If you haven’t read the electronic version just forget about it and buy the book. Mark Pilgrim knows hit stuff.

A new usability website has opened its doors and gives in interesting viewpoint of the new GNOME 2.6. This review is great because it offers recommendations for how things could be improved instead of focusing on the faults and hoping that the next version will improve upon them. An added bonus is that they have […]

The project, which released version 1.0 last month, is significant in several ways: it offers the potential to unite the open source communities for Windows, Linux, and other platforms; it fulfills the niche for a powerful migration tool; it builds upon existing open source technologies such as Mozilla and Apache; and — most importantly — […]

One of the luxuries of playing console games is that if you have a kickass home theater system you are in for a wild ride. PC gamers were lucky to get away with a nice monitor and killer sound system. Well there is a new technology that will allow you to drop your PC games […]

Introducing Maxthon. Not a transformer… but still pretty cool. (p.s. - it’s a browser)

So you want to use your site engine that you’ve been working on? Okay, now is the time for me to show you how to add plug-ins, modules, blocks, and templates to your database so that they will work with your engine. It’s not that hard to do, and with just a few simple steps, […]

ExtremeTech has a review of the recently released VMWare Workstation.

Many folks are curious about Linux and have wondered whether or not they should try it out. Well, wonder no more. VMWare makes it very easy to run Linux right on your Windows desktop. And, if you’re feeling adventurous, you can even try running the beta […]

In anticipation of the new iPods to be announced tomorrow here is a read from Newsweek profiling the ubiquity of the iPod in the US and the rest of the world.

Steve Jobs noticed something earlier this year in New York City. “I was on Madison,” says Apple’s CEO, “and it was, like, on every block, […]

Off grid means that we are not connected to the electrical grid, water, sewer or gas mains.

Along with that it’s a hourse made out of straw. Looks modern. And was developed by a web designer. Runs its own electricity through solar panels, a wind generator and passive solar heating. Wow.
Thanks to Mark for the link.

A step-by-step guide to installing FreeBSD 5. It assumes moderate experience with linux and leaves you with a fully updated FreeBSD system.

I don’t think I will ever go and try *BSD till I have absolutely zero work to do. Till then I will play with the 107 Linux distros out there ;-).

No this isn’t about shareware or freeware, but open source applications that are running on Windows. This is more of a quick commentary/analysis that shows that there are more open source projects that run on Windows than one may think.
My favorite open source apps to run on Windows include Firefox, GAIM, and OpenOffice.

Adam Trachtenburg has written a nice little article detailing what makes PHP 5 so damn special in comparision to previous versions. This article is really nothing new compared to the previous 100 articles that describe what the new features are in v.5, but his writing makes this one a little bit more enjoyable.

In short, SimpleXML […]

ExtremeTech does a scathing reality check/review of Microsoft’s Portable Media Center (PMC). My favorite part of the article is:

Imagine that you want to record Letterman so you can watch it the next morning on the train. Here’s how it should work:

You plug the PMC into your TV, cable, or SAT box.
You set it […]

Microsoft announced on Thursday that it now has more than a million subscribers for Xbox Live, the online gaming service for the company’s video game console. Microsoft launched Xbox Live in late 2002 as a high-stakes bid to reshape the game industry and to distinguish its console.

I predict that revenue for online gaming will skyrocket…

Marathon Computer has developed and is now shipping a whopping 6U horizontal rackmount for the G5.
The solution clamps the G5 into a 19-inch rack, the same amount of space taken up by a Power Mac G4, and rides its case on ball-bearing slide-rails that allow easy access to the computer’s interior and its rear connectors. […]

Jeremy Zawodny gives nice and quick rundown on how he uses the MySQL command line like a shell. If you don’t know, Jeremy is one of the engineers at Yahoo! who is pretty much a master of MySQL. If you have a ton of questions on it, make sure to email him since he loves […]