Awesome Honda Asimo TV spot

and inspirational too.

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Transform your C64 into a modern synth

Are you tired of virtual synthesizers, samplers and wavetable machines? Are you seeking for the unique sound of the vintage homecomputer days. Did you know that the sound device from one of the most popular computers of the 80's - the C64 - can produce awesome sounds like a modern synth?

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Cute Dog Remote Controller

I joined my project with Teddy bear project. It will be great gift for my girlfirend at Cristmas! That idea grew up in to the cute doggy controlling her pc remotely now.

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Cute Dog Remote Controller

I joined my project with Teddy bear project. It will be great gift for my girlfirend at Cristmas! That idea grew up in to the cute doggy controling her pc remotely now.

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Microsoft's Laptop Giveaway Rubs Some the Wrong Way

Microsoft's latest attempt to curry public favor began on its community-site The Hive. Microsoft is doing it this time by giving bloggers free, expensive laptops.

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Viagra a major threat: 67-year-old Spaniard gives birth to twins

A 67-year-old Spanish woman became the world's oldest mother after she gave birth to twins in the northern city of Barcelona on Saturday, a hospital official said.

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PIC based USB Project Board

This design uses the Microchip PIC 18F2450 or 18F2550 USB enabled microcontroller. The total parts cost is around $15 including the microcontroller for a single board.

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Give your new Wii a Retro look

That's right you were one of the lucky ones. Under your tree you found a Wii, but now you are feeling a little bit guilty leaving it sit next to your retro game consoles.

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Nintendo Wii Spanking PS3 This Holiday Season

Some people are tiring of the stories about Wii doing much better than PS3 this holiday season but rest assured that we are not. Consensus, thy name is Nintendo's console.

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Systems and Methods for Mobile Robot Positioning FREE ebook

All you need to know about giving your robot total independence.

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Create Art: Make Your Own Photo Background

If the background of your picture is getting more attention than the subjects in the foreground, try Helen Bradley's Photoshop trick for making the background more attractive and a lot less distracting.

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Foxtrot: Disco is not dead

Bill Amend and his shenanigans.

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Sony's PS3: High-Scorer No More

After more than a decade at the top of the video game heap, during which it sold more than 200 million consoles, Sony (SNE - commentary - Cramer's Take - Rating) is set to be knocked off its firm position as King of the Hill because of its flawed PlayStation 3 strategy.

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Music Video For Duck Hunt!!!!!!!!

Crazy as it may sound....

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Best Buy Won't Allow Reward For Man

Imagine signing up for a rewards program but being denied because it won't accept your last name. It happened to one man who feels he's being unfairly singled out.

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Digg remains independent ... for now

Digg Inc. of San Francisco has been subject of many rumors as the next social networking site to be purchased by one of the bigger Internet companies. Well, at least for now, Digg will remain independent as it raised $8.5 million in new financing from Greylock Partners and the Omidyar Networ

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JkDefrag v3.4: FOSS disk defragment

Free (released under the GNU General Public License) disk defragment and optimize utility for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/X64. Completely automatic and very easy to use, fast, low overhead, with two optimization strategies, and can handle floppies and USB disks/sticks.

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Underwater Dream Machine

See how deep-sea research vessels have evolved over the decades.

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'Dragon Quest Swords' (Wii) - 20 New Screens

Square Enix announced the latest title in the Dragon Quest universe, and the first to make the jump to next-generation consoles, Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors will be released for the Nintendo Wii.

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For sale on eBay: dream holiday with a stranger

Wanted: Young single woman in need of cut price romantic Caribbean holiday.

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"Joe Blow" keeps track of Iraq war dead

When Michael White, a self-described "Joe Blow off the block," set up a Web site to track U.S. casualties in Iraq he never imagined it would become a leading resource on the subject.

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DIY Speech Recognition Security System

The function of this speech recognition security system is to have a system that will only unlock upon recognizing a voice password spoken by the administrator or password holder.

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Do the Hustle!!!... DIY LED Disco Ball

Here is my version of the LED Disco Ball. Its Completely portable can either be hung or screwed to the roof. It runs on 3AA batteries and has a group of gears from a CD player laser.

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Planet-hunter searches for second Earth

The hunt for a second Earth began in earnest yesterday with the launch of a space probe that will peer beyond the solar system to distant planets warmed by the faintest of stars.

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Charlie Chaplin movies galore

Enjoy the master at his peak.

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Innovation, design freshen "Made in Taiwan" tech label

Taiwan's computer makers are morphing from simple contract manufacturers into designers and innovators as they fight for survival in a competitive sector.

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Check-mate for Indian chess player after phone ploy

An Indian chess player has been banned for 10 years for cheating after he was caught using his mobile phone's wireless device to win games, chess officials said on Wednesday.

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How to Build a Panoramic Tripod Head

Panoramic tripods can cost hundreds of dollars, but making your own isn't that hard. Even better, it's dirt cheap.

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Simplicity, depth key to Wii fun

Wii had that blockbuster -- "The Legend of Zelda."

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Cooking With Your Wii

What else can you do with your Wii? You can cook with it! A video from gaming site Jeux France.

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Nintendo's awesome customer service: Replacement Wii straps arrive

We ordered our straps on the 15th, the day the replacement program was announced -- meaning they came a good 6 days later than expected.

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Sputnik badges own defcon's

The transmitting device is a small 36x36mm pcb, powered by a coin cell. A Nordic RF Chip and a PIC microcontroller are used to control the 2.4GHz RF communication and a red LED indicates the transmitting periods. The device also provides a touch sensor in the upper right corner for further interaction possibilities.

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Easy to make r/c Speed controller

All based on the PIC16F84-04/SO

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Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Nintendo Wii Details

If you think you knew what it felt like to be the bounty hunter behind the visor, think again. Take aim at evil with Nintendo’s revolutionary controller.

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Super Mario Galaxy Nintendo Wii Details and Screenshots

The ultimate Nintendo hero is taking the ultimate step … out into space. Join Mario as he ushers in a new era of video games, defying gravity across all the planets in the galaxy.

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Poor guy's Ring Flash Pen

Get that ring of light trick for your photos.

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Reviews of new PS3 and Wii browsers

The game console internet browser face-off.

