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PSPix Back on Track


A few ForeverGeek readers asked me in my last article about this PSP shell whether it would be coming out or not since the site seemed to be heading to an XBox 360 modding team’s site instead, and no signs of the shell were there.
Turns out that that site (now re-erected here) was only made […]

Filed under: PSP

2006 Bloggies

This year’s weblog awards nominees have been announced and the polls are open for voting.
Unfortunately, none of our Network’s Blogs are up for any nominations but still we wish the best of luck to all that are.

Filed under: News

Firefox Keyboard Tips

Lifehacker has a great list of the many keyboard shortcuts available to users of Firefox. Any power-browser will not want to be without these.
The article covers keyboard commands for selecting the location bar, the search bar, moving back and forward through sites, changing the search engine, and even how to perform tasks that are […]

Filed under: Resources

Bye Bye Blackberry?

Via MSNBC:
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from the maker of the BlackBerry in the long-running battle over patents for the wildly popular, handheld wireless e-mail device.
The high court’s refusal to hear Canada-based Research In Motion Ltd.’s appeal means that a trial judge in Richmond, Va., could impose an injunction against […]

Filed under: News

Free Apress Programming Books

Apress is giving away e-books in PDF. It may appear that you have to sign up to receive their newsletter, but just uncheck the subscribe box and click the download button. That is unless, of course, you want to receive their newsletter.
Here are the titles available:

A Programmer’s Introduction to PHP 4.0
Writing Perl Modules for CPAN
Programming […]

Filed under: News, Resources

Amazing Computer Setup

I’ve seen some pretty amazing computer setups in my time, but I think this one beats them all.

Here’s the list of the things and descriptions taken from there:

12″ Powerbook 1.3Ghz 1 GB Ram 100GB HD.. fits in my camera bag
17″ Powerbook 1.67Ghz / 2GB Ram / 100GB HD. The one released right before the ones […]

Filed under: Articles

China Net Population Hits 111M

I was looking at the Technorati top 100 and noticed something odd. There were a few non-English sites on the list, and no doubt this is only going to grow as China’s Internet population, has grown to 111 million, and is continuing to expand.
It is currently second only to the USA, and over the […]

Filed under: News

Graphical Passwords

For some reason this makes me think of the movie Johnny Mnemonic, as in that movie they had to use selected images from television to unlock information. Well this system uses little icons selected in a certain sequence, more like a visual combination lock to access the computer.
To log in, you must find at […]

Filed under: General

IconBuffet Free Delivery Round 2

Given the popularity of the last article on this and the suggestion on behalf of some readers, I decided to resurrect this topic and once again spread IconBuffet Deliveries.
Below is a list of the deliveries I have and the number that I can give on the right. I’ll try to update the list regularly.

Farewell Snow […]

Filed under: Forever Geek

5 Invites to Newsvine

For all of those that are still looking for a Newsvine invite without jumping through a million hoops, here is your chance. I have 5 invites to the Newsvine beta still available.
Incase you are wondering what Newsvine is, I have already done a write-up/review of it on my blog:
I was just invited to the Newsvine […]

Filed under: News

USB Treasure Chest Jewel Box

Wow, now that’s a long title to describe a simple gadget. What is it exactly? Exactly what the title says, a Jewel Box that is shaped like a Treasure Chest and connects to your PC via USB.
Why the USB? Well, in order to open the box you need to input a code via a small […]

Filed under: Gadgets

PS3 launch titles announced… and dropped?

A couple of days ago Sony posted on their website the list of the Playstation 3 launch titles. However, if you check that previous link you’ll confirm that the list is no longer there, nor is there any reference to any Playstation 3 title either.
Could this be related to the recent rumors that the PS3 […]

Filed under: Games

iTunes 6.0.2 With Video Sharing

This blogger talks about iTunes 6.0.2 having the ability to share video as well as music.
With all the attention on the new ministore presentation, no one seems to have noticed that iTunes 6.02 enables video-sharing to your local network. Whether it’s intended for an upcoming home media appliance or not I don’t know, but it […]

Filed under: Apple

Intel Loses some Major Market Share

C|Net is reporting that Intel lost some major market share in their fourth quarter of 2005. Their market share dropped 11% from 64.4% to 53.3%. And that was only one quarter! This is obviously bad news for Intel, if it was to continue at that rate for the rest of the year, by 2007 they […]

Filed under: Articles

Rant about comments

From as long as I remember ForeverGeek, back when I was a reader, comments have always been open and without many, if any, restrictions. This is of course because there was no need to restrict it since people always replied with maturity and back then I can’t remember one time when comments got out of […]

Filed under: Forever Geek

Optimizing OS X

Yes, OS X can get a little slow from time to time, as can any computer after substantial amounts of use. Here are some tips for optimizing OS X short of getting a newer Apple.
It suggests turning off window effects, closing un-used Dashboard Widgets, minimizing the scale effect on the dock and other options like […]

Filed under: Apple
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