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Well, not really hacking Twitter… but to the uninitiated you will look like a hard core hacker when you do this simple trick. What you need is an application called cURL, which you can get here. It works on just about every operating system from DOS to Windows to Linux to Mac OS X. [...]

I read that IBM had decided to drop Microsoft Office from their corporate offices in favor of their OpenOffice based word processing system. They were moving towards the open document format and away from the Microsoft based .doc system. Having read that, I was curious to give the software a try. I [...]

When it was announced that the Wii would have downloadable titles from past systems, I thought that was great.  I thought it might be fun to play those old Nintendo games without having to keep an old console around.  When I got around to playing those old NES games, it wasn’t quite as much fun [...]

Microsoft recently stopped production on the first and second generation Zune players; it will focus entirely on the Zune HD from here on out.  The early reviews for the Zune HD are positive - it has a nice screen and the touch features work well.  The sound quality is good and it will have some [...]

College football has, since the mid 1930s, relied on polls to determine who would be crowned the national champion.  The biggest of those polls was the Associated Press poll, a popularity contest that was voted on by sports writers.  In 1997 college football went with the Bowl Championship Series, or BCS, as a way to [...]

TextPlus bills itself as a free way to text message with a single person or with groups.  The application says it is compatible with either the iPhone or the iPod Touch and requires either a 3G, Edge, or WiFi connection in order to work.  The application is free and they claim that they are able [...]

Focus Booster claims to be a productivity boosting piece of software which helps you to accomplish your goals through the principles of the Pomodoro Technique.  The company’s website, http://www.focusboosterapp.com/ , says that the product will change colors as time goes by and that it is fully customizable with alarms and time settings.  Essentially it is [...]

The Associated Press released a photo of a United States Marine who was wounded by a rocket propelled grenade during operations in Afghanistan.  The Marine,  Lance Corporal Joshua Bernard, would later pass away from his injuries.  The controversy of whether or not to release photos of seriously injured or dying soldiers on the battlefield is [...]

It doesn’t seem to have been widely documented or reported on, but Apple’s new QuickTime player in OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard includes a screen recorder.  You can access the feature through the file menu.  You can select whether you want to use no microphone, the built-in mic, or an external microphone as well as [...]

A lot has been made recently about an upcoming video broadcast by the President to millions of school children in order to talk about goals and the importance of education.  Some conservative groups and conservative commentators have even gone so far as to push forward the idea of a national day to keep your kids [...]