2005 June

The most beautiful breakout game ever made.
Experience the amazing beauty and fun of a picture based breakout game! Play through 120 boards split equally between beautiful pictures and classic breakout boards!
Sunny Ball features many collectable powerups and several bonus points systems including: combination moves, matching crystals, and lightable stars.

After taking a few digital pictures, I like to dump them onto my computer and then decide where I want to upload them online to share with friends, family, or other Gnomies. Going through a big assortment of pictures, and resizing each one for the Web can be more work than it is worth, [...]

To be completely honest with you, I hate paying for software. I almost always look for a free alternative, and in the majority of cases, you can generally get the same amount of basic functionality in the free alternative as you would in the paid version. Now, I’m not suggesting that you avoid shareware and [...]

Stephen writes:
What are “rootkits,” and how can I tell if I have them?
Anyone who surfs the Net on a regular basis knows about all of the digital “grime” that can be picked up in the form of spyware, viruses, Trojans and worms. As if the current exploits weren’t enough of a pain to deal with, [...]

You may not be aware of this, but the visual effects settings configured on your computer may be affecting performance. Instead of having to watch as menus and windows slowly appear you can have them appear more quickly.
There are many different settings you can configure to improve performance including the visual effects settings. They can [...]

You often read or hear that you should always proceed with caution when working with the Windows registry. Although this is very true, you can help alleviate some of the jitters of modifying the registry if you understand a little more about it.
First of all, a little about the registry terminology, keys, and values [...]

If you are looking for good and inexpensive collaboration tools, I have created a presentation that gives a quick and simplified overview of some of the unique tools and services that I have found to be particularly interesting and cost-effective. Some of these programs are even free, while most cost only a few dollars [...]

July 1, 1847
A wise friend of the family once told me “Collecting is great for kids.” And despite its apparent decline as hobby for young people, it still is a great way to combine geography, armchair travel, history, and own’s one personal view of world into a single pastime. My childhood stamp collection was lost [...]

After sending out three newsletters last week that dealt with watching downloading movies on a DVD player / entertainment system, I received two (somewhat related) questions from Gazette Readers over the weekend. The first question comes from reader Manny K., who writes:

Dear Dennis,
Please forgive me if my question has already been answered in your newsletter; [...]

Remember Terri Iligan, the woman who sold her name on eBay, agreeding to legally change it to anything which the highest bidder requested?
Not to be outdone, Kari Smith has sold her forehead on eBay - well, leased, really - for the tattooing pleasure of the highest bidder which, not surprisingly, turns out to be [...]