Ubisoft had made the announcement that hence forth their games would come with a crippling DRM that would kick you off your game and erase your progress if you net link dropped for even a second. Naturally this announcement was seen as an act of war. This is an infringement on the rights of game [...]

Truly one of the ultimate geek toys. You can find the build specs here. Be sure not to accidentally start any fires or burn out your eyes or someone else’s for that matter. Unless, of course, they disrespect the Federation.

Found that perfect vid on YouTube? Wished there was an easy way to keep it? Well, there is. Simply replace the “Y” in the URL of the YouTube vid you want to keep, with a “3″, and BLAM! A screen will come up giving you a download choice to download in a MP4 or FLV [...]

Someone has hacked Mahmoud  Ahmadinejad’s web servers. Up untill about 15 hours ago, if you went to his site you’d find this. Dear God, In 2009 you took my favorite singer – Michael Jackson, my favorite actress – Farrah Fawcett, my favorite actor – Patrick Swayze, my favorite voice – Neda. Please, please, don’t forget [...]

A Win 7 option that has seen very little chatter is starting to make the rounds. God Mode is Control Panel on Steroids. Every setting, every option, is in one sheet. It has been reported that this will work in Vista 32bit as well, but will crash the 64bit. To achieve God status in the [...]

Just in case you missed it this weekend…here’s a video of someone hooking up their Guitar hero game to their Xmas lights. This is far and above more awesome than someone sequencing their Xmas lights to a music output.  Good choice of the Eric Johnson tune too! Look like they can only do an easy [...]

Windows 7 was supposed to have a feature built into it that allowed a user to take one WiFi network and share it much like a wireless router. The feature was killed before the release of Windows 7 (legal issues?) but  a company called Nomadio has pulled that feature back from the grave with an [...]

Spam is definitely hear to stay. Most times it’s simply annoying. Right now; however, a mass mailing Conficker.B Infection Alerts (install.zip) sent out by a mock security team from Microsoft has been going around. When you open this you are injected with the Antivirus Pro 2010 scareware. Most of the emails look like this: “Dear [...]

Today is Patch Tuesday. This is the day when Microsoft updates and patches all the errors and vulnerabilities that have been found in the recent past. This week the geeks at Microsoft address 34 security problems within 13 updates. Eight of these will be labeled critical. Of those, two very serious issues are being addressed.  [...]

The BBC has reported that Windows Hotmail has been hacked and an upwards of tens of thousands of accounts have fallen victim to a phishing scam. For those of you who don’t know what phishing is, it is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card [...]