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Galaxy S II I9100 UHMS9 Firmware Update And Root
The Galaxy S II UHMS9 firmware or I9100UHMS9 as it’s more commonly known has been released and is now available to be installed. The UHMS9 firmware for the Galaxy S II is a Mexican firmware but can be installed on any variant of the Galaxy S II I9100 except for the Chinese and Taiwanese without any problems.

The UHMS9 update mainly includes bug fixes so there aren’t many new features present in this release.

Details of the Galaxy S II UHMS9 firmware are below:

PDA: I9100UHMS9
CSC: I9100UUBMS5
Version: 4.1.2

Before starting, make sure that:
- You have all your important data backed up.
- The battery is at least 50% charged.
Android 4.2 Jelly Bean on the Galaxy S II brings a lot of neat features like:
- Smooth navigation through the interface thanks to Project Butter.
- TouchWiz Nature UX like the Galaxy S II and Galaxy Note II
- Samsung’s S Cloud services
- Improved Camera features
- New Lockscreen With Many Customization Options
- New Features like Direct Call, Smart Stay and Pop-up Play
- New Widgets (From Galaxy S III)
- 2 Home screen modes
- New Notification bar With More Notification Toggles
- Google Now
The full tutorial to update your Galaxy S II to UHMS8 firmware is below:

Step 1. Download the UHMS9 firmware for Galaxy S II I9100.

Step 2. Download and install Odin on your PC.

Step 3. Turn off your phone and connect it to your PC in Download Mode. To access Download Mode turn on your Galaxy S II I9100 while holding the Volume Down and Home buttons.

Step 4. Make sure you have the required USB drivers installed for your Galaxy S II.

Step 5. Wait for Odin to recognize your device, if it does, one of the ID:COM boxes in Odin will turn yellow with your device’s number.

Step 6. Select the required files from the UHMS9 archive you download from the first step:
- Click the PDA button. Select the file which has CODE in its name
- Click the Phone button and select the file which has MODEM in its name
- Click on the CSC button and select the file which has CSC in its name
- Click the PIT button and select the .pit file. Some firmwares will have this, ignore if it doesn’t.
Step 7. In ODIN select Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time options. Select repartition only if your selected the PIT file

Step 8. Click the start button. Installation process will take a few minutes. After the reboot is complete, your Galaxy S II will boot into the UHMS9 Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean firmware.

Now the tutorial to root your Galaxy S II running the newly installed UHMS9 firmware is below:

Step 1. Download Root Kernel I9100UHMS9 for your Galaxy S II I9100.

Step 2. Go into Download Mode again and start up Odin like we did above.

Step 3. After Odin recognizes your Galaxy S II I9100 click on PDA and select the Siyah-s2-v6.0b4.tar file we downloaded in the first step.

Step 4. Check the Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time options.

Step 5. Click on the Start button and let it do it’s thing. After the rooting is complete your phone will restart.
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And that’s it, your Galaxy S II should be running a rooted version of the the Android 4.1.2 UHMS9 firmware. As always, feel free to ask us any questions you may have below.

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March 12, 2013
Galaxy S III XXEMB5 Firmware Update And Root Guide
The Galaxy S III I9300 XXEMB5 firmware or I9300XXEMB5 as it’s more commonly know has been released and is now available to be installed. The XXEMB5 is an unbranded firmware so it can be installed on all Galaxy S III I9300 smartphones except those from China and Taiwan.

The XXEMB5 firmware is available for install through Kies but if you’re running into problems updating through that then just follow the tutorial in this article.

The XXEMB5 Android 4.1.2 firmware for the Galaxy S III I9300 include various new features including:
- Android 4.1.2 – JZO54K
- Multi-View (Multi-Windows Multitasking, same as in Note II)
- Page Buddy
- New Gallery App (Same as in Note II)
- Notification Panel (Notification Panel can now be customized)
- Brightness Slider in Notification Panel Can Now Be Disabled
- Smart Rotation (Screen Display adjusts to your angle of sightings)
- Continues Input in Samsung Keyboard (Like Swipe or Android 4.2 Keyboard)
- Paper Artist App
- Group Cast App
Full details of the XXEMB5 firmware are below:

PDA: I9300XXEMB5
CSC: I9300OXAEMB5
Version: 4.1.2
Date: 2013 February
Regions: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom

The full tutorial to update your Galaxy S III 19300 to XXEMB5 firmware is below:

Step 1. Download the XXEMB5 firmware for Galaxy S II I9300.

