Origin and Gamespot are fighting it out on BF3 this friday 7:00 pm BST. Watch it live here via livestream.

If GameSpot wins, Origin will be letting go of 30 free Back to Karkand codes. The codes – which include the full game – will then be distributed in a manner of GameSpot’s choosing.

But if Origin wins, it’ll be GameSpot surrendering the prize instead. In this case: an exclusive spot on the GameSpot home page.

Who do you think will win this fight? Leave your views on the comments section below. In the mean time enjoy the live stream

Live Stream

Live Chat

via EA

BBC iPlayer – Want to watch BBC live on your iPhone/iPad? BBC have just updated their previous iPlayer app for iOS devices. Now not only can you watch previous programmes but you can also live stream all national television broadcasts as well as radio networks.

The best thing about this is that it allows 3G streaming while you are on the move. Make sure you have a good data plan before you try it out on your mobile network.

Get the app now. You will need iOS 4.3.x or above to install.

itunes Link – BBC iPlayer app
App Store Link – BBC iPlayer

My Xbox Live – Microsoft has released an Xbox companion app for iOS devices. You can track and compare your achievements, connect with your Xbox LIVE friends, and change up your 3D Avatar. Review all your recent great games you and your friends love to play and compare achievements with them. Jump into our games hub to learn about the latest LIVE games and apps. Access Xbox Spotlight feeds, get breaking news from Xbox LIVE, game tips and tricks, gamer spotlight and much more.

Get the app now

itunes Link – My Xbox LIVE
App Store Link – My Xbox LIVE

So we have already discussed what we will be expecting from the Microsoft BUILD. Here we are covering Day 1 of Microsoft BUILD conference. All the links to live stream of keynotes will be linked here. We have friends who will be at BUILD and we will also be talking to them all day long.

You are encouraged to join in on the talk.

Live Coverage of Microsoft BUILD  - Day 1

Open the live coverage by clicking Here

You may have been hearing about this MS BUILD conference for a while and wondering what it is. It is bascially a conference where they will be talking about the future of Windows (What you can expect in Windows 8). Well here is the brief over view (from their website), what it is and what you can expect. Here I will be giving details on how can you attend this conference via your computer (live stream). I have two friends who will be attending the conference, I shall be talking to them and linking their talks here on this site.

So what is BUILD?

[From BUILD]

BUILD is a new event that shows modern hardware and software developers how to take advantage of the future of Windows. Learn how to work with the all new touch-centric user experience to create fast, fluid, and dynamic applications that leverage the power and flexibility of the core of Windows, used by more than a billion people around the world.

Hear how the UI was designed to work seamlessly with a diversity of devices and form factors. Go behind the scenes and learn all about the new app model that allows you to create powerful new apps. All while retaining the ability to use your existing apps. Web-connected and web-powered apps built using HTML5 and JavaScript have access to the power of the PC. Touch-optimized browsing, with the full power of hardware-accelerated Internet Explorer 10 transforms your experiences with the web. BUILD is the first place to dive deep into the future of Windows.

Here is a video sneak peak at the CTRL+ALT+COMPLETE

Edit: I forgot to mention, you can follow the hashtag #bldwin on twitter for all the latest talks about.

How can you attend/stream this event? (Officially)

Well the conference is taking place in California but sadly the registration has run out according to their website. But do not worry, all the talks will be streamed online. Please note only the keynotes will be streamed online. Rest of the conference will be recorded and uploaded by MS 24 hours later.

Where to stream this from. Well it seems that the website will go live with streams when the conference starts. Here are the links.

BuildWindows – Main Site where streams will be hosted

Microsoft News Center – Where all the news about BUILD will be updated and streams/recording linked from.

Note: I put officially in title because these are the streams being provided by MS themselves. There seem to be many more startups that seem to providing their own live streams and coverage. I am not sure about them yet, whether it is allowed or which one is the most trusted one. I will find out soon and be updating this article.

How will House of Tech be covering this event?

I will be watching this live and talking to some people who are attending this conference. They will of course be blogging and tweeting about it live as well while I am in talks with them. You have two options, you could either follow them and get their updates or you could follow me where I will be assessing what they tell me and posting for everyone to see.

You can follow me on my twitter @BilalBM where I will be talking to people from BUILD. You can also follow @HouseofTech for official updates from BUILD and other stuff.

Here is the list of two people that I would personally recommend as I know them. More will be added soon. Details of blog site and twitter accounts are as follows.

1. Ben Nunney 

Twitter: @bennuk

Live coverage by him on Ubelly.com

2. Alexander Jethwa

Twitter: @Angel_Nights

Live coverage by him on alexalexalex.co.uk

Stay tuned and subscribe to our Twitter/Facebook Page for updates. In mean time here are some link worth checking out

Developers ‘Eavesdrop’ on Microsoft via Channel 9 - Video site gives inside view of the people behind the company’s products and technologies.

Previewing ‘Windows 8’ - A video preview and background about the next generation of Windows.

Blog: Building ‘Windows 8′ - An inside look at building “Windows 8″ from the Windows engineering team.

Watch Battlefield 3 LIVE from E3 and do not forget to check out the new tank trailer from battlefield 3.

Live Stream via ustream

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You’ve loaded the Ubuntu Live CD to recover files from a failed system but where do you store the recovered files? We’ll show you how to store them on external hard drives, on the same PC, a Windows home network, and other places.

There are many ways to transfer files you can access from a Ubuntu Live CD to a location that a stable machine Windows can not access them.

We’ll go through several methods, from each section from the Ubuntu desktop.

Use a healthy hard disk

If your computer has more than one hard disk or your hard drive is healthy and you’re in Ubuntu for reasons of non-payment, then access your hard drive is easy as pie, even if the hard disk is formatted for Windows.