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Cubed³ Exclusive Interview | Marvel Ultimate Alliance for the Wii

Marvel Ultimate Alliance recently launched on the new Nintendo system, Wii, boasting strong use of the unique control system that has been implemented into the console. Cubed
³ was lucky enough to catch up with Activision's development team, Vicarious Visions to have a quick chat about how this version differs from others...

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Gamer finds a few flaws with PS3

I would like to say that the prices of gaming systems that are on the market are ridiculous. Playstation 3, for instance, is $600, and young people like me can't afford to buy expensive items like this....

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Wii Has More Games And Shipments Before March 2007

As for the games, there
’s plenty to choose from for now, and just under 50 that’ll be available by the early-mid first quarter of 2007. It’s funny because the Wii has received awful reviews for many of its games and yet they’re still showing-up Sony as if there's no tomorrow.

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Nintendo Wii bowls perfect game

A year ago, who would have thought that the best video game of the year would be an electronic version of bowling?

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DIY - Replace Broken Laptop LCD

Replacing a broken laptop screen is more often than not, a very easy project. If you have a broken screen, don't jump on ebay and sell it for considerably less than it's worth. Instead, go to ebay and try to find the replacement LCD, the entire cover for your computer, or even better, your computer with a blown motherboard but intact screen!

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DIY Digg Shirt

This is an Instructable for making your own Digg shirt with those snazzy printout things. A great present for any Digg lover! (In my case, my brother)

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Japan's Sega Sammy, Sanrio agree to content alliance

Sega Sammy Holdings Inc and toymaker Sanrio Co Ltd have agreed to form a strategic alliance to strengthen their content business, Sega Sammy said.

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To Wii or Not to Wii, That Is the Question

Holiday season is here, but the desired self-bought present for many gamers, a next-generation gaming console, isn't easy to find. Both Nintendo and Sony are short of Wiis and PS3s respectively and some analysts claim the shortage will go well into 2007, into spring 2007 that is.

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Custom-Built LEGO “Change Counter”

Created by “ericwaak“, this LEGO Mindstorms NXT robot scans loose change and then displays the total on its screen. Video included.

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Easy to make computer controlled Etch a Sketch

If you have an Etch a Sketch in the closet collecting dust, the Etch CNC may be an interesting project that could put it back into use. “I am using a retrofit machine that fit within my budget. It’s a 2-axis machine with approximately 170×130mm travel. The circuit board is my own design, using a ULN2803 per [...]

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How to deal with the Everest of emails after the holidays

If you've reached the point of exhaustion trying to keep up with answering mountains of email, you're ready to learn about autoresponders.

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Grinch Ruins PS3 Charity Auction

The auction is closed! Unfortunately, the scumbag who won the auction backed out in just about the most illegible way possible.

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Ethiopian jets bomb Somalia areas

Ethiopian forces, committed to defending an interim Somali government holed up in the town of Baidoa, launched airstrikes on Sunday against Islamist fighters across the country, witnesses said.

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Where are the 4 million Ps3 Sony?

Kaz Hirai either misspoke or was misunderstood .....What he meant to say was that Sony is still on schedule to have 2 million unites shipped by the November launch and an additional 2 million by the end of the year. We are 8 days away of the new year and no Ps3s in sight...; Sony HAD YOU AGAIN...

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IR remote stereo volume control!

My home stereo uses a pair of powered studio monitors, so I don't have an integrated amplifier/tuner. Instead, I have an old NAD Model 1000 stereo preamp, which is really just a fancy switchbox with a phono preamp (all discrete!), tone and volume controls, and a headphone jack.

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DIY Customizable Fleece Hats

Now you can combine all of these desires into a simple, yet useful, item of clothing that's infintely customizable and tailorable to your (or a recipient's) tastes.

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6 year old girl vs. 26 year old man on Nintendo Wii boxing

Talking about kids abusing grown up guys.

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Merry X-mas Tech stuff for the slacker fans!!!

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, Merry Festivus and Happy Holidays people.

Thanks for your support, hope you have made the most of what you can find on this pages.

Lots of wealth and heath for you all.

Your neighborhood friendly,

Bonlebon.

Picture "courtesy" of RCTV.NET, (because is better to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission).

The News and Tribune - It's the Wii Generation

The Wii (pronounced “We”) has taken the world by storm since its release on store shelves Nov. 19, and becoming the country’s hottest Christmas gift. If you can find one, that is.

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Wii wins Christmas battle at holiday video-game console wars

"It is an inexpensive console, just 250 US dollars and it has a controller that looks like a standard television remote," notes Kevin Pereira, co-host of U.S. video-game channel G4's 'Attack of the Show.'

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What Wii don't want for Christmas

Following every new console launch and end of year shopping frenzy, eBay tends to become the place to hunt when all other avenues have been exhausted. With Wii, it has been no different, and the dirty case of selling an empty Wii box has at long last made it's appearance, little over a day from Christmas.

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Star Wars kid move along, Ps3 kid is here....

This is the new face of PS3 fandom. How can we possibly lose? Part 1 above. Part 2 below. Happy Holidays. Ho Ho Ho.

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How can I beat my sex addiction?

A recent article on Hillary Clinton's political engine-revving mentioned that her husband, Bill, has received "counseling for a sex addiction." How do you cure a nymphomaniac?

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Chinese too smart to take EBay's BS

EBay Inc. announced Wednesday it is turning over control of its Chinese auction Web site to a Beijing-based partner in a new joint venture, marking a strategic shift as the U.S. company tries to penetrate China's market.

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Beating the curse of Mars

When, after an eight-month voyage, NASA's Mariner 4 spacecraft beamed back the first images of Mars in 1965 -- to score a victory over Russia's Mars 1 in the Cold War space-race -- it changed the way scientists thought about the Red Planet.

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McDonalds iZ IR Repeater Hack, control IR devices from any room.

I decided to transform one into an IR receiver for my whole-house IR repeater system. (It lets me control the TiVo from any room that has a TV an IR receiver.)

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DIY: Blowgun

Make a real blowgun from parts readily available in most homes!

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DIY: Disposable camera coilgun

A tutorial explaining how to build your own coilgun from some disposable camera's flash circuits.

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Milk Crate Bicycle Saddlebags

These handy saddlebags lift off or install in a jiffy. A pair of these on front and rear racks and I can carry a huge load. Veggies from Haymarket, drinking water from the reverse-osmosis filter at the food coop, etc.

