Tecmo, Inc. has filed a law suit against two people, charging them with violations of U.S. copyright law and the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
What did they do? They created custom skins and mods for a few of Tecmo’s game titles on XBox by decompiling the code for games like Ninja Gaiden and Dead [...]

Project Torlan is a full-scale Total Conversion mod aimed at porting HaloPC into the Unreal Tournament 2004 engine. This port will be known as “HaloUT”.

Pretty neat project that is looking at porting the HaloPC game into the UT engine.
Check out some of the screenshots.
There is already a release if you want to download it and [...]

Have you been wanting to create an RSS feed for a site, but not able to (or interested in) using blogging software that does it automatically?
Feeder is a new application released for the Mac platform that builds clean RSS feeds and publishes them to the web for you.
Feeder is an application for creating, editing and [...]

If you are one of the perhaps many concerned mini owners, who worry that using a putty knife to open your mini will damage it’s precious aluminum skin, worry no more.

This Chinese site has an excellent photo tutorial on how to open your mini, using modified bamboo chopsticks. The softness and tensile strength of [...]

This guy milled a gorgeous aluminum case for his iPod shuffle, and he did a fantastic job.

The web’s obsession with trying to convert a Mac Mini into a HTPC continues as MightyDave goes through his setup that helps to run Music, Movies, and Television. Not too much explanation of how everything is done, but it has pics showing what is viable and what isn’t. I think I will just wait for [...]

Don’t know how many designers are out there, but this is great exposure for everyone and includes a $500 cash prize. Even better the deadline is April 30, 2005. That should give everyone plenty of time to come up with something. Best of luck.

Yesterday I showed you an article about how to perform benchmarks with MySQL on different Operating Systems. Today I am going to show you an article that follows through with those benchmarks and runs MySQL on the different Operating Systems.
I am kind of surprised to see Linux (Gentoo) do so well over the rest of [...]

If you are a Mac user and favor the Safari browser, there is a fix out there for you to cure you of that IDN spoofing silliness going around.

Jon Hicks has recently posted a link to this site offering a fix for Safari. Basically, you can use the Saft plugin to detect phishing attempts until [...]

I don’t ever post these kinds of things, but I figure at least someone is looking for a new 20″ LCD monitor and these kinds of offers are almost too good to pass up.
Hit up this page for 20″ goodness.
Then at checkout use coupon code JL3BGX85J45GSC.
Total price should be $529.20 (without tax). Don’t know how [...]

In fact, 90% of the work involved using my method occurs when you first install Windows. After that, it takes very little effort on your part. In this guide, I’m going to show you how to go about securing Windows on the desktop - the easy way :) From now on, if somebody tries [...]

Whatever your online, random stuff generator needs might be, chances are that The Generator Blog has already found it for you.

Among the listed generators:

The Biblical Curse Generator
Music Genre Name Generator
Super Hero Generator
Geek Code Generator
Dear John Letter Generator

Good thing I found this blog just when I needed an evil plan generator.

Want to increaes the amount of hard drive space in that new Mac Mini? A 2.5 inch hard drive maxes out at about 100GB (60GB for a 7200 rpm drive).
This guy took his Mac Mini and dropped it into a PC tower, then wired full size hard drives into the motherboard of the Mini.

Mozilla has released version 0.2 of their calendar application, Sunbird. This is the first official release for all 3 platforms.
Our goal is to produce a cross platform standalone calendar application based on Mozilla’s XUL user interface language.

I had used 0.1 on my old PC laptop but switched to iCal on my powerbook because I wasn’t [...]

Doug Bowman has written up a great piece on how to securely access your e-mail when you are using open or public WiFi Hotspots.

The majority of these wireless networks are configured with the lowest possible security settings, so that customers can connect to the network as easy and trouble-free as possible. This allows just about [...]

A mere 12 hours after it was announced, Mozilla Foundation has already patched the holes in its software that allow sites to spoof URIs, making it easier to fool people with phishing scams.
In the software world, that is a pretty fast turn around and shows the benefits of open source software. Unless you download only [...]