How to play GBA in Wii? Tutorial

The Nintendo Wii through the Virtual Console can play NES, Nintendo 64, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis and TurboGrafx-16. You can also play Gamecube games and even Gamecube Homebrew.

Now, tonight having tried it myself I can reveal to you all that GBA games work on Nintendo Wii via the Gamecube port.

Now, how does that work you ask, and some years ago took the Datel Advance Game Port is a device that plugs into the card slot Memory Gamecube and then connect your GBA games and play them that the big screen.

First you need some elements to do this, Heres what you need:

An action replay kit for GC

The Action Replay for GameCube will cost about $ 25, but besides being the device needed to boot your homebrew Gamecube also a region free disk boot device and Tricks, is worth the cost.

If the game is over Asia do not have the Action Replay for Nintendo GameCube in stock to try, Divineo Germany, Divineo France and Divineo Spain

A GamePort Advance GC

Now not many shops still have the Advance Game Port, but tonight I've contacted Datel and they have asked if they will make a repetition of the product. Ebay, Amazon, etc. may be your best option.

OK Let

Heres the instructions

First start up your Nintendo Wii

2 Insert the Action Replay for Gamecube Disc

Then go to the Freeloader option in the Action Replay

Use that disk to boot the Advance Game Port (startup disk)

Connect the Advance Game Port

Connect a GBA game in the Advance Game Port

Finally boot up

Then hey presto you'll play your favorite game of GBA or GBA Homebrew / Emulator for GBA on your Nintendo Wii and thats without having to hack the hardware.

Make sure your using the Action Replay using the built in Freeloader.

boot from a Pendrive and upload your applications in your pocket

install the operating system on a Pendrive and boot your computer from it is a very useful feature, especially for network administrators that time or another, need to make an emergency backup, or for users worried about the possibility of data loss.

The idea is very similar to what is offered by some Linux distributions, which has been in the form of Live CD or Pendrive But we will show how to use Windows XP that way (for the Linux instructions are the same) and Windows Vista . Apart from some applications that can be carried in your pocket.

Prerequisites
Before starting it is important to know what we need to start the process. Besides Pendrive, which must be at least 2 gigabytes (GB) of capacity and is completely empty (for those installing Vista, it is at least 4GB of space on flash device), the original installation disk, the operating system be used and download some software to help in the task.

Another important detail is to check the BIOS of your computer (to connect the machine, press Del or F2 to access the configuration of the PC) if the option to boot via the USB device. If not, then your machine will not support that kind of task.

Windows XP
To begin, download the freeware Bart PE Builder, which is responsible for the process of creating the files bootáveis. To facilitate, during the installation, note the option to create a program icon on the desktop. Double-click to run the program.

Make sure that the Windows XP disk is in the optical drive. In the Bart PE Builder screen, enter the path of drive where the operating system in the field Source: (path to Windows installation files). Example: D:.

Check the option Create ISO image and place just below the path and name to save the generated. Click the Build button to start the process. This can take several minutes.

The ISO file created contains the minimum required components of Windows XP, some tools to repair and is around 150 megabytes (MB).



The ISO images are used to burn CDs or DVDs to burn the files on the Pendrive and to perform the function of this boot, you have to download another program, the FlashBoot.

After downloading and installing the software, double-click the icon corresponding to run FlashBoot. In the initial screen, click Next. The next step is to choose the type of disc to be created. Use the first option, Convert BartPE Bootable Disk to Flash Disk. Click the Next button again.

At that point, you have to specify the location of the ISO file that was created in step one. Click Browse to this operation.

To locate the file, plug the Pendrive in any computer's USB port. Then, click Next and select the drive (Drive Letter) of the USB device and check the option Make Bootable USB Flash Disk Which is Physically Present on this PC. Press Next.

Choose the option of partitioning USB-HDD and click Finish. There is only expected that the copy is made and that there is no error of recording.



When you start using the Pendrive, appear the message "Starting BartPE". The process is slow and you need patience.

After loading it, a leaner version of Windows XP will be available for use. If your computer is connected to a network, simply configure the TCP / IP. The Go menu, which appears in the lower left corner, is similar to the Windows Start menu and offers the way for all utilities installed.

Windows Vista
Using Pendrive to boot with Vista is easier and faster than XP. To begin open the command prompt of the system, execute the function located in the Start menu. Type cmd and to Enter.



