Big news. Radio Shack just sent their new digital trunking scanner to the FCC for approval. Photos and the manual are now online. This is significant because right now Uniden manufactures the only two digital trunking scanners on the planet (BC250D, BC785D) and they charge the ripoff price of $375 for each. But wait –…

I just figured out how to get the most out of this Mac keyboard under Windows XP. I came up with a little registry hack that solves all my problems! Try it if you’re feeling adventurous. It could screw up your whole key mapping if you’re not careful, though! Again, this works on my Design…

Another thing that I don’t like about Firebird is that the ‘notify me when a bookmark changes’ feature doesn’t appear to do anything yet. It worked in Mozilla!

The Hulk looks like such a god-awful movie that I want it to fail miserably, and I haven’t even seen it. Does that make me a bad person? I think it just means I have taste!

Wow what a weekend. Friday we spent the night at my parents’ house in lieu of being there on Father’s day. We gave my dad his gifts; I got him a grillin’ cookbook and Carl Reiner’s memoir. Saturday afternoon we left for our Walk in Walt’s Footsteps tour. That was really cool. I heard lots…

Spin a CD fast enough (with a Dremel tool) and all sorts of fun things can happen. The CD can jump off the tool and climb up walls, or it can shatter spontaneously. Dorm-room footage of these events is now available.

What would you say if I told you you could get satellite TV in your house without having to pay a monthly subscription fee? You’d say “That’s great, but I don’t want to go to jail.” And I’d tell you not to worry, because there’s a way to do it LEGALLY! Granted, the channel selection…

A Jabber-enabled Trillian should hit beta within the next few days, thus sayeth Rachel Blackman, developer of the Jabber plugin. It’s about time!

Dallas sent me to this quiz- Which OS are You? Dallas is HP-UX, Jason is WinXP, Nate is OSX, and Tammy is AmigaOS!

The colossal mistake known as the “XGames XPerience” is coming to DCA on July 1st, and the schedule has just been posted. I’m not sure how long it’s going to take Disney to realize that seasonal events don’t draw people to a theme park – quality attractions do. On a more positive note, one of…