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By Anthony Sullivan

I’m not sure what possesses a person to take a perfectly good computer and begin chopping, hacking, and otherwise affixing away at it in order to make it look like something other than a computer.

Occasionally it turns out ok though. Here are a few examples.

The first mod we’ve got takes all the guts of a computer and puts it in a completely clear case.

Add a few cathode neons and this thing looks like it might be called home to the mothership anytime now.

Picture by asche45

The cat and mouse game between the hackers and the AACS Licensing Authority continues as the latest MKB v3 Processing Key is released onto the web.

Take a look at the various features and functions of Microsoft Surface.

Palm founder and creator of the PalmPilot and Treo Jeff Hawkins shows off his latest device, the Foleo mobile campanion.

Did you know that a command line utility exists to deal with issues of activation and licensing in Windows Vista? The command line utility is called the Windows Software Licensing Management Tool.

By Anthony Sullivan

As an amateur photographer I am always looking for new tools to help automate and accelerate my post processing. So I was very excited to get an opportunity to take a critical look at a product like the Faststone Image Viewer.

When you take as many photos as I do it’s important to have a tool that can help you organize your photos and make it easy to find shots quickly later.

You can download Faststone Image Viewer from the TechRepublic software library.

In this How do I we take a look at an old feature and how to use it within the Office 2007 interface.

Get a look at the show floor, the InteropNet NOC, and the lead keynote from Cisco’s John Chambers at Interop Las Vegas 2007.

Thureon’s innovative Armarac, a 19-inch rackmount enclosure, protects your servers, takes up no floor space, and looks good doing it.

In an endless quest to discover how everything works, or at least say we tried, we are cracking open the Logitech QuickCam Orbit MP.

Today we’ll be reviewing an all-in-one instant messenger tool that has been around for a while. Trillian is produced by Cerulean Studios and can be downloaded from the Tech Republic Software Library.

The latest version is 3.1.5.1 which was released in May of this year.

Let’s get started!

Screenshots of KSeg and Geometer’s Sketchpad

TechRepublic cracks open the Motorola DCT6412 III digital video recorder (DVR).

By: Anthony Sullivan

This is the first of a series of content pieces covering the many offerings from Google, the search engine powerhouse turned Internet application service provider. Google has an unbelievable number of services that you might not know you need just yet. Hopefully after reading this and the following articles, you’ll be able to pick out the useful from bewildering. Don’t worry, most of it is useful.

The first mini product that I’ll be reviewing is the iGoogle service. This is personalized homepage that allows you to add your own custom content as well as hundreds of canned modules, not to mention gives you quick access to the Google search engine that you probably use everyday anyway.

I’ll cover the good and the bad and tell you how this service compares to competitive services that are out there.

I’m sure you recognize this but in case you’ve lived under a rock for the past decade, this is the Google search engine homepage. Many people have been coming here for years and haven’t noticed the addition of a couple of links in the upper right hand corner. Clicking the iGoogle will get you started on your way to your own personalized homepage.

One of the more popular, geek-friendly weekend projects available is the building of a functional Media PC. TechRepublic Senior Software Engineer Bryan Peabody recently spent a weekend creating a Media PC using Microsoft Windows Media Center as its operating system. Here are a few of his observations and some screenshots of the process and his new Media PC in action.

Screenshots from Scratch application (MIT Labs)

Portable GPS and navigation units are becoming more mainstream and common, but Garmin is taking it a step further with MSN Direct integration. With the StreetPilot c580 you can now get weather, traffic, movie time, and gas price information when you travel.

By: Anthony Sullivan

Maybe it’s a coincidence or maybe ist something written in to the DNA of those who are destined to work in cubicles, but it seems that no office is short of michievious pranksters looking for there next mark.

Check out these photos of some great pranks that people have pulled over the years.