How To Delete Files to Prevent Crashes in OS X 10.5.6

Apple has recently posted several articles that offer advice on how to prevent crashes and freezes related to the Mac OS X...

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Banish your daemons for a faster Linux PC.

How to manage your machine's background processes

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6 Computer Destructions by Girlfriend

In this episode from SpecBox, clever use of annotations allow you to choose your own adventure so you get a different story every time.

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30 Excellent WordPress Video Tutorials

You’ll find the tutorials organized into several topics that include theme development and customization, site administration, beginner’s tutorials, and using some WordPress tools.

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The 10 Best Android Apps of 2008

Following only two months behind iPhone 2.0 (but at a significant installed-base disadvantage), Android still has a long way to go. But there is definitely some early potential. Here's the favorite apps of the year.

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Banish your daemons for a faster Linux PC.

How to manage your machine's background processes

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Linux Mint 6 Felicia Review : It Must Be Christmas

Linux Mint version 6 Felicia came out on December 15th and I have been running it on my Dell Inspiron 530 Q6600 system for the past week. I should note, however, that while Mint includes proprietary software it is far from being a better looking Ubuntu knockoff with Flash and MP3 working right out of the box.

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First day with a new Mac: 20 OS X tips for Windows Users

Just got a new Mac for Christmas and feeling a little bewildered?Fear not - Below are 20 common tasks that PC owners perform without thinking about, and their equivalents on a Mac - just as easy!

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Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 on Linux uses less memory

I mentioned a couple of months ago that there was room to improve Firefox's memory use for font handling on Linux. With Firefox 3.1 Beta 2, you can now enjoy these improvements.

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Dude! Where is my disk space?

If Parkinson's Law for computers holds true, then no matter how much disk space you have, it will get used up. If you're already feeling a pinch, consider using a disk space analyzer tool to see what's eating your space.

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How to Re-Enable Jailbreaking in Mac OS X 10.5.6

The Mac OS X 10.5.6 update broke pwnage, the unlocking/jailbreaking program for the iPhone. Fortunately, there's now an easy solution to fix this problem. You just need an Automator script and these simple instructions.

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25 Photoshop Tutorials for Web Designers

In this collection, you'll find 25 excellent Photoshop tutorials geared towards web designers. You'll find a variety of tutorials that include creating full web page templates, navigation menus, headers, and content boxes

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Installing Linux applications on OS X with Fink

Even though OS X is a Unix based operating system, you can not just take a Unix/Linux application and run it on OS X, you have to port it on OS X in order for you to use it.

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Transform Ubuntu into a Media Center with XBMC

Linux has come a long way in support for multimedia and graphics. Today we will see how to transform Ubuntu 8.10 into a media center platform. You can achieve this using various software like MythTV and Boxee, but we’re going to use XBMC Media Center (formerly XBox Media Center).

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8 Windows tools you didn't know you needed

IT shops have a never ending need for good management tools that don't require fuss or muss. Here's a list of eight easy-to-use tools that help with group policy management, training, password policy, collaboration, remote connectivity, managing your infrastructure, managing the new Server 2008 core.

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Setting up Sun VirtualBox 6 under Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid

I’ve been happily using VMWare’s VMWorkstation to test software setups in virtual machines for about a year. With my new Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid test setup, I decided to try Sun’s VirtualBox virtualization system. I chose Sun’s distribution over the OSE version primarily because of its improved USB support. Both are free, but Sun’s version sports some

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How to Run OSX on a Netbook (Full Video Tut.from Gadget Lab)

Apple isn't ready to offer an inexpensive, low-powered netbook yet -- so why not make one yourself? In this week's video podcast, Brian Chen goes over the process of installing an illegal, hacked version of Mac OS X Leopard on an MSI Wind netbook.

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Use Your USB Stick As a Key to Start Your PC

This can be achieved by using a regular USB/pen/thumb drive (whatever you call it). The hack would be more than enough to keep even your curious geeky computer friends from booting into the system. That said, it is by no means foolproof (which security measure is? ) so you might not want to bet your life on it.

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Wine64 hello world app runs!

I can finally report success on the first ever win64 program running on wine. The program was a textbook classic, but to make it work gcc had to be changed a lot.

