Video: The Real N+ Ninja

TorrentSpy Loses Case Against MPAA

A Los Angeles court decided against TorrentSpy in their ongoing legal battle with the MPAA and terminated their case. According to the ruling, TorrentSpy was sanctioned for destructing evidence.

XP Service Pack 3 RC1 Ready for Download

While Microsoft is quick to downplay XP when comparing it to Vista, the legacy OS continues to shackle the hearts (and systems) of many. Fortunately, Microsoft just opened up their XP service pack 3 release candidate for general download -- that means you. SP3 RC was previously only available by invitation. Now get going, you'll need time to download all 336MBs of the last major update to the six-year old OS.

The Totally Rad Show Episode 39 - Knowledge Sack

I Am Legend, but should you go see me? Do Zack and Wiki shake the Wiimote in all the right ways? Princess Bride and Ghostbusters are back - as videogames? Plus, we've Scene It, but did we enjoy it?

Pownce Mobile

Pownce has finally released a mobile version of the site. Now if they would only get out of that private beat stage.

Create Custom Firefox Skins with Personas

Mozilla has a new Firefox extension, called Personas, that makes it a bit easier to add themes to your browser. Built from a prototype that was discussed and tested earlier this year, Personas aims to extend an option for custom browsers without the need to code. They also have the ability to incorporate online components, supporting HTML, CSS, PNG, JPG, SVG, Javascript and Canvas. Personas also offer real time updates during the creation and editing process, so you can see exactly what you’re getting into. Other feature include the ability to select a Persona from the dynamic menus, and designers can add/update themes at any time without updating any software.

Tekzilla Daily Episode 6 - Mac Print Screen

Patrick demonstrates how to take a screenshot within MacOS X.

Video: Dark Knight Trailer Shows A Joker Hellbent On Chaos

uTorrent Gains Popularity, Azureus Loses Groun

With an install rate of more than 5% on Windows PCs worldwide, uTorrent is now by far the most popular BitTorrent client. Azureus, the most installed BitTorrent application of last year fell back to the third place.

The percentages in the table indicate the install base of the most popular BitTorrent clients:

Rank	Application	Installed on % Desktops
1.	uTorrent	5.56%
2.	BitTorrent (a.k.a. mainline)	2.28%
3.	Azureus	2.11%
4.	Bitcomet	1.89%
5.	Bitlord	1.27%

Diggnation Episode 128 - Pimps and E-Readers

Crysis = Graphics Card Killer, Human Treeman, She's Cute, But is She Worth it?, Amazon Kindle vs. Sony e-Reader, NFL Football Removes Free Broadcasts, Best Snoop Dog Video Ever, Top 5 Historical Pimps

Create iPhone Ringtones in GarageBand 4.1.1

With GarageBand 4.1.1 you can export your original song, your original audio recordings, or use Apple Loops and iLife jingles to create a custom ringtone for your iPhone.

Share Google Reader Feeds in GTalk

Another interesting integration for your Gtalk and Google Chat: you can now show your shared items from your Google reader with people from your GTalk/GMail buddy list. You can make them visible to your buddies from Google talk, and they’ll be able to see your Reader items in the chat tool. This makes it a lot easier to share the items in your personal feed reader, and essentially integrates your feeds with your chat.

Tekzilla Episode 12

80GB Zune: a Worthy iPod Competitor, Best Used Console Games, UPS = Safer Data, VodPod, Your Fave Podcast Tools: VodPod, Juice, TvTonic, MyPodder

Introducing Google Knol

Google Knol is Google's version of Wikipedia. It's currently in a private beta stage, but you can see a sample page here.

Tekzilla Daily Episode 5 - Mix It Up

Jessica shares her experience with mixaloo.com

Divx Pro Free Download is Available for a Limited Time

For a limited time, Divx is offering a complimentary download of their Divx Pro software, which consists of both a converter and the Codec. The converter includes an easy to use drag-and-drop feature to make your conversion time simpler. This software is definitely a useful one to have available. It is currently not mentioned when this free download ends, so if you are interested, make it quick.

Download DivX here.

Facebook Status Updates: No More "is"

As first rumored a few weeks ago, Facebook has finally made the “is” in status updates optional. The added flexibility and ease with which you can now write grammatically correct updates could definitely be a game changer.

Tekzilla Daily Episode 4 - Battery Life

Patrick shares his secrets on getting extra time out of his laptop battery.

Picasa Redefined for your iPhone

"Today, I'm happy to tell you that we've just released this new iPhone interface for Picasa. After you go to Picasa on your iPhone and log in, you can quickly see all your albums that you've uploaded to Picasa Web. If you click on any of the albums, you can get a full view of your picture with comments from your friends. Or you can click on Slideshow, sit back and watch the pictures scroll. You can also search for photos in your album or through community photos. Finally, with one of my favorite features, you can view your friends' albums through favorites."