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Save $200 in 2 minutes and have the worlds best writing pen

transform a $3 pen into a $200 pen in just seconds. Mont Blanc pens are the worlds finest writing pens but they make specialized refills so you must buy their $200+ pens to use their amazing ink...until now. This is the easiest hack/adaptation to give anyone the king's writing ink.

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Old cellphone saves man trapped by fallen trees

Police launched a search of Vancouver's Stanley Park Thursday after rescuing a man who had been trapped by fallen trees there for six days.

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Woot promotes PS3, sells Wii

Web store Woot.com, in a sneaky little bit of marketing fanboyism marketing, extolled the virtues of Nintendo's shiny little Wii console. They went on to implore customers to buy the 80 PS3s they had in stock, because every PS3 sold meant that they could buy two Wiis for their employees.

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Opinion: To buy or not to buy a PS3

For some reason, Playstation 3s have been popping up around the country here and there. You still need to have some luck to come across a console, but there's a good chance that you'll run into available units on your last shopping day before Christmas. And question will be: Should you buy it?

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PhpShire file sharing script

phpshire file sharing is a php program that allows users to upload files in webserver and share with others ... pfs (phpshire file sharing) provides an unleechable link to share the uploaded files .

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Java survival guide

Never code in java without it.

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GPix Pixel Ad Script - A free million pixel advertising script.

GPix is a FREE yet powerful million pixel script, based on the popular marketing concept of milliondollarhomepage.com, by Alex Tew, the college student from England who first started this trend.

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Nintendo Wii gets browser and we get the benefits

The announcement that the Nintendo Wii game machine which allows players to use a remote control device to play games on their TV will get the Opera browser is very big news.

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Festive decorations interfere with Nintendo Wii controls

First is was fears over the strap not being strong enough, now it seems Nintendo is issuing a warning for its Nintendo Wii games console that having festive decorations near your television might cause your new games console to work erratically.

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Atari founder serves games, food and possibly love

Lovelorn video gamers who are better with consoles than conversation, have a new venue -- a restaurant where each table has touchscreens for ordering food and for playing a variety of social games.

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Videogames - the future?

London's Science Museum showcases technology which may help create the video games of the future.

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Amateurs reach for high-end digital cameras

Improvements in picture quality are also helping to convince even professional photographers, who once swore by film, to convert to digital.

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How To Make A Light Up Hacky Sack

This instructable shows one how to modify a hacky sack in order to make it light up. A sweet gift for the upcoming holidays!

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Sony Admits It Made the PS3 Too Expensive

In an interview with MTV, Sony executive Phil Harrison talked about the PlayStation 3 and where his company was planning on taking their latest game console.

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At the Heart of the Wii, Micron-Size Machines

EVEN before its release last month, Nintendo
’s latest video game console, the Wii, was getting a lot of attention for its wireless motion-sensitive controllers. Swing the controller and — crack! — hit a virtual home run in a virtual ballpark, for example.

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PS3 Bundles Not Flying Off Shelves

It is common knowledge now that the PlayStation 3 is still a fairly difficult next-generation console to get your hands on. It seems that as time goes by more and more systems are becoming widely available. This is especially the case compared to the launch of the Nintendo Wii and even the Microsoft Xbox 360 last year.

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Using Java Classes in Perl

I decided to make a direct port of the JCR to Perl and did so by making Perl use an existing Java implementation via Inline::Java. While I ran into some snags along the way, I was happily surprised to find the process of using Java classes from Perl was fabulously easy.

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3d Scanner with a Webcam

DAVID is a freeware software for laser range scanning. All you need is a PC, a camera (e.g. a webcam), a background corner, and a laser which projects a line onto the object you want to scan. So everyone can use it to scan objects without high costs; this is the big advantage over commercial solutions which are rather expensive.

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Ken Kutaragi: The only animal that crashes the same wall twice

Ken Kutaragi Promises New AV-centric PS3. Though it may be very early to begin to talk about a brand new Sony PlayStation 3, it is definitely on the mind of the father of the PlayStation Ken Kutaragi.

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Bloggers must disclose sponsored posts - No more bloggers pulling a Sony

A company that helps advertisers connect with bloggers willing to write about their products for payment will now require disclosures amid criticism and a regulatory threat.

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Hand crank lego usb charger

This project describes how to build a hand crank Lego usb charger with parts from a Mindstorms kit and Radio Shack.

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PC World calls PS3 a top tech mistake of 2006

PC World's Dan Tynan has released a new article titled "The 21 biggest technology mistakes of 2006." The number eight entry? The PlayStation 3.

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Great Impressions on the Wii

Believe it or not, it actually proved more difficult for us to secure a Wii this holiday than the PS3. Although we've had several brief opportunities to play with the Wii previously, now that we have one we've finally gotten some real hands-on time with the unit. As with our PS3 impressions, what follows below is simply a summary of our overall tho

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Disgruntled Debian Developers Delay Etch

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0, code-named Etch, had been due to arrive by Dec. 4, 2006, but it's been delayed because some developers have deliberately slowed down their work.

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Microsoft Hands Out 16,000 SUSE Linux Subscriptions

A number of enterprise customers have already signed up for 16,000 of the 70,000 annual SUSE Linux enterprise subscription certificates Microsoft is offering under its recent, controversial deal with Novell.

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Hoax Web site jabs anti-illegal immigrant U.S. town

Santa isn't welcome in Hazleton because he's an illegal immigrant just like all the others the Pennsylvania town is trying to get rid of -- or so someone would have you believe.

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Look Ma—Hands! Choosing and Using MIDI Controllers

If you're serious about playing music with today's wonderful software instruments, you'll soon find yourself casting covetous glances at some of the peripheral hardware that's designed specifically for music. In this tutorial we'll look at a few of these hardware devices, explain their primary capabilities, and explore some of the musical results y

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The Century of the Self - Google Video

The best documentary ever!! A masterpiece from BBC4 that shows the reality of the american identity !!

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Paint Shop Pro tricks and tips

This list contains little tips and tricks I've learned from tutorial writers, and forums, and classes, and books, and just about anything and everything across the world! I add to this list when I discover a new trick, or remember a trick that has really helped me be more productive using PSP!

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Amazing Billard Trick Shots

This guy is friggin amazing. Check out some of these trick pool shots he makes.

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Taking a drive to the mall

Literally....

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Building planes in the air

Nice concept to keep workers focused, if they do a half ass job they crash.

