Archive for January 12th, 2011

The rise of motion controllers

So, the past 6 months has been exciting for the game industry, We have Microsoft Kinect and Sony’s PS3 Move. With millions of units sold by each manufacturer, it looks like everyone wants a piece of the cake. Here is some more upcoming motion controllers (Not neccary for gaming) Razer Hydra Sixense Aiken Labs Mmovea smartmotion air-mini-keyboard [...]

Myspace cuts staff

With rise of Twitter and Facebook, Myspace is cutting nearly half of its staff. But Mike Jones reports that this move is not reflecting their performance. On the other hand, Facebook reaches record growth both in revenue and users.

10 ways to make your computer experience enjoyable!

Here is a few ways to make your experience on a computer more enjoyable.Is your room mate or college smashing screens? Then this if for them. Get a comfortable chair, or make it comfortable with pillows. Use a soft mouse pad with wrist support Listen to music you like while working on a computer Setup [...]

Synapse Launcher for Linux

Want a quick way to access recent documents/programs/links and launch a variaty of programs with ease, Synapse is for you. Easy to use, fast and you can set hotkeys to launch it.Once installed, it sits and wait for you to call it up. When the program launches, you can just start typing, and it will [...]

Sony trying to protect their PS3

Not long ago, Sony’s PS3 private keys was leaked on the Internet, and a craze begun. You could install your own custom firmware with third party software on you PS3, copy games to your local hard drive after it was successfully signed with the keys which means bad business for Sony. Yesterday, Sony got a [...]

AMD’s Bobcat/Fusion mobile APU

AMD released their new mobile CPU for notebooks, the CPU uses less then 1 watt and give 10+ hours on your Notebook battery.There is a integrated GPU which will outperform the ATOM by far. Will this be the fall of Intel’s Atom processor? And what will Intel’s response be to that? Update: Sony already released [...]

Check remote linux server memory/cpu and drive space with python

Here is a little python script to check remote linux servers hardware and space, you can change this to do anything on a remote Linux computer via ssh. After completion, the script will write all the output to a .txt file in the same directory. #!/usr/bin/pythonimport os #Input of servername going to be used during [...]

Complete how to setup Thunderbird 3.1.X for Exchange 2007 guide

Here is a how to setup your Thunderbird installation with Exchange server 2003/2007. Not every Exchange server is setup the same, so please check with your administrator if your stuck on a step. Download/Install a copy of Thunderbird here. (Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install thunderbird) Install Thunderbird Lightning addon to make your Calendar work. This is [...]