Slashdot is summoning everyone for a new service that they have dubbed Firehose. The service has some strong similarities to social news site Digg, but at the same time they also have some unique features. Firehose is basically a hub where the user-submitted stories appear for others to vote on, and as more people vote on them they start

A Zero Tolerance policy means zero tolerance, and unfortunately for one 19 year old girl, that policy could land her in jail for a year. The story goes like this: Jhannet Sejas was out with her boyfriend to celebrate her birthday. They took a video camera along to record memories of their day at the mall, and then headed to the theater to see Transformers. According to Jhannet, she

You need the Image Toolbar extension if you’re a Firefox user and find yourself saving or copying images all of the time. It’s actually a simple little thing that reminds me of something Internet Explorer does. With it installed hovering over an image presents you with some of the most common actions for an image: save, copy, print, and information.

The nice thing

Mods chips are the focal point of recent raids here in the U.S. by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). According to an announcement issued by ICE, over 32 warrants were issued, and homes and businesses were raided in 16 different states. I’m sure you know what a mod chip is, but in case you don’t, they allow users of video game consoles to play pirated games by getting around

If you live in a big city, you know that getting from point A to point B usually involves lots of cars, honking, and stop and go traffic which can add time to your trip.  When you get directions from Google Maps, they conveniently tell you how many miles the trip is, and about how long it will take.  The problem though, is that the estimated time really does you no good in the city.

Mac users were supposed to be getting the newly redesigned Office 2008, but as it turns out the development team hit a snafu. Now the release date for Office 2008 on Macs is getting pushed back from Fall 2007 to January 2008. Yes, all Intel Mac users running Office 2004 have about 5 more months that they will be putting up with the

Tutorial Thursday

What would you do if you lost your entire movie collection? Wouldn’t it be nice to have some backups laying around in case someone scratched your precious Rudy video or your dog ate an entire season of the Simpsons?

A popular application called DVD Decrypter lets you copy an entire DVD onto your computer’s hard drive, and it bypasses any copy protection mechanisms that would make