The Technopath

You just have to love the Mac vs. PC wars that have been going on for some time now. Apple did a pretty good job of downplaying Windows Vista in their campaign. Microsoft apparently failed to respond with a strong counter argument about why to buy a PC. After a few misses like Gates/Seinfeld ads, and the mildly success...

Millions of people complained in the past couple of weeks when Facebook launched a new layout for its home page. The new design broke away from the previously popular two column layout in favor of a three column version which was in ways similar to the old version of Facebook. While I love most aspects of the new desi...

Ever wanted to play games like Crysis or Gears of War on $300 rig? I’m talking about high definition graphics all turned up to the bleeding edge. If that’s been your long unanswered prayer, then OnLive, a cloud gaming startup may have an answer for you....

Windows 7 beta and leaks certainly gained a wide popularity among the users. The sheer demand was enough to bring down Microsoft’s servers to their knees at the beta launch time. Though the official beta and the later builds of Windows 7 have shown exceptional stability (as far as a pre-release version is concern...

As a follow up to last week’s tutorial, I would now lay out possibly, the simplest guide to setup a dedicated Counter Strike Server managed by the AMX Mod X. It would be good to have some basic knowledge of Counter Strike, and Half Life plugins in general....

Ever sent an email only to regret it later? Yeah it does happen to a lot of people. Some times by accident and sometimes its just that because you are too high. Gmail did introduce a new feature a while back called Mail Goggles that did try to add an extra level of obstruction in sending those accidental emails but tha...

I’m sure that no one would question Gmail as the best free web mail service in the world by now. In fact it beats a lot of premium mail services too with innovative solutions like Google Apps. But the biggest selling point of Gmail is the constant trickle of new and innovative features you get in the Gmail Labs s...

If you use the internet for more than just email then chances are that you might have noticed the recent pickup in the Web Browser market. Google Chrome just hit version 2 a couple of weeks ago, followed by new pre-release versions of Opera and Safari. Even Microsoft hinted towards developing a new browser technology....

Every other day I run into someone who is asking this question, and has little luck finding a simple answer. A lot of people easily get intimidated by this too. A couple of years back, I used to be the admin of one of the most populated servers around here, so I decided to share my knowledge and do a series of posts th...

What would you do if your latest gadget didn’t have that awesome feature you craved for? If that question just left you blank then your only hope is that someone would come along one day and hack that feature right into the device....