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Multistage shellcodes for x86 Linux.

Exploiting overflows is fun, but sometimes, there is not enough space to inject one of those great multithreaded connect shellcodes into the buffer. The solution to that problem is to use a multistage shellcode.

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New finds in lost world

IN the second remarkable biodiversity find this year, researchers announced yesterday they had identified at least 52 new species of animals and plants on the island of Borneo.

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A Little Extra for the Gamers on Your List

Product shortages, recalls, and long lines at retailers may hurt game console sales, but holiday purchases of accessories are booming

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Linksys unveils new 'iPhone' line

The iPhone has arrived, but it's not made by Apple Computer Inc., which was widely rumored to be working a cell phone-iPod combination of the same name.

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Human Powered Recumbent Generator

FREE energy and you get to stay in shape too.

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instructables : Kite + Ice + Butt + Board

This week's Instructables TV episode shows you what you've got to do this winter.

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Crossing borders: JavaScript's language features

JavaScript is often ridiculed as the black sheep of programming languages. The development tools, a complicated and inconsistent document object model for HTML pages, and inconsistent implementation in browsers contributes to that sentiment. But JavaScript is much more than a toy. In this article, Bruce Tate explores JavaScript's language features.

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Add IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition to your Web site

Learn how you can quickly and easily integrate a freely downloadable search engine into your Web site. This article describes four methods to do this, using IBM
® OmniFind™ Yahoo! Edition search functionality. The methods range from directly linking to the OmniFind search results page, to using XSLT to transform the XML returned by the OmniFind sear

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Wii forecasts go live

Nintendo Wii owners will find that there's a new update available for their console today - with the most visible change, once you've finished staring at the glacial progress bar, being that the Weather channel has now been activated.

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DIY Clear USB Drive

After the my cover broke off my Cruzer 512 MB USB drive, I decided to fashion my own case. I saw several ideas floating around on the internet such as cases made of Lego, pez dispensers, and and even a Barbie doll. I cast the USB stick in clear casting resin used to make paperweights out of scorpions or flowers.

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Skype founders test online TV service

The founders of Skype, an online telephone business sold last year to eBay Inc. for $2.6 billion, are testing a broadband television service for computer screens, the founders' spokesman said on Monday.

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Hacking Intranets from the Internet

The following examples DO NOT use any well-known or unpatched web browser vulnerabilities. The code uses clever and sophisticated JavaScript, Cascading Style-Sheet (CSS), and Java Applet programming. Technology that is common to all popular web browsers.

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Some hot new games for older systems

But there's still good news for gift buyers looking to satisfy a video gamer. Many of the most compelling and highly rated new titles this season are designed for the established console and portable systems that your recipient already has in his or her hot little hands.

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Backdooring Images with JavaScript

In this post I am going to outline some of the techniques available for maliciously infecting Image (Picture) files with JavaScript code. I must worn you that what you are about to read is not intended to describe new issues but rather to clarify and provide scenarios where the discussed attack vectors can be implemented.

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Chumby RSS reader

Chumbies are are awesome. RSS feeds are awesome. Why not combine the two? No, the double awesomeness won't hurt anyone, really. The reason is that flash is hard for the unexperienced. Here is a simple way to do it with an already-written program.

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Wii and Final Fantasy top Edge Awards

Highly-respected games mag Edge has revealed the winners of its 2006 Edge Awards, with Final Fantasy and Nintendo's Wii championing the list of winners.

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The Abominable Snow Yoshi

I'll refrain from calling this a "snowman" because obviously more work went into this than your run of the mill, coal for eyes, carrot for a nose snowmen.

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PS3 Sucks For PC Porting

Are you one of those tiresome people who responds to every gaming forum thread with: "*yawn* I'll wait for the PC port!" Well, looks like you'll need to uncan a new anti-console canard when the PS3 hits, because PC ports on PS3 titles look bleak.

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Sony's train loosing steam.....

I hope you've done your PS3 game shopping already, because we've got a slow week. And, by slow, I mean no new game releases!

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Snake ditches the PS3

Where is your Katamari now?.

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8bit graphics wallpapers

Some delicious retro desktop-wallpapers,

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Amazon To Sell Wii and PS3 on Tuesday

Last week we broke a story that Amazon would soon have many more PS3 and Wii units up for grabs. We didn
’t know the date at the time, but it’s been confirmed: the systems will be available on Tuesday. But there is a catch.

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PCB Pictures with Scanner

An image scanner can make great pictures of circuit boards. Not only are the pictures clear, they are very high resolution and have nearly perfect scaling. Perfect scaling means that you can actual make measurements from the image. Try that with a digital camera!

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How To Hack Windows XP

Pretty cool video demonstrates how to hack into Windows XP if you ever forget your password.

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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Guide (Wii) GUIDE for FREE

As our holiday gift to you, enjoy this The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess online strategy guide completely gratis—free.

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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Guide (Wii) GUIDE for FREE

As our holiday gift to you, enjoy this The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess online strategy guide completely gratis—free.

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How to etch solder paste stencils at home

Unfortunately for those of us who prefer to etch a few proto boards at home when possible to test out a basic design & build quick development boards, stencils generally cost $35 or more and take a few days to get back.

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Amazing Insects

Some incredible insects you have never seen before.

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Obesity and diabetes

Obesity and type 2 diabetes represent a serious threat to the health of the population of almost every country in the world. The World Health Organization estimates that 1.1 million people died as a result of diabetes in 2005, and this is almost certainly an underestimate.

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ATV Offroad Fury developer thinks PSP's future is "worrying"

Karl Jeffrey, CEO of Climax Studios, talked to GI.biz about the future of the PSP, and he thinks its pretty bleak.

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Guess the Dictator or Sit-Com Character

Here are the rules: Pretend to be a dictator or television sitcom character. I'll try to guess who you are by asking simple yes/no questions. If you're not sure of the answer to a question, answer "No". If you forgot who you were pretending to be, go take a nap, you're obviously under too much stress. Also, drink plenty of fluids.

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Video: The People who gave up everything to get a Next-Gen Console

See the "fans" at work.

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Feature: Are You Ready for a Wii-lationship?

Relationships are hard work. In order to avoid heartbreak or the silent treatment, here's a handy guide on how to and feed your Nintendo Wii.