Video: The New Google Toolbar (BETA)

Toolbar features:

• Add gadgets to your Toolbar
  to view your favorite content from any site.
• Fill out web forms with a click
  and even keep multiple profiles, with improved AutoFill.
• Access your Toolbar from any computer
  by saving your settings online.
• Clip content as you browse the web
  with Google Notebook, now integrated with Toolbar.

Requires Internet Explorer 6.0, sorry no Firefox support.

Helio Player Released

Helio Player lets you manage your favorite songs, videos and pics on your PC. Helio Player also includes the Helio Music Store with music from thousands of your favorite artists.

• Download a free copy of songs you buy on your device
• Buy songs + full albums for your PC and device
• Gift songs to a friend’s Helio or Beg them to buy one for you
• Manage and play your music, videos and pics
• Transfer music + videos to your Heat, Drift or Fin
• Transfer music, video and pics to/from your Ocean

The Totally Rad Show Episode 38 - Soul Poppin

The Golden Compass gets us lost. Will we go, speed, go to see Speed Racer? Feeling Sony's Pain. A review of the Jeff Gerstmann/Gamespot controversy. Plus, are Computer Fairs still cool?

Helio Releases YouTube 2.0 Client

As YouTube’s popularity soars to seemingly endless heights, so does the demand for a portable version. In June of this year, the browser based m.youtube.com was launched to satiate these demands. The people rejoiced. Finally, we can watch others embarrass themselves while on the go! The fun came to a quick halt when people realized there were only about 13 videos available, most of them being made of lame. YouTube Mobile is Helio’s swing at packaging up the entire YouTube experience in one application, and costs the always awesome price of free.

Read on for full review.

Windows Vista SP1 RC1 Publicly Available

You've heard about it, you know what it's got, you want it like crazy -- and about 11 months after launch Microsoft delivers on Vista's first service pack (in release candidate form, anyway).

N+ Boxart

I am retardedly excited about this game!

Tekzilla Daily Episode 3 - Compression

Patrick demystifies compression.

Open Source Hardware Gift Guide

Open source 3D printers, TV-turn-off devices, iPod chargers, music players, Wi-Fi companions, educational electronic kits and more. Each of the kits, projects and open source hardware gifts in this guide represents more than just a holiday gift, it's a chance to support this nascent open hardware movement.

Xbox 360 Gets DivX/XviD Playback

This is fucking awesome, especially if your a pirate!

A few notes:

• You can play files off of a CD/DVD
• It supports almost all files
• AC3 Audio is supported
• It supports Windows Home Server
• Video Stretching is kind of weird
• You can skip through a video with the bumpers
• It's fast
• It doesn't work in Windows Media Center Extender
• It's not entirely perfect

Read on for more details about these notes.

Conan O'Brien Pays Salaries of 80 People

O'Brien, host of NBC's "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" will cover the salaries of his nonwriting production staff -- nearly 80 people -- for the foreseeable future, an NBC Universal spokeswoman confirmed. O'Brien will foot the payroll bill starting next week, barring a resolution in the WGA work stoppage, which wrapped its 25th day on Thursday.

Tekzilla Daily Episode 2 - LCD

Patricks explains how to connect a laptop/PC without DVI to a new LCD monitor

Video: How To Make an iPod Stand From a $1 Bill

Hot Topless Women Playing Wii (NSFW)

Amazing. Just amazing.

Diggnation Episode 127 - Caffeine Makes Kevin Rose Jittery

Digg Images Launch, Gamespot Review Scandal, Open Source Hardware Gifts, DivX/XvID Playback on XBox 360, Conan O'Brien, Topless Women Playing Wii, Evel Knievel Dead

Firefox 3 Beta Goes Portable

Want to test out Firefox 3 beta without messing up all of your precious Firefox 2 settings? Easy, just install the portable version. The Portable Apps developers have been doing a great job of pushing out versions of Firefox that can be run from a flash drive within a few days of every major Firefox release lately. And now that Firefox 3 has hit the beta stage, they've started portablizing (is that a word?) it as well.

Download Firefox 3 Beta Portable here.

Tekzilla Daily Episode 1 - Debut

Learn a few google tricks from Patrick Norton on the very first episode of Tekzilla Daily

Tekzilla Episode 11

Backup software for Windows. Jeff Gerstmann on garbage gaming gadgets. Fables. Ford's Sync Works. Free Defrag. Rent Movies Online. $500 HDTV Recco

Gallery: First Pictures From Speed Racer Movie

Google Pre-Launches New iPhone Interface

If you visit Google.com from an iPhone, you now get a menu of services to choose from - home (search box), Gmail, Calendar, Reader and More (docs, sms, goog-411, news, photos, blogger and notebook). It’s basically all of the core Google services, accessible from a single easy to use menu. Accessing the site through other mobile devices continues to deliver the old Google Mobile interface. Read on for more screens.

