back in March, EnergyHub’s CEO, Seth Frader-Thompson, told us about the company’s plan to do a trial to gauge consumers’ reaction to its new sales program. The company sells a line of gadgets that include a wireless thermostat, a power strip that tracks energy use and a device to program temperature settings and display current and estimated future energy costs.

New investors for the B round are Acadia Woods and New York City Investment Fund. Existing investors are .406 Ventures and Physic Ventures. EnergyHub has raised $17.9 million total for the two rounds.

Neither utilities nor consumers have embraced home energy systems the way gear makers have hoped. A big stumbling block has to do with price. Startup Tendril stopped selling its high-end device, and it shifted its strategy. GE (s ge) did as well. EnergyHub doesn’t seem to have announced the price for its gadgets and services — we’ve asked the company for that information and will update the post if we get it. UPDATE: EnergyHub said it won’t release pricing information until it’s ready to sell to the general public.

Consumers also just don’t seem to be that interested in managing their energy use closely, even if the tools are free. Part of the problem, though, is that many consumers just aren’t aware of the products and services that are available.

Selling to utilities requires patience. Utilities often want a long field trial before committing to buying equipment and services. It could be a few years before an energy management company sees revenues from its deals with utilities.

Although some of the home energy management companies have bowed out, many other players are still in. Here is our handy list of some of those companies.

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It was a tranquil scene. The sunlight danced across the surface of the waters. From 30,000 feet in the air, the Pacific Ocean appeared placid. But I wonder what dangers lurked beneath the surface? In the plunging depths of this great ocean, what creatures fought for survival, while I was treated to a sumptuous meal of miniature pretzels and cold water? Although all seemed calm to my eyes, could it be that the currents wielded their inexorable power below, so much so that their impact would be felt on distant shores?

Are human beings much different? Our external countenance might belie the internal realities which percolate in our hearts. On the surface we appear to have it together. At a deeper level, it is possible that we recognize something is amiss, and we struggle to reconcile the dissonance. Yet, eventually, the interior currents of our hearts will have external impact. In essence, the hidden waves will wash ashore for all to see. What manner of content will accompany their arrival? It is under pressure that the authentic content of our character is revealed. To the degree that our outward countenance coincides with our inward character, we will discover the true consistency of how what we say matches what we do.

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A type of cholesterol you've probably never heard of may be linked to the third leading cause of heart disease in the country.

In a study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of researchers from McGill University, Harvard, Johns Hopkins and other institutions report discovering an abnormality in the gene responsible for a little-known type of cholesterol called Lp(a). This form of cholesterol appears to cause a condition known as aortic stenosis, which affects 1.5 million Americans.

In aortic stenosis, the main valve regulating blood flow between the heart and the rest of the body can become critically narrowed. To better understand this, picture a room with a door that hangs on an old, creaky hinge so damaged by years of rust that it can only open a small crack. Now imagine what would happen if you and your friends all tried to squeeze out through the door at once, and you'll have an idea of the trouble blood cells have leaving the heart through a heavily calcified aortic valve.

Patients with aortic stenosis often lack symptoms until it reaches a critical stage marked by fainting, heart attacks or early death. On average, half of patients will die within two years once these symptoms develop, unless they undergo surgical correction.

In the new study, the authors found that people with a common genetic variant for Lp(a) have a 60 percent greater risk of developing aortic calcifications than others.

"We've all know that Lp(a) is strongly associated with an increased risk of heart attack for some time now," said the lead study author, Dr. George Thanassoulis of McGill University in Canada. "But now we can link it to heart valve disease for the first time.

"It is interesting that one molecule that we don't routinely screen for is linked to a number of cardiovascular diseases."

As for who should be screened for this type of cholesterol -- much as how patients are currently tested for "good" HDL and "bad" LDL cholesterol -- doctors are split.

"These results do not support widespread screening in and of themselves," Thanassoulis said, adding that although aortic stenosis is a common cardiac condition, it only affects 1 to 2 percent of the population. In other words, even patients with the genetic variation still only have a roughly one-in-30 lifetime chance of developing aortic stenosis.

Dr. Lori Mosca, director of Preventive Cardiology at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, said that because of this fact, she would only recommend such screening in those at a high risk for heart problems.

"Lp(a) is an inherited risk factor for premature heart disease that is not responsive to lifestyle interventions [like diet and exercise]," she said. "I consider measuring it if I have a patient with a personal or family history of premature heart disease or aortic stenosis."

These doctors say determining the level of this cholesterol could be important. Learning which patients have extremely high Lp(a) can help to better predict risk for heart attack in some individuals, according to a study published last month in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology by one of the new study's coauthors, Dr. Borge G. Nordestgaard. And even though Lp(a) can't be lowered by taking cholesterol-busting statins, European guidelines currently suggest treating patients with Lp(a) levels in the top 20 percent with niacin, another type of cholesterol lowering medication that they say may have some effect.

On the other end of the debate are doctors like Dr. Steven Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic, who said that even when someone has a high Lp(a) level, there is little evidence that lowering it would have a benefit.

"Although Niacin lowers Lp(a) a little bit, there are no outcome data suggesting a favorable effect," Nissen said.

Dr. Stephen Kopecky of the Mayo Clinic agreed. He said that when it comes to preventing heart disease, tried-and-true advice still applies.

"Too often, Americans may be looking for a quick fix that will allow us to trade in our bodies for new ones after 55 years or so," he said. "But there is still no substitute for trying to prevent all types of heart disease through improvements in our diet and exercise."

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“Jezebel” is a name synonymous with evil; she is the epitome of the wicked woman. So infamous is her name that, to this day, no one names their baby daughter “Jezebel.” To call a woman a “Jezebel” is the greatest insult imaginable. Jezebel was the daughter of Ethbaal, a priest of the cruel, sensuous, false god Baal. Ethbaal, the priest-king of Tyre who murdered his own brother to take over the throne, was hardly a good father figure. But Jezebel followed in her father’s footsteps and was herself a power-hungry murderess who stopped at nothing to get what she wanted.

The king of Israel at the time was Ahab, a weak, self-pitying man who abdicated his authority to his bride, the princess Jezebel. In spite of God’s laws forbidding idolatry and the worship of any god but the Lord, Ahab married this princess who brought to Israel with her hundreds of priests of lewd Baal worship, a cult that tended to destroy manhood and drag womanhood into shame. Jezebel was such a domineering person that she soon became master over her weak husband. One of her first acts was to order the extermination of the prophets of the Lord (1 Kings 18:4, 13) and set up altars to Baal. So pervasive was her idolatrous influence in Israel that Jesus later used her name to refer to a woman who led the church at Thyatira into immorality and the worship of false gods (Revelation 2:20).

Jezebel’s strongest enemy was the great prophet Elijah, who defied her and opposed her evil rule. First, he pronounced the punishment of God upon Israel in the form of a drought which lasted three years (James 5:17). This culminated in a contest on Mount Carmel between the powers of Israel’s true God and the Baals. After the 850 priests of Baal spent the day beseeching their gods with wailing and self-mutilation to end the drought, all to no avail, Elijah prayed to his omnipotent God who responded by accepting the sacrifice, having the false prophets slaughtered, and providing an abundance of rain (1 Kings 18:16-46). Instead of acknowledging the awesome power of the one true God, Jezebel was enraged and vowed to kill Elijah (1 Kings 19:1-2). Elijah fled from her wrath to the wilderness (1 Kings 19:3-8).