Step 2. Download and install Odin on your PC.

Step 3. Turn off your phone and connect it to your PC in Download Mode. To access Download Mode turn on your Galaxy S III I9300 while holding the Volume Down and Home buttons.

Step 4. Make sure you have the required USB drivers installed for your Galaxy S III.

Step 5. Wait for Odin to recognize your device, if it does, one of the ID:COM boxes in Odin will turn yellow with your device’s number.

Step 6. Select the required files from the XXEMB5 archive you download from the first step:
- Click the PDA button. Select the file which has CODE in its name
- Click the Phone button and select the file which has MODEM in its name
- Click on the CSC button and select the file which has CSC in its name
- Click the PIT button and select the .pit file. Some firmwares will have this, ignore if it doesn’t.
Step 7. In ODIN select Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time options. Select repartition only if your selected the PIT file

Step 8. Click the start button. Installation process will take a few minutes. After the reboot is complete, your Galaxy S III will boot into the XXEMB5 Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean firmware.

Now the tutorial to root your Galaxy S III running the newly installed XXEMB5 firmware is below:

Step 1. Download CF Root for your Galaxy S III I9300.

Step 2. Go into Download Mode again and start up Odin like we did above.

Step 3. After Odin recognizes your Galaxy S III I9300 click on PDA and select the Siyah-s2-v6.0b4.tar file we downloaded in the first step.

Step 4. Check the Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time options.

Step 5. Click on the Start button and let it do it’s thing. After the rooting is complete your phone will restart.
Also check out:

Nexus 4 Slim Bean Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean Custom ROM Install

Galaxy S II I9100 UHMS9 Firmware Update And Root

Nexus 7 XenonHD Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean Custom ROM Install Guide

Galaxy S Duos S7562 XXAMB1 Android 4.0.4 OFW Root And Update Guide

After the reboot your Galaxy S III I9300 should boot into the Android 4.1.2 XXEMB5 firmware and should be fully rooted. Feel free to ask us any questions in the comments below.
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March 11, 2013
5 Neat Things You Can Do With Your Old Cell Phone

So you got a brand new Samsung Galaxy S III, Sony Xperia Z, Lumia 920 or any other new smartphone and don’t know what to do with your older and outdated piece of plastic? Well now you won’t have to think hard as we’ll cover 5 neat things to with your old cell phone in this article.

1. Install a ROM

If your older phone ran Android or Windows Mobile OS then you’re in luck as most of them tend to have excellent third party developer support. Forums like XDA-Developers house thousands of ROM developers and cooks working on the devices they love. Ancient devices like the HTC HD2 which was released initially in 2009 running Windows Mobile is still supported by many developers and was running Android 4.2 Jelly Bean before many of the newer smartphones got it officially.

Trust me, when you’ll install a new ROM on your phone you’ll be amazed how fast it can be. There’s no feeling like getting more of your money’s worth out of something you considered trash a few minutes ago.

2. Give it away

Yeah I know you can just sell it on Craigslist and eBay and get a few bucks but where’s the fun in that? Try giving it way to someone who needs it, whether it be a security guard at where you work or a younger sibling. They can probably put it to good use and you’ll get that feeling when you do something good, trust me it’s addicting. You can also donate it to a charity.

If giving away stuff is not your thing then continue on…

3. Turn it into survival tools

Yeah you read that right. I saw an interesting infographic on Reddit the other day and decided to save it for future use. Maybe some of you can find it of good use. Read it below to learn how to turn your old Nokia, Samsung or Blackberry phones into a cutting tool, signal mirror and more!

