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Over at Mac Recon, fcodc has posted a pretty cool article about how to set up a Mac Media Center, listing just about everything you’ll need.
It doesn’t run through the full setup of the individual components (so I can’t call it a tutorial), but if you’re pretty tech-wise, you can probably figure it out on [...]

Lists… I love lists. Especially when they list free stuff! I came across this pretty cool page on Tripod this morning that lists “The Top Mac Applications FREE!” and while it contains many I’ve already known about, it uncovers a few more that I didn’t. Worth a good look as it [...]

If you’ve been frustrated with iTunes DRM, this just might be the thing for you. After all, you paid for those songs, didn’t you? Thanks to FairGame, a free download from Seidai Software, you can return fair use to your songs.
“FairGame will convert the songs you bought on the iTunes Store to [...]

Microsoft has updated Messenger and added the following new features:
• Redesigned, smarter contact cards give you more data about and easier access to your friends
• Your display name, status and personalization roam with you to any computer
• Try PC-to-phone calling with two free calls to virtually any phone in the world*
• Better server performance
• Automatic [...]

Seems like OS X hacker “semthex” managed to get it to work and posted the code and know-how on his blog. It’s a pretty interesting idea, and originally opened up into single-user mode (Apple’s Command Line Interface), but since posting the hack, he’s managed to get it running the GUI.
Apple, apparently not too happy [...]

In my daily web surfing of security web sites, I came across this great list of “The Ten Most Dangerous Things Users Do Online” from DarkReading.com. It may sound like a common sense list for most of us, but to the vast majority of PC users, it’s got the potential to put us all [...]

Some consider the update long overdue, but tomorrow it’s finally here. So what exactly does it bring? Xbox Live Arcade gets an updated look, auto downloads, faster display of available games, and new sort options. HD DVD support gets added, thanks to the upcoming HD DVD add-on peripheral that will look klunky [...]

Microsoft released the final version of WMP 11 today for all versions of Windows XP patched up to Service Pack 2.
The coolest thing I see thus far is the media sharing capabilities: “The new Media Sharing feature of Windows Media Player 11 lets you enjoy the contents of your Windows Media Player library [...]

Finally you can pick up your very own Zoltar, the fortune telling machine as featured in the old Tom Hanks movie “Big.” Creepy, yet nostalgic, this bad boy will set you back $9499.95, courtesy of everyone’s dream Christmas catalog, Hammacher Schlemmer.
Zoltar stands 6 1/2′ tall, accepts quarters, “nods his head up and down as [...]

Wow. That’s quite a prediction, Steve. But I’m not buying it - just yet. In his latest blog, Steve claims “YouTube, Digg, and MySpace took out TV a few months back”. I don’t exactly agree, because unless we all get Media Center PCs, cheap broadband access for all as well as [...]

In a “leak” during a public online chat interview (link hosted by GameTab.com) by Diablo novelist Richard Knaak comes a possible preview of things to come…
Q: Deathshade|EU: So… Diablo 3?
A: Knaak: I am not writing for a dead world… but a world with dead. Nuff said.”
Hmm. Kinda makes you think “trilogy” to me [...]

That uber-geek superstore known as Fry’s Electronics has finally opened up its online doors! Walking through those big front doors of the brick and mortar stores, you’re confronted with seemingly aisles and aisles of discount hardware, software, toys, DVDs, and more. The Las Vegas store even resembles a huge slot machine!
Previously operating on Outpost.com [...]

According to tech gizmo site Ubergizmo.com, US Modular is set to release the shock-resistant 12GB Monstor USB thumbdrive next month for a retail price of $129 USD. It looks like a Zippo lighter, but flipping the cover reveals a USB 2.0 connector.
$129 for 12GB of portable pocket storage goodness seems like a steal to [...]

Now here’s an interesting case of “does the opposite of what it’s supposed to do”… The folks over at GWN.com posted an in-depth article on the Nyko Intercooler and how it’s been heating up the Xbox 360 instead of cooling them, which it was designed to do.
Now that’s an oops!
[tags]Xbox, Game Console, Nyko, Gaming, Console, [...]

Apple has released the iPod Shuffle Reset Utility for first generation 512MB or 1GB Shuffles plagued with flashing orange and green LEDs. This software re-flash is NOT for the newer, sleeker 2nd Gen models, and it will erase your Shuffle.
[tags]iPod, Shuffle, Apple[/tags]

Apparently today, $50 reserves you a PS3 or Wii at your local Toys “R” Us. The program was supposed to formally start Sunday but their web site states no such date limitation.
While the Wii may be out on time, I seriously doubt the PS3 will be out in the same numbers, according to the [...]

Apparently Fight Night has been very good for Electronic Arts because they’re opening an new development house in downtown Chicago to work on three games for the Sony PS3 and Xbox 360. One will be yet another followup to Fight Night with Fight Night Round 4, a hip-hop lifestyle game called Def Jam: Icon, [...]

Lik-Sang, the once popular Hong Kong gaming import/export dealer, announced it was closing its doors forever as of the 24th due to multiple lawsuits from Sony. Per the gaming site Kotaku.com, “Sony claimed that Lik-Sang infringed its trade marks, copyright and registered design rights by selling Sony PSP consoles from Asia to European customers, [...]

I don’t know about you, but some of the things you’ll find on Google Maps might just weird you out - like this one that apparently shows an Indian head. And that’s not all… If you search deep enough, you’ll find some real and some imagined, such as a horse in England, some [...]

Hmm. Some things seem very strange, yet very cool at the same time…
“ReactOS is a project to develop a free software/Open Source operating system that is binary-compatible with Microsoft Windows NT/XP and Windows Server 2003 applications and device drivers.”
ReactOS started out in 1996 as a clone of Windows ‘95, but evolved to [...]