Gmail ♥ AIM

Today we are happy to tell you about a new feature we've started to roll out which will enable you to sign into your AIM account and chat with your AIM buddies right inside Gmail. When you log in to AIM through Gmail chat, your AOL buddies will appear in your chat list with friends from your Google Talk network, and you will see the yellow "running man" logo to the right of your AIM friends' screen names. To your AIM friends it will look like you are logged in to AIM as usual.

The Totally Rad Show Episode 37 - Deadly Discs

This week, everybody disagrees! The Mist: Unreal or unrealistic? Mass Effect: Fantastic or frustrating? Uncharted: Drake's Fortune: Cinematic or simple? Plus, Rocket Racing and ALL-NEW ATOM #18!

Vista SP1 Kills the WGA Kill Switch

Microsoft's anti-piracy system known (and loathed) as Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) is set to lose its bite. When Vista SP1 launches in early 2008, WGA will still identify -- ad-nauseam -- what it thinks to be non-legal copies of Vista. However, it will lose its ability to disable said systems. The change was announced in a presentation by WGA senior product manger, Alex Kochis, who said, "Based on customer feedback, we will not reduce user functionality on systems determined to be non-genuine." That should bring a swift end to WGA customer complaints related to false-positives, spyware concerns, or server glitches.

The 20 Best iPod Utilities

With a new generation of iPods on the market this holiday season, your reliable old iPod may not seem as shiny as it once did. But with the help of third party applications and utilities, you can unlock tons of useful functionality you never knew was there and revive that aging iPod so it doesn't look quite so bad next to its successors. Whether new or old, the following 20 iPod utilities can help you get the most from your iPod.

Digg Images and New Categories Launched

• New Universal Taxonomy
  Now you can submit news, images, or videos to any category on Digg! Categories will be consistent across the board, which means you can view all media types in a given topic, or view one media type at a time (e.g., only images under the “sports” category). We’re also excited to support the launch with new categories. “Offbeat” will be its own category, with new topics, and we’re adding a whole new “Lifestyle” category with topics like Autos, Food & Drink, and Travel. As always, if you don’t want to see a particular topic or media type on Digg, you can click the customize button in the navigation to filter your view.
• New Images Crawler
  Submitting images to Digg is basically the same as submitting news and videos, with a few notable differences. When you submit a link to a web page containing multiple images, Digg will crawl the page and present up to ten image thumbnails from that page for you to choose the one you want. We’ve also added this technology to news submissions.
• Sorting and Duplicate Image Detection
  We’ve added a new sort to the images section called “mosaic” view – it’s great for browsing image thumbnails. To help prevent people from submitting duplicate images, we’ve added image recognition technology from Idée Inc.

Gmail Introduces Colored Labels

Oooo, Aahh.

The Pirate Bay Dashboard Widget for the Mac

The Pirate Bay has released a widget that puts a list of the top 10 torrents from any (or all) of the categories on the popular BitTorrent site on your Mac Dashboard. In addition they announce the upcoming release of a public API for their website.

Staring at Boobs = Longer Life

A German research published in New England Journal of Medicine and Weekly World News said that men staring at women's breasts in fact prolong their lives with years. "Just 10 minutes of staring at the charms of a well-endowed female such as Baywatch actress Pamela Lee is equivalent to a 30-minute aerobics work-out," said author Dr. Karen Weatherby, a gerontologist.

Diggnation Episode 126 - 3rd Annual Diggnation Clips Show

It's the Third Annual Diggnation clips show! This year, we've collected all of your favorite segments and highlights. Watch and relive those classic Diggnation moments from 2007!

uTorrent WebUI For The iPhone

The iPhone UI for uTorrent can be used to access uTorrent from your iPhone when you’re away from your computer. The interface is optimized for the iPhone and uses the regular uTorrent WebUI. At the moment the iPhone UI lets you pause, resume and add new torrents. The iPhone UI also shows some status info such as the download/upload speed and the number of seeds and peers connected to the torrent, which should be sufficient to track the progress of your downloads.

The Five Hottest Chicks on TV Right Now

(Kristen Bell, Heroes)

Who are the hottest girls on TV? Well, with the Writer's Strike killing all of our favorite shows, that may be a tough question to answer. But then again, there are always reruns. One thing is for sure, these five beauties are always fresh, even if you're stuck watching the same episode over and over again.