In the meantime, Jezebel was proving herself to be the greedy, murderous, evil woman she truly was. A righteous man named Naboth owned a vineyard next to Ahab’s palace. Ahab offered to buy the vineyard, but Naboth, honoring God’s command to keep inheritances within the family, rightly refused to sell. Ahab became “sullen and angry” and went home to sulk on his bed. Jezebel ridiculed him for his weakness and told him to cheer up for she would get the vineyard for him. She plotted with two lying scoundrels to have Naboth falsely accused and denounced, then put to death. Then she calmly declared to Ahab that the vineyard was his (1 Kings 21:1-16). Here we see the formula for a disastrous marriage: a weak, childish man who allows his evil, domineering wife to rule the home. This is the exact opposite of God’s plan for marriage: a loving husband who leads his family, and whose care for his wife mirrors that of Christ and His church (Ephesians 5:25-26, 28-29), and a godly woman who submits to her husband “as to the Lord” (Ephesians 5:22), each submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ (Ephesians 5:21; Colossians 3:18-19; 1 Peter 3:7).

As with all who defy the Lord, Jezebel’s end was not a pretty one, although it was more gruesome than most, perhaps as an object lesson to all who set themselves up against the one true God. Her doom was sure, having been prophesied by Elijah in 1 Kings 21:23. Even as she saw her death approaching, she remained defiant to the end, painting her face and adorning herself in queenly garments. She looked out the window and shouted her defiance to Jehu, the next king of Israel who came to take his throne (2 Kings 9:30-37). Jehu commanded her to be thrown out the window to her death, where she was trampled by the horses’ hooves and almost entirely consumed by dogs. Her thirty years of tyranny over Israel had ended. The terror visited upon Jezebel was a testimony to the Israelites, and to us, that God’s power is supreme and those who defy Him will meet a terrible end.

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Q. I have a dear friend who is an Orthodox Jew. My attempts to witness just bounce off those inch-thick scales on his stubborn eyes. He’s quite intellectual and a big reader, so I’d like to find a good, thought-provoking book on Jesus/the gospel to send him. Anything come to mind?

A. More Jewish people have come to faith in Jesus as the Messiah because of a study of Isaiah 53 than any other source.  Be sure you are well versed in the chapter first and then show him how it points to the Lord’s death for the sins of the people and subsequent resurrection.

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Greenpoint Solo Dining: Fill Up on Productivity

Editors’ Note: This is our second post in a series about solo dining. Here’s our first post.

Perhaps the most obvious spot that comes to mind when one thinks of restaurants most suitable to the individual is a cafe. Dotted with open chairs opposite a single patron hunched in front of a laptop or over a book, the scene of predominantly lopsided tables is a familiar one in North Brooklyn any day of the week. Here’s my guide for where to go to get your work done by day, and in some cases even linger into the night.

A favorite spot to get work done: counter seat at Eagle Trading Company
A favorite spot to get work done: counter seat at Eagle Trading Company

For the same reasons I think a seat at the bar is the best seat in the house, I frequently find myself at the counter of Eagle Trading Company (258 Franklin Street) where the sweet server knows I’ll be having the Coronation Chicken (mango chutney, raita, arugula $7 as sandwich; or as salad over spinach and arugula $8) as I get work or “life admin” done while enjoying refills of iced green tea and a breeze from the Franklin Street-facing windows. If I’m there for breakfast (served until 4pm daily), it’s the B11 breakfast sandwich (eggs, jack cheese, avocado, jalapeños, tomato, onion, cilantro $7) with lots of hot sauce as I launch into productivity. Continue reading

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SoHo’s Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Comes to Greenpoint

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Maman’s original SoHo cafe opened in early Fall 2014 without much fanfare. That is, until people tasted their Nutty Chocolate Chunk Cookie and that cookie alone should make you want to stop at their newest location at 80 Kent Street (between Franklin and West). Luckily, the southern-France-chic bakery has plenty of attention-worthy treats beyond the cookie to make it a welcome addition to our neighborhood!
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Polka Dot – 726 Manhattan Ave – Greenpoint

I remember the time that I first noticed Polka Dot. I was walking down Manhattan Avenue, undoubtedly heading toward Peter Pan to satisfy my apple crumb donut addiction. Thankfully, I spotted the happy script across the street that was this little Polish cafe’s new sign. Many of you may not know that Polka Dot is in fact the reimagining of what was once the Polski Meat Market. Opened in 1996 by Marzena Parys and her husband, it’s evolved with the neighborhood into the gem that it is today. Continue reading

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Recently Shuttered Champion Coffee will Reopen at Two New Locations

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Champion Coffee may have recently shuttered at 1108 Manhattan Avenue (due to ‘unforeseen circumstances’), but caffeine addicts have no reason to be be sad. Two new Champions are soon to spring up elsewhere in Greenpoint to replace it.

First up will be a new cafe at 142 Nassau Avenue, on the site of Sweet Fox, which has now closed down. Champion’s Talitha Whidbee tells us that “Sweet Fox owner Jean Marc was ready to get back to his catering life and away from the constant demands of a cafe so we bought Sweet Fox from him which we will remodel over the next month and re-open as Champion Coffee.” This location will be almost exactly the same as the original Champion (with a slightly pared down food menu), and will be opening around September 22nd.

There is also a second, larger space in the pipeline, at 1107 Manhattan Avenue, directly across the road from the original. “Due to its size it will be a little longer in coming to fruition, but we are shooting for end of November”, Talitha tells us. This location will have the standard Champion food and drink menu, with the addition of kombucha on tap from Mombucha and a few other exclusive beverages.

In the meantime North Greenpointers craving a coffee fix could do worse than to try out the newly opened Sweetleaf Coffee (or Propeller, or Early, or Bakeri…).

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Sweetleaf Coffee: New Cafe and Roastery Opens in North Greenpoint

Owner Rich Nieto outside his newest cafe on Freeman Street

You know those times when you don’t set out to do something, but somehow it just happens anyway? Well, this is pretty much how Sweetleaf, Greenpoint’s newest coffee shop, came about.

“I wasn’t looking to set up another cafe”, says owner Rich Nieto, “I was just looking to find a space to roast.”

Rich established Sweetleaf Coffee with a friend in 2008, in a tiny shop just over the Pulaski bridge.  Seven years later and there is now an additional coffee shop in LIC, one in Williamsburg and, as of last week, a new one in Greenpoint. Rich bought out his partner about a year ago and now runs the entire operation.  He recently  started roasting his own beans out of a friend’s loft in Bushwick, but as he started to step up production it made sense to find a roasting space of his own.

“I was looking for a warehouse of around 1000 sq ft, but it was almost impossible to find something this small, everything is huge”, he tells us as we sit sipping coffee in the brand new Greenpoint outpost of Sweetleaf on Freeman Street. “I discovered this space because I used to drive past every day on my way between LIC and Williamsburg, and although it turned out to be the smallest warehouse space I could find, it was still way more space than I needed. The building is in a great location, just off  Manhattan Avenue, so we decided to use the extra space by creating a cafe at the front and having our roastery at the back.” Continue reading

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Greenpoint Food & Drink: Summer News Round-up

Brooklyn Barge Bar

There’s been a whole lot of comings and goings amongst Greenpoint’s bars and restaurants recently.  Here’s a round-up of a few changes that are on our radar…

Brooklyn Barge Bar  (3 Milton Street) – This novelty floating bar has been a long time in the making and it’s looking like they’ll miss the boat with the summer crowd if they don’t get things going soon. Time Out are throwing a ‘first look’ party  ($25 for unlimited beer and oysters) on the barge on August 26th, so it’s quite likely that this will be their opening night. Let’s hope they don’t have to cancel like they did with their 4th July celebrations. But, if they do, at least it means that Transmitter Park will stay a haven of tranquillity for a little longer.

