Wednesday Roundup

Lifehacker posts an update to their Hackintosh guide.  Apparently, some smart guy has created an executable that will take care of the most complicated part of the guide – creating and formatting the MacOS partitions.

How-To Geek has a post about transferring wireless network settings via USB in Windows 7.  This will come in handy.  I’m looking to upgrade to Windows 7 at launch.  I’ve used the RