Though the number of homebrew programs lately isn’t as big as when the first exploits were discovered, it’s still exciting to see that users will no longer require GTA in order to run homebrew programs.
This exploit takes advantage of an image format exploit (yet again) and has the ability to run unsigned code on any […]

There will be no smoking in cartoons–at least in the UK, that is. A complaint lodged with British media regulator Ofcom has led Turner Broadcasting to consider editing out scenes that glamorizes smoking from its cartoons dating back to the 1940s.
LONDON - Turner Broadcasting is scouring more than 1,500 classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons, including old favorites […]

Do you think that Windows Vista will be able to beat other operating systems like Linux (any distribution) or OS X and if so or not, why?
I have many negative feelings when it comes to Windows Vista, and I think much of the readership here would agree with me, but do you think they are […]

With multiple companies heading towards fiber optics to the home could the dream of wireless Internet being fast and everywhere be nothing more than a dream? Well, some people think that the constant delays in ratifying the 802.11n standard have basically made it so that wireless will be a secondary technology when it comes to […]

Got around to seeing the rediculously-hyped summer popcorn flick, Snakes on a Plane, this weekend. So, did I think it lived up to the expectations? Well, read my full review and find out.
If it weren’t for the internet I doubt I ever would have even seen this movie. But, thanks to the […]

Happy birthday to our clay-faced friend.

When I was a kid, I used to enjoy watching Gumby on television. All those crazy antics–usually with underlying lessons–were both entertaining and interesting. There was something about the crudeness and simplicity of the work that’s worth appreciating. Stop-motion animation, after all, has some magic to it, unlike most of […]

The CW has updated its Smallville info page with a short teaser of what’s to come this Season 6. Here’s a screencap via YouTube. You can check out a higher quality version at The CW, though, but the actual preview is only a few seconds into the video, and then you get the usual Smallville/Supernatural […]

Electronic Arts (EA) has just redefined the meaning of “privacy.” EA’s privacy policy explicitly states that by playing any EA game over Microsoft’s Xbox Live service, you already grant EA permission to automatically create an account on its system. This then lets EA retrieve and keep personal customer information from Microsoft’s customer database. I would […]

Jeremy Wagstaff comments on the various ways that different companies or websites help you recover forgotten passwords. And while password reminder systems can involve things ranging from the forgettable (favorite places, colors, things) to the unsecure (mother’s maiden name, social security number), here’s one memory cue we oft overlook: the tactile ones.
Four digits I’ve used […]

Has Google reached a plateau? While Google leads the pack in the search business, its market share has dropped a full percentage point from 44.7% in June this year to 43.7% in July. Analysts warn this could be an indication that Google has reached its limit in aggressively garnering market share gains.
Bear Stearns & Co. […]

Nice little app here. It written in PHP4 with some nice AJAX sprinkled over it for effect.
YShout is a lightweight package that allows you to easily add a shoutbox to your website. Shoutboxes are a great tool to receive feedback from your visitors, and YShout allows you to chat with them in real-time! YShout is […]

Amazon has the Apple Mac Pro for under $2400, offering a $150 rebate on the system. This is only the base system. If you want to configure it further, you probably need to go directly through Apple or one of its resellers.
They also have:

$200 rebate on 15″ MacBookPro $2299 - $200 = $2099
$200 rebate on […]

Now here’s one of the better action cartoons to come out of the 90’s, and a personal favorite of mine from the days before Toonami became exclusively a showcase for the latest anime. You can read my full run-down of the Real Adventures of Jonny Quest Right Here.
The original Jonny Quest animated series produced […]

And it’s ugly… seriously, I’m not just saying it because it’s Microsoft but it has a disproportional layout and doesn’t look any better than any other MP3 out there, and those are all still behind the iPod.

The way I see it, it seems that Microsoft is losing terrain on all the terrains it has serious […]

It seems that the world’s best known “book store” will soon introduce to it’s customers a Digital Video service (a-la iTunes Music Store) that will allow you to download TV shows episodes for $1.99 and the average movies for $10.
The FAQs say you will be able to transfer the videos onto a compatible media device, […]

Anyone remember the ol’ Site
Finder Service from Verisign? Claiming that it was for the benefit of normal end users, it basically wildcarded *.com and threw up a page full of ads when a domain did not exist.
Now, ads on domains are a very large business. We won’t go into details here, but estimates are that […]