If you are running Linux on a laptop no doubt you would love to find a nice little app like NetStumbler that will find wireless hotspots for you. No worries, I found that nice little app for you.

Like your PC, but dream of having a case as cool as the new G5’s? Well Lian Li is giving it their best shot at imitating Apple’s new beauty. My opinion: close, but no cigar.

A great article for anyone with little or no experience with cron and crontab. Having things automated for you definitely allows for you to find time looking for other things to automate.

Linux is really not designed to be turned on and off like Windows often is. In fact, it is almost assumed that you […]

Might be old news for some, but this device was the whole reason I started this site. I wanted to link to it and let people know about it, but didn’t have the site to do it. Well now I do, so here is the link. I am getting one or five when they come […]

Many people have been abuzz lately about the new QuickSilver app that is said to trump LaunchBar. Well now the LaunchBar folks have countered with many of their own features that seem to mimic QuickSilver. If you paid for this product you should be happy to see some healthy competition going on here.

Sometimes it is hard to find something that is worth spending $25 on. This however is a frickin steal. I bought it for my dad (ol school gamer) and he has not stopped playing it for 2 weeks! Pac-Man is his EverQuest.
Joystick, games, plug-in TV, play. Simple.

A useful howto for the 2 people in the audience who use this in XP.

I place this entry under “Gadgets” only because Google probably has the coolest and largest gadget available to any geek. This is also a great read into how Google has developed a platform that at will it seems could crush the competition. A must read for anyone interested in anything.
[via Simon]

It’s about time! MSDN Subscriber Downloads now provides an RSS feed containing all of the latest items posted for downloads. Very sweet - now I don’t need to periodically check it for new apps, or wait until the monthly “what’s new” e-mail arrives.
Via Jim Blizzard.

The best OS Multil IM client has released its latest version. I love this program. No really I do. Love it. Hate the website. Hate it.

When working in tech support back in the days, nothing was more irritating than a user calling you up saying that he forgot his password. Wish this article was around so I could get that tedious task over with quickly.

As a geek I am always looking for new toys to buy. When you start to buy a lot of toys you begin to wish that it was possible to catch more deals. I also have the crazy ability to buy an item (say from Dell) and the very next day it goes on sale […]

For as long as I’ve used NewsGator, I’ve been able to right click an RSS feed from within IE and subscribe to it. This, however, doesn’t do me much good, since my primary browser is Firefox.
Thankfully, Firefox users get this functionality now, too. Whenever you right click an RSS feed link in Firefox, […]

If you are interested to see how larger companies are using open source products this is an interesting read. Most of the large companies that I read about are using MySQL, which is not surprise and the cost of licensing databases takes up a large chunk of any IT budget.
PostgresSQL needs to get a marketing […]