Brooklyn Label (180 Franklin Street) – A sign in the window of this popular brunch spot says ‘closed for renovation’, along with a request to renew their sidewalk liquor license. However, it’s just been confirmed by the owners that the business is actually being sold and will be re-opening as something different in due course.  Continue reading

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Rise and Shine with “Early”, Greenpoint’s Newest Coffee Shop

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There’s no shortage of top-notch coffee in Greenpoint, but it’s always fun to have options and, as of last week, we just got one more, courtesy of a new cafe with the suitably caffeine-related name of ‘Early’.

Early Coffee & Sandwich Shop (967 Manhattan Avenue), held its official grand opening on Saturday, where the neighborhood was warmly welcomed in from the cold with free-flowing coffee and canapé-sized tasters of their yummy sandwich menu. Owner Radek Kucharski was cheerily doing the rounds with prosecco and hot cider, whilst cafe manager Peter Chrostowski was doling out espressos, mimosas, and sweet treats by Vegan Divas. Radek told us he’s always dreamed of opening a cafe in the area and, now that the stars have finally aligned in his favor, he’s super excited about the new venture. Continue reading

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Five Leaves to Expand into Former Sharkey’s Driving School Space

Familiar crowds outside Five Leaves wait in line for a perfect flat white.

As I strolled past Sharkey’s Driving School at the top of Bedford Avenue on Sunday evening, I noticed it was NO LONGER a driving school but instead some kind of pop-up gallery/shop. The guy inside told me that the space is about to be taken over by Five Leaves with view to an expansion and we can now confirm that this news is indeed absolutely true!

Five Leaves co-owner Kathy Mecham tell us “We are upgrading the entire restaurant: bigger kitchen, bigger room, bigger bar.  This also means we will also be able to up our catering so it’s really exciting!” Continue reading

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Say Bonjour to Delicious French Pastries at Sweet Fox Café

Sweet_Fox_Cafe_Greenpoint_Rosie_de_BelgeonneOoh la la! There’s a new cafe in the neighborhood and oui, vraiment, c’est Français! Recently opened on Nassau Ave, Sweet Fox Café is run by French chef Jean-Marc Hardy, and is a great spot to pick up a morning coffee and croissant, a fresh-baked baguette for lunch, or a fancy pastry for afternoon tea. Sweet treats include alluringly colored macaroons, delicate fruit tartlets, and the classic praline cream-filled Paris Brest (an item which, at the age of nine, I rated as most the sophisticated of all racy foodstuffs.) Continue reading

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From Bean to Brew: Inside the Café Grumpy Roastery

Cafe_Grumpy_Sack_Rosie_de_belgeonneGrumpy by name, awesome by nature, Café Grumpy has been one of Greenpoint’s most beloved coffee shops for almost a decade and now, with the addition of a new roastery, there’s even more to love.

Founded on the corner of Meserole Avenue and Diamond Street in 2005, Grumpy has since spread to five other locations including their most recent opening at Grand Central Station, where they triumphantly replaced a Starbucks. The cafe also brushed with fame during its starring role in HBO’s Girls.

In 2009 Grumpy started roasting their own beans in the back room of the Greenpoint cafe, but this year’s increased production demands led them to seek out a larger roasting space. Fortunately an ex-floristry warehouse just a few buildings down became available and their coffee-roasting palace was born. I met up with head bean buyer and ‘coffee educator’ Cheryl Kingan who gave me a grand tour of the roastery and the low down on the entire process of bean to brew. Continue reading

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The iTunes interface

iTunes is a piece of software created for media organization, purchase and playback. iTunes is integrated into the iLife media suite and is available for Macintosh and Windows machines. iTunes is also integrated with the Apple iPod and contains an easy to use interface for downloading music, video and podcasts for use either on a computer or iPod. iTunes is available for free download at:

Building an iTunes Music Library

Your iTunes music library contains all the files you play through iTunes. To get to the library in iTunes, click on the library link on the left side of the program interface, this should open the library in the main frame. You can also get to this folder outside of the program. On a mac, open Finder and click on the Music link of the left, then open the file labeled iTunes and then the file labeled iTunes Music. Inside that folder you will find a group of folders which organize your music files based on artist. Open any of these folder to access the music files of that artist.

To add music files to your library, open iTunes, go to the File menu and choose Add to library. A box will open which will allow you to search through your computer to find the files you wish to add to your library. You may also use this method to add files from a CD. Note: you may add more than one file at a time by selecting an entire folder or holding down the shift key and using your keyboard arrows to select multiple songs.

Using the iTunes Music Store

You can also add files to your library by downloading them from the iTunes Music Store. To use the iTunes Music Store, click on the Music Store link on the left side of the iTune program. Note: you will need to be connected ot the internet in order to access the Music Store. In the store, most commercial music costs $.99 per song or $9.99 per album. There are also many free downloads available.

Subscribing to Podcasts

There are many podcasts available online nowadays. With iTunes there are two basic ways to subscribe to a podcast. The first is to use the iTunes Music Store (see above for details) to find and subscribe to podcasts. In the music store, use the Choose Genre drop down menu to select Podcasts. You may then browse the different types of podcasts and select the one you are interested in. Most podcasts are free and once you have subscribed updates will be automatically downloaded to your iTunes library every time you open the program.

The second way to get podcasts is to enter the xml address (a type or URL) directly into iTunes. Most websites which produce podcasts will have a link to the xml, you need to right-click (or control+click) on the file and choose Copy link location. Then open iTunes, go to the Advanced menu and choose Subscribe to podcast. A box will open up, paste the URL in the box then click Ok. You will now be subscribed to the podcast and it will auto-update just as if you had subscribed to it through the Music Store.

Creating Specialized Playlists

To create a specialized playlist, start by going to the File menu and choosing New Playlist. This will create a playlist which will appear on the left side of the program. Name your playlist. Then go to the Music Library and click on any files you want in the playlist and drag them in. The files you add to the playlist will remain in the library as well as the playlist. This way you can access the song from multiple paths.

Syncing Your iPod with iTunes

Syncing an iPod should be a very simple task. All you need to do is plug your iPod into your computer with the cable provided, and open iTunes. The computer may want to run updates, but barring those the computer will sync your iPod automatically. Remember, syncing your iPod means that all the music and playlists from iTunes will be copied onto the iPod exactly as it is. If there was a song on your iPod what is not currently in your iTunes library, it will no longer be on your iPod when syncing is complete. Also, you are limited in the number of computers you can sync with, so keep that in mind when working with multiple machines!

Creating a backup for iOS devices in iTunes

Apple's family of iOS devices consist of the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. These devices sync and back themselves up via iTunes. This allows you to manage the data on the device and create a backup incase the device is lost or the data is erased. To start, you need to have iTunes downloaded and installed on your machine. An iOS device can only sync with one iTunes library, so be sure that you sync it with a computer that you will have continued access to. Next, plug in your device and iTunes will automatically launch and begin the syncing process. Durring the sync process, your iOS device will automatically backup.