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My POV wheel project with RGB led's

Hi, i thought it would be nice to show my POV project here, i've made it a few months ago, but when the day's are becoming shorter i can use it more often.

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Yahoo: Lower Page Views Due to AJAX

Yahoo has recently moved to an AJAX-driven page model, which probably reduced the number of complete page refreshes per user.

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Video: Wario Smooth Moves WII FTW

Hammer is about to fall for the PS3 and is coming VERY hard....

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Thief Robs Bank using Wii Game Controller funny satire story

The last thing Chase Bank teller Lana Tam heard before waking up in ICU was, "OK Nobody MOVE I've got a WII controller and I'll use it!".

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Devhook 0.50 video tutorial PSP

For all those who couldn't enjoy the latest version of Devhook because they didn't know how to make the dumps, Noob Slayer has spent a little time in making these tutorial vids which will guide you through the installation. If you can ignore the loud Three Days Grace song, you will be able to hear his instructions properly.

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Stream Live TV to the PSP

A you don't need a PS3 for this one.....

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WiiAction - Input Library for Game Develope

One of the Authors of the WiiAction Input Library gives us a video demo on the upcoming software library called the WiiAction Input Library. This will allow game developers to easily integrate wii-mote control into their games with code that will be familiar to existing DirectInput programmers.

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Play the Guitar with Wii Remotes

Jordan Sanborn has posted his application that allows you to play the guitar with the Wii-Mote.

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Consuming Multiple Web Services with Javascript

In this column, we'll show you how to consume two other Web services: Add and IsPrime. We'll explain how to install them on different pages, as well as on a common page.

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Creating Docking Windows

Many applications build their user interfaces with dockable windows. The advantage of dockable windows is that you can control the size of each window, while the container window prevents them from cluttering each other. You can achieve the effect of docking using either the Dock or Anchor property of the Panel class.

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Kick-start your Java apps

Easy, lightweight Ajax development with no-charge software

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Google Base Javascript hacks

I wrote some javascript that unveils features being planned for Google Base. Use these scripts when you are at base.google.com/base/processstep1offer (the first page when you decide to add an item). Between trying each of these scripts, be sure to reload the page.

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Hacking With Javascript

-things to come: example of stealing info from users (anti-virus programs and trojans), story of ciru cookie stealing from acanium, ThePull's javascript exploits, and the about:// exploit.
� Since so many people were asking when this tutorial would come out I decided to finally put it up.� I'd appriecated some feedback.� Flames without a reason are

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Sony keeps PS3 targets despite headwind-Europe officially delayed

Although the targets to ship 2 million by December and an additional 4 million by March were set after Sony had decided to postpone the European release, some analysts were concerned that production may not pick up fast enough to hit the latest goals.

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Wii: Bust-A-Move Bash! Screenshots

Keep them coming Nintendo...

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CCD vs. CMOS the final battle

CCD (charge coupled device) and CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) image sensors are two different technologies for capturing images digitally. Each has unique strengths and weaknesses giving advantages in different applications.

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The PS3 when used as a computer: Jack of all trades, master of none

PlayStation 3 does more than play. You can watch movies, listen to music, look at photos and wirelessly browse the Internet. DERRIK J. LANG attempts to use the PS3 for everything but actually playing next-gen games. The results are mixed.

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Wii breaks Xbox sales record

The Nintendo Wii is the fastest-selling games console in Australian history, snatching the title from Microsoft's Xbox 360.

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Sony keeps targets for PS3 shipments, Up Next,Flying Pig Crashes with a 747

Sony Corp. said on Thursday it sees no need to change its target to ship 2 million units of its PlayStation 3 game console worldwide by the end of December and 6 million by the end of next March.

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FREE Kevorkian HOORRAY!!!!!!

After more than eight years in prison, a frail Dr. Jack Kevorkian will be paroled in June with a promise that he won't assist in any more suicides, a prison spokesman said Wednesday.

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Hungry? 10 jobs that let you sample food

Most of us sample plenty of food during our work weeks -- leftover pasta from working lunches, mousse cakes from baby showers, and fistfuls of miniature chocolate bars from co-workers' candy jars.

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Migrating to Spring

Call me late to the party. The Spring framework party, that is. For you fellow latecomers, Spring is a library of infrastructure code released under the Apache 2.0 license. At the core is an inversion-of-control container, around which the development team has created templates for boilerplate JDBC and JMS code, a web MVC framework, and more.

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Configuration: the forgotten side of security

When the average computer user thinks about security, they usually think about reactive measures like anti-virus programs or security patches -- responses to a specific threat. Such measures play a role in securing a workstation or a network, but they are often less than half the story.

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Grab online videos with the All-In-One Video bookmarklet

Video download tools have been available since people have been uploading videos. Linux.com's CLI Magic column recently featured the Python script youtube-dl, which lets you download videos from YouTube using the command line. If instead you want the power of a Web-based application that can download from some of the major download sites at the tou

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Semantic Wikis and Disaster Relief Operations

Access to timely information is critical for relief operations in emergency situations. Over the last years social-networking web systems, such as wikis, have become more and more sophisticated and can also be applied fruitfully in humanitarian information management. However, a major drawback of the Web currently is that its content is not machine

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EUROPE PS3 Release Date Delayed, ONE MORE TIME....

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe boss David Reeves has told GamesIndustry.biz that suggestions the European launch of PS3 will be delayed once again are nothing more than 'speculation without foundation'.

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OMG!! a MINDSTORMS NXT Self Parking Car

This is my first project. It's a car with a motor to steer and another to move forwards and backwards (this one assembled in the rear wheels).

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Build a Ndrua in One Day

This Instructable documents how my girlfriend and I built a sailing ndrua in one day. A ndrua could very arguably be described as a double-hulled sailing canoe which has hulls of unequal length, the leeward hull being marginally more voluminous.

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Revive Nicad Batteries by Zapping with a Welder

Nicad batteries often die in such a way that they won't take a charge and have zero voltage. This usually means they're shorted out by crystal dendrite growth.

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PS3 future going the way of the Jaguar

Atari was set to market the Jaguar with a $3 million advertising budget, a telephone support line, and promised support from over 20 third party developers. However, retailers and the media were still skeptical that Atari could deliver quality software and keep all of its promises.

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Remember the Atari Jaguar II?

