The application also included a client for Folding@home, a distributed computing project aimed at disease research.

The update allowed users to run music stored on their hard drives while contributing to Folding@home and automatically shut down their console after existing simulation work was done.

The software update also added the Generalized Born implicit solvent model, which broadened the PS3 client's computing capabilities.

[5] Following the release of system software version 4.30, the Folding@home PS3 client and all other services under Life with PlayStation were discontinued on November 6, 2012.

The user could rotate and zoom into any part of the world to access information provided by Google News and The Weather Channel, among other sources.

The application displayed a live rendering of the protein being folded and some statistical information in front of a virtual globe background.

United Village, provided by its respective website, and hosted by Frontier International Inc., was a cultural documentary-like project that gathered stories, interviews and articles worldwide.