If you have not heard already, Google lost its fight in the UK over the GMAIL name, and so new signups from now on will be getting @googlemail.com addresses.
As for those in the UK that already have gmail.com addresses, it is not certain if eventually they will have to transition over, or if they will […]

OpenOffice.org 2.0 is the productivity suite that individuals, governments, and corporations around the world have been expecting for the last two years. Easy to use and fluidly interoperable with every major office suite, OpenOffice.org 2.0 realises the potential of open source.
With new features, advanced XML capabilities and native support for the OASIS Standard OpenDocument format, […]

You can give people free software, but they won’t have the expertise to use it,
Says Microsoft Nigeria’s manager.
The average annual Nigerian salary is only $160, a copy of Windows XP can cost even more than that, and that’s not even including the word processing applications.
“It’s not about the cost of the software, it’s about […]

I’ve ready many funny critics, but this one had me laughing from the first paragraph to the last.
In short, it’s really, really, REALLY bad, and if you don’t want to bother reading the review I’ll just go ahead and tell you they gave it a 2.9 (out of 10).
And now for one of my favorite […]

No this isn’t one of those lame adverts you’ll probably find on many PSP websites.
PSPSpot brings you the scoop and tells you how it works:
Video Vault for the Sony PSP allows you to import DVDs , VCDs, SVCDs, analog/digital camcorder tapes — Imports AVI, Mpeg 1, Mpeg 2, Mpeg 4, ASF, WMV, DVR-MS, and even […]

Flock has released a developer preview of its new browser. Haven’t heard of Flock? It’s a new browser being built on top of the Mozilla Firefox platform and plugs in to the del.icio.us API to sync your local bookmarks with your del.icio.us account. You can also post to your blog directly from the Flock interface.
Give […]

Two minor updates to Apple software was released today. The first was an update to iTunes from 6.0 to 6.0.1. My guess was that this update came out to fix a bug that would not allow iTunes to play videos from the online music store. Both updates are available via Software Update on Mac OS […]

Darren Rowse from Problogger submited today the result of his latest poll asking readers from where their readers came from.
I should be no surprise that most of the hits came from Search Engines, but in second place came the “I have no idea” option and only 3% from RSS files.
Here’s the graphic with the results […]

Once again, a Lego fan proves that too much free time can result in amazing things. Justin Stebbins created models and sets for most vehicles and characters from Halo and Halo 2.
What’s so great about this? Well, you can kill the Monitor for starters and break him apart piece by piece! You can also create […]

Disclaimer: Forever Geek in no way supports illegal activity, this tutorial is for informational purposes only.
Hack A Day has put together a very good article on downloading television shows from Bittorrent and automatically converting those shows to play on your iPod 5th generation. This is a basic list of the steps it takes to accomplish […]

If you’re a Mac OS X user, then there’s a cool Movie-to-ASCII converter out there. ASCII is just a complicated way of saying text. When we’re done the output is going to look something like this:

This is from the first Seinfeld Episode.

Download the file here.
Go into the Finder and press Apple + Option + […]

Apple released a new software program called Aperture today for photo professionals. It features fantastic RAW support, and many other features.

Designed from the ground up for professional photographers, Aperture provides everything you need for after the shoot, delivering the first all-in-one post-production tool for photographers.

Apple’s new 15″ and 17″ Powerbooks offer support for the 30″ Cinema Display, better battery life, and higher resolution displays.

Crisp new displays that expand your view. Longer battery life to fuel your work (or play) as you fly cross-country. A DVD-burning SuperDrive on every system. The PowerBook G4 packs loads of pro features in a […]

Apple today released Quad Powermac computers that support up to 16 gigabytes of ram.

Start your next project on the ultimate creative platform. Whether you choose one of the dual-core configurations or the groundbreaking quad-core Power Mac G5 Quad, you’ll benefit from PCI Express expansion options, the latest graphics cards, and a host of built-in capabilities […]

With a community that excels in childishness and flamewars, and due to the popularity of the PSP, it was only a matter of time before the first “viruses” for the PSP appeared. However, you can’t fix these viruses by simply formatting the PSP or reflashing your PSP because there is currently no way of doing […]

A sort of silent release (in terms of divulging on most major PSP sites) has come out, version 1.0 of the famous DGEN emulator.
Performance wise, it currently still isn’t as fast as “PSP Genesis” but the rate at which new versions come out is much faster than it’s counterpart which hasn’t seen a new version […]