4. Use it as a GPS for your car

Buy a car charger and glue (not literally) your phone to your car’s dash, and wallah you have a makeshift GPS. This can be done only if you have a proper smartphone which has GPS functionality, don’t worry though as almost every smartphone does. The app you want to use with your GPS is mostly your choice, they’ll also vary with the OS of your smartphone.

5. Use it as a hotspot or server

If your older phone has WiFi functionality and runs on Android you can use it as a portable hotspot or low powered server for your house. Apps like Servers Ultimate (Server) and WiFi HotSpot / WiFi Tether (Hotspot) will help you get that done.

If you guys have any more interesting ways your use your old cell phones feel free to mention them in the comments and I’ll add them to this article!

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March 11, 2013
Nexus 7 XenonHD Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean Custom ROM Install Guide
Good new for Nexus 7 owners as the much anticipated XenonHD Android 2.2 Jelly Bean custom ROM has been released and is available for download.

Google and ASUS’s budget Nexus 7 tablet certainly helped in turning the tide on Apple’s domination of the tablet market. The Nexus 7 is cheap but packs a lot of neat features which can be expanded even further by installing custom ROMs like the XenonHD.

XenonHD’s feature list includes:

JB 4.2.2 JDQ39
Rooted
Busybox

Miscellaneous:
Add reboot and screenshot options to power menu.
Additional tiles in Quick Settings.
Theme Chooser support. (Updated for 4.2)
Volume rocker wake. (Settings>Display)
Volume rocker long press to seek tracks. (“”)
Show rotation lock in quick settings.
Bluetooth Message Access Profile support.
Improved scrolling cache.
Fixed December bug.
Fixed Google location service.
Add an option to change the device hostname.
New moto style softkeys.
DSPManager added with all the binaries.
Apollo Music player added and fixed for JB.
Added XenonHD wallpapers.
Louder output on speaker for Maguro and Toro.
Added Galaxy4, PhaseBeam and Holo spiral wallapers.
Run sysinit during boot.
Change sysfs permissions to allow user control ksm.
Wi-fi scan time to 100 to save battery.
Performance, battery life and other misc tweaks.
Init.d support with added tweaks and scripts.
SuperSU application for root.
CMFile manager added.
GPS, Camera, Keyboard gestures fixed.
Build.prop tweaks.
Battery life tweaks.
Some secret tweaks.
I’m forgetting soo many things. Flash and see.
Etc

Browser:
New navbar buttons.
Added a menu item in Browser called Close other tabs.
Open in incognito tab option in menu.
Increased tab limit.
Added menu option to open url in browser.
Enabled tablet like browser on grouper.

Messaging:
QuickMessage and Reply.
Custom notification vibrate patterns.
Timestamp options.
Input type selection.
Add reminder to calendar.
Templates functionality.
Split SMS functionality.
Emoji and Strip unicode support.
Etc

Phone and Contacts:
T-9 Dialer and with other stuff.
Dialpad settings.
Etc

Toro:
Use correct battery capacity, add missing eri.xml
Allow tethering.
Fix overlay/networkAttributes array

Maguro:
Fix MMS receiving on T-Mobile
Enable automatic backlight by default.

Tuna:
Removed bugmailer.
Fix gps issues.

Add simtoolkit application

Now that’s a lot of stuff, so before we get started make sure that you have CWM recovery installed and that your Nexus 7 tablet is rooted.

Step 1- Download the XenonHD Android 2.2 Jelly Bean ROM and Google Apps.

Step 2- Connect your Nexus 7 to a computer using mass storage mode.

Step 3- Copy and paste the ROM and Google Apps zips downloaded in step 1, into the root folder of the mass storage device. It doesn’t necessarily have to be the root, but putting it in the root helps finding it easier.

Step 4- Turn off your Nexus 7 and reboot into the bootloader. Do this by pressing and holding the Volume Up + Volume Down and Power buttons.

Step 5. Use volume rocker to navigate and power button to click. Perform a data wipe + cache wipe

Step 6. Navigate to flash ZIP from SD card and choose ZIP from SD card

Step 7. Select the XenonHD Android 2.2 Jelly Bean ROM’s zip downloaded in step 1 first. Select it using the power button and confirm installation.