This will open the Command Window, where you would type: diskpart. Give Enter. Next, type the command list disk. This command will inform you the disks in the system. With this information, it identifies the target disk (Pendrive) for the partitioning / formatting.


Warning: be careful not to partition / format the wrong disk. In the window you can see the result of the command and highlights the Pendrive of 1GB (used in the example), as identified by the Diskpart "Disk 3".



Then, apply the following command: select disk 3 (in this case is the "disk 3", but use the number on your flash device, as exemplified in the previous procedure). After that, apply the following commands in the order they are. E, Enter after typing each one:

• clean
• create partition primary
• select partition 1
• active
• format fs = fat32
• assign
• exit

As a result of this procedure, your Pendrive is ready to receive the files on Vista from the installation DVD. Enable the viewing of system files in Windows Explorer (Windows key + E) and copy the entire contents of the DVD into the flash device, maintaining the original structure of files.

In the picture below are all the files to be copied. Make sure all were passed to the Pendrive. After performing this process, your USB device is ready to start with Windows Vista.



Applications on pen drive
The list of portable applications is long. E-mail clients, browsers, office packages, messengers, dictionaries, publishers of images, calendar, utilities, multimedia and so on. Almost everything you USA on your computer at home today, can be used in portable form, without need to install anything, regardless of computer you use. You run the software from the pen drive, which also contains your documents and files.

One of the best known is the Portable Apps, which brings together the major open source programs in portable format for access from flash devices.

Among the main applications of the suite, the Firefox browser are the antivirus ClaimWin, Gaim (messenger server that connects to MSN, Yahoo, AOL, etc..) Full Open Office (text, spreadsheet, calculation, presentations), and Thunderbird mail client and Sunbird calendar, in addition to the game Sudoku.



The download is only 90MB, and to use all the applications, you need a minimum of 512MB Pendrive. But if you just want an Office application and is compatible with Microsoft Office, then OpenOffice is ideal.

For those who want a PDF reader, we recommend the Sumatra. For multimedia activities, the audio editor Audacity has its portable version, and the Gimp image editor (with versions for both Mac and PC). In wikipedia there is a huge list of all portable applications available.

European Version of Windows 7 will not come with Internet Explorer

The next version of Microsoft's operating system will reach the European markets without having the Internet Explorer browser pre-installed. The decision was made to address the concerns of the European Union and anti-competitive practices by the company.

Internet Explorer will be installed by both customers and manufacturers of computers that have Windows pre-installed on their equipment, but will be part of the applications included in the operating system - something that has not happened since the company decided to integrate the browser in Windows 98.

Include the Internet Explorer 4 on Windows operating system was a move that permitu Microsoft to win the "battle of the browsers" the end of the 1990s, thus relegating the Netscape browser to a remote second.

The European Commission said in January that it would investigate whether the fact that Internet Explorer is integrated in Windows could be a practice of unfair competition. The decisions in this area not usually favorable to Microsoft.

Internet Explorer is currently the most used browser in the world, but has been losing ground to Firefox, Netscape maintained a substitute of the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation, which has financing from Google (which recently launched the Chrome browser ).

Windows 7 can cost almost half the price of Vista

The figures have not been officially confirmed and is still taboo for Microsoft, but the rumors are accumulating and suggest the price of Windows 7 to about half of Vista at the time the operating system was launched.

According to reports mentioning several retailers, including Best Buy in the U.S., the Starter Edition version of Windows 7 will cost $ 200, while Home Premium will be charged a $ 259.99, the Professional Edition to 299.95 and the Ultimate Edition $ 329.99.

The upgrades to the Home Premium and Professional versions are even cheaper, with prices of $ 49.99 and $ 99.99 according to information from Best Buy, but apparently this is just a promotion campaign.

When it was launched in January 2007, Windows Vista Home Premium cost 269 euros in the version upgrade, while the full version had a cost of 399 euros. For the update for Vista Ultimate price was 439 euros, with the full version to cost 669 euros.

Over time prices have been reduced to one year after the launch were 40% lower.

Microsoft will soon launch a program for automatic update, Windows Upgrade Option, which ensures those who buy computers with the Vista free upgrade to Windows 7. There is even a date set for the launch of this program.

Members of Facebook will be able to customize the profile address

As of Saturday, over 200 million users of social network Facebook may customize the addresses of their personal pages. Instead of the series of random numbers (eg "www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1234567"), each user can choose the name that will appear after the URL www.facebook.com.

