You know the problem – you have people you would like to help out and perhaps even remotely connect to their PCs via the internet to show them how to do things. The problem is that these types of people are invariably IT novices. They are having problems because they aren’t “geeks” and because of [...]

Yeap, you heard correct. Literally hot off the press, the release candidate is available as a 336Mb download (which I’m downloading as I write this) and includes potential speed increases, bugfixes & enhancements to current features – much earlier than expected. The Windows Vista SP1 RC can be downloaded now, but is not widely available [...]

OK, this may be a little misleading, but this has been around for ages, and thanks to a guy in Holland, you can watch starwars from the command prompt. Obviously lacking a bit in the sound department, this is still a work of genius. Do it tomorrow at work – no "boss" key required! All [...]

Yeap, it’s apparent from this article that the GPU inside a Geforce 8 card is better equipped at the billions of math calculations required to crack passwords than the standard CPU. According to the report in this article, the Graphics processor is better by up to 25 times! I guess if you get loads of ATI cards hooked up over PCI-Express with Crossfire, you could have the ultimate home password cracking machine.

I know what you’re thinking, it sounds like one of those websites that offer the “free download” and then you find out that it’s the product you’re going to have to pay for – not the download. A clever and annoying play on words..

Yeah, this is pretty geeky. If you’ve ever been interested in Cryptography (the study of crytograms – or code making / breaking) then this will be really useful to you.

Microsoft are getting ready to release an RC of the service pack for Windows Vista. Really only for advanced users, the "Release Candidate" shows that the official service pack 1 is getting very close for release to the waiting public. Maybe this will convert a few more XP users to Vista? I’m sure there will [...]