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Best Ever 65 mooTools Plugins and Demos

Below are the Best Ever 65 mooTools Plugins and Demos, is it Better than jQuery?Quite, possibly.

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How to tweak and fine-tune Time Machine

It's a good idea to find out more about how Time Machine ticks so that you can fine-tune it to your exact requirements. You might, for instance, want to change the interval between backups, or perhaps exclude certain folders from being backed up in the first place.

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Resetting Your Styles with CSS Reset

This is the first part of a series of articles that will discuss a particular CSS best practice or tip. I’ll be covering a mixture of topics that deals with CSS best practices, performance optimization, and tips and tricks to improve your workflow.

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[Geek Review] Linux Mint: A better Ubuntu

Linux Mint, while relatively new, has gained a lot of fans from the linux community, and is now the third most popular on DistroWatch, slowly crunching on openSUSE lead. It brings something a lot of distro have tried: simplicity, functionality, and of course looks. Let’s see what makes Linux Mint fresh and if it’s worth switching from Ubuntu.

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TimeVault simplifies data backup for Ubuntu users.

TimeVault makes saving and recovering data easy through an automatic process. You define directories to include or exclude from the process, and TimeVault takes care of the rest by creating snapshots of your data.

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1000+ FREE High Resolution GIMP Brushes

Last week we published our first GIMP post “30+ Exceptional GIMP Tutorials and Resources” and saw a great appreciation from our readers. So this week, i would like to share with you 1000+ high-Resolution GIMP brushes that will be perfect for any project you may happen to be working on. Also you will find some useful tutorial to teach you how to cr

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Mac Application Launchers

Most Mac users feel that Application launcher is the most essential Application for them to install. Application launcher can save our valuable Dock spaces and assist us in boosting our productivity.

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15 Linux Music Players - Download your Favorite

There are a lot of great music players out there for Windows and Mac operating systems but so does Linux. Some of these players support almost anything, some don’t. Some are heavy on the system, some aren’t. I’ve compiled a list of most used Linux based music/media/audio players.

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7 Wii tricks Nintendo doesn't tell you

The more complex consoles become, the more weirdy-beardy secret functions are squirreled away inside of them, and Nintendo's latest is no exception.

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Make Your Own iPhone/Android Apps With New App Generator

Today AppLoop launched a mobile application generator which lets you turn any RSS feed into a mobile application for either iPhone (available today) or Android (coming soon).

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28 Free File Storage Hosting Websites

If you’re looking for a free File hosting service and can’t decide, here is a list of 28 “working” Free file storage hosting websites. Each of these websites has it’s con’s and pro’s. Some are offering more file size limits, some aren’t. It’s for you to decide which one you want to go for.

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20 Websites to Help You Master User Interface Design

As web technologies progress, websites and web applications are becoming more responsive, providing us with more ways and techniques to interact with the users. Form, more than ever, has been superseded by function.

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15 Tips For a Better Linux Experience

The beauty of Linux is in users ability to do large amount of customization to have a unique user expereince.

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Big Things Come In TinyMe

I take a sort of sick joy in using a computer as long as possible, so I've become interested in lightweight Linux distributions like TinyMe 2008.0 that help prolong the life of a computer. TinyMe is based on PCLinuxOS, but at about 200MB, it's considerably smaller than that 700MB distribution. The software included, such as the Openbox window man

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20 Mac apps you can't live without

The selection of great free or inexpensive Mac programs on offer has never been better. You can now get amazing software designed by small or independent developers to cover practically anything you could ever want to do on your Mac.

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Firefox Mobile Alpha Screenshot

The alpha build of Mobile Firefox (codenamed Fennec) has been available for testing by brave Nokia N810 users for some time now, but Mozilla developer Brad Lassey just got it up and running on a Windows Mobile device, and shares a couple of screenshots.

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13 Great Free Backup Programs for Windows, Mac, and Linux

Making sure you've got a reliable backup solution is a must for any user - and more so for an administrator. Why? Well, mostly because your users probably aren't very good at remembering to back up their own files. And so it falls to you to provide the right software for the job!

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Six Essential Apple iPhone Security Tips

Security is a tech manager's top concern when it comes to mobile devices--here's how to use them to your advantage with minimal risk.

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6 Useful Utilities For Windows Mobile

These free programs will pimp up the abilities of your Windows Mobile.