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Notes from inside your Wii

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Lawsuit coming in 3.. 2.. 1..

February 1st, 2010 by blasty · 47 Comments

Recently I was informed that Datel has released a new version of their Action Replay Cheat Cartridge that allows you to cheat in Nintendo DS games on a Nintendo DSi console. Knowing that Nintendo put quite some effort in blocking any third party cartridges from working on the DSi I was curious to figure out how they did it.

Before jumping in this article, I’ll give you a small warning that what is written here might be quite “techy” to some people. I advise reading lots of GBAtek (And maybe a bit of dsibrew) when you get lost. 😉

Research™ has shown that getting a DS cart to boot on a DSi requires quite a bit more effort than it did on a (DS)Lite. Cart timings are very important, you cannot eject the cartridge and insert a new one beyond the DSi menu. But most important of all, the DSi menu does additional integrity checking prior to booting the cartridge.

The integrity checking is there to ensure that the cartridge booted is a genuine licensed game cartridge. There is a ‘white list’ stored on the DSi’s NAND flash which has an entry for every DS game ever released. The entries consist of multiple SHA1 (How these hashes are constructed exactly hasn’t been confirmed) checksums for the cartridge header, ARM9 binary and ARM7 binary.

I hear you thinking “what about newly released DS games? How will they ever boot on a DSi without an update to the whitelist?”. Newer DS games come with a RSA signature in the header that is verified instead of checking against the whitelist, and thus they don’t need to be explicitly white-listed.

So back to the Action Replay DSi cartridge, something that I immediately noticed is that when the cartridge is inserted into a DSi the icon and title of the game “Game & Watch Collection” show up. That’s a little weird.. but when selecting the icon you are thrown into a AR DSi menu.

Let’s take a step back, if all game binaries and headers are checked against a whitelist or need to have a valid RSA signature, then how does this Datel cart manage to boot?

I went to find the source code of my cartridge dumper and dumped the AR DSi cartridge on an old DS-Lite. after checking out the resulting binary I was surprised. No signs of the “Game & Watch Collection” ROM header or icon data, or main data for that matter..

$ hexdump -C ardsi.nds | head -n 2
00000000 4d 45 44 49 41 50 4c 41 59 45 52 20 41 53 4d 41 |MEDIAPLAYER ASMA|
00000010 30 31 00 00 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 |01..............|

This doesn’t match up with what I saw when the cart was booted on a DSi, huh? Neither would this cartheader qualify as anything whitelisted/valid, so there is no way it could boot on a DSi like this.

During a discussion with neimod he showed me a cartridge access trace (of the cartridge bus) he made of a game cartridge inserted in a DSi. Something noticeable was that a DSi would send the ROM ID cart command right after the reset command, before sending the “get header” command. My dumper software was doing it in a bit different order… (The order an actual (DS)Lite would do it in)

This small difference in order of cart commands allows the AR DSi cartridge to distinguish between a DS(-Lite) and DSi console.

For the sake of clarity:

DS-Lite cart initialization sequence:
CMD 9f00000000000000 # reset
CMD 0000000000000000 # get header
CMD 9000000000000000 # get rom_id
CMD ...

DSi cart init sequence:
CMD 9f00000000000000 # reset
CMD 9000000000000000 # get rom_id
CMD 0000000000000000 # get header
CMD ...

After making this small change to my dumper software, I was indeed getting back something that looked like a Game&Watch collection ROM.

$ hexdump -C ardsi2.nds | head -n 2
00000000 47 41 4d 45 20 57 41 54 43 48 20 43 41 57 54 45 |GAME WATCH CAWTE|
00000010 30 31 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |01..............|

Almost there! .. or so I thought. When I started comparing the original game & watch collection ROM against the result I just dumped, I got nothing but mismatches after the initial 0x8000 bytes (header + secure area).

More and more inspection of the dump and head-to-table banging later I noticed something funny: the data in the dump at 0x8000 (right where the mismatches start) was exactly the data that was supposed to be at 0x10C00, which coincidentally matched up with the exact start offset of the icon/title data. What’s going on? Why does this data show up in the wrong location of the dump?

Then a pattern started to emerge, the right data WAS there, just in the wrong order .. then it hit me. The AR DSI cart was completely ignoring the offset field in the read (0xB7) commands I was sending, and simply advancing a pre-constructed buffer that would exactly match the reply data of the commands a DSi console would normally send. This has the advantage that they only need to require a bare-minimum of data of the original game ROM and don’t need any (complex) logic to fully decode those 0xB7 commands.

With this knowledge in hand I tried reordering the dump in order to get a final ROM image. This proved to be quite tricky since I didn’t know when what was exactly read. I then proceeded to hack up DeSmuMe to log all cart reads and match that against a table of the filesystem to figure out in what order the files we’re read. Even now it was hard to get a good reconstruction of the dump, some files are only read partially, etc.

So I decided to build a list of MD5 hashes for each 0x200 bytes sized block in the original ROM dump and the shuffled AR DSi dump. A couple of minutes later I knew in which order to put what blocks back, and was left over with 3 blocks that didn’t match (0x600 bytes total) with *any* of the blocks in the original ROM.

Due to the preceding read commands I could see where in the dump these 0x600 bytes should go (comparing it against the
cart read access log I made using DesMuMe), and I finally had a final image. Now it was time to figure out how this
thing actually worked it’s magic. The answer was obviously in those 3 changed blocks. :)

To give you a quick idea of exactly how much code/data they borrowed from the original ROM: There are 1984 blocks of 0x200 bytes each from the original ROM, of which 1825 blocks are unique. 1825 * 0x200 = ~912Kb of data from the original ROM.

Sure enough the 3 new changed blocks didn’t fall within the area of the ARM9 or ARM7 binary of the game, else it wouldn’t pass the whitelist. I expected it to be a file-based exploit in one of the few files within the nitro filesystem on the cartridge, but all the offsets of those files weren’t in range.

I had a quick look at the 3 new blocks in a hex editor and noticed there was plain ARM opcodes in there, and a big landpad with 0xEAFFFFFE’s in front (label: b label). I started by disassembling this code, not caring HOW it eventually ends up in memory.

The small amount of code does some basic initialisation, then proceeds to send a special cart command that puts the ARDSi cartridge in a different mode. After this three read (0xB7) commands are executed to read and copy out the header, ARM9 binary and ARM7 binary respectively. By this I mean ofcourse the *actual* AR DSi menu header / binaries.

Knowing what their shellcode did was half of the job, now I had to figure out how it ended up executed in memory. Going back to the ROM I realized I didn’t check the *entire* filesystem range for the offset in which the blocks lie. To be more precise, I had only checked within the boundaries of the filesystem entries that have an entry in the File Name Table (FNT).

Nintendo DS ROMs can feature a thing that is known as “filesystem overlays” or “rom overlays”. These overlays are described in separate tables (pointed to by the NDS cartridge header). Overlay tables consist out of entries that look like this:

/* 0x00 */ u32 id;
/* 0x04 */ u32 ram_addr;
/* 0x08 */ u32 ram_size;
/* 0x0C */ u32 bss_size;
/* 0x10 */ u32 sinit_init;
/* 0x14 */ u32 sinit_init_end;
/* 0x18 */ u32 file_id;
/* 0x1C */ u32 unknown;

These overlays are pieces of code that normally aren’t loaded together with the main binary, but rather can be loaded on-demand by the main binary.