Step 8. Now do the same things with the Google Apps zip file.

Step 9. When installation is done, go back to the main menu of CWM and perform a reboot.

Also check out:
- Nexus 4 Slim Bean Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean Custom ROM Install
- Galaxy S II I9100 UHMS8 Firmware Update And Root
The process is now complete and you should boot into the installed ROM. If you have any questions or problems feel free to ask us in the comments below.

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March 7, 2013
Nexus 4 Slim Bean Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean Custom ROM Install

Google latest and great Nexus phone with LG – the Nexus 4 is a cheap but powerful device able to give any device on the market right now a run for it’s money. Being a Nexus phone, the Nexus 4 has excellent developer support and was graced with Android 4.2.2 just a week ago. Although official ROMs are great and all for their stability and reliability, the amount of features you can get with custom ROMs is second to none.

Today in this article we’ll be covering on how to install the Slim Bean Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean custom ROM on your Nexus 4.

Before starting the tutorial, make sure you have CWM Recovery installed on your Nexus 4 and that your phone is rooted. Now with all that done, let’s start the installation process!

Step 1- Download the Slim Bean Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean ROM and Google Apps.

Step 2- Connect your phone to a computer using mass storage mode.

Step 3- Copy and paste the ROM and Google Apps zips downloaded in step 1, into the root folder of the mass storage device. It doesn’t necessarily have to be the root, but putting it in the root helps finding it easier.

Step 4- Turn off your phone and reboot into the bootloader. Do this by pressing and holding the Volume Up + Volume Down and Power buttons.

Step 5. Use volume rocker to navigate and power button to click. Perform a data wipe + cache wipe

Step 6. Navigate to flash ZIP from SD card and choose choose ZIP from SD card

Step 7. Select the Slim Bean Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean ROM’s zip downloaded in step 1 first. Select it using the power button and confirm installation.

Step 8. Now do the same things with the Google Apps zip file.

Step 9. When installation is done, go back to the main menu of CWM and perform a reboot.

After the phone has rebooted, you should boot into Slim Bean Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean. If you have any questions please feel free to ask us in the comments below.

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March 7, 2013
How To: Use Rage Comic Memes On Facebook Chat
So someone over at Reddit showed us a trick where we can use thumbnails of any image in Facebook chat using an easy code. All you have to do is enter the page ID of a Facebook page or profile into two open and close brackets somewhat like this: [[129627277060203]]

We’ve compiled a list of many Rage Comic Meme images and letters which you can use in Facebook chat and impress your friends.

Faces
- Poker face [[129627277060203]]
- Forever Alone [[227644903931785]]
- OK guy [[100002752520227]]
- Me Gusta [[164413893600463]]
- Lol guy [[189637151067601]]
- F*ck Yeah [[105387672833401]]
- Problem? [[171108522930776]]
- Troll face [[171108522930776]]
- ARE YOU F*CKING KIDDING ME [[143220739082110]]
- Not bad Obama[[169919399735055]]
- Me Gusta [[211782832186415]]
- Mother of God [[142670085793927]]
- Cereal Guy [[170815706323196]]
- LOL Face [[168456309878025]]
- NO Guy [[167359756658519]]
- Yao Ming [[218595638164996]]
- Derp [[224812970902314]]
- Derpina [[192644604154319]]
- Forever Alone [[177903015598419]]
- Not Bad [[NotBaad]]
- F*ck yeah [[105387672833401]]
- Challange accepted: [[100002727365206]]
- Okay face [[100002752520227]]
- Dumb b*tch [[218595638164996]]
- Poker face [[129627277060203]]
- Socially awkward penguin [[98438140742]]
- Rage face [[FUUUOFFICIAL]]
- Lamp [[100001256102462]]
- Feel like a sir [[168040846586189]]
- Forever alone christmas [[125038607580286]]
Letters
- [[107015582669715]] = A
- [[116067591741123]] = B
- [[115602405121532]] = C
- [[112542438763744]] = D
- [[115430438474268]] = E
- [[109225112442557]] = F
- [[111532845537326]] = G
- [[111356865552629]] = H
- [[109294689102123]] = I
- [[115636698451811]] = J (hard to read, but legit)
- [[116651741681944]] = K
- [[115807951764667]] = L
- [[106596672714242]] = M
- [[108634132504932]] = N
- [[116564658357124]] = O
- [[111669128857397]] = P
- [[107061805996548]] = Q
- [[106699962703083]] = R
- [[115927268419031]] = S
- [[112669162092780]] = T
- [[108983579135532]] = U
- [[107023745999320]] = V
- [[116740548336581]] = X
- [[112416755444217]] = Y
- [[165724910215]] = Z (dark on white, different from other letters)
Source: Reddit