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5 Apps For Painless Windows Reformats

Thanks to customers who can't avoid spyware and trojans to save their lives, I've gotten pretty quick at backing up, reformatting, and finishing off Windows installs. I've got five core tools that I use to get the job done, and here they are.

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How-To: Install Ubuntu Linux With No Optical Drive

Sick of burning CDs of Linux distributions every time you want to try out a new one? Don’t worry, you can reuse your USB stick as many times as you like and burn bootable ISOs to it. Is there an easy way to do this? Yes.

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How-To: Enable All Chrome's Best Features in Firefox

From incognito browsing and the streamlined download manager to URL highlighting and improved search, let's take a look at how you can bring some of Google Chrome's best features to Firefox.

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Things To Know Before Using Linux

Coming from Windows ? Need help regarding Linux .. Then this thread is for you ! Here I will try to clear your confusion/misconception regarding basic terms like Partitioning , Installing Applications, The Desktop, The OS and Kernel , Gnome/KDE and the day to day applications..

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How To: Rotate Desktop Backgrounds in Ubuntu

I get bored with my desktop wallpaper pretty easily, especially in Ubuntu Linux, where it's nearly the only thing on my desktop. Until recently, that meant scouring theming sites for great artwork, opening the Appearance tab and re-scaling and choosing background colors for each picture, and just general unproductive knob-twiddling.

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40+ CSS/JS Styling and Functionality Techniques

Designing effective web forms isn’t easy, as we need to figure out more practical styling and functionality techniques to provide a great user experience. And this list has got it all to get you going on the right path

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5 Cool Things You Missed in GTA IV

Grand Theft Auto IV is too big, too deep, too overwhelming. You could spend dozens of hours in Liberty City and still overlook hundreds of hidden details. You could finish the storyline completely and still pass by some of the game's very best moments. We're talking about entire characters, whole missions, secret sex scenes and phonebooks.

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Windows apps on Linux the CrossOver way

Who says you have to give up your must-have Windows applications when you migrate to Linux? If you can't leave some crucial Windows program behind, you can run it using CodeWeavers' latest version of CrossOver Linux.

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Get Started: Firebug, Firefox's 'Killer App' For Web Develop

Ask web developers to name their desert island Firefox extensions (ignoring for now the improbability of having a laptop while stranded), and they're bound to put Firebug at or near the top of their lists

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Setting up your Wii for Homebrew

The Twilight Hack works by employing a lengthy character name for the horse in the game ('Epona') in order to facilitate a stack smash. This gets triggered when talking to the man next to you when you start the savegame as he loads the name to use it in his dialog or upon attempting to enter the next zone, before the man talks to you and reminds yo

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How to: Save Time While Building a Website [10 Tips]

As a freelance web developer, time is money.

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How to: Customize your GNU/Linux desktop in 7 easy steps

I absolutely love Linux, but in terms of design I have saw better than the default theme of most of the available distributions. Here’s a complete how-to for giving your Linux desktop the look you want and customize everything, from themes to fonts.

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How to Install KDE 4.1 on Ubuntu 8.04

So, if you don't want to download an openSUSE-based KDE 4.1 Live CD or to wait until a stable distribution is released with KDE 4.1.0 as the default desktop, we will teach you how to install it on your existing Ubuntu 8.04 or 8.04.1 LTS desktop.

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Turn Your Ubuntu Hardy to Mac OSX Leopard

You can’t really turn a Linux system to a Mac, but you definitely can make your Ubuntu Hardy looks like a Mac OSX Leopard.

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3 Ways to Try Out Linux - For a Windows User

Ways to try out Linux without risking anything.

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Features 'Removed' from Vista That Were in Windows XP

While Windows Vista contains many new features, a number of capabilities and certain programs that were a part of Windows XP are no longer present or changed, resulting in the removal of certain functionality. The following is a list of features which were present in Windows XP but which have been removed in Windows Vista.

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Get Your Computer Online Using Your iPhone's Data Connection

When tapping out an email or pinching and swiping on the iPhone's web browser just doesn't get the job done, and you want to use the full keyboard and screen on your laptop in a Wi-Fi-less place, the best way to put your newly jailbroken iPhone 2.0 to good use is to turn it into a cellphone modem for your laptop.

