As many of you have probably gathered, World of Warcraft is simply one of the best games ever and most of the FG staff are totally absorbed by it at the moment.
If you play as well, check out these interface mods for the game. Thanks to some forward-thinking on Blizzard’s part, you can easily […]

After a few days of having a teaser on their site, Suprnova’s Sloncek did an interview with NovaStream.org about a new P2P app and network called eXeem that will be released for download in a couple of weeks. It’s being developed by a new, unnamed company, which asked Sloncek to be a representative for them.
It […]

The QX5 is an easy-to-use bot powerful digital microscope which even scientists and doctors can appreciate

We are just enjoying the holidays….and Halo 2….and World of Warcraft….and rum…back to regular schedule next week.

After you get past the “beginner”:http://forevergeek.com/open_source/a_beginners_guide_to_firefox.php stage with Firefox, try this “power-user” trick to make it download pages faster by allowing multiple connections so it can download more than one file at a time. It’s only useful for broadband users, so if you’re still on dial-up you can just skip this one for now.

Here’s something […]

The author of the “Whitehart”:https://addons.update.mozilla.org/themes/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&version=1.0&os=Windows&id=364 Firefox theme has written a Beginner’s Guide to Firefox which covers everything from what exactly Firefox is, to what themes and extensions are and where to find help if you have questions. Send it around to your non-tech savvy friends after you convince them to switch, so they’ll have a […]

Homemade working mech suit

A spot on outline fo the Apple Product Cycle, as seen from the outside

The cool kids that own Macs might want to check out this tutorial on setting up a DocBook environment on OSX. I love DocBook for creating technical documentation. Because DocBook documents are XML or SGML they are easily translated into many published formats.

To learn more about DocBook, visit DocBook.org, but in a nutshell:

DocBook […]

Brad of BradSucks.net has created the Google Suggest Poetry Generator that creates poetry (and I use the term loosely) from an entered word or phrase by stringing together Google Suggest results.

ForeverGeek poetry:

forever geeks on wheels willy brandt
report writing styles
for less plans for teachers salary
wizard of the coast carolina university
of washington state of michigan
state university of […]

Fontifier is a service that creates a TrueType font from your handwriting sample. Print out their template, fill it out, scan it back in, pay a little money, and you have your font.

An interesting tech note from the site:

The Fontifier Web site is based on the Common Lisp Hypermedia Server, a Web server designed […]

Yes, it’s another treatise on programmer productivity, but it’s still ever so true. Of course, this applies to any occupation (engineering, writing, design) requiring long bouts of concentration to be productive.

…[W]hen you are in the flow, you concentrate only on what you are doing and you hold all the required details in your head, […]

Mappr is a new website (not from Ludicorp) that maps photos from Flickr geographically.

Mappr is an interactive environment for exploring place, based on the photos people take. By adding geographical information to the wealth of photographs found online, it allows new ways of looking at spaces and images. Mappr adds place to pictures.

Mappr takes […]

Blizzard has posted a “coming soon” page on their community site to let players know what to expect in the coming months for the game. Mostly it’s more high-level quests and some class tweaks right now, but there are a few interesting things like “meeting stones” to help you find a party to take on […]

In an article at Java World, Graham King outlines the use of Tomcat clustering and load balancing to keep web applications running happily.

In this article, author Graham King presents simple steps for connecting a pair (or more) of Tomcats to Apache using the JK2/AJP (Apache JServ Protocol) connector and to each other using Tomcat 5’s […]

The largest and best BitTorrent site on the ‘net, “Suprnova.org”:http://www.suprnova.org/ has been shut down.
From the site:
As you have probably noticed, we have often had downtimes. This was because it was so hard to keep this site up! But now we are sorry to inform you all, that SuprNova is closing down for good in the […]