Now, this does make your PS3 very loud to minimize the dreaded YLOD percentages.

This is probably one of the coolest mods I've ever seen, although only possible on the fat PS3 it shows off the temperatures and the fan speed of the system.

The guitar controller is a great open source platform which is used to play guitar games, but who says you can limit your Strumming skills to a Guitar Hero game? Alan Chatham the guy who created the OpenChord software which lets you use your regular electric guitar as a PS3 controller patched the firmware(OpenChord) so instead of showing up as a Guitar controller to the PS3, it shows up as a Dual Shock. Here are five awesome hacks that don't involve piracy, but show some really cool things you can do with your PS3. What I don’t think we are in support of is someone trying to hack our device to pirate software and possibly collapse the platform,' there is bad blood between them and the hacking community. We give people tools that let them create new experiences. Inspite of Jack Tretton, SCEA's CEO, admitti ng that 'We embrace independent game development if you call that hacking, then we embrace that. Sony has earned itself quite a reputation as the freedom hating corporation for locking horns with the hacking community on more than one occasion.

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