Ok, so yesterday my new little USB GPS receiver shows up and of course I go into full geek mode. I pulled out the IBM X20 (the best thin-client laptop platform ever made IMHO) and plugged it in. I fired up MS AutoRoute 2006 and once I configured the GPS receiver with the software I [...]

Life is grand when you are a geek. So, in planning out some of our travels for the honeymoon in Tuscany, I have been fortunate enough to receive advice from many different sources on places to eat and drink at. Everything from wineries to hit in Montalcino and Montepulciano to restaurants in the surrounding areas. [...]

Apparently the folks at Sony have decided that their preferred method of implementing DRM software is to install a rootkit without anyone knowing. I just read an article over at ZD Net that details a few testers’ accounts of discovering the Sony DRM scheme. Worse, the software/rootkit apparently prevents songs from being copied to iPods. [...]

Many of you know that I am a total electronics geek and one of my latest projects is the home media center pc running Windows Media Center Edition 2005. Basically, the thing is a Tivo on crack. This is the 2nd generation of Windows MCE and they have improved a lot of the functionality over [...]

If you have ever used a real remote computer system like Citrix, then you have probably been craving multiple Remote Desktop sessions since you first fired up Windows XP Professional and/or Media Center Edition. Here is a HACK (translated: USE AT YOUR OWN RISK), to enable multiple Remote Desktop sessions on your XP Pro or [...]

In case you are living under a rock, or other similar location, Apple released the 5th generation of the IPod yesterday. The new IPod is smaller and lighter and allows users to play videos in addition to music on a small color screen. Retailing for $399 the new IPod can hold 15,000 songs or you [...]

Last night i was pretty fired up on the concept of the Windows MCE Extender, but after reading a few reviews that I found, I am not at all. The media extender boxes allow you to grab all of the content (in theory) from your home media PC running Windows Media Center Edition 2005. However, [...]

If you are reading this, then follow this link to get a Free copy of Divx 6 Create software. If you don’t know what it is, don’t worry. It is something that you will be using soon enough. It is good for one day only to commemorate DivX’s fifth anniversary.

Thanks to Deppy for pointing this one out. Here is a smoking deal on a Sony DRU-720A DVD RW drive for $20 after rebate. It even comes with a black face plate (for those of us with black cases) and a copy of Nero Burning ROM 6.6. I bought a similar drive this year for [...]

Ok, so we are getting to the point where us dorks have multiple data networks that we use on a regular basis and some that we use on a less frequent basis. If you have a laptop and a wireless network card (WiFi / 802.xx), then you know that this means you have to configure [...]