The important fields here are: id – a unique identifier (incrementing number) for the current overlay, ram_addr – the address the overlay is copied to in memory when it is loaded, ram_size – the size in RAM reserved for this overlay, file_id – the index of the overlay file in the filesystem table.

Cross checking the filesystem indexes of the overlays against my card access trace from DeSMuME I determined that the 3 changed were infact the first 3 blocks of overlay 0x01.

To not make this article any more lengthy than it already is, here’s what happens:

  • DSi console sends cart initialization sequence
  • ARDSi cart determines it’s being ran on a DSi console and starts responding a fixed pattern on every read block request
  • Game’s header, ARM9 and ARM7 binary are loaded by the DSi menu and checked for integrity
  • Integrity checks pass since all data is 1:1 compared to the original ROM
  • Game starts running, starts parsing filename and file allocation tables of filesystem on cartridge
  • Game loads overlay 0x01 to 0x020BBF00
  • Game does more stuff and eventually branches to code inside loaded overlay @ 0x020BBFE8
  • The initial 0xE8 bytes of the datel payload are inifite loop opcodes. The entrypoint is right behind it and payload execution starts.
  • Payload sends secret F005000000000000 (Not so secret anymore now, huh?) cart command to put cartridge in secondary mode
  • Payload uses normal 0xB7 read commands to read the header, the ARM9 binary and the ARM7 binary.
  • Some IPC magic is done to capture execution of the ARM7 cpu
  • Finally a softreset SVC/SWI is issued to execute the newly loaded ARM9 code

And here I was hoping datel had a clever technique under their belt to leverage code in DS mode on a DSi. But it seems like everyone else (read: Hong Kong pirate cartridge companies), they as well had to resort to ‘borrowing’ bits of a commercial game ROM. The only clever thing here is storing the actual payload inside a ROM overlay that is loaded early in the game. The overlays don’t seem to be checked by the DSi menu during the integrity check, and they don’t have to rely on a buffer overflow or some other tricky attack(s) in order to get their code running.

EDIT: Normmatt just mentioned on IRC that the DSi menu might be in fact checking the ROM overlays. Comparing the SHA sums in the whitelist for a game that has overlays and for a game that doesn’t shows that one of the hashes is empty for a game that has _no_ ROM overlays. This all still makes sense though: the DSi menu initially reads the overlays to check their integrity. But when the game is ran and it loads the overlay(s) on demand different data is returned and the system is fooled into loading the malicious code in memory. A typical case of “read twice, verify once”.

The thing I’m wondering about most is how Datel was planning to get away with this? Someone mentioned the argument of the ROM data being there “just for interoperability” and that would justify it a bit. But in my opinion borrowing roughly a megabyte of original ROM data is a different ballgame than borrowing a couple of (Ok, 48) bytes for the Nintendo logo. I would be interested to hear you guys’ opinions on the ethical aspect of this whole thing.

Oh well, it made for a nice Sunday of reverse engineering anyway. Hopefully you enjoyed the read as much as I did working this out, ciao! ;-]

P.S. Oh, and before I forget here‘s some bonus picture material for you all.

P.P.S If you are interested in the quick dis-assembly I did: click here. Sorry for not having used the correct base-address in that listing, but the code is position independent, you should get the idea. I hope datel doesn’t mind me ‘borrowing’ something from them.

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  • 1 aaron44126 // Feb 1, 2010 at 6:25 am

    Correct me if I’m wrong, but wouldn’t it be easy for Nintendo to combat this with a firmware upgrade? Either changing the order of commands in the init sequence to make it look like a regular DS, or adding additional verification. Seems like the ARDSi is already a doomed product…

  • 2 blasty // Feb 1, 2010 at 6:46 am

    aaron44126: Yes this is the case, but I think datel accounted for that. There is an USB port on the ARDSi which allows you to connect to some software on the PC. I think they left open the possibility to update the fixed command-reply stream in case nintendo decides to block their cartridge a firmware update.

  • 3 Sektor // Feb 1, 2010 at 6:48 am

    I don’t think there’s anything unethical about including the game data. If you can’t find any other way then it’s require, at least they didn’t make the game playable. It would be an extremely impractical way to get a dump of the game.

    1KB, 1MB or 1GB, if it’s required to boot your own code then so be it, Nintendo made them do it. Of course the courts could have a very different opinion.

  • 4 BrandonG777 // Feb 1, 2010 at 7:14 am

    The smartest dumbass ever. LOL Nice work but even the French court doesn’t agree with you.

  • 5 tech3475 // Feb 1, 2010 at 7:17 am

    @Sektor, that argument wont stand up in a court of law (well maybe France if you ahve the right judge).

    Is this how modern DSi flash carts work? I wonder because if they dont use this method then why didn’t Datel use it instead of “stealing” Nintendo’s code.

  • 6 blasty // Feb 1, 2010 at 7:29 am

    tech3475: Yes this is how all DSi compatible DS-Flashcarts work. Borrowing code/data from original ROMs to bypass integrity checking and get their menu booted. I reversed some of these carts in the past — but I thought the Datel cart would be more interesting to write about since it is supposed to be a somewhat more “legit” and commonly available retail product. If there is any interest in unveiling the secrets of DSi compatible DS flashcarts, let me know .. I’ll see if I can cook up some more stories then. 😉

  • 7 DCX2 // Feb 1, 2010 at 10:37 am

    Thanks for the post! I love reading this stuff. MORE! ^_^

  • 8 warll // Feb 1, 2010 at 1:37 pm

    Oh boy I would love to read more about DSi flash carts. Blasty I love your articles, I learn something everytime I read one plus they are entertaining.

  • 9 Maat // Feb 1, 2010 at 2:12 pm

    I would like to know why Nintendo changed the order of boot? Maybe even they original games can use it to know if it’s a dsi or a ds?
    Why instead of using original code why they try using they own code but try making the sha equal to another game…..after all there are a lot of games your sha can be equal. Does anybody mayde the count if it’s possible to break it, because of all sha’s possibilities there are?

    Nintendo should send a e-mail thanking for discovering that for them…..

  • 10 karlbowden.myopenid.com/ // Feb 1, 2010 at 3:24 pm

    I do much appreciate these articles too. Very interesting to see the lengths some companies (don’t) go to to get around circumvention.
    I second Maat’s request to Ninty too.

  • 11 warll // Feb 1, 2010 at 4:27 pm

    @Maat: I imagine they changed it so that they could check for a RSA header before testing against the list of known hashes. While as far as I know they could have gone the test then check route they were likely unaware that it would pose a vulnerability.

    As to your second point while I have not looked it up I am pretty sure that SHA4 is not vulnerable to hash collision. After all if it was then stealing the code would have been unnecessary, as well Nintedo would be a fool to use a broken hashing algorithm in a new product.

    All in all I must say that I am looking forward to a possible run down of flash cart techniques.

    “Nintendo should send a e-mail thanking for discovering that for them”
    I would expect that Nintedo already knows about this.

  • 12 MatisyahuSerious // Feb 1, 2010 at 5:13 pm

    great freaking read, i could eat stuff up like that all day long – but man oh man, aswell and infact aren’t_really_words.

