Monday, October 31, 2005

Bored of XP Style, then try this.

Want a new fesh look for windows but don't want to play around with beta builds of vista then give this a try. It's Awesome!

"Vista Inspirat Shell Pack is a complete custom shell pack for all Windows XP.
It consists of modified icons and a new themed appearance for Windows XP."

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Do your own telephone wiring

Site with comprehensive guides on doing your own residential telephone wiring. Very useful info.

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LAN Hack: Assign real-world ips to each machine.

This guide shows how you can assign a unique real-world ip to every machine on your LAN. Useful for eavesdropping and running servers.

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Friday, October 28, 2005

Hack an 8X PCI-E to 16x

Dell crippled the low cost SC server series in a few different ways. Dell doesn't want you picking up an SC for $199 and using it as a desktop. This person successfully converted an 8x slot to a 16x slot.

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Thursday, October 27, 2005

Home Video Arcade Machine

Target Stores will start selling full size video Arcade machines for less than $500. The one machine plays 12 of the original arcade versions of Defender, Defender II, Robotron, Joust, Bubbles, Splat, Sinistar, Rampage, Rootbeer Tapper, Wizard of Wor, Timber, and Satan's Hollow.

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Create mayhem at your local cybercafe

Learn why wireless networking is not that secure after all, render images or messages on others browsers at your local cybercafe and watch their reaction with this great tutorial.

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Cool Banner Maker For You Techies

A nifty little image generator that creates some pretty cool looking banners, I spent an hour messing with all the options :-p

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Saturday, October 22, 2005

Compilation of free portable USB apps

Huge collection of free apps that run from a flash USB drive. The difference between this collection and others that you have seen is that there is a torrent to download all of them.

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Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Crazy Illusion

This site offers an interesting illusion that will prove that you may not see what you think you're seeing.

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Sunday, October 16, 2005

Reg edits with Windows XP

Registry Edits for Windows XP

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Saturday, October 15, 2005

How to set up a home FTP server

Personal FTP server on Windows for password-protected read/write access to your home hard drive. This is pretty basic stuff, mostly for those new to setting this stuff up.

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Thursday, October 13, 2005

(Guide) Improve XPs Boot and Start Up Time

99 Tricks to make XP Boot and complete start up faster. A really great guide.

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Thursday, October 06, 2005

Disposable e-mail address roundup

Here's a pretty nice roundup of some of the services available to create throwaway e-mail addresses to keep your inbox free from spam.

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Monday, October 03, 2005

Run windows programs... Without using Windows!

The ReactOS® project is dedicated to making Free Software available to everyone by providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows® XP compatible operating system.

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Sunday, October 02, 2005

Huge list of Free Multiplayer Online Games!

title says all, some of these are linux-ported.check your portage/apt/yum brahbrah! :)

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Saturday, October 01, 2005

Huge List of Windows XP Tips

Tips on everything from networking to performance to the taskbar. A huge list of XP tips.

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