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 […]

California Senator Debra Bowen, known for her tough stance against spam, is now taking a shot (no pun intended) at what she sees as another Internet scourge: real-time remote Internet hunting of live game.

Long before I had kids, I’d been fascinated with names, their origins, and how people come up with them for their kids. When I was cleaning my bookshelves, I couldn’t believe how many books of names I had. These are not baby name books, but books about their histories and meanings.

The new version of this excellent free program (donations encouraged) has been released. This is one of my main weapons when debugging a customer’s computer of spyware. There are some bugs in this release - Patrick Kolla is having major trouble developing with Borland Delphi - but promises a fixed version soon.

I often joke with my manager about finding another job, one that would pay me as much as I make now, but I would only have to work half as much. He asks me why would I want to work twice as hard as I am now. I THINK he is kidding (I hope he […]

AimingClick gives you a quick online reference, translation, or explanation for a word you highlight in any Windows application. AimingClick is a reference book, dictionary, encyclopedia, Web search engine, and many other information sources in one software tool.
These sources can be queried by one or two mouse clicks or keystrokes. You don’t even need to […]

Here I am, Robin Good, with a new and impressive bunch of tools, online services, and resources. I invite you to enjoy, try-out, and report your own impressions on my new picks, and then share interesting services that you have found on your own excursions.

Every time I play the Sims 2, I have to go through the same old steps of shutting down all the background processes, then starting up the game. Then, when I am finished, I have to restart my computer to get things running the way they were before I started playing. Seems like […]

Ever since TechTV was bought out by G4, people have been frustrated with the lack of true technology content that is on the air today. Don’t even try to tune into G4 - my grandma can tell you more about technology than they can. If you’re like me, then you reminisce about the days when […]

Jul 1, 1864
More than 600,000 Americans gave their lives for their country in the Civil War (1861-1865); more than any other war in our history. Although the North prevailed over the South, the grief and bitterness caused by the violence healed very slowly. Learn more at these fine sites.

Today on the Web you can find guides for just about anywhere, from the Bahamas to Beijing. These guides often give you great information about where to go and what to see. But it is the amount of different guides on the Web that makes them all the more useful, because each one […]