  • 13 Dueler // Feb 1, 2010 at 7:38 pm

    I don’t really get how Datel think’s this will pass on retail :\ They have been pushing themselves as a legit company opening the door to media and other optimisations for so long and now they blatantly use G&W code to boot their new product? :\
    I seriously am waiting for this lawsuit to come now. And id love to see Datel’s reasoning behind it.
    Im just wondering how all their products will come under scrutiny after this, and werent they having issues with microsoft latley over the 3rd party lockout, how will that case look after this is thrown into the light… *that was Datel right?*

  • 14 warll // Feb 1, 2010 at 8:03 pm

    The English language would not be the world’s most important one if it wasn’t for our willingness to invent and steal new words when needed.

    So remember, every Grammar Nazi is really advocating non-English.

  • 15 lincruste // Feb 2, 2010 at 3:11 am

    No moral issue here. Data must flow.

  • 16 jelbo // Feb 2, 2010 at 3:24 am

    Very interesting read, even though I don’t understand the details, but get the overall idea :)

    offtopic question for bLAStY: What Windows theme is that? I like it very much.

  • 17 blasty // Feb 2, 2010 at 5:05 am

    Jelbo: it’s the default ubuntu gnome ‘human’ theme I think. (or the ‘dark’ variant of that or something)

  • 18 Maat // Feb 2, 2010 at 9:56 am

    @warll: I didn’t knew sha4 existed, i thought that there are was only sha1 and sha2. Sha3 is being made now with a competition.In the post it says sha1, so it’s broken to hash collissions.
    I think they didn’t use this option because it is way more easy to just use the trick posted here….
    Maybe while we are writing here, they are trying to break the sha1 so when Nintendo upgrades dsi, they can use a new attack.

  • 19 Sektor // Feb 2, 2010 at 10:45 am

    I suppose they could require you to connect an exploitable game to the cart and dump/patch it on powerup or just ship the cart blank and require you to write to it from a PC.

  • 20 Grayda // Feb 2, 2010 at 7:51 pm

    I agree with Sektor. A piggyback method could have worked, like the unlicensed games for the NES. But failing that, couldn’t they have said the code was for the sake of “interoperatability”? Much like the breaking of CSS was?

  • 21 umby24 // Feb 2, 2010 at 9:31 pm

    Just plain amazing… though i didn’t think that datel would act the same as flash carts…

    I know you guys are mostly Nintendo guys when it comes to hacking into stuff like this, but I am curious about another one of Datel’s works, the Action Replay – PSP. I’m interested because they are able to run their action replay software, as if it were signed code, on all PSP systems. (Go, 1000, 2000, 3000) which would mean they either had to pull another trick like this one, or crack SCE’s code for signing applications. Seeing as you guys seem to like reverse engineering, I figured you might be interested. Thanks for the reply, and thanks for this article, quite interesting.

  • 22 Clipper // Feb 2, 2010 at 10:10 pm

    That was a really interesting article to read. I can’t say I’m too shocked, given some of Datel’s other recent methods, but it is surprising how blatant it’s getting.

    On Nintendo fixing this, couldn’t they just add some randomisation to their startup sequence so that it makes the occasional random and/or duplicated dummy request? That way, even with Datel’s update mechanism, any fixed stream of data would always fail.

  • 23 wiisixtyfour // Feb 2, 2010 at 10:50 pm

    Apparently PSP Action Replay is installed to the “UPDATE” folder so that probably has something to do with how it runs.

  • 24 Phredreeke // Feb 3, 2010 at 3:50 pm

    Grayda: Breaking CSS didn’t use copyrighted data. It was done by reverse engineering a badly done cryptographic scheme (the closest thing I can think to compare it to is the fakesigning bug on the Wii)

  • 25 HyperHacker // Feb 3, 2010 at 6:43 pm

    Neat. Curious they hash the binaries and not the cartridge header/filesystem tables; that would have prevented this, wouldn’t it?
    On Datel’s side I wonder why they padded with infinite loops instead of NOPs.

    I suspect Datel was planning to go for the interoperability defence. Otherwise they’d have included the entire ROM, and honoured the offset field, instead of just replaying a sequence of replies when the commands could change in a future update. This way they have only the bare minimum required to get up and running. Whether that’ll hold up in court (or how that law and DMCA can coexist), I wouldn’t know.

    It’s not like Datel doesn’t have a history of releasing products that rely on a security flaw, knowing full well that a firmware update will soon render the product useless. Wii Freeloader, anyone?

  • 26 Grayda // Feb 4, 2010 at 4:27 am

    @Phredreeke: It’s true that DeCSS didn’t use copyrighted code. Perhaps I was thinking of use of copyrighted code being an “exception” to the DCMA rule rather than reverse engineering. Thanks for pointing that out. I still do wonder about the “Piggyback” method though..

  • 27 Rafael Vuijk // Feb 4, 2010 at 12:49 pm

    Just let the user download the original game onto the card via mini-USB.
    Nintendo can’t fix this. Too bad it’s always the companies with money that have the first sales. A lawsuit would be appropriate. I wish they cared more about homebrewers. AR for PSP Go is useless too :(

  • 28 reikitsune // Feb 4, 2010 at 10:57 pm

    You can use Homebrew with the Action Replay DSi as long as you have a microSD card and the applications on the card. The best part is they work. Team Twiizer, I suggest that this my be like the Twilight Hack for the DSi.

  • 29 Muzer // Feb 5, 2010 at 11:40 am

    Nobody gives a **** about DS-mode homebrew – you can do that with flashcarts. What we’re looking for is DSi-mode homebrew (which is already possible, but difficult, with drunkencoders’ exploits)

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  • 31 HyperHacker // Feb 5, 2010 at 3:22 pm

    The problem with the “upgrade through mini USB” idea is the cartridge probably can’t simply be plugged into a USB cable and upgraded, without it being plugged into a DS with software running to receive the new firmware. That’s difficult if the system won’t boot your cartridge and you don’t have another laying around that will.

    They certainly could add circuitry to allow it to be upgraded without a host system, but it doesn’t look like it has that (and knowing Datel, they probably can’t be arsed).

  • 32 hcs // Feb 5, 2010 at 4:34 pm

    As I read it they do (or at least may) hash the tables, but the overlay table doesn’t need to be modified: the AR’s code is in the space that the normal overlay would be loaded from (though not the first time when the overlay is hashed), and padded to work nicely in the space where it is loaded into.

  • 33 HenshinMijin // Feb 5, 2010 at 9:40 pm

    *In my best movie trailer narrator voice*
    In a world, ..where people get paid thousands of dollars to seek out IP theft. One company decides to risk it all! From the producers that brought you Action Replay comes the hit unethical thriller of 2010, ‘Get Sued Or Die Trying’
    Rated $$$ – http://www.ripdatel.come onnn

  • 34 RupeeClock // Feb 7, 2010 at 5:24 pm

    Well, this is interesting.
    It reminds me of the old Galoob Game Genie, which seems to have rom data from the NES Bubble Bobble.

    Current Flashcarts trying to run DS mode in the DSi mostly use that Danny Phantom game as the header, which really is shady.

    But there’s other weird stuff like being able to use the original AR DS as a PassMe card by holding select whilst booting, I use it often just to boot my Supercard Lite in DS mode.