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wattOS: Light weight, Ubuntu-based Linux distro

WattOS is a new Linux distribution that's based on Ubuntu, but designed for low-power machines. It has low system requirements, which means you can run it on older hardware.

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Auto-NDISwrapper is out! No more hunting down for drivers

The first version of Auto-NDISwrapper helps you out to setting up your wireless card in Linux in the case that there is no native or free driver available for it. Although not a pretty solution NDISwrapper has been helping out the poor people who's wireless cards aren't supported in Linux. Now things are a little bit easier. Get it while it's hot!

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How To Install OSX Leopard on an MSI Wind UMPC [w/VID]

Mac owners often look on with envy at the Ultra-Mobile PCs (UMPCs) in the Windows world. These are truly tiny laptops, often with 10" or smaller displays and weights that make a MacBook Air seem downright obese by comparison. MoDaCo network founder and Microsoft MVP Paul O'Brien decided to get his OS of choice, Mac OS X 10.5.4 onto a MSI wind.

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CSS-Styled Lists: 20+ Demos, Tutorials and Best Practices

Different methods to format nice CSS-Styled Lists. In this article, we’ll have a look at how such lists can create a whole new look, feel, and effect of a site.

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One live DVD, one ton of Linux games

LinuX-Gamers Live is a live DVD from Germany based on Arch Linux that includes nothing but games. Version 0.9.3 was released in June and provides an excellent means of sampling Linux games or setting up a home arcade, although a few of the games wouldn't run on my machine.

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GUIDE: Using Linux to Beat Comcast's BitTorrent Throttling

For those savvy enough to have switched over to Linux, this step-by-step guide will prove once again that Linux really does offer users almost complete control over their OS.

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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: Virtual Hosting With Proftpd, MySQL & Quota

This tutorial is based on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. You should already have set up a basic Ubuntu 8.04 server system, as described in the first eight chapters of this tutorial: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu8.04-lts This howto is meant as a practical guide; it does not cover the theoretical backgrounds.

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10 Best Hacking and Security Software Tools for Linux

Linux is a hacker’s dream computer operating system. It supports tons of tools and utilities for cracking passwords, scanning network vulnerabilities, and detecting possible intrusions. I have here a collection of 10 of the best hacking and security software tools for Linux.

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How To Get Started Programming With Django

Django is a web framework designed to help you build complex web applications simply and quickly. It's written in the Python programming language. Django can do some very complex things with less code and a simpler execution than you'd expect. This tutorial breaks down how to start working with Django.

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10 IRC Client for Linux

Collection of IRC clients for Linux

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What's Slowing Down Your System, and How to Solve With Linux

Computer users expect their systems to work well at all times, but unfortunately this isn’t always the case. If your system becomes slow, there certainly is something you can do about it. This article will help you understand what’s happening on the system, whether it’s the computer in front of you or a system you’re accessing remotely.

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Rogues Do It From Behind [WoW]

A well-produced music video about the Rogue class in World of Warcraft.

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Former Microsoft mgr offers fix for XP SP3 'endless reboot '

A former Microsoft security manager has published a tool designed to detect and fix PCs that may be susceptible to "endless reboots" if updated to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3).

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'The Beatles' Music Video in World of Warcraft

A well produced World of Warcraft music video featuring The Beatles song "I'm Only Sleeping".

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4 Great Applications for the Graphic Designer on a Budget

So you’re an aspiring graphic designer but you don’t have the resources, or willingness, to spend hundreds of dollars on your needed software. Well, below is a list of five great alternatives to commercial software for graphic design.

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How-to: Make a PS3 Laptop of your very own (part 1)

You may not have the disposable income to take home our one of a kind PS3 Laptop (which is still up for charity auction!), but that doesn't mean you don't have the time or wherewithal to build one of your own.

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10 Tips for After You Install or Upgrade Ubuntu

10 great, simple, and easy to follow tips with instructions for new and old Ubuntu users!

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So neighbors steal your wi-fi, kill the link or... have fun!

So you find out that everyone in on your block is using your network without your permission. Do you lock it down or...? Or maybe you want to have a little fun. A little creativity with squid and you could turn your everything they browse upside down (literally)

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Introduction to Linux

Easy to read, accurate in plain language. Linux is a free open-source alternative to Windows and Macintosh.

