Sometimes I think that Apple is trying to compete with Microsoft on code bloat. The advantage of OSX is that we can remove the bloat without breaking the system. What if I told you that you could recover up to 3 gigs of space in under 3 minutes. You would say heck yes Mike. Tell [...]

Install OSX and the Mythtv frontend on a clean system.
For Christmas this year I got an awesome gift of a Mac Mini core solo to use as a Mythtv frontend on my bedroom entertainment center. My brother had recently bought two of them and said they worked great. He configured the Mac [...]

Do you own an Xbox 360? Have you ever seen the RED RING OF DEATH? (My brother has). Team Xecuter supposedly has a do it yourself kit to fix the red ring of death. I couldn’t find any details on how the kit actually works but they are boasting that the kit worked [...]

Now since BestBuy and Netflix have announced that they will support Blu-ray as the High Def DVD format, Walmart has jumped on the bandwagon and announced they will no longer stock HD-DVD players in its stores. “Its a one two punch too the head, Blu-ray is beating the thin metallic coating off of HD-DVD. [...]

PSP has a new addition that just might make you call your crazy grandma in Greece more often to see how many new degrees of sanity she has invented. For those of you that have been stuck in a time warp for the past 5 years, (was the trip down the rabbit hole really [...]

Something good just got better (I hope). Firefox is in their final stages of their version 3 web browser and needs beta testers (geeks that like to help fix really cool broken things.) Get beta here I hope their new browser will not only show me the web in all it’s [...]

Best buy announced it has chosen to go the way of Blu-Ray. Best Buy will now recommend to its consumers the Blu-Ray format opposed to the HD-DVD products. The best buy chain of stores will continue to carry both formats but believe that Sonys format will emerge the victor in the war. [...]

Lets start this post out with a big SIGH. OK, now that’s out of the way, Microsoft has now bought Danger Inc. who manufactures the wildly popular Sidekick mobile phone sold by T-mobile. I have to say that a few years ago I bought a sidekick and thought it was a really cool [...]

Lets face it. Some of us are just more visual then others. For example, no matter how many times I write long articles explaining how to do something for my mother she just can’t seem to understand it. Wouldn’t it just be easier to show her? Enter freesceencast.com. Freescreencast.com allows you to quickly and easily [...]

Sun has snapped up another open source company. In this case it is innotek. Innotek, not to be confused with the company of the same name in office space, is behind Virtual Box. Virtual Box is the open source competitor to VMware and my second favorite VM suite. Here’s hoping they get to keep their [...]