    I bet you guys all already knew that though… 😛

  • 35 SoraHjort // Feb 9, 2010 at 12:57 am

    @HyperHacker the ARDSi is setup so that it does not need to be plugged into a DS/DSi for the USB data cable connection to work.

    As in you just have to plug the cable itself into the ARDSi cart by itself and it connects to the code manager as is. This makes it so it does not need a powered on DS/DSi system to get code or firmware updates.

  • 36 shuffle2 // Feb 15, 2010 at 6:45 pm

    This isn’t really groundbreaking for Datel; They’ve used parts of commercial games in other products as well. I know this is true for the Gamecube AR at least. Seeing as they’re still around I kind of doubt anything will happen.
    Also this is tagged with “Wii” :p

  • 37 HyperHacker // Feb 16, 2010 at 11:57 pm

    Right on. I haven’t seen one that could do that yet. At least they thought that far ahead.

  • 38 evanextreme // Mar 1, 2010 at 3:15 pm

    Hey Blasty, ive been a homebrew user for about a year now, and i have the HB channel, and a DSi action replay.
    Recently I discovered the PSP action replay, which actually works by having a program to install it from your pc, and then it functions like a normal PSP app! I was thinking, that if someone could get to the inner workings of what datel does, we could have PSP homebrew without sticking with our current firmware!
    do you think team twiizers would be able to find out how it works?

  • 39 fr3sc0 // Mar 16, 2010 at 12:52 pm

    Although I don’t really understand everything said I did enjoy this post. Gets me fired up to educate myself more into these things.

    *blasty are you by any chance dutch?* Since the pics are hosted at a .nl domain 😉

  • 40 user469 // Mar 20, 2010 at 3:58 pm

    @blasty I wonder how iEdge created a legal card with a different help loader that contains no game data when is new . I’m very interested if you can unveil the secrets of DSi compatible DS flashcarts , and also explain why card for the DS are different from card for DSi so they cannot be upgaded and booted in the latest .

  • 41 nitro2k01 // Mar 23, 2010 at 4:52 pm

    @evanextreme To the best of my knowledge, the AR for PSP is cryptagraphically signed, which either means Datel has an agreement with Sony or the keys were leaked.

    @user469 It seems like iEDGE requires the user to download a ROM image of a game and patch the bootstrap with. They still need a game, but they leave that to the user so that they (iEDGE) don’t have to distribute copyrighted material.

  • 42 ariolander.wordpress.com/ // Mar 25, 2010 at 2:07 am

    I wonder how Lexmark International, Inc. v. Static Control Components, Inc.’s supreme court case would apply to this situation?

    The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that circumvention of Lexmark’s ink cartridge lock does not violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

    Lexmark had print toner cartrages that had digital protection chips in them that told them to “expire” even before the ink ran out after, x amount of prints, or x amount of time.

    Each cartrage had to go through an encrypted authentication sequence and a checksum matching process.

    SCC developed its own computer chip that would duplicate the ‘handshake’ used by the Lexmark chip. SCC’s chip also included a verbatim copy of the loading program, which SCC claimed was necessary to allow the printer to function.

    Either way the appelate ruled in favor for SCC saying “‘Lock-out’ codes — codes that must be performed in a certain way in order to bypass a security system — are generally considered functional rather than creative, and thus unprotectable”.

    One of the Judges went so far as to say “We should make clear that in the future companies like Lexmark cannot use the DMCA in conjunction with copyright law to create monopolies of manufacturer goods for themselves”

    Either way Datel can probably be sued certainly but the legality of such “lockouts” and copying ROMs to bypass security and authentications is still up for debate.

  • 43 user469 // Mar 26, 2010 at 3:01 pm

    Can the recent Pwn2Own iPhone exploit used for a DSi ?
    The payload used chained return-into-libc (“return oriented programming”) on ARM to execute in spite of code signing. As far as we know, this is the first public demonstration of chainged return-into-libc on thre ARM platform.

  • 44 bushing // Apr 1, 2010 at 9:59 pm

    Lexmark vs SCC is an interesting case, and the closest we’ll get to a parallel. I think that if Nintendo sued Datel, it would be an ugly court battle, regardless of the merits. In this case, the almost-a-megabyte-chunk of ROM would be parallel to the 55-byte “Toner Loading Program” in the Lexmark cartridges. Reading the majority opinion, it sounds like they’re saying that the Toner Loading Program should not necessarily be subject to copyright, as it is primarily functional in nature — I don’t think anyone could claim the same about a megabyte of code / data from a video game. There’s a quote on the Wikipedia page for it to the extent that one of the judges said that the same principles should apply, even if the program were more complicated than the TLP — but still, we’re talking several orders of magnitude here, and that statement was more to address the DMCA circumvention claim than the straight-up copyright claim.

    I heard the EFF’s Jennifer Granick speak a bit about this recently; she said there generally needs to be a “nexus of infringement” for DMCA cases, which means that some sort of actual IP copyright violation has to be occurring in conjunction with the alleged DMCA violation — meaning, the DMCA should not be used in cases like Lexmark vs. SCC where the real issue is a physical good (like a printer cartridge), as opposed to a movie or computer program. They could still just ignore the DMCA and only try to take on the copyright issue … I don’t know, the whole thing makes my head hurt, and it’s pretty clear that it’s complicated enough that lawyers on both sides would have to put in a lot of time and money to prevail, one way or the other.

  • 45 derfman24 // Apr 7, 2010 at 1:01 pm

    My Acekard 2i shows up Danny Phantom Urban Jungle on my DSi, but I eject and insert the cartridge really fast, it will show up with the original Acekard 2i logo.

  • 46 nitro2k01 // Apr 11, 2010 at 5:33 pm

    derfman24: But can you boot it when it shows the Acekard logo?

  • 47 macweirdo // May 7, 2010 at 1:39 pm

    @nitro2k01: No, the Acekard will just give you an error screen.

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  • by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29, 2012 @02:46PM (#38858719)

    No, the problem is getting hold of raw materials for batteries. Mobile computing is on the rise and the west doesn't want to be too dependent on foreign mineral deposits. More efficient computers = smaller batteries = smaller amounts of lithium etc needed.

  • by Teun ( 17872 ) on Sunday January 29, 2012 @03:24PM (#38858919) Homepage
    Why do you need an energy crisis to make something work more efficiently?
    Concidering energy does not come cheap there is a very good commercial reason to save on one of the larger costs in computing (or any other activity)

    And even though the US hosts the worldleaders in denial of CO2 related climate change it is still an ever more important concideration for many people, even in the US.

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well despite saying i wouldn't run today :-) just couldn't resist . 7.30am , frosty cold morning outisde but not that cold :D Out i went to do a 30 min slow run ( I thought I was running slowly ) honestly i wasnt trying . had my beanie hat on for the 1st time of course my lovely warm comfy running tights :D

Ms Runkeeper giving me my average pace along the way ,not really paying to much attention to it.

I knew where i was running to and where to stop ,slightly over 30mins but enough for today :D

Then Ms Runkeeper said 4.71km in 30:47 ?? how did that happen?? Really was running that quick in my head and it didnt feel like it , Bottom line a really nice run on a cold frosty winter morning and home to a bowl of porridge and some wholemealbread toast and whole earth natural peanut butter , there is no better way to start the day :D

This running lark is amazing . I feel amazing everyone who runs is amazing :D Loving life right now :D

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  • I saw your Facebook post on c25k and smiled! Conditions underfoot were dodgy today...I showed very little self-restraint and patience waiting for it to thaw out there...just went for it, so know exactly why you went too - you would have had to tie me down to stop me, as I think I'm programmed now (that's a good thing, yes?)