The Atari Jaguar II was to have been a video game console, the successor to the Atari Jaguar. The project code name was "Midsummer", an arbitrary reference to A Midsummer Night's Dream; and the two main chips were named Oberon and Puck, references to characters in that play.

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Wii, PS3 to corrupt minds and empty wallets

If you took the crowds from a Star Wars movie premiere, doused them in the capitalistic fervor of Black Friday, and then sprinkled some Grand Theft Auto on top, you might have something similar to the recent release of the PlayStation 3 (PS3) and Nintendo Wii gaming consoles.

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Sony Claims Wii Is "More of a Novelty"

Strong words from Sony, considering that Nintendo's console has already sold twice as many units as the PS3. One more time: Wii accept your surrender, respect for the fallen.

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In Nintendo Wii Trust

With the video-game market becoming dangerously vertical, Nintendo has introduced its new Wii console as an answer to gamers looking for a more satisfying experience -- and as a must-have on every gadget lover's Christmas list.

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College life starts and ends in the dorm, make the best of experiment years

Be a part of an online community where students get to tell the good, the bad, and the ugly about their college dorm. Whether it was too loud, too small, too dirty, or too totally awesome, you are able to hear the truth about thousands of different dorms directly from the students who lived there.

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5 reasons to buy a PS3

The Courier Journal sets out to give us five solid reasons for why the PS3 is worth your hard-earned college-fund cash

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9 Ways to Get Free Video and Music for your iPod or Zune

Fill up that Christmas gift on the cheap! I recently got a new iPod and was looking for a cheap way to get some media on it. My new device now has several gigs of vids and music thanks to this tutorial. Merry Christmas!

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Video: Ultrasonic range finder + flash

A little component with lots of potential.

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Wii reigns in Blighty-Where is your Katamari now?

Games roundup Plus, more PS3 firmware woes

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Poor Man's Laptop: Richer Features

The first part of this article introduced the basic idea of using an inexpensive USB stick instead of a laptop for home/work demands. This part turns the bare-bones script (a glorified wrapper around tar) into a robust, conveniently usable day-to-day solution.

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Easy Shell Scripting

Shell scripting can be defined as a group of commands executed in sequence. Let's start by describing the steps needed to write and execute a shell script

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Troubleshooting USB under LINUX

USB generally tends to be a trouble-free area of Linux: most modern distros handle it very well, and the degree to which it's become automated is very impressive (kudos to all the people involved - especially from those of us who remember the early days!) However, when it does break, troubleshooting can be rather difficult: there are a number of pi

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PUGACHEV SU-35 Combat Fighter Sale Video

If you have the money and a country to oppress, you NEED this plane on your side.

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'Gears of War' a gorgeous, gory shooter-W00T!!!

Despite all the media attention surrounding the two new gaming consoles -- Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii -- the hottest action game of the holidays is a Microsoft Xbox 360 exclusive

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Video: ColecoVision - The PS3 of 1982

Memories....

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Amazing DIY carputer

Today
’s package from UPS completes my collection of parts that will be required for my car computer install. I already had the mac mini, and today I got the screen, the custom bezel, the power supply, and an adapter cable I need. I will just need a few more little things from the hardware store to complete the install.

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DIY The Hand-made radioactive monitor.

"It appears they they borrowed a street sign, melted the radium paint down and painted their own display. In the end, they wired it up to a Sinclair Z80. Funky. Thanks" Via HackAday

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Top 10 Holiday Movies

It's the holidays, which the movie studios see as their annual opportunity to flood the multiplexes with family-friendly drivel disguised as feel-good films.

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How to "Huff-and-Puff-Proof" Your Career

The third little pig had the right idea. How can you help your career to be made of bricks, not sticks? Follow Karen Otazo's advice on overcoming career obstacles and organizational roadblocks by building a strong "relationship house."

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Wireless Networking with Windows Vista in a Domain Environment

Zubair Alexander discusses various methods for joining a Windows Vista wireless network client to an Active Directory domain, and addresses some of the security issues involved.

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Exploring Google's Hidden Features

Google is a great search engine, but it's also more than that. Google has tons of hidden features, some of which are quite fun and most of which are extremely useful
— if you know about them. How do you discover all these hidden features within the Google site? Read on to learn more.

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Finding Stress Points in Apple's Business Strategy

As Apple becomes more and more distracted by the entertainment side of computers, they risk losing what credibility they have on the enterprise, business and government sides, where customers desperately want to act like very sober, grown up professionals. Still, I don't expect

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Apple to Take on Wii, PS3?

In a note to clients published Monday, Prudential Equity Analyst Jesse Tortora said his checks show the Cupertino, California computer maker is hiring video game designers. Mr. Tortora wrote that the hires could indicate a move into either the gaming console market or that Apple could add fresh gaming capabilities to its existing line of iPod music

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Naked cellphone video leads to resignation

An Indonesian lawmaker has resigned from parliament over a sex video which showed him cavorting naked with a singer, reports said Friday.

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How Many Nintendo Wii will be Available by Year End?

The original sales goal for the Nintendo Wii was 1 million. In a media alert the company removed a passage in a press-release stating this sales goal again, according to GameDaily Biz.

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Should you buy a Wii or an Xbox 360… or wait for the PS3?

Should you buy a Wii or an Xbox 360, or wait for the PS3? It depends on your self-image, or that of the person you
’re buying it for. Nintendo’s Wii goes on sale in Europe tomorrow with its innovative motion-sensing TV remote-like controller. (…) it’s the perfect family-friendly console with family-friendly games.

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"Oblivion" big winner at Spike TV video game awards

"The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion," a fantasy role-playing game, was the top winner at the Spike TV Video Game Awards in Los Angeles on Friday, taking home five prizes, including "Game of the Year" and "Most Addictive."

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DIY A solar camping light

In the summer of 2001, I constructed a very useful camping light that may not produce as much light as a fluorescent lantern, but is much smaller, can operate for 55 hours before needing to be recharged, which can be done with nothing more than a solar panel and sunlight. I built it using parts from Radio Shack and the Electronics Goldmine for abou

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Pyramids Of Giza: Professor Finds Some Building Blocks Were Concrete

In partially solving a mystery that has baffled archeologists for centuries, a Drexel University professor has determined that the Great Pyramids of Giza were constructed with a combination of not only carved stones but the first blocks of limestone-based concrete cast by any civilization.