This will facilitate the search for profiles in search engines, which may consequently increase the number of visits to social network.

There are however some limitations: this option is available only to members who registered before 31 May this year and have over 1000 contacts in their network. After the name is chosen, the user may not alter or sell.

The social network also advises users to choose names of your next real names or the business they represent and regulate violations of copyright.

This is not at all unique. Social network competitor MySpace and Twitter microblogging service already provide this functionality for some time.

French Constitutional Council rejects new law against piracy

The French Constitutional Council, rejected a bill that sought to create a legal entity not to cut Internet access to those who were caught illegally downloading content.

The board considered today that the Internet is a part of the right to freedom of expression and consumption "and stressed that" in French, is the presumption of innocence that prevails, while the justice to decide which penalty to apply in every case of piracy.

The bill - approved last month by the majority of the UPM in the French Parliament with the opposition of the Socialists - provided a system for monitoring traffic on the Internet. Who was caught the pirate received a notice by e-mail.

If the practice continued, followed by a second warning, this time by letter. If you do not stop to illegal downloads, Internet access would be cut for a period up to one year. The fee for the connection, however, would continue to be paid.

The bill resulted from an agreement between the holders of copyright and the providers of Internet access from the start and had the support of President Nicolas Sarkozy.

The system involved the creation of an entity called rendition Hadopi (name that was also called the law) and, in partnership with providers of Internet access, would be responsible for implementing the measure. One of the objectives of the project was to ensure that small cases of piracy have to be necessarily resolved in the bureaucracy of the courts.

Many advocates of civil rights groups have been strongly critical of the measure, to raise problems of privacy and not just wait for a court to consider you guilty for cutting access.

The French Minister of Culture, Christine Albanel, has responded and stated that the project should be rewritten - but without the possibility of cutting off the access, it will lose strength.

Albanel had two years ago emphasized the importance of finding a system that would allow the small decriminalized piracy.

Webbys: Twittter was the "Revelation of the Year" awards in the Internet

The Webbys Awards, seen as the "Oscars of the Internet" attributed to Twitter, the service for sending messages with only 140 characters, the prize of "Revelation of the Year."

The prizes were awarded Monday in a gala dinner in Manhattan that was attended by several personalities of both the Internet and traditional media.

As it is usual, the winners could tell them what was going on in the soul speeches with only five words. Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, chose "Creativity is a renewable source."

What is considered the creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, was also honored with the career award. The British genius left the message "Free. Open. Maintaining a network. "

The New York Times "was another of the big winners of the night, raising 10 trophies, including the audience prize for best online newspaper. But the crisis of the American press was not forgotten. The Boston Globe, "in danger of closing, won the award for Best Use of Photography, but the representative of the newspaper said in his speech that was not the journalism that was dying. Already Arianna Huffington, founder of the site "Huffington Post," which collected the award for Best Political Web Site, not admitted any liability in the current crisis, saying: "Do not kill the newspaper, OK?"

These prizes are awarded on the Internet since 1996 by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, to which David Bowie, Francis Ford Coppola or Vint Cerf, one of the inventors of the Internet.

New iPhone Announced

After many rumors have already anticipated the announcement, Apple confirmed the expectations and presented a new model of iPhone, and a new line of portable Macbook.

The new iPhone 3GS was presented today, the World Wide Developers Conference, in S. Francisco, an annual convention that brings together professionals who work with software from Apple.

The model promises to be faster than before (to load web pages or applications, for example), is equipped with a three-megapixel camera and also includes the latest version of the operating system for the iPhone, which includes a feature to copy Code has long requested by users.

Apple had yet portable range of refurbished Macbook Pro (one of the batteries was in the longest duration) and Macbook Air, which will be sold at prices below those usually charged by the company.

The World Wide Developers Conference also served to make the operating system Snow Leopard that will happen from September to the current system.

The chief executive of Apple, Steve Jobs, has not arisen in the conference, as many expected. Jobs is up to the end of sickness, having announced earlier this year that had a health problem "more complex" than originally considered it.

The event - which was led by a vice president of Apple, Philip Schiller - did not bring news of weight and measures of Apple fell 2.9 percent.

Also early in the year, the company announced it would no longer attend the Macwrold, a large annual conference dedicated to Apple's products. Many analysts suggested that the company in maltura not producing news at a rate sufficient to justify the attendance at the event.

