A lot of people aren't brave enough to take apart their Xbox 360 which means most people wouldn't dare to try sending liquid through it! One man did it with careful planning and documented it with pictures along the way.

Gmail, the popular webmail that offers over 2 gigs of storage space (and counting) has been experiencing outages again, frustrating users for hours-- even up to a day.

Google is at it again and this time they are updating their Google Maps...GLOBALLY! Someone noticed that high resolution maps were now available for some places, like Egypt (Egyptian Museum in Cairo is pictured to the right). I noticed that here in Ames, Iowa they had updated the maps to high resolution a few weeks ago. However, this is the first time that I have heard of a Global update.

Windows Live Messenger was just released and millions and millions of users are awaiting the release of Messenger Plus! Live by Patchou but there are some patches already out there that will tide you over until he releases it to the public. Two of the most popular patches that you will find are A-Patch and the Mess.be Patch.

It looks like someone has developed Portable Opera 9 for those people who want to test out the latest version of Opera but aren't sure if it is worth installing. I believe that it is worth installing it but this also lets people carry it around on a USB drive or on a CD.

Geeks are known for being smart and this just goes to show you how smart they really are. If you tease them then it will come back to haunt you!

You can now play the classic game of Contra on FlashPlayer.com. I'll have to warn you though, it is pretty addicting. It comes complete with cheat codes (yes, even God Mode if you wish).

Opera 9 has been released and it is awaiting your download. This release is very very big for them because they have a lot of great new features. One of the most hyped features is the ability for users to add widgets. I love their widgets because they don't take up a bunch of unnecessary memory when you run them, for example if you add 5 or so widgets you might see your memory increase just 1-2MB.

Two of Adobe's most popular applications, Photoshop and Acrobat, take disappointingly long to load up. Wouldn't it be nice if you could cut the loading time down? For me Photoshop would take almost 25 seconds to startup and Acrobat was also very close to that. It was time to trim down some plug-ins. The software I use below is free from AcroPDF Systems and does not require installation.