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After Hours

Spotlight: Kinect sensor for Xbox 360

Check out several photos of the new Kinect sensor for Xbox 360, as well as some shots from the Kinect launch in New York City.

Hardware

Fixing a defective Rock Band guitar is quick and easy

The guitar that came in our Rock Band bundle suffered from the downward strum issue that many people have reported online. Either the strum bar on the guitar doesn’t recognize a downward strum at all or it will recognize each downward strum twice. Not the best situation to be in when playing a rhythm-based game. ...

Microsoft

Use your Rock Band drums in Windows

Andrew Rudson has written an app for Windows that allows you to turn your Rock Band drum kit into a drum machine that you can use to play and record your Neil Peart-esque rhythms. I tried it out at the office on Friday and at home over the weekend and it works great. Here is ...

After Hours

Unboxing Rock Band

Photos of me unboxing the Rock Band bundle for the XBOX 360.

Hardware

Give an old Mac new life by turning it into an iWipe

Shawn Morton turns an old Macintosh SE into an Apple-powered, wireless, portable toilet paper dispenser -- the iWipe.

Project Management

Don’t approach site redesign blindly–analyze usage data first

Web designers often rely on personal preferences or gut feelings to make decisions about a site redesign. See how collecting accurate usage data can set your design on a better course.

Cybersecurity demands and the stakes of failing to properly secure systems and networks are high. While every organization’s specific security needs form a unique and complex blend of interconnected requirements, numerous security fundamentals almost always apply to each of these groups. It stands to reason that cybersecurity pros who effectively identify network and systems risks ...

In this guide from TechRepublic Premium we’re going to explore the various things you can do with a Linux server. We won’t leave out any steps, so you won’t have to refer to another tutorial to complete the process. The only step we will leave out is the installation of Linux, as we’ll assume you ...

If you want to deploy applications into a Kubernetes cluster, be warned — it’s not the easiest task. There are a lot of moving pieces that go into these scalable containers. Don’t you wish you had a complete roadmap, from start to finish, to walk you through the process of deploying the Kubernetes cluster, deploying ...

Shawn Morton

Spotlight: Kinect sensor for Xbox 360

Fixing a defective Rock Band guitar is quick and easy

Use your Rock Band drums in Windows

Unboxing Rock Band

Give an old Mac new life by turning it into an iWipe

Don’t approach site redesign blindly–analyze usage data first

Checklist: Network and systems security

How to host multiple websites on Linux with Apache

How to deploy an application with Kubernetes

Cross-training tool kit