Iomega is releasing a new ScreenPlay HD multimedia drive featuring 500 GB of storage and a HDMI port. Now this wouldn’t normally get my attention but, I felt it was worth it due to the format support. Check out this list: WAV, WMA, MPEG-1/2/4, MP3, OGG, AC3, AVI, DivX, XviD and JPEG. Did I [...]

From time to time I am asked to break a password on an Adobe PDF file. This mostly comes up when the user who created the pdf can’t remember what their own password is. As annoying as that is, actually recovering the password is simple using pdfcrack.
PDFCrack is a GNU/Linux application (or any other [...]

Asterisk, my favorite VOIP PBX for Linux, and an interview with it’s creator, Mark Spencer, has made forbes.com. I’ll admit I’m posting this for selfish reasons. I have personally installed serveral Asterisk systems for small businesses around town and it is always hard to convince them that the system is for real and in [...]

From time to time I am asked which operating system is the best in my opinion. This is a tough question to answer as there is no definitive answer. All your choices have their technical merits but, you really shouldn’t select an operating system based solely on its technical merits. You should instead select one [...]

If you arrived here through a google search to find out how to record an HDTV channel from component inputs all I can say is the wait for a device capable of doing this is nearly over. Hauppauge’s much-anticipated HD-PVR looks close to being released.
Hauppauge debuted their HD PVR, which can take a HD signal [...]

There is a whole mess of news related to my favorite internet tablet that has come out over the past few days.
Nokia N810 with WiMax
First off, there was the debut of the WiMax enabled N810 at CTIA 2008. Other then the addition of the WiMax radio, only the color of the standard N810 has changed. [...]

For awhile now I have been searching around for a cheap and low power replacement for an old P4 3.0 GHz server that I use as a dedicated Linux/NAS. During the middle of last year I picked up a used Mac Mini off of eBay, loaded Ubuntu on it, and have been using that as [...]

LaptopMag is reporting that the Asus EeePC is going to be available in April at Bestbuy. It should run around $399. The system that will run the Windows XP OS will be the standard Eee PC 4G. Check out the specifications list after the jump.

Oh boy, oh boy. It’s now less then a month to the release of GTA IV and I’m already getting an itchy trigger finger. Life has been kind of stressful for me lately and I feel the need to take it out on the innocent masses. I guess I’ll just have to wait. In [...]

If you do need free and legal pictures for your blog did you ever consider Flickr.com? I never did until someone pointed out that you can search for images by license.
Go to advanced search, choose Commercial license and search away. The selection is amazing, but what will really impress you is the quality.
Happy hunting.