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10 Lan Party Tips
Most of us may have been to a Lan party, playing games all night, eating junk food and drinking. We call them a Geekfest. Hostng a Lan party is a completely different animal. There are a lot of things you have to think about. Here are some things you have to do to have a [...]
Full StoryEven Google is Affected by the Economy
The economic down turn has hurt many companies, and even the search engine leader is not immune. Google Inc. reported its first-ever drop in quarterly profit Thursday, many analysts thought Google Inc. would be affected more by current economic conditions. Now keep in mind that no one said loss, just not as large as a [...]
Full StoryPresident Obama Enters a Technology Void
After running a campaign based on technology, the Obama Administration was met with tech shock when they entered the White House. When President Obama and his staff came into the White House to set up for the next four years, the Obama Technology train came to a screeching halt. The current system in the White [...]
Full StoryHelp our Vets with USA Together
The greatest thing one human can do is to put their own life on the line to protect another human. That is what our service men and women do every day. Some of our Vets are returning from service injured and have some problems in these hard economic times. I think they deserve better. The [...]
Full StoryWindows 7 Beta Review
I recently downloaded a copy of Windows 7 Beta (Windows 7 Ultimate build 7000). I installed W7 on my Duo core laptop, and as a test only ran 1gig ram on this system. The install process went smooth not a single issue. W7 installed quickly, about half the time of Vista. All my hardware was [...]
Full StoryFree DVR with MythTV
MythTV is a free Linux application which turns a computer with the necessary hardware into a network streaming digital video recorder, a digital multimedia home entertainment system, or Home Theater Personal Computer. It can be considered as a free and open source alternative to Tivo or Windows Media Center. If you have an old computer [...]
Full StoryG1 Android Phone
It’s not as pretty as the iPhone, but the G1, the first smartphone to run Google’s sleek new Android operating system, has a slick slide-out keyboard, a big bright screen and a lot of power. The “Google Phone” supports loads of applications downloaded from the online Android marketplace — games and programs, like encyclopedias, guitar-teaching [...]
Full StoryTimeVault Backup for Linux
Time Vault is an open source free backup utility for Linux. Time Vault creates incremental backups of files that can be restored at a later date. Snapshots are copies of a directory at a certain time. Snapshots use very little space for the files that haven’t changed since the last snapshot was made. This is [...]
Full StoryHackers Break SSL Certificates
SSL certificates have become a huge part of Internet security. SSL certificates use hash codes generated by a variety of algorithms, to verify their issuer’s identity. The hash code is an important feature of public-key cryptography, which SSL is based on. SSL is used to protect the secret, private code that CAs uses to sign [...]
Full StoryWii Tips and Tricks
My family received a Wii for Christmas. We have been using it for about a week and today we lost power. After the power outage the Wii would not turn back on. So I got on the net and found out that there is a way to reset the power supply. My problem was solved. [...]
Full StoryDigital Photo Frame $199 Virus Free!
If you gave the Samsung SPF-85H 8-inch digital photo frame as a gift this year, you may have given more than the picture frame. You may have also given your friends and family a nasty virus. Amazon reached out to its purchasers with a note just before the holiday. Here’s a snippet of their warning [...]
Full StoryVirtualBox 2.1.0
Sun recently released VirtualBox 2.1.0, a major update with exciting new features: among them better 64-bit support, hardware virtualization on the Mac, 3D acceleration, easier networking on Windows and Linux plus full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots. VirtualBox is a family of powerful virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox [...]
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