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March 5, 2013
5 Best Theme Developers For WordPress

Themes, who doesn’t need em? Be it the biggest blog online to the smallest personal blog of an esteemed writer, a good theme is always necessary to attract attention and make it easy on the eyes. For WordPress, over the past 5 years, there have been an increasing amount of theme developers coming out and making a name for themselves. Some of them got big and forgot their roots, some of them stayed true to their fans and customers and love designing. Here are the five most awesome theme developers for WordPress themes. Read the whole article below

1. Elegant Themes

Without a question, the best one in the list. Elegant Themes is known for two things, being extremely inexpensive and having some amazingly unbelievable designs. A year ago it used to be 19.99 dollars for the ENTIRE THEME LIBRARY! Now they’ve increased it to 39 dollars per year since their designs are getting more and more complex. There are no additional charges and the library consists of over 61 amazing themes, they come equipped with the awesome Elegant admin panel called E-Panel. This company is at the top of our list because of their amazing quality and low price. They have a very lively support forum with amazing staff and offer customizations too.

2. ThemeForest

I think everyone knows about ThemeForest, once used to be a small website with a handful of themes is now a part of Envato. A huge network of amazing designs covering every aspect of internet applications. ThemeForest has some amazing designers hard at work at providing some of the most stunning designs ever seen. Their pricing is different, they charge per theme, since they don’t have a said team and the designers are added almost everyday. Each theme has its own pricing but average to about 40 dollars per theme. Support is awesome as always.

3. YooTheme

Fairly new to the WordPress scene, YOO designs themes for Joomla. They recently started porting their themes to this powerful platform. They use Warp framework, something YOO cooked up themselves. It makes editing the themes extremely easy. The themes are jaw-droppingly beautiful but they cost more. There are three membership modes. The lowest one costs around 30 dollars and gives one theme. Definitely worth checking out.

4. RocketTheme

RocketTheme is number four on our list based on their design. The themes developed by them weren’t as good as the rest of the competition. They have neat designs and seem to be improving but the pricing is still confusing.

5. WOOThemes

WooThemes is a popular company designing WordPress Themes. Their prices are ridiculously high like RocketTheme.

Your opinion counts, comment below naming your favorite developer.

I recently wrote a nice and detailed article on WordPress Optimization.

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March 5, 2013
Steam sale begins now!

Steam, the PC game download service, has begun it’s yearly summer sale, offering discounts on various games. It is time for the PC gamers to kiss their money goodbye.

Every day, starting today till July 23rd, Steam will offer huge discounts on games. Every day, that is, for 24 hours, a few specific games will be on discount. And then, one those 24 hours are over, new games will be up for discount, while the old ones will not, and so on. Today, Steam is offering Modern Warfare 3 ($30 instead of $60),Portal 2 ($5 instead of $15), Terraria ($2.50 instead of $10), and Legend of Grimrock ($6 instead of $15).

Furthermore, Steam will be having ‘Flash Sales’ for shorter periods of time. The Flash Sales deals available right now are Mafia II ($7.50 instead of $30) and Deus Ex: Human Revolution ($7.50 instead of $30).

During this sale period, other games will be discounted as well. Some classic games such as Counter Strike ($5) and Left 4 Dead ($10) are also available. Deals will be offered on thousands of games, according to Valve, which is in charge of Steam.

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March 4, 2013
PSN Summer Sale Begins Today

Another year, another summer sale. Annual summer sales are very popular and Sony has been very kind to it’s fans over the past years.