Sony partners with the Universal and YouTube in the construction site of music videos Vevo

The Sony Music Entertainment announced that it will join the Universal Music Group and YouTube in the construction site of Vevo music videos, which will come into operation later this year. In addition to clips of music, the Vevo should also show reality shows, video blogs and other content related to music artists, indicates the site CNet.

The Sony and Universal currently editing artists like Amy Winehouse, U2, Bruce Springsteen, Duffy, Alicia Keys, Beyonce, Eminem, AC / DC, Kelly Clarkson, Lady gaga, Carrie Underwood, Mariah Carey, Akon, The Killers, Mary J Blige, Black Eyed Peas and Justin Timberlake, whose music videos will be available in the Vevo when it officially starts.

"We share a common vision of offering music videos and other high-quality audiovisual content for some of the greatest artists of the world in an attractive, clean and intuitive that attracts fans and sponsors, an equal," said the chairman of Sony Music Entertainment, Rolf Schmidt-Holz.

Two other major producing music, Warner Music and EMI, which has not yet indicated its intentions on this project, but everything indicates that negotiations are ongoing between the companies.

The Vevo is a creation of the CEO of Universal Music, Doug Morris, who has long dreamed of a single site where the music videos of its artists appear in quality, becoming a "product," reports CNet.

The MTV turned the videos in a gold mine at the launch of the channel, almost 30 years at a time when the music clips were viewed as merely an extra promotional. Since then, the music videos are by far the most popular content searched on YouTube.

Digg Ads, Vote for Advertisements

Digg, the site that allows users to vote for news links, is about to apply the same model to their advertisements. With Digg Ads, revealed this week, ads will be voted on by users and those with the most affirmative votes will cheaper to advertisers.

Moreover, price increases for ads that receive more negative votes and thus act as an incentive to leave the site.

With this system, which will be developed in coming months, the ad links to appear mixed with the news, but will be properly identified as advertising. May be links to videos, reviews or articles about certain products - content similar to that already tend to be linked. "The goal is to offer advertisers a way to present content related to their brands and know instantly whether or not such content is relevant to the hearing of Digg," reads in the blog's official website.

The measure could prove dangerous if the Digg community to take this opportunity to express their anti-trade sentiment, giving bad ratings to all ads. According to "The New York Times, the executive director of the site, Jay Adelson, seems aware of this danger and states why the Digg Ads will be so slow and tested by the end of the year. "We will launch it and we listen to users and they have a problem we have plans to deal with it" said Adelson.

Online Piracy: UK chooses to reduce the internet speed of offenders

So it seems that the French model of three warnings before a final cut of Internet users to freely share files subject to copyright threat not contaminate the rest Europe. The UK - one of the countries that most tended to approach the solution promoted by the French President Sarkozy - will choose to reduce the speed of Internet offenders.

The rule on this matter - the Digital Britain, the interim version was known to April 29 and whose final version was made public the next day June 16 - contemplates restrictive measures for users performing bulk downloads of files, but resigning permanently at cutting of the Internet, moving the site of the BBC. It is estimated that seven million British system using P2P (peer-to-peer/ponto-a-ponto).

As in France, people that share files protected by copyright, will receive three warnings by the government authority responsible for supervising the Internet, and if ignore these warnings, will face sanctions such as reducing the speed of Internet connection or cut off (seconds or minutes), in order to discontinue the "downloads".

The British Culture Secretary, Andy Burnham, said that the authorities completely discarded the idea of letting users without Internet, appears to them that the measure is totally disproportionate.

This decision is in the recently decided that the European Parliament, which voted negatively a European initiative similar to the French, confirming that only in cases of threat to public safety and to permit an "independent and impartial tribunal" might be an Internet user without network , ruled the EP, which sees the Internet as one of the fundamental rights and freedoms of citizens.

The French deputies adopted in mid-May that the proposal provides for punishment of illegal downloads of files with a cut in internet access in case of recurrence. After two warnings, the offenders will be made without Internet access for a period up to one year, but continue to pay the tuition. For these administrative sanctions are applied, will take office the High Authority for the Diffusion of Works and Protection of Rights on the Internet (Hadopi), whose start-up is scheduled for the autumn. Sarkozy welcomed the implementation of the agreement more than a year between the cultural industry and the providers of Internet, under the aegis of Denis Olivennes, the chairman of Fnac date.

