The Macbook air went down quick in only 2 minutes on the first day of the competition. Windows Vista SP1 went down on the last day after 2 days of intense work. The only OS left standing (drum role please) LINUX. Reportedly, participants reportedly were not prepared to deal with the [...]

Microsoft signed a deal with a company headed by Peter Safran to produce original shows that will be distributed on the Xbox 360 network. This is the first step towards bringing IPTV to life on the 360 network. GREAT another bunch of garbage to clutter the servers that no one will ever watch. [...]

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 [...]

I’m sure this is being covered to death but, if you haven’t heard, Wordpress 2.5 is out. Some of the improvements include:

multi-file uploading
one-click plugin upgrades
built-in galleries
customizable dashboard
salted passwords and cookie encryption
media library
a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code
concurrent post editing protection
full-screen writing
search that covers posts and pages

The most significant changes are to [...]

I figured it was time to take a break from the tutorials for a moment and have some fun. Well, that’s not completely true. NPR is having one of their two week fund drives and I can’t personally stand to sit through that on the way to work. It would be different, if once you [...]

Netflix, the popular movie via mail rental company, is doing research on whether or not to deliver streaming content to the Xbox360. A Netflix spokesman said they are interested in getting their content to consumers anyway they can. There currently is no word of any partnership between Microcash and Netflix. Netflix [...]

Harmoix Rockband is coming to the Wii on June 22nd. The bundle pack will include a microphone, drum kit and guitar. Standalone instruments will be available in case you want to add a bass guitar to your setup. On the down side, the game, which has 63 songs included and 5 bonus [...]

This story comes to you from Philadelphia where Jesse McPherson spends his days as a front-end web developer, but in reality he claims to be a Rock Star. On March 12th, Jesse’s house was burglarized and his xbox 360, an old powerbook (which they grabbed the wrong charger for) and TV that was ripped [...]

It’s rare that you hear those two words together… free and legal, but the South Park guys are streaming every episode (except for 1) of South Park on their site. The streams do have commercials (sigh), but they are short and the latter episodes are without censorship. That’s right… you get to hear [...]

If you haven’t been following the fall out from the release of Vista SP1 you might want to catch up before Windows automatic update forces it on you in April. It seems that some users have reported problems on the Vista team blog.
SP1 was released as a manual download on the Windows Update site early [...]