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How to get a Canon all-in-one printer working with Ubuntu

These instructions are for Canon all-in-one printers (printer, scanner, and copier in one unit). These instructions are for the Canon PIXMA MP160, but these instructions can be adapted for other all-in-one printers in the Canon PIXMA series of all-in-one printers.

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The web-cam-stop-motion-thing - Animate Yourself

Use your webcam and this site to create a live animated gif of yourself in 10 frames and share it with the world. Don't have a webcam? Check out what others have already made. Link to your creations and your favorites in the comments section.

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Figure out why an application hangs

Most of these mystery freezes are uncommon and specific to a particular PC configuration, such as the driver for a certain model printer conflicting with a recent Windows security update, causing some functions in Windows Explorer to stop working (an instance described in a recent Microsoft knowledgebase article).

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Biggest Unix Cheat Sheet

A collection of Unix/Linux/BSD commands and tasks which are useful for IT work or for advanced users.

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Slysoft AnyDVD (HD) 6.4.0.0 cracks BD+ for real

They finally did it, discs are fully playable after ripping! Down with DRM!

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BookLamp.org is Pandora.com for Books

CanGoogleHearMe.com recently introduced BookLamp.org. It's a system that matches users to books based on a full-text analysis of the novel, like how Pandora matches music. It measures elements like action, dialog, and description, graphs them for you scene-by-scene, and uses that to find other books that have similar writing style.

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Play Windows games on Linux with PlayOnLinux

If you are an avid gamer, you probably dual-boot your favorite Linux distribution with Windows, because that's where you find most new cutting-edge games. But what if you could run your Windows games on Linux? PlayOnLinux is an open source Python-scripted front end that helps you install and play tons of Windows-only games.

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10 Killer Firefox Extensions You Probably Don’t Know About

This isn't the usual list of extensions that everyone is used to using, but 10 add-ons that many may not know about, but can be very useful for everyday web browsing.

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10 Essential Mac Apps to Install After a Reformat

I format my Mac once a year, either because it’s clunked up with old .prefs files or because I just feel like performing a zero-out on my hard disk. One good thing about owning a Mac is never having to worry about installing drivers after reformatting. So that’s one problem avoided....

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Get Back to Your Mac Without Paying for It

Right now I'm working from my laptop in Austin, and I've got the same full access to my home PC in Los Angeles as Back to My Mac offers, but I didn't spend a dime on .Mac to get it. That's because all of the tools you need to roll your own Back to My Mac are already built into Leopard for free out of the box-you just need to know how to access them

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How Super Mario Bros Looks To Mario

Depressing.

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Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition 2008 // 118 PICS SCANNED

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Top 10 Online Video Conversion Services

Did you know you don't have to be "on Youtube" to watch a Youtube movie? Instead, you can download the video stream to your computer, keep it there as a "normal" video file and watch it whenever you like. Nothing is illegal or fishy about it, it is simply another way of consuming the data.

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Anonymous makes it to NPR

NPR Morning Edition find out about Anonymous and the worldwide action day. Interview an Anonymous member/coordinator in California? Seriously.

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Setting Up A Simple, Ubuntu-Based Home File Server

This tutorial explains how to turn an old PC with additional hard disks into a simple home file server. The file server is intended for home use. The home file server is accessible by Windows and Linux computers in the home network.

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Free Drum Machine on PC - Works with Rock Band Drum Set!!

Just found this application that allows you to play your rock band drum set freestyle. This application lets you reassign each pad to whatever you want (including .wav files of your own), save pad settings, and record/playback your playing. Pretty great considering it's FREE

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PlayOnLinux

PlayOnLinux (POL) is a python-based frontend (with bash install scripts) to install windows programs in Wine. Originally, the program's purpose was to let new linux users install their favorite windows games with ease. the program has evolved to include office-based windows programs (such as MSOffice 2003), and DOS based programs with DosBox.

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How to fix your Windows MBR with an Ubuntu liveCD

Something happen to a windows Master Boot Record (MBR) that you’re responsible for? Want a very quick, very easy way to restore it with nothing but your craft, native intelligence and a liveCD?

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Hot tips to get the best of Linux in 2008

Sometimes you can have a frozen window, and there are two fast ways to solve this problem without turning off your computer or restarting it. The first is the traditional key combination of Ctrl Alt Backspace.

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