Commenting on the French vote and committed to propose a solution to Portugal, the Civic Movement Anti-Internet Piracy (MAPiNET) - which denounces heavy losses in the market of cultural industries - ranked it the "giant step in the fight against piracy on the Internet . About the application of a law similar to the French to the Portuguese context, the Minister of Culture has already announced such measures are unlikely to be implemented in Portugal without any a court order.

Google presents experimental and incomplete version of Chrome for Mac and Linux

The Chrome, Google's browser released for Windows in September last year, already has its own versions for Mac and Linux operating systems, although this is provisional software. A sort of work-in-progress to be tested by developers.

"To receive more feedback from developers, we develop basic versions of Google Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux, but what they do, do not make your download", indicated in the "reverse psychology" the product managers of the company, Mike Smith and Karen Grunberg. "Unless, of course, developers are very happy and remove software incomplete, unpredictable and, potentially, will 'crash', advances the CNet.

The Flash plug-in, for example, not working, which means the inability to see the videos from YouTube. There are about 400 bugs that need to be eradicated browser.

Google Chrome offers three versions: stable, beta and the preview of developer. " The versions for Mac OS X and Linux come in the latter category, the less complete and the three tested.

Although the use of Chrome has been to increase in recent weeks, Internet Explorer continues to dominate the computers of Internet users, followed by Firefox and Safari.

Wii Sensor Vitality

It was at the Main Stage of E3, the show of video games that is taking place in Los Angeles, that Nintendo has shown the future of Wii, including the Wii Sensor Vitality. This is a device capable of recording a series of user vital signs such as pulse, the degree of nervousness among others, which are then integrated into the gaming experience to the user the opportunity to see some information related to the their internal world. "Until now we have the video games designed primarily as a way to excite us', said the president of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata. "Why not use them to relax in?







Nintendo also took to open the appetite of players for the five new chapters of their most classic sagas: Mario, Zelda and Metroid, and apresehtar officially the Wii MotionPlus, which adds new dimensions of accuracy of control, to carry the video for more subtle movements of the user.

Tetris Celebrates 25 years

The Tetris, the game that from the mid-1980s began to build a legion of fans around the world, meets this week 25 years. Currently it is played in over 50 countries and is registered in the Guinness Book as the most popular video games in history. Today, Tetris is available in 59 platforms, including the iPhone and Wii, and is played over a million times a day in social network Facebook. It is not worth fighting phenomenon: the Tetris is addictive, and even to meet a quarter of a century, came to stay.

"Simply a good game, easy, understandable and easily exportable to new platforms, so it became so popular and I'm sure it will remain so," said the Spanish agency EFE the inventor of the game, the Russian engineer Alexey Pajitnov .

It started on 6 June 1984. Two weeks after having started to work, Pajitnov completed the first version of Tetris, despite the popularization of the game only have occurred since 1985, when it was adapted to begin to be played on personal computers and consoles. From there the popularity of the game has become unstoppable. Especially from when it was chosen to follow the Game Boy console, which quickly became one of the most widely sold throughout the world. Henk Rogers, designer of Nintendo was to launch the console when the guys took to the game at a convention in Las Vegas in 1988 and thought it was the ideal game to accompany the Game Boy. "The Tetris was very easy and was to create order from chaos, "Rogers explained to Reuters.

The game is very simple: players have to rotate and fit a number of pieces of different shape as they go by the screen at a constant speed. Once the parts accommodated in order to complete a horizontal line, it disappears, giving the player more space to play in facilitating the placement of new pieces, which continue to fall. The player loses when the pieces accumulate on the screen and reach the top.

The game's name derives from "tetra" (four), in reference to the number of squares that make each piece. "Although at the time of creation have felt had a great idea, I never would have imagined that this success", recognizes the creator of the game, 25 years later.

In future, the creator of Tetris and its commercial developer want to convert it in "virtual first sport in history" with "professional players, common rules and everything that involves a traditional sport," explained Pajitnov, a passion for games and virtual table, provided they have an intellectual. "We are preparing a world championship, with a standardized version of the game, said Rogers, whose idea is to call local evidence in 2010 and the following year, celebrate the" First World Championship of Tetris. "

Sony presents a new PSP that is lighter and smaller

On the second day of E3, the video conference, which takes place annually in Los Angeles, Sony raised the curtain on the PSP Go, the new smallest and lightest of the Playstation Portable.

