Protecting Your Computer Screen

You're reading something interesting on the web, or playing a game, when you are supposed to be working. Someone walks up to see what you are doing on your screen. You could minimize the screen, so they can't see, but then they would know that you were up to something. Now, you can make the screen hard for anyone other than you to read.

Read more: www.baltimoresun.com

How To Grow Grass in Someone's Keyboard

Is your co-worker going on vacation? Do they have a good sense of humor? (Or do you not like them?) Then here's a good joke to play on them!

How To Grow Grass in Someone's Keyboard
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NES Mods

It's cool when people take old hardware and make new uses for it. Here some people have modified old Nintendo systems.

TomBobBlender has installed a DVD player in his old Nintendo Entertainment System. He walks us through how it works.



shooter83 has turned his Nintendo controller into a cell phone.

Better version here: www.myspacetv.com

i've become the ulimate attention whore with this thing. i thought i would look like a total tool holding this thing up to my head. but it's turned into the greatest conversation starter ever

Tim Watson converted an old Nintendo into a PC. Here he explains on TV what he did: www.youtube.com

My PC has a Mouse…How About a Cat?

Kitten Playing on the PC

From: spallie86

My kitten phoebe (4 weeks old) was amazed by the movement on the screen and was trying to reach in and grab it! So cute!

Kitty Watches Herself Watching a Video

From: flyonthewall3

Lolly likes watching my computer screen.

Russian Blue Cat Plays with the PC

From: akylinaa

What wa she thinkin'??? hahahaha

Helldate: London

This game looks cool. Hellgate: London will be in stores on Halloween this year. “Remember the dead, but fight for the living!” More information: www.hellgatelondon.com

The E3 Trailer



Introduction



Action Video

BioShock is Out!

BioShock is the "genetically enhanced" first person shooter that lets you do things never before possible in the genre: turn everything into a weapon, biologically mod your body with plasmids, hack devices and systems, upgrade your weapons and craft new ammo variants, and experiment with different battle techniques in an incredible and unique underwater city.

You are a cast-away in Rapture, an underwater Utopia torn apart by civil war. Caught between powerful forces, and hunted down by genetically modified “splicers” and deadly security systems, you have to come to grips with a deadly, mysterious world filled with powerful technology and fascinating characters. No encounter ever plays out the same, and no two gamers will play the game the same way.

BioShock is loaded with some of greatest, most modifiable weapons to ever blast their way into a shooter. But guns alone won’t be enough to defeat the devious AIs of Rapture. There are literally hundreds of other strategies players can use to take out his enemies. Here’s just a few things you can do a foe:

· Catch his Grenades in Mid Air and Toss Them Back at Him
· Freeze Him Solid and Shatter Him with Smack of your Wrench
· Lead him and his comrades to water and Zap them all with 1000 Volts
· Burn Him Up With Home-Made Molotov Cocktails
· Booby Trap Healing Machines and Watch Them Blow up IN his Face
· Brainwash Him to Become Your Personal BodyGuard
· Invent your own Ammo Types to Prey on his Vulnerabilities
· Turn his own Security System Against Him
· Light Him on Fire and Launch Heat Seeking Missiles At him
· Torment Him with Plagues of Insects
· Take Research Photos of Him to Learn his Weaknesses
· Send Him Flying into the Ceiling to Knock him Senseless

No encounter ever plays out the same way twice. No two gamers will ever play BioShock the same way.

The game is for the PC and the Xbox 360.

Irrational Games shows a 15 minute demonstration based on the Xbox 360 build narrated by President and Lead Designer Ken Levine



Seven Minutes of GamePlay from Sincrol



And a music video BioShock: Beyond the Sea by Lazarus88



For some more in-game footage, go here.

wwww.ign.com

You can download a demo of it here.

BioShock Demo

Portable Apps For Your USB Drive

From the blog Caffeinated and Requiring Sugar, here's a list of applications that you can install on your USB drive.

http://fine12.blogspot.com

Computer Mods

Computer modifications are cool. I like to see the result of someone modifying the looks of their PC or video game cases. Here are some sites on the web I found.

EnVaDoR's Computer Case Creations

He has made computer cases look like a dashboard, guitar, pumpkin, etc.

http://www.envador.com/

XBox 360 Case Mods

Here’s a site with pictures of people’s mods to their Xbox 360 cases.

http://freshpics.blogspot.com/2007/01/xbox-360-case-mods.html

Xbox 360 Laptop

Ben Heck has turned his Xbox 360 into a laptop. He includes instructions on how to make one yourself, if you have the ability. If I tried, I would just break it. :)

http://benheck.com/04-17-2007/xbox-360-laptop-the-second

Want a cheap PC?

So, you say you want a cheap PC. Maybe not for you, but maybe one of your friends needs a PC to access the Internet, and send email. If that is all you need the PC for, read on.

Free Geek, located in Portland, Oregon, takes old PCs and rebuilds them. If you are dropping off a PC, or PC components, then they ask for a donation to cover their costs. They take the old PCs, repair the ones that are still useable, and install free software on them.

The software that Free Geek installs is a version of the Linux Ubuntu operating system, with the Gnome desktop environment. If you have used Windows before, the basics of Gnome should not be hard to figure out. You can see screenshots of it here: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.0/screenshots/

To get a cheap PC, you can volunteer to work at Free Geek. If you do volunteer work for 24 hours, they will give you a free PC. They will also train you how to use your new software.

So, where is Free Geek? It is in the following cities.

Portland, Oregon

Chicago, Illinois

Columbus, Ohio

Fayetteville, Arkansas

Michigan / Indiana

Tennessee

Vancouver, BC, Canada

Internationally, there are other sites that recycle old PCs. You can find a list of them on Free Geek’s site at:

http://freegeek.org/recyclelink.php

Cool! Slacker Personalized Radio

I found this on the web. There is a new radio site, at http://www.slacker.com. For now, you can specify on their website the kind of music you like to listen to, and it makes up a custom station with music that similar is style to what you picked. For example, I selected The Doors, and this is what slacker came up with:



Along with The Doors, it picked bands I have heard of, like Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead, and bands I have not heard of, like Love and The Pretty Things. A good way to find new music.

Soon, there will be a Slacker Portable Player, so you can listen to your music anywhere. My understanding is that it will use wi-fi to download music to your player. But for now, check out the web player.