    You did do just a little run though and a great 'I wasn't trying...honest' pace too...very speedy! You should definitely have an amazing Saturday - great breakfast, btw...gotta get some peanut butter in!

    Have a good weekend :D

  • Hi Tiki :D that is how i feel about running now, it just seems the natural thing to do, i think it is called addiction :D but what an addiction :D Hope your run was as good as mine :D

    ThaYou have a good weekend too :)

  • Fabulous & well done thats not slow at all :)

    Agree with you very happy with running lark!

  • thanks S_J_B :D running constantly surprises me :D

  • Well done Rob, doing well there with a great time... I bet the bacon butty and cuppa felt good when you got home!!! :-) I went out last night as i'm doing a 4k charity run tomorrow (pics hopefully to follow) I did 5k last night, not a great time, as I need to sort my bit of wheezing out, but still out there and feeling good!! :-)

  • hey Andy :) i have forgotten what bacon tastes like :) have a great run tomorrow :D take it easy Andy :D have a great weekend :)

  • Well Running Ms Comfy Head - there you go, Health Unlocked has found you a new name (see your tags) - it must have been that beanie hat and your super warm tights that made you run faster than you thought ha ha. Good run on a lovely day, wish I had saved mine now for today.

  • haha i didnt look at those :D i just couldnt help myself this morning Jo :D

  • Not surprised, it's been a beautiful day

  • Well done Rob. Sounds like a perfect run that does! Porridge as well. All good! I am on porridge rations this week as I am racing tomorrow and it's my fuel of choice. I hope it turns out to be rocket fuel of choice!

    I've not tried peanut butter in it though. Got to try it now. Ta for the tip

    I might put some in my curry tonight.

  • It is my little treat for the weekend :) it is the whole earth one though :D I am such health eating freak now too haha

  • Yeah me too. I got Whole Earth one. I put it in my curry last night. Swear it made me run faster today!

  • Mmmm not tried it in curry.yet lol

  • What a lovely inspiring post. Thankyou, and well done!

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Awaiting ultra sound

I'm pretty sure I have endometriosis... I had a c section with my son in 2005 and ever since then had bad tummy and was diagnosed with ibs and also heavy irregular bleeding... I've got a scan the 24th of this month internal and external I suffer with pain and diarrhoea most days but bad when on my period... I just want this sorted I can't go out due to have horrific stomach cramps eyc!!! Has anyone any advice for me please

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  • Hi I'm in same situation as you I had my daughter via c section Nov 2013 my symptoms are just recent since I stopped breast feeding and I have a few more symptoms too constant lower back pain blood in urine fatigue list could go on. Iv had two ultrasounds and they haven't found anything they might do if you have cysts but I think they start doing ultrasounds first to rule out other possible factors if pain as endo rarely shows up on ultrasound. To normally get a proper diagnoses you will have to have a laparoscopy. Is your ultra sound through your gp have they referred you to a endo specialist or are you just going through early stages with your gp. Like I said iv had two ultrasounds now I'm waiting to see urology and gynacology.

  • Hi Hun thanks for replying this is my first ultra sound just hope it gets sorted etc Hun I can sympathise I'm constantly tired reoccurring thrush eyc it's a long drawn out process by the sounds of it... How long have you been going thru the process of scans etc xx

  • Past few months I had one when I got admitted via a n e and then I paid for a private one last month just waiting to see what urology and gynae think now regarding all this iv got urology next month gynae in November. It's headache if the gynae thinks it is endo I will ask him to refer me to a specialist if not I'll seek one myself just don't gave the energy for any headache these days I just want it sorting. Hope you get sorted soon don't back down and let them fob you off. Have you told doc you think you have endo or did they suggest it to you if it's come from c section its been implanted from the uterus that's my understanding of it. Could be in your muscle or it may be adhesions giving you bad pain and organs stuck together so many possibilities. Hope you get sorted soon.

  • I got in contact with my gp few weeks ago coz I skipped a whole period then was losing sooo much blood so she took bloods and sorted me a scan... I understand what you're saying regarding the headache

  • I've had endo since I was 8 and I'm 17 now awaiting to book a lap (hopefully) with a speacilist since my ob/gyn says I'm too young.

    I've been to the ER for appendicitis about 7 times, 6 of those times I got an ultrasound and it revealed nothing except the one time when I was still on my period: free fluid and my right kidney looked like it was in bad shape but the doctors had no idea so they sent me home on painkillers.

    I've had ultrasounds out of ER and they've found nothing too, endo doesn't normally show on ultrasound unless if you have cysts and they don't consider surgery for cysts unless if they're past a certain size.

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Have I got it wrong?

Just starting day 2 of the 12 week plan. Have been reading up and double checking my height/weight/calories allowed figures. My normal foods are in line with the suggestions, no cakes, plenty of fruit, lots of water. It seems that I actually need to eat more than I usually do in order to lose weight...seems very odd but I hope someone can explain.

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  • Your body need sufficient fuel to be able to function to its maximum and if it is not getting enough it will go in to starvation mode and hang on to every bit of fat that it can.

    I would suggest not just eating more but look at what type of food you are adding. Rather than eat vast quantities take in extra calories by adding things like Seeds (linseed is particularly good) and nuts

    Also look at when you are eating, try to keep to either three meals a day, or, and this helps with keeping your blood sugars more balanced four or five smaller meals and try to avoid snacking

    Good luck

  • Thanks Annde, will look at making up the calories with seeds etc if I can.

  • I always ate healthily, but the weight had crept up over the years, gaining about a stone per decade 😕 I couldn't understand why, it felt so unfair!! 😕 It makes my blood boil when TV shows overweight people eating burgers and cakes !! Grrrr 😡😡😡

    What made a difference for me was quantity, actually weighing portions. I wasn't over eating hugely but enough to tip the balance 😕

    When I was given the eating plan I currently follow I said 'I won't lose weight eating do much' as it seemed so generous, but I have! About 1lb a week and consistently. 😊 Previously I have eaten much less, lost weight faster, relaxed a little and put it all back on. Nowadays if I relax for a few days I stay the same. So I guess what I'm trying to say is some times we need to eat a bit more to fuel our body. 😊

    Good luck

  • Thanks Anna61. I never eat fried foods or takeaways, make my own soups with vegs and lentils and no bread etc as I cannot eat wheat. Will try more fruit and nuts in my salads. I appreciate your comments which are very encouraging,

  • Hi, I struggle with this too, but you have been given good explanations already. It also depends on your level of physical activity so be honest about that when using the BMI calculator. I've stayed at the lower end of the recommendation and being losing an average of a pound per week. I love fruit, but beware of too much because of all the natural sugar, try and eat lots more vegetables to make up your '5 a day' . Good luck!

  • Just give it a chance, start weighing/measuring your portions, stick to the new calorie limit, and you'll start to see where those extra calories were coming from before. Maybe not everyday things, maybe treats, meals out, hidden calories in drinks, sauces, dressings etc, but they're probably there. You'll notice them when you're missing them! If you don't find anything like this to explain why you were actually having more than you realised, then maybe the answer is you've not been being active enough? If so, loads of ways to start getting more active... Good luck :)

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