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Pearl Harbor: The USS Arizona Dissolves Slowly Into the Sea

Steel plates, once an inch thick, have rusted down to less than half that. Tiny marine creatures have planted themselves on the ship's hull and died there, creating a thick, concretelike coating that weighs it down.

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"World's Best Casual Gamer" wants to be a lawyer

A "newbie" to the competitive game scene, the 21-year-old aspiring lawyer brought out the testosterone-fueled game crowd's envious side in September when she took home the giant check from FUN Technologies' first WorldWide Web Games competition in Hollywood, California.

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IBM Mashup Tool + AccuWeather Data = New Applications

AccuWeather is preparing to give businesses the ability to assemble their own weather forecasts and extreme weather warnings off its weather site using an experimental IBM tool called QEDWiki.

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Mozilla Ships Alpha Release of Firefox 3.0

Mozilla today hit an early milestone on the road to the next version of its open-source browser, but the final product is still a year away, developers say.

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The orphans of Sumqayi

With some of the biggest oil reserves in the world, Azerbaijan is fast becoming an energy giant. But although foreign investors have pumped billions into the economy in the 15 years since the country gained independence, some grim aspects of the Soviet legacy remain.

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Cabinet for a Gaming Geek

For the wealthy and organized geek whose life turns around gaming.

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Wii shortages frustrating gamers

More than 1,200 Wiis have gone on sale on online auction site eBay in the UK within hours of the launch. The highest price for a console so far has been £500.

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The Real Life Chatroom

Oh the humanity,,,,,,,

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Microsoft warns of attacks on Word, Works

Microsoft is investigating the technical details of recent attacks against a small number of companies to uncover what appears to be a flaw in Microsoft Word for both Macs and Windows, and Microsoft Works, the software giant said in an advisory published Tuesday night.

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Real Life Minority Report,Phila. getting software to predict who might kill

University of Pennsylvania criminologist Richard Berk, a trained statistician, never met a data set he didn't like.

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Fixing A Dead Pixel On Your LCD

Got a stuck pixel on your LCD screen? Well maybe this might be worth a try, firstly make sure it is a ‘Stuck’ pixel and not a ‘Dead’ pixel. Stuck pixels will be either red, green or blue whereas a dead pixel will be black…

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Why Is It So Tough to Launch a Shuttle?

It's not easy to schedule a shuttle launch. There is one five-minute window each day when Earth's rotation puts the launch pad into the plane of the space station's orbit — the launch site and the space station orbit must be in sync.

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Wii trounces PlayStation 3 in US sales in November

Wii outsold rival PlayStation 3 by more than double in the United States in November as the freshly launched video game consoles vied with Xbox 360 for devotees, figures showed.

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Last nail in PS3's coffin, Wii landed in Europe - That's all FONY

The first of Europe's gamers got their hands on Nintendo's new video-game console on Friday after stores across the continent opened their doors at midnight to end die-hard fans' long wait for a Wii.

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HP Settles California 'Pretexting' Charges, Pays $14.5 Million

Most of the money from the settlement will establish a new fund to fight violations of privacy and intellectual property rights, while HP promises to adopt corporate governance reforms.

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Sony PlayStation 3 Misses U.S. Target, Loses to Nintendo's Wii

Sony Corp. missed its initial shipment target for PlayStation 3 game consoles in the U.S. after parts shortages slowed production, while Nintendo Co. sold twice as many Wii players last month, researcher NPD Group Inc. estimated.

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Wii? Why not — it's good fun

After two weeks with a borrowed unit, my love of Nintendo's intuitive, movement-based controller has only grown, though my tennis elbow is back with a vengeance.

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Ajax: Flash killer?

Ajax allows developers to build rich applications in the browser that can communicate with the server without a complete page refresh. So what else is new? Flash has been able to do this for years.

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Spacecraft fleet zeroing in on Martian water reserves

The discovery of bright deposits on Mars, announced today by NASA, could indicate that liquid water has recently flowed on a few locations on the planet. The new data help planetary scientists involved with several missions orbiting the Red Planet focus their quest to understand

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Fun with X.org

Chapter 5 of the FreeBSD Handbook provides an excellent overview for understanding and configuring the X Window system. Today's article goes beyond the Handbook to demonstrate some of the cool things you can do with your FreeBSD system and other systems running X.

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Blu-ray DVD drive no bonus for some PS3 buyers

the advanced Blu-ray DVD drive is annoying some by raising the cost, slowing production and forcing them to buy into a format they've not yet aligned with.

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A robot that doesn't suxaxis

BBot 2.0 - Dual-Axis Self-Balancing Inverted Pendulum with Bluetooth & High-Current Motor Drivers

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DIY Non-moving-parts water pump

This is an easy, cheap, non-moving parts, DIY water pump. Since it has no moving parts, it can hardly break down. It is based on the air-lift effect.

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DIY video scanner

A simple PIC project, the basic model uses only a PIC16F627 or 628 micro, 16 character LCD display along with a handful of discrete parts.

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Nintendo cautions gamers on Wii remote safety, have fun but with moderation

Nintendo Co. Ltd. has some cautionary advice for players of its Wii video game console: when waving the controller, use the wrist strap, keep your palms dry and, whatever you do, don't let go.

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Get out of here, six gigabits per second WIFI?

CSIRO researchers will tomorrow demonstrate the fastest and most efficient wireless link ever achieved.

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Fly and be free... my tiny robot helicopter

For our ECE 476 final project we developed an autonomous stabilization system for a coaxial helicopter with tri-radial tilt control designed for stability.

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High-Tech Japanese Drink Vending Machine with a Camera and a Touch Screen

This one from Japan is a high-tech drink vending machine that has a touch screen for you to choose between a variety of drinks available and also a camera that shows the drink-dispensing procedure.

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Making milkshakes with sound

The engineers way to shake a milkshake. Take a powerful DC amplifier, connect it to a large woofer, feed the system with a signal generator, and at the end, just add milkshake. Of course it is also possible to measure the g-force of the shaking ;-)

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DIY Xbox360 VGA Cable

Heres a quick hack showing you how to convert your existing XBOX360 AV Cable to output VGA, you don’t even need to open the box!

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DIY Nintendo Wii Remote for PC's

Ages ago, I was toying with the idea of making a DIY in-air PC mouse, and had designed it in my mind. A few days ago I saw the Wii-remote bluetooth PC controller hack and thought that it was good time to throw together my own version

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The USB Turntable

With Christmas just around the corner, what do you get for the geek in your life? Every day for a week we will be bringing you our pick of Technology related gifts….