This year, a roster of 11 games had been announced. These games will be 30% off for all regular users and 50% off for PlayStation Plus subscribers. One of these games, specifically Gotham City Imposters, will be given to PlayStation Plus members for free.

Here is the complete list of games:

Gotham City Impostors
$10.49, or $7.34 for PlayStation Plus Members.

NBA Jam: On Fire Edition
$10.49, or $7.34 for PlayStation Plus Members.

Shadow of the Colossus
$13.99. or $9.79 for PlayStation Plus Members.

inFAMOUS Festival of Blood
$6.99, or $4.89 for PlayStation Plus Members.

Crysis
$13.99, or $9.79 for PlayStation Plus Members.

Killzone 3 Multiplayer
$10.49, or $7.34 for PlayStation Plus Members.

Closure
$10.49, or $7.34 for PlayStation Plus Members.

Jurassic Park The Game – Full Season
$13.99, or $9.79 for PlayStation Plus Members.

Worms Ultimate Mayhem
$10.49, or $7.34 for PlayStation Plus Members.

The House of the Dead III
$4.89, or $3.42 for PlayStation Plus Members.

Real Steel
$6.99, or 4.89 for PlayStation Plus Members.

Note that the sale will end on July 9th, so be sure to grab your favourite games off the Playstation Store before Monday!

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March 4, 2013
How To: Convert 720p 300+ MB Anime Into 90 MB Without Significant Quality Loss

Most of us can begin to run out of space on Hard disk due to very large collection of Anime that is releasing every day. They are usually 300+ MB especially if they are 720p and these are the only versions who are the best quality wise. This tutorial will guide you on how to convert these Animes into a very nice size of about 80-90 MB without major quality loss.

Click on Read More to begin the tutorial.

To begin our encoding lets start first by downloading the encoder that we will use for our encoding. It is totally free so don’t worry.

Download MiniCoder from links below.

Installer

Standalone(No Install)

After installing MiniCoder run it to begin the process. You will be greeted with this screen.

Click on the setting tab to determine the settings we will use for encoding our video. See the screenshot below.

1. Video Settings
They are the main source of importance here. Select a suitable bitrate for the video you are encoding. If you encoding 720p Animes then a video bitrate of 500-550 will be good enough.
If you don’t want to manually calculate the bitrate and just want to specify a targeted size that you want, select the file size radio button and enter the file size you want, it should be mentioned that the lower the size the lower the bitrate will be so quality will suffer.
In the quality setting keep it at very high, it will take more time but the quality will be better in the end. Leave the codec setting as x264 as it is the best quality wise.

2. Pre-Processing Settings
Nothing to change here so leave them. If you want to resize then you can select any size but leaving it is better.

3. Audio Settings
Keep them as they are in the screenshot above or if you want then you can tinker with them

4. Post-Processing Settings
Leave them, if you want to remove some noise or sharpen the video then you can change it but it is not recommended.
The last option for subtitles is for embedding subtitles into videos. They will be hard coded into videos. You can select any subtitle file and it supports majority of the subtitle format.

After all these settings are done. Select the options tab and you will get a screen like the one shown below.

1. In the output settings, specify the output directory where all the converted animes will be saved.

2. Select priority of process, keep it at normal if you don’t want to use much of the processing power. Keeping it at high will make your PC lag a lot during converting.

3. Just ignore these options, they are not necessary

Now we are done with the setting. Click on the Input tab to begin the encoding process. Right click anywhere here to get the option of adding or removing files or you can simply drag and drop the files that you want to encode here.

Select your video file and then click on start to begin the encoding process.

Sit back and enjoy while it converts your anime. It will take about 1 hour to convert a 720p anime on a dual core system, it will be faster on i5 or i7. Below are some comparison shots of the result Decide for yourself.

Note: Please Click on Each Screenshot to view it in full size.

Original Anime Screenshot 1

Encoded Anime Screenshot 1

Original Anime Screenshot 2

Encoded Anime Screenshot 2

Original Anime Screenshot 3

Encoded Anime Screenshot 3

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March 4, 2013