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  • Tweak Windows 7

    For those of you who used Tweak UI for the earlier version of Windows, here’s an application you’ll love that allows you to tweak most aspects of Windows Vista and 7.  It’s called Ultimate Windows Tweaker, and I found it to be very useful today while setting up a couple of Win 7 machines.

    The 345KB application has a small footprint, and is contained entirely in the executable so no installation is necessary.  It also only displays options that pertain to the OS version your running it on.  Just fire it up, and over 150 customizable aspects of Windows are at your finger tips, no digging through countless steps to access them.

    If you’re like me, and you want Windows to operate exactly as you want, not how Microsoft thinks you want it, you owe it to your self to download a copy and give it a try.

  • Saturday Shenanigans: Recent Entertainment News

    Here’s a little peak at the entertainment world now that Comic-Con has passed.

    Shark Week starts tomorrow night on Discovery. My favorite quote about Shark Week is Tracy Morgan’s from 30 Rock when his character, Tracy Jordan, is teaching Kenneth how to live life to the fullest. “You need to live every week like it’s Shark Week.” There’s something about that that is so simple and yet, so true.

    I guess Ellen Degeneres quit American Idol… if you care about that sort of thing. I hope that show dies a painful death, soon. (more…)

  • Starcraft 3 Announced

    Hot on the heels of releasing Starcraft 2, the 12 year in the making sequel to Starcraft, Blizzard has announced that they will only make Starcraft 3 if you do the following*…

    *Ok, so they might not have said that… Or even announced Starcraft 3 at all.

  • Jailbreak 101: Backgrounder

    Apple may have added multitasking into iOS 4, but it isn’t true multitasking. What if you want something a little more versatile? Or hey, maybe like me, you’re running older hardware which according to Apple “doesn’t support multitasking”, or even an iPad which doesn’t have iOS 4 yet. At any rate, I would highly recommend you check out Backgrounder.

    Here’s how to install and configure Backgrounder.
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  • Parrot AR Drone Available for Pre-Order

    Parrot AR Drone Available for Pre-Order

    After years of wondering if it would ever reach production, let alone be affordable, the Parrot AR Drone is now up for pre-order on Brookstone’s website!

    This wonderfully awesome piece of iPhone controlled gadgetry will set you back a cool $299+ shipping (which was $10 on my order) and won’t arrive until sometime after September 3rd, but that seems pretty tangible after the long period of waiting since the Parrot was first demoed at CES. I just bought one, you should too.

    [ Pre-order at Brookestone ]

    For more information on this bundle of quadricopter goodness, check out http://ardrone.parrot.com/parrot-ar-drone/usa/