The ultimate game machine:

Ultimate NERD/Gaming Machine was recently built by myself in an efffort to join the \'cool rig\' elite casemod group. Its your standard AMD64 3400+ CPU that is watercooled and 100% acrylic. Take a look at the shots for it here: (beware the images are 1.5MB each so loading is slow even on high-speed)

http://www.ironrocket.com/frostbite

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Real-time traffic on your cell:

Currently right now you can only get this service in CA and AZ but they plan to release it to other areas in the future. This is for you cell-phone application folks. It is a GPS traffic application so you can break out the cell and see realtime where the congestion is on the road to work. It tracks you in your car and puts you on the map with everyone else so it is a collective type of data analysis. Very interesting. Just dont crash while looking at your cell phone.

http://www.zipdash.com
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Linux distro solely for MAME:

For you die hard MAME folks, you can now get a linux distribution that is designed 100% for MAME. KnippixMAME will boot automatically right into a MAME loader. This makes it very nice to run if you build a cabinet for it and want to setup a standalone MAME system.

Check it out here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/knoppixmame
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Video card blowout:

Alright so you may have heard about the next round of video cards and how great they are going to be. However you have a good card today but wonder how it ranks up with the rest. Check out this link, it has like 40 video cards and how they rank up to Unreal Tournament 2003. A very nice reference:

http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20031229/vga-charts-03.html#unreal_tournament_2003

Also incase you havent heard about the latest ATI video card coming out that blows away the Nvidia card that was hyped big time check it here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040504/index.html
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Sweet cpu monitor app:

You got a fast machine and you want a good monitoring program. Need to see just how much CPU %, drive space left, memory consumption and it has to look cool of course. It needs skins, free, no adware. Here it is BAM!

http://www.simeter.com/
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Spam filters:

Spam filter update time. Here is another great FREE (yes FREE) spam filter that runs in windows that has all kinds of good filters (YES Bayesian filter hence the name) spam bayes. Grab it here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/spambayes/index.html

Ok, so you are like how does my spam filter compare to others. I have found a great chart that is updated recently that you can compare against. Check it out here:

http://spampal.spxs.net/comparison-chart.html
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MAC User Crazyness:

So you like MAC but like me realize MAC just does not cut it for what I need and you want the best of both worlds. Well now you can. Running a PowerPC emulator on your Windows or *NIX box you can run OS X on your PC. It is buggy now but will get good as it develops:

Here Kevin Rose at The Screen Savers installed it on his site here:

http://kevinrose.typepad.com/kr/2004/05/osx_is_running_.html

The development site for pear pc is here:

http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/
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Geek wear:

Alright finally another cool t-shirt is out on jinx. You MP3 lovers need to get your hands on this sweet T-shirt. It is now on my bday wish list. Very cool:

http://www.jinxhackwear.com/scripts/details.asp?affid=-1&productID=232
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