With half the size of the PSP 3000 and 40 percent less weight, the PSP Go has a wide screen that slides to reveal the control buttons, has a wireless Internet connection and 16 gigabytes of memory, where you can store photos, music and games.

Kaz Hara, president of Sony Computer Entertainment, described the PSP as more than a device for gaming, capable of reaching a wider audience of consumers. "The PSP Go represents a new evolution of the PSP, especially designed for a lifestyle digital Harzai said at the press conference of the mark.

The new console will arrive on European and American markets in October, with a price of 174 euros. The Sony plans to sell 15 million units of the PSP by March, increasing by one million sales last year. Some analysts say that the Japanese company wants to do well against his rival and market leader Nintendo. The Nintendo DSi portable console, offered for sale in the United States in early April, it sold 800 thousand units in the first month, exceeding by far the sales of the PSP.

The Nintendo Wii also has superseded the sales of rival consoles from Microsoft and Sony to extend its audience to players less enthusiastic.

Hours before the Sony, Nintendo had two more devices to the console: the Wii Vitality sensor capable of measuring the pulse of the player, and WiiMotion Plus accessory that increases the sensitivity of the command and control of precision.

The company also revealed a new catalog of games, which highlighted the Wii Fit Plus, the sequel of the famous game of the Wii fitness and announced it would integrate the social network Facebook in the Nintendo DSi, through an application that will allow the upload of photos and drawings by the console.

Ads of Sony and Nintendo come a day after Microsoft had the rapt viewers of E3 with the "Christmas Project", the device for the Xbox 360 that detects the movement, voice and facial expressions of the players

Windows 7 comes to market on 22 October

Microsoft confirmed yesterday that the operating system Windows 7 will be officially launched on 22 October. Windows 7 will replace the Vista, launched just three years ago and was far from a success.

The announcement was made through the official blog of the Windows team, which explains that those who buy a computer with Vista installed in a few months left to the release of Windows 7, could have access to Windows 7 Upgrade Option Program, which update the operating system at a reduced price.

The launch of the new version of Windows had been announced for early next year. According to some analysts, Microsoft anticipated the launch date to tackle new version of Android (Google's operating system), which is intended aospopulares small low cost laptops (called netbooks). The Acer announced yesterday that it would be the first computer manufacturer to sell their netbooks with Android installed.

Furthermore, the new system reaches the shops yet in time of peak sales of typical Christmas.

Windows 7 is Vista after the difficulty had become established in the market. Shortly after the launch of Vista, some manufacturers have chosen to, pressured by customers, by going back and continue to sell computers with Windows XP pre-installed.

The price of the new operating system has not yet been announced.

YouTube XL, YouTube for big screens

It is the YouTube of all time, but in version "king size". More correctly, in size XL. The popular site for sharing videos optimizes the size to be seen in high-quality screens, including on television in the room, if we simply turn on the computer or the console to the TV.

YouTube XL - presented yesterday, may be accessed from any browser (provided you have Flash installed) and, according to Reuters, nearly all the content already available on the site is available in XL version, but some restrictions related to copyright.

Graphically, YouTube XL features a reading area of the video much more, without comments, or advertising videos suggested the bar's right to keep more clean page, which also changes its color from white to black.

According to "The Guardian", it refers to the "war" for the living room, with Google - which bought YouTube in 2006 - to penetrate the area of family entertainment par excellence.

"Besides a new design with texts and more simplified navigation, the service offers a continuous play feature, which allows the user to search a subject and click play to view the videos in sequence," said Kuan Yong, product manager for platforms from YouTube. "In January the site introduced a video made especially for people who wanted to access the YouTube videos from their game consoles from Sony PS3 and Nintendo Wii. Now you could say that 'expanded' further this site. As there is a YouTube for mobile devices, the new YouTube XL is optimized to see the videos on large screens, "added the same responsibility.

This ad is precisely at a time when YouTube faces some competition. The Hulu site - a service of video-on-demand offering free streaming and thousands of television series - including hits like 24 and The Simpsons - also just launched its service desktop, expanding the size of the video to the width of your computer screen.

Although the YouTube continue to dominate the universe of users, with 5.5 billion videos available and 89 million "viewers" in the U.S., Hulu (only available for now in USA) is second, with 348 million videos and nine million users. The Hulu is an online partnership of NBC and Fox television studios and only later this year will also be launched in the