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This is a detailed tutorial with many photos showing you how to modify your Xbox 360 to water cool it. XboxExpert, posted a topic on XboxScene forums showing what he used, and how he modded his 360. Be warned, this is for the pros only! And what price does it come at?
$209.99 - ThermalTake CL-W0042 [...]

I’ve been experimenting with the design of the blog and I want some of your ideas / tips. Anything small to big I would love as I am looking for a unique design (which I don’t think it quite resembles yet). I’m not much of a designer, at all, so anything to freshen up the [...]

Here in the UK, we really do get ripped off. For everything we buy we get charged an extra 17.5% for the VAT (value added tax). So what does this pay for? All sorts of government things such as health care, etc. But for electronics goods, the price does increase a lot, that is why [...]

Everyone asks about new products. When is the new PowerBook going to come out? Is Apple every going to release a PDA? When I answer that I don’t know, I’ve actually been called a liar. Bluntly. Sadly, it’s not even a rare occurrence. The truth is, no one in the store knows anything. Sometimes we [...]

I know that many Intel Mac Firefox lovers have been dying for a Universal version of Firefox. Firefox is a great browser, but on the Mac, I think it is just too slow, so I use Safari. On the Intel Macs it would have been even worse, because of Firefox haveing to use Rosetta. But [...]

This is a cool hack. You can modify your OS X login window so that it displays the image of your choice and/or other text. It is quite simple to add the extra text, you just download a piece of software called Cocktail and navigate to the Login pane. The image modification is a bit [...]

What causes the Scroll Ball to fail is dust, lint, and other detritus that ends up inside the mouse and blocks the optical reader. Many of you will remember mice past where you had to open the retaining ring around the mouse ball and clean the gunk off the rollers to bring a flaky mouse [...]

This is a pretty cool device. It fits in between the 360’s HDD and the 360 itself. Then it links up to your PC via USB and you can move/transfer data that is not in use. It also has a blue LED’s on the side to give it that extra touch. It works with Xplorer360 [...]

It’s not that I’m mulling over a platform switch—rather, this XP overload is part of Macworld Lab’s efforts to see how Microsoft’s operating system performs on Apple hardware now that software exists that enables you to boot into XP on an Intel-based Mac. With the help from our sister publication, PC World, we’ve been running [...]

This is a really cool tutorial which explains to you how to install a wifi adapter into your Xbox (1) so that you don’t have to have that extra baggage. All this does is use the power from the Xbox (via a 8-inch power cable splitter) to supply the power to the WiFi adapter, and [...]