If you have 2 computers that you would like to control with just one mouse and keyboard (and without a KVM switch), then check out this application. It uses a VNC server on one machine and automatically connects and switches all mouse and keyboard actions to that computer from the one your keyboard/mouse are automatically […]

Lost in bigger news yesterday was the fact that Google has released version 2 of Picasa, their photo management program. Even though I have only spent a short time with it, I can say that it’s probably the first non-Apple Apple application that I have seen on the Windows platform. It’s good. It’s beautiful. […]

Mad props to Microsoft for fighting the good fight. Damn them for creating a platform that allows spyware to propogate so easily on those unsuspecting grandparents who just wish to view a little bit of porn.
I would give it a testdrive, but I don’t have spyware so I don’t know how I can do it […]

See the making of both “Bender”:http://www.yayhooray.com/thread/16629/BENDER-BENDING-RODRIGUEZ from Futurama, and “Wolverine”:http://www.yayhooray.com/thread/17065/becoming-the-wolverine from the X-Men. Both are mighty impressive!

PCStats has compiled a massive amount of tips (99 in fact) for increasing WindowsXP performance. The tips range from pretty simple and perhaps obvious (”Closer is better for wireless”) to more advanced (registry and BIOS tweaks).

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Neil Turner explains how to enable Write Caching which allows Windows to access the iPod’s files faster.

For all you benchmarking junkies out there, the newest version of 3DMark05 has been released. To anyone that’s not in the know, this is the benchmarking application when testing video cards. You can get a free demo download and run your card through the torture if you so desire, but I would only advise so […]

When I was in college, I learned quite a few things about Computer Science - the C++ STL, data structures, base components of an operating system, programming languages, compilers…the list goes on. One thing that I didn’t even really think about much until I had a summer internship doing software development was source control - […]

So apparently now Longhorn will not contain some of the super-uber-breathtaking-death-defying features that Microsoft once proclaimed that it would have. I think all of us knew this was bound to happen.
Either cut out the fat or leave it in and delay the project even further. If you have Microsoft stock I would sell in the […]

Okay you are ready to download and install the new SP2 for Windows XP and are not too delighted to see that it is over 200mb in size. Fair enough though since you have a broadband connection that quickly finishes the job in minutes. However, your computer crashes after a couple of weeks and you […]

Interesting discussion going on over at the Ars Forums concerning whether Apple’s latest encounters with Real is them playing fair. I wish I could provide a better opinion on the current events, but I have to take a backseat on this one and see what is going on. What I can say is it’s funny […]

Yayhooray member Vitaflo (of Assembler.org fame) has created the ultimate emulation station.
It uses an old Mac G4, and a Playstation controller with a USB adapter for the hardware. Then he built his own custom front-end launching utility using Firefox in kiosk mode, and simple dHTML. That along with a series of OS hacks has created […]

Hot on the heals of the release of OneNote SP1, two new utilities taking advantage of OneNote’s new object model have been released. These utilities allow you to easily copy text from either IE or Outlook into new OneNote notes.
Currently, I’m using Outlook 2003’s flag ability to keep track of mail that I need to […]

An intern at Microsoft has the chance of a lifetime to visit Bill Gates in his own home and speak with him at length.
About twenty minutes into the event Bill casually descended the stairs from the personal side of the home: no fanfare, no introduction, just the Chief Software Architect. Instantly there started a massive […]

An interesting (if that’s what we could call it) take, by an established publication on how and why Microsoft should create a version of Office to run on Linux.

Here’s a solution, a tad radical, perhaps, but one that Microsoft really ought to consider: How about selling a proprietary, low-cost version of Office designed for computers […]

If any of you develop web pages using Mozilla or Mozilla FireFox, I’m sure that you’ve come to rely on its DOMInspector, which gives you a ton of information about each element on a given page, and how the element relates to those around it. I know that it’s helped me to fix a few […]