Looking for something specific at the Apple Refurbished Store? Get frustrated when you hear there’s a new supply of G5’s available, only to find they’re all gone when you get there?
Well, fret no more. Here’s an AppleScript that will check the Refurb store for a specific product and alert you when any are [...]

I always just used phpMyAdmin, but this seems to work just as well and shows you how to import information from Access and Excel, which seem to be the two most favorite databases in the world if you work at a corporation. Don’t ask me why.

Nintendo today announced a “Tribal” GBA SP to be released in Europe. It’s basically the Silver GBA SP with some black “Tribal” Tattoo-ish markings on it. From the press release that tries just a little bit too hard to be cool:
We feel we have created a product in the Tribal Edition that reflects the sentiments [...]

XSL-FO enables you to format an XML document in multiple ways simultaneously, for example, a web page and a prepress layout.

In a time where the net is under attack from all kinds of evil, wired has taken a look at ways in which we could save it. I thought many of them were right on, so I’ll be interested to see if anyone has any others to add/disagreements to make…

I am sure there are some Linux administrators who believe that working on Linux means stability. Sometimes bad things just happen and it is always good to have precautions in place for these moments. This article provides sound advice on how to plan for disaster recovery on a system using LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl).

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To follow up on what I spoke about previously concerning new paradigms in destop environments, the guys over at TheMacMind have written an excellent editorial outlining the problems with the file browser type navigation and how using a spatial methodology is more effective.
They then go into detail on how this new methodology (currently implmented in [...]

Introducing Motion, the only motion graphics package with real-time previews, procedural behavior animation and Final Cut Pro HD integration.
Apple’s high-performance motion graphic design and production application lets you explore new creative territory using self-propelled behavior animation, character-by-character title animation and a powerful new interface. Motion integrates seamlessly with Final Cut Pro HD and DVD Studio [...]

Have you always wondered about the history of sexual moments in video games? No? Well, I bet you’re interested now, eh? Don’t try to deny it, just click on this link and take a tour through time to spot all the nudity you never knew existed in the video games you love (or never heard [...]

Linux makers should avoid the trap of making yet another Windows clone and begin to continue on the path of innovation that has lead them this far.

This gargantuan set contains over 250 icons, covering every single piece of Apple hardware ever made. From the original Apples to the latest iPods, there isn’t a piece of Apple hardware thats been made that you won’t find here!
As the description implies, this icon set features icons for every piece of Apple hardware that has [...]

If you are a keyboard fiend (I know that I am), you prefer to use the keyboard over the mouse whenever possible. While Windows does have a keyboard equivalent for nearly everything in its UI, there are some keyboard shortcuts that are hard to find, or just aren’t really known about at all. Enter the [...]

No, not that trebuchet, the medieval kind used to hurl huge stones at castles and Uruk-hai! You won’t be hurling many stones with this, seeing as it’s made out of paper, but you could at least fling a few pebbles, or maybe an eraser or something.

Wanna upgrade to 2.6, but are concerned about totally hosing your system and losing your custom built 2.4 configuration. Have no worries. You use Linux because you love its security and reliability and the fact it is cool to play with. This article helps you configure and install the new 2.6 kernel without overwriting any [...]

Jay Allen comes through with a cool link to a simply-put process for doing a search and replace in mySQL.
Granted, I could probably figure this out if I spent the time to research it, but it’s nice to find it neatly summarized here with an example.

I mention this often heard news item not because Sun is one day going to burn in hell for joining hands with Microsoft (and because McNealy will still be on the sinking ship), but I was going to write a short piece on how the tech sector is really on the rebound when you have [...]