To access a disk drive, it must first be mounted. To mount a floppy drive healthy, you simply select it in the Places menu in the top left of the screen. You must identify your hard disk size.

Clicking on the appropriate hard drive mounts it, and opens it in a file browser.

You can now move files to the hard drive by drag and drop or copy and paste, which are both done the same way they are done in Windows.

Once a hard drive or other external storage device is mounted, it will be displayed in the directory / media. To see the list of storage devices currently installed, navigate to / media by clicking on the file system in a Windows file browser, then double-clicking the folder media..

Right now, our media folder contains links to the hard drive, which Ubuntu has assigned a terribly uninformative label, and the PLoP Boot Manager CD that is currently in the CD-ROM drive.

Connect a USB Hard Drive or Flash Drive

A USB external hard drive gives you the advantage of portability, and is still large enough to store a deposit of entire hard disk, if necessary. Flash drives are also very easy to connect, if they are limited in how far they can store.

When you plug a USB hard disk or flash drive in, Ubuntu should automatically detect and mount it. It can even open a file browser automatically. Since it was installed, you will also see the show on the desktop and the folder / media.

Once it’s been mounted, you can access it and store files on it like you would any other folder in Ubuntu.

If, for whatever reason, it doesn’t mount automatically, click on Places in the top-left of your screen and select your USB device. If it does not show up in the Places list, then you may need to format your USB drive.

To properly remove the USB drive when you’re done moving files, right click on the desktop icon or the folder in /media and select Safely Remove Drive. If you’re not given that option, then Eject or Unmount will effectively do the same thing.

Connect to a Windows PC on your Local Network

If you have another PC or a laptop connected through the same router (wired or wireless) then you can transfer files over the network relatively quickly.

To do this, we will share one or more folders from the machine booted up with the Ubuntu Live CD over the network, letting our Windows PC grab the files contained in that folder. As an example, we’re going to share a folder on the desktop called ToShare.

Right-click on the folder you want to share, and click Sharing Options. A Folder Sharing window will pop up.

Check the box labeled Share this folder. A window will pop up about the sharing service. Click the Install service button.

Some files will be downloaded, and then installed. When they’re done installing, you’ll be appropriately notified.

You will be prompted to restart your session. Don’t worry, this won’t actually log you out, so go ahead and press the Restart session button.

The Folder Sharing window returns, with Share this folder now checked. Edit the Share name if you’d like, and add checkmarks in the two checkboxes below the text fields. Click Create Share.

Nautilus will ask your permission to add some permissions to the folder you want to share. Allow it to Add the permissions automatically.

The folder is now shared, as evidenced by the new arrows above the folder’s icon.

At this point, you are done with the Ubuntu machine. Head to your Windows PC, and open up Windows Explorer. Click on Network in the list on the left, and you should see a machine called UBUNTU in the right pane.

Note: This example is shown in Windows 7; the same steps should work for Windows XP and Vista, but we have not tested them.

Double-click on UBUNTU, and you will see the folder you shared earlier! As well as any other folders you’ve shared from Ubuntu.

Double click on the folder you want to access, and from there, you can move the files from the machine booted with Ubuntu to your Windows PC.

Upload to an Online Service

There are many services online that will allow you to upload files, either temporarily or permanently. As long as you aren’t transferring an entire hard drive, these services should allow you to transfer your important files from the Ubuntu environment to any other machine with Internet access.

We recommend compressing the files that you want to move, both to save a little bit of bandwidth, and to save time clicking on files, as uploading a single file will be much less work than a ton of little files.

To compress one or more files or folders, select them, and then right-click on one of the members of the group. Click Compress….

Give the compressed file a suitable name, and then select a compression format. We’re using .zip because we can open it anywhere, and the compression rate is acceptable.

Click Create and the compressed file will show up in the location selected in the Compress window.

Dropbox

If you have a Dropbox account, then you can easily upload files from the Ubuntu environment to Dropbox. There is no explicit limit on the size of file that can be uploaded to Dropbox, though a free account begins with a total limit of 2 GB of files in total.

Access your account through Firefox, which can be opened by clicking on the Firefox logo to the right of the System menu at the top of the screen.

Once into your account, press the Upload button on top of the main file list.

Because Flash is not installed in the Live CD environment, you will have to switch to the basic uploader. Click Browse…find your compressed file, and then click Upload file.

Depending on the size of the file, this could take some time. However, once the file has been uploaded, it should show up on any computer connected through Dropbox in a matter of minutes.

Google Docs

Google Docs allows the upload of any type of file – making it an ideal place to upload files that we want to access from another computer. While your total allocation of space varies (mine is around 7.5 GB), there is a per-file maximum of 1 GB.

Log into Google Docs, and click on the Upload button at the top left of the page.

Click Select files to upload and select your compressed file. For safety’s sake, uncheck the checkbox concerning converting files to Google Docs format, and then click Start upload.

Go Online – Through FTP

If you have access to an FTP server – perhaps through your web hosting company, or you’ve set up an FTP server on a different machine – you can easily access the FTP server in Ubuntu and transfer files. Just make sure you don’t go over your quota if you have one.

You will need to know the address of the FTP server, as well as the login information.

Click on Places > Connect to Server…

Choose the FTP (with login) Service type, and fill in your information. Adding a bookmark is optional, but recommended.

You will be asked for your password. You can choose to remember it until you logout, or indefinitely.

You can now browse your FTP server just like any other folder. Drop files into the FTP server and you can retrieve them from any computer with an Internet connection and an FTP client.

Conclusion

While at first the Ubuntu Live CD environment may seem claustrophobic, it has a wealth of options for connecting to peripheral devices, local computers, and machines on the Internet – and this article has only scratched the surface. Whatever the storage medium, Ubuntu’s got an interface for it!

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