Build Your Own IR Head Tracker

It's a great simple project with the help of Free Track.
Here are some of the materials your going to need:

Materials
a) webcam no more than 320x240, it's not high resolution but will be good enough.
b) for IR Led the recommendation is SFH485P for it's wavelength and viewing angle.
(these items are under a dollar at DigKey)
c) need a resistor try a SFH485P

Tutorials

For more information seek Maximum PC December 2010 magazine 

Eat Free on your Birtday

Want to eat free on your Birthday. This is how with this wonderful website. In most cases you'll first have to sign up so don't waste anymore time to eat free.

Hound.com

New job hunting website that really works. It's a premium site with a trial version that does a lot of hunting. You not only get regular job postings in your area, but direct company job postings as well.
If your recently out of work, give Hound a try. It's worth the price if you beat the odds on getting your resume out first.

$1- Hosting

In need of a hosting site, well I prefer GoDaddy.com, but if your not doing anything on to your domain and you just want your page just up. It's an alternative.
They're are some draw backs with it because sites could go down often. But when compared to other's it's still worth the cost.

Time Freeze Free

Here is a new virtual way to safeguard your computer. It's a virtual computer that safeguards your computer from viruses and malware. Then if you surf online and get a virus or malware, all you have to do is reboot and the threat is gone. It's a dream come true for computer user's.

Router Password Viewer

If you have a router and need to backup it's setting and for some reason forgot the password. This software comes to the rescue to help you recover the password. It's not guaranteed that you'll find the password. But it sure beats having to reset from scratch.

Instr
Just backup your router configuration using the router build in backup software and save it onto your desktop click on routerpassview and open the router configuration file to see login name and password.

Windows 8 Pre

Want to know what's new in Windows 8 Beta release. Simple just download the iso and install it via Virtual Machine and presto, you'll get a sample of Microsoft new Operating System.

Results:
Looks like Microsoft took a lot of key features that Google Chrome had and just pimped it.
What did you expect?


Links:
1- VirtualBox 4.2.1

Power DVD Player

Looking for a new version of Power DVD for Blue Ray DVD's. It's a trial version, but at least you can try the software before you buy. Now watching Blue Ray will be a breeze.

Remove a Bios Password

This is the easiest way to do it

1-The simplest way to remove a BIOS password is to simply remove the CMOS battery. A computer will remember its settings and keep the time even when it is turned off and unplugged because these parts are powered by small battery inside the computer called a CMOS battery. If we pull out this battery, the computer will forget a lot of its hardware settings, including its BIOS password.

2-You can use a bios password cracker, but chances are that this can take forever to crack. Link

3-The last step requires you boot into DOS and use DEBUG to corrupt the bios. On the reboot, the Bios will realize their is an error and resets everything to factory defaults, eliminating the password. Here are some helpful tips to make a usb bootable disk.

Citibank Credit or Reward

Citibank is rolling out it's new Credit or Reward credit card program in which user's decide when purchasing if they want to use it as a credit credit card or reward points. The new card comes with new payment processing by a push of a button. Hopefully changing the way we now buy goods.

Overclock the New Droid 2

It was only going to be a matter of time before someone would attempt to do this. It's not going to be lightning speed, but good enough to want to overclock. No tools needed.

Here are the Links

Apple Kills Recovery Disk

Yes we all knew that it was only a matter of time before manufactures stop making system restore disks. And just to prove that this theory is moving forward. Apple is already on the front line making USB recovery drives.

Life Expectancy Calculator

If your planning on retirement, once thing everyone should always calculate is their life expectancy. You just don't know when your time will be up. Let the statistics you the results.

Eset SysInspector

Here's a great utility for IT responders to figure out what's going on with your system. It captures all the details on what's running, registry, startup and network connections. It's an ideal tool for troubleshooting.

What is seaport.exe

Have seaport.exe running in your task manager? Don't be alarmed because it was Microsoft who put it there when you either tried Windows Live Essential 2011 or installed the beta version.
The good news is that it does not slow down your computer and if your looking to just disable it since you think it's in any way hogging up your system resource, follow these tips to disable it.

Super AntiSpyware

Downloaded Malwarebytes but still can't get that virus off of your computer. Try this Super Antispyware and take control of your computers. Viruses keep on changing daily and it's up to you to make sure your protected all the times.

More Info on the Fake Antivirus

For those of you user's who have been hit recently with the Fake Antivirus here's more information on that nasty software. It's a pesky virus / malware that just keeps on infecting your computer over and over again.
Stay safe and always scan any documents once it has been downloaded. 

Pixlr

Looking for a photoshop imitator with no software to install. Pixlr is a great start and best of all you can use the program without a need to login. Try it out.

For the basic user their is also a Pixlr Express version as well.

Remove Games in XP

Here is a great script and software link to remove games from Windows XP terminals. It's a must have administrative script for user's who abuse game playing in the workforce. Works great when using the Hyena software.

 Script:
' Uninstall games from Windows XP

'=========================

Dim Fso : Set Fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

sPrograms = WshShell.SpecialFolders("AllUsersPrograms")

If (Fso.FolderExists(sPrograms & "\Games")) Then

' Create file for uninstalling games

Set f = Fso.CreateTextFile("c:\windows\inf\wmdtocm.txt", True)

f.WriteLine("[Components]")

f.WriteLine("freecell=off")

f.WriteLine("hearts=off")

f.WriteLine("minesweeper=off")

f.WriteLine("msnexplr=off")

f.WriteLine("pinball=off")

f.WriteLine("solitaire=off")

f.WriteLine("spider=off")

f.WriteLine("zonegames=off")

f.Close

WshShell.Run "sysocmgr.exe /i:c:\windows\inf\sysoc.inf /u:""c:\windows\inf\wmdtocm.txt""
/q", 1, True

Fso.DeleteFolder(sPrograms & "\Games"), True

End If