Jeremy Zawodny reports that Yahoo! 360 invites are now being given out. Not that I have that much interest to get one since enough my information is spread around all these damn sites, but someone might be looking to get in on the latest craze (and it isn’t a craze now, but since I just [...]

Microsoft bashing season is open again and this time it isn’t Windows that’s being targeted, it’s their popular text editor by an associate professor of the University of Washington. According to him the grammar tool that Microsoft Word uses is very rudimentary.
A study done by him shows that the grammar tool that Microsoft Word uses [...]

PSP Video 9 is a free PSP video conversion and management application. It can convert regular PC video files (avi, mpeg, etc) into PSP video files, as well as manage/copy these PSP video files between your PC and PSP.
As Om Malik points out, not only will this application convert videos into a format that works [...]

Amazon is taking pre-orders for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and with it you get a $35.00 rebate which brings the price down to $95.00. I guess this is cool and I will probably jump at it after I do a bit more reading on what has been improved.
Seems just like a lot of pretty [...]

If you are using a computer that uses RAID drives, you could see a problem if you plan to upgrade to any of the CS versions of Adobe products.
According to this article at Yahoo!, one user was experiencing lots of problems after upgrading to Acrobat 7. Everytime he logged on to his computer, Acrobat would [...]

A U.S. court has told Sony to halt sales of its Playstation consoles and pay $90 million in damage to Immersion Corp, a California tech company. Obviously shares of the tech company have jumped since the news (5% at last count).

For the time being, Sony will keep selling PlayStations as the order — which [...]

An in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting. A “must-have” guide for sys-admins, web-developers and programmers working on Unix-like systems.
This tutorial assumes no previous knowledge of scripting or programming, but progresses rapidly toward an intermediate/advanced level of instruction . . . all the while sneaking in little snippets of UNIX® wisdom and lore. It [...]

Since FG staff is very excited over the PSP I decided to share with them (and our faithful readers of course) how to browse the internet using a browser found on Wipeout Pure’s downloadable content area.
Now someone just has to figure out how to get applications running on the PSP from the memory stick like [...]

Since everyone is crazy over the Sony Playstation Portable, there are tons of how-to articles popping up.
Here is an article from Gamespot on converting movies stored on your PC in AVI, WM or some other format. It walks you through encoding the videos properly with the 3G Converter, then shows you how to get them [...]

We all like to see hot new innovations on the desktop and anything that makes our 18 hours of daily computer usage more interesting deserves our respect. Okay, okay, not necessarily 18 hours, but when you are staring at XHTML and moving it into a CMS things can get boring real fast.
Luminocity is the new [...]

This isn’t the review that I referred to earlier, but I think it’s fair of me to provide you with my quick initial thoughts after using the toy for a couple of hours.
Ooo, It’s Shiny…Damn I Touched It
Unless you have actively removed fingerprints from your hands this thing will get plenty of marks on it, [...]

This is just plain funny.
Firefox experienced the shortest periods of vulnerability due to the development model of Firefox. As for IE…

By comparison, the scanner showed Microsoft’s IE enjoyed only seven days without being subject to any known vulnerabilities, between 12 and 19 October.

Even more interesting is that security experts were more willing to report vulnerabilities [...]

PSP 101: Everything you need to know about the Playstation Portable.
Below is everything you’ll need to know in order to start your PSP journey. PSPworld will soon publish more in-depth articles on how to download, convert and transfer movies and TV shows to your PSP; how to transfer and organize your favorite tunes on [...]

As everyone knows the best car simulator game has been out for a while. And one of its most popular features is the Photo Shooting. So I’d like to know if any FG readers have any “photos” they’d like to share.
I’ll start with my special edition Toyota Corolla AE86 S.S. (Initial D) version doing a [...]

Will the human body become the next data conduit? NTT, a Japanese communications firm, has developed a technology called RedTacton that makes that seem not so far fetched.

RedTacton, [...] (NTT) claims can send data over the surface of the skin at speeds of up to 2Mbps — equivalent to a fast broadband data connection.

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RedTacton [...]

According to this article on The Inquirer, Creative agreed to settle a lawsuit last year about misleading information on its Audigy and Extigy sound cards.
Creative claimed that the products in question could handle 24-bit audio at 96Khz – indeed this was stated on the product boxes in bold letters, and in all advertising. [...]