Apparently, the government is in cahoots with your local colour laser printer. The program has been around since the mid-nineties to help the FBI track down the origins of counterfeit money. Though, the knowledge that such information hadn’t been released to the public until recently is cause for concern, as John Morris, a lawyer for […]

The FG Holiday Geek Gift Guide is overflowing with gifts to buy for your geek friends (or yourself) and is updated daily throughout the holiday season. Enjoy.

Yesterday I picked up two Nintendo DS systems (not easy to find down here in Tampa) and the first thing I did was open one up and charge it up so I could get back to work…
Well when the charge was done instead of trying to play the Metroid demo or Mario64, I decided it […]

If you work in a Linux environment you know there is no shortage of text editors laying around. Same can be said about both Windows and OS X environments as well. Creating a text editor that is superior to ones already out there is a hard task for anyone, but the developers of the text […]

These CLI Magic guys are really starting to stretch it because this stuff can easily be done with GUI components. What?!?!?! GUI?! Yeah, you’re right. I shouldn’t have said that. In any case if you don’t touch the GUI, but wish to make things a tad bit prettier on the commandline then read the article […]

Many people are probably sick of these free “something” deals, but people are only talking about them because they work! I’ve received a free 20gb iPod, as have 2 of the other FG authors. I just submitted my free photo iPod account for approval yesterday, so I should be receiving that soon as well.
And now, […]

Some among us are not lucky enough to own a snappy iPod — free or not. If you are one of us unlucky sorts, then perhaps you might want to try your hand at constructing your own mp3 player.

This ever-so-minty-fresh mp3 player features off-the-shelf compact flash cards for storage and a lithium ion battery […]

In case you’ve been looking for a good way to waste a few hours of your life, I pass along DHTML Lemmings.

The graphics aren’t killer, but I don’t think that’s a requirement when you write an entire game in Javascript. That’s just insane.

IBM seems to have completely thrashed rivals at HP and Sun with its p5 595 server running the DB2 database on the AIX operating system.
Using the TPC-C benchmark, the p5 595 has bested its nearest rival by almost 200%!
Under TPC-C, the p5 595 has broken the 3m transaction per minute barrier. The previous record, also […]

Pacman is no longer confined to the stringent pixels of the arcade game. Researchers in Singapore have release him into the wilds of virtual reality.

By combining wireless local area networking with Bluetooth and GPS technology, head-mounted displays and inertia sensors, [Dr. Adrian] Cheok and his team were able to bring Pacman to life.

The research […]

If you’re going to start writing the Firefox extensions that don’t exist, you might want a tutorial to help you along the way.

Everyone has a good idea at one time or another to implement a new feature in a web browser. Well, with the goodness that is Mozilla Firefox, now you can do just that. […]

This may not be a big deal for the most part, but to some, it just might very well be.

By default, iChat exposes your personal information, which is available to any other Mac user via Rendezvous. At home this probably wouldn’t matter, but at work, a conference, or school — well, you might not […]

Using a water filtration pitcher to convert cheap, nasty, heartburn inducing vodka to the perfect mixer with nary a scent

Back in October, I told you about Google’s new Desktop Search program.
While most of the resulting comments were favourable, there was some criticism of the limited scope of the search afforded by the facility - those same criticisms were also widely expressed elsewhere.
Larry Gadea is working hard to address these limitations. With the release of […]

This is an introduction to using CD and DVD recorders under Linux and UNIX systems. Its main focus is on command line based tools. It will give you an idea how the powerful tools and utilities behind the fancy GUIs work and what they can do for you. Recording CDs and DVDs from the command […]