Meet The New Marine One - A $6.1-billion New Presidential Ride

The aging Marine One helicopter fleet is finally due to retire. Meet its successor. After decades of upgrades to a fleet of notoriously cramped Sikorsky VH-3 Sea Kings, the White House has tasked Lockheed Martin with a dramatic, $6.1-billion makeover of Marine One, the presidential helicopter, starting this summer.

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AnyDVD removes Macrovision's CDS-300 copy protection

SlySoft announced yesterday that the latest version of their mega-popular DVD ripper, AnyDVD, now also removes Macrovision's CDS-300 copy protection mechanism.

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Force windows to load the kernel in memory(Windows XP tweak)

This is a very small tutorial, that will help you make your windows XP much faster, by loading the windows kernel in memory. This is a very effective tweak for windows XP.

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Screen shots of the new Family Guy game.

From these shots, it looks like you can play as Stewie, Brian, Quagmire and even Death. A lot of the quirky adult humor also remains intact.

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COMPLETE Tutorial on CSS & HTML - Beginning up to Expert

An Excellent Tutorial - you can refer to again and again and again!

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Improve your iPod with Rockbox

Tim Lord has written up his experiences installing and using the hottest MP3 jukebox player software package on the planet -- RockBox -- on his iPod. He loves it and explains why.

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CEOs say how you treat a waiter can predict a lot about character.

"A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, or to others, is not a nice person." A good article on top CEOs can see a person's character on how they treat people on the lower end of the ladder.

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Play DivX on Your Xbox 360

Microsoft's Windows Media Center restricts you to using WMV and ASF formats when playing videos on your Xbox 360. The Xbox Media Center people have released a free download that lets you play DivX and Xvid on your Xbox 360.

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Scientifically Chic

"Assemble a kitchen chemistry set and toast to covalent bonding.. No longer restricted to high-school science classes and elitist research centers, industrial design marvels like beakers and flasks are an economical and durable alternative to the Martha Stewart effect."

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Real time population counter

Crazy to watch. View any countries birth and death rate rise and fall in real time. The deaths come with a brief description like "Adult, 30 - 49 years old (Male)" and it tells you if the birth was a boy or girl. Watch China or India to see the most active. Even Iraq's birth/death rate may surprise you. Cool to watch and/or use for research.

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Google Calendar Is Launching Tonight

It looks like Google Calender could be launching tonight! The official Google Calendar logo was found on Google's servers and calendar.google.com redirects to the actual CL2 login screen now.

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What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content

If (should I say "when") you experience having your website content or designs "ripped off" by some thief the tips listed here will be very handy in how to handle the situation.

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Inside the PS3

This article talks about how the embedded OS works in the XBOX360 and PS3. In a nutshell, the PS3 uses over 25% of its hardware resources to run the OS versus the XBOX360's 4%. The PS3's OS is a basic 360 copy and the XBOX360 is more efficient with the system than the PS3.

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Yahoo! Widget Engine v3.1 Released! (April 12, 2006)

Yahoo has just released v3.1 on 04/12/06. It is a MAJOR update and it includes: new widget formats, security enhancements, startup prefs, API, myYahoo RSS widget, and more. (See Comments 4 FULL ChangeLog)

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A look at NASA's computer setup!

Here's a video from NASA's press event for the 25th anniversary of its first shuttle launch: A look at 'Discovery,' a supercomputer that turns out any kind of space-related data at an incredibly quick rate. NASA's Rupak Biswas gives the tour.

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