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How-To: Build Your Own Custom Full-Sized Wireless Guitar Hero Controller

Anyway, as we made the controller pictured above this week, it occured to us that you might enjoy making one of your own — so we took a lot of pictures, and here you go: a guide to building your own full-sized GH controller.

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Ye olde magic levitation trick - Explained

You don't need to understand Japanese to appreciate this video.

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CLI Magic: Making HTML, Manpages from Plain Text with AsciiDoc

"AsciiDoc is a handy program that can produce formatted HTML documents and manpages from plain text files. With it, you can produce general purpose documents or specialized output such as mathematical formulae and musical notation.

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New 'CSI' game lets viewers in on the mystery

Anthony Zuiker, the creative brain behind the "CSI" empire, never thought he'd be a television mogul. Growing up as an only child in Las Vegas, he often spent his days making up games for himself, dreaming of one day having his name on his very own board game.

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Explore planet Earth in near-real time

MIRAVI is a data-driven system for real time image rendering and quality analysis of satellite data.

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Jackie Chan re-injures chest filming fight scene

Jackie Chan re-injured his chest while filming a fight scene for "Rush Hour 3," but doctors said it wasn't a major injury, the veteran action star says in an entry on his Web site.

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Hackers hit Naval War College computer network, in the navy..in the navy...

Hackers attacked the computer network at the Naval War College in Newport, taking down the school's network for more than two weeks, including some e-mail services and the college's Web site.

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Exploring the abandoned train station

A travel to the wonders of urban exploration.

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Vista is the last of the dinosaurs

They won't make them like that any more

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Crossing borders: Ajax on Rails

The hype for Ajax, a technique for making Web pages more interactive, is in overdrive. The Ruby on Rails framework is also flourishing, partly on the strength of its excellent Ajax integration. Find out what makes Ajax on Rails such a powerful combination.

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Lego NXT. TexsCardDealer

For the geeky poker players.

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Xbox 360 Discount Puts Online Interest on Top, yet another blow for the PS3

When online retailer Amazon.com lowered the price of the Xbox 360 by 66 percent on Thanksgiving, the console generated more online traffic than the PS3 and Wii did on their respective launch days.

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The Little Truck that Could... A 4x4 and a Vertical Wall

OMFG, this buggy defies gravity....

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DIY Faraday Cages

The reality of needing to protect all electronic equipment against EMP from a nuclear explosion over our shores is becoming imminent. We now live in perilous times. The world is a becoming dangerous place, with China now threatening Taiwan with annihilation from hundreds of neutron bombs.

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Nintendo Purchasers Complain of Gamesmanship

A handful of consumers are claiming that For Your Entertainment (FYE), a mall chain store that sells video games, music and movies, is baiting and switching customers who preorder the Nintendo Wii. Patrons of other stores are steamed about long waits, dishonored prepayments and other indignities.

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DIY Simple Doghouse 1.0

Of course I could've bought a doghouse at my local pet store but since I already had some plywood sheets , I thought it would be more fun to actually build one and write an instructable from it.

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Your ass i2 ours (Toys r' Us Blows): Try independent toy stores

Seattle shoppers can skip Toys "R" Us and bypass Interstate 5 because a network of independent toy stores surround the city.

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Complete sale of Canucks given final approval

The NHL's board of governors approved the group's purchase of the remaining 50 percent of the team and GM Glance from Seattle businessman John McCaw.

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Using the Salesforce.com API

In "An Introduction to Salesforce.com's AppExchange," I gave an overview of the Salesforce.com platform and the tools available to developers. If you haven't already, you should go back to that article and make sure you have signed up for a free Salesforce developer account and that you know how to edit standard Salesforce objects.

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Datel Max Media Dock DS and DS Lite available at Walmart

Play movies, listen to music and view pictures right on your Nintendo DS with the DS / DS Lite Max Media Dock. The included Max Media Manager Software converts movies into a format that the Media Player can read and resizes images to fit perfectly on your DS screen.

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PS3 importers warned by Sony

UK industry publication MCV is this week reporting a veiled warning from a high-flying law firm representing Sony, that the profits those importing the PS3 might derive form selling the new system, will pale into insignificance versus the legal costs of Sony action against them. In few words, only Sony has the right to screw their costumers.

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Hawking: The World Is Not Enough

Remember when the idea of global warming was almost an afterthought, relegated to the back pages of your daily newspaper? You probably wouldn't question the seriousness of it today, and perhaps in the not-too-distant future the same increased, well, gravity, will be given to space travel too.

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What Wii-l come

Take a look of what accessories will be available for the Wii.

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A look to the Wiigun

Do you feel lucky punk?

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Everything You Need to Know About Office Spying

Last week, new federal rules went into effect that require U.S. companies to keep track of all the e-mails, instant messages and other electronic documents generated by their employees. According to a survey by the ePolicy Institute, 9 out of 10 employers already observe employee electronic behavior in some way.

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ABC News: PC Ancestor Under the Sea

To say that an archaeological discovery is "technologically advanced by ancient Greek standards" would seem to imply simplicity rather than sophistication.

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Send SMS message to ANY Cell phone fromm your computer

Convenient and practical way to stay in touch with friends via SMS.

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Chavez wins re-election in Venezuelan landslide

With a cry of "long live the revolution," anti-U.S. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez won re-election in a landslide after his challenger conceded on Sunday.

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Japanese get a Wii bit cold

NINTENDO'S game console, the Wii, went on sale in Japan on Saturday, greeted by thousands of shivering but exhilarated game enthusiasts who had lined up through a wintry night to bring home the latest machine.

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Reggie reveals date for Wii online gaming

Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime has confirmed that Wii gamers will be able to play games online from the second quarter of 2007. Reggie's pledge came in an interview with SpikeTV's Game Head show (which saw the Ninty president indulging in some bowling - of both the real-life and Wii variety),

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Nintendo Wii Compared To Minority Report

Is Wii bringing us closer to the futuristic Tom Cruise flick Minority Report, without the Big Brother implications, that is?

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A bad case of Wii whack

Gamers find their pain thresholds with Wiimotes,

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F18 Hornet Breaking Sound Barrier

Something you don't see everyday.

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