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This is one kit which I’m sure will sell well. This is a very interesting kit, which enables anyone to create their own faceplate for their Xbox 360. Nyko’s GameFace 360 kit allows you to create your own designs using their software and print it out on your home printer onto special paper templates. The [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Images have been aired on the Internet by Xbox360galaxy.com, who got their hands on a 360 Camera flier. It lists a lot of interesting specs including “gesture recognition”. The full spec is listed below.

USB 2.0 bus-powered device
Smooth, near DV quality video up to VGA 640×480 at 30 FPS
High def images: still photos up to SVGA [...]

Ever since Apple came out with their Boot Camp yesterday, more and more news of it has been posted. All sorts of things so I thought I’d make a collection of links to the various bits and pieces!

Installation of Boot Camp Flickr Set
Installation of Boot Camp Video
Short Review of Boot Camp on a 20-inch iMac [...]

Apple has released their own solution to installing Windows on an Intel Mac - Boot Camp. Apple’s complete solution, though still in beta, provides owners of Intel Macs to easily partition their hard drive and install Windows XP SP2 (Home and Pro) with a cool GUI for changing bootup drive. When booting hold down the [...]

Microsoft Connect, home of Microsoft’s betas including Vista has some interesting CSS values. The first line in the .css is commented “fix for the IE 1px-off margin error”, followed by a value called “.StupidIEMarginHack “. [digg]
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Millions of New Yorkers who bought personal computers could score $12 coupons or more, no questions asked, as part of a massive antitrust settlement from Microsoft, headed by Bill Gates. “Almost all of your readers could be eligible,” said David Stellings, a lawyer who helped negotiate the $350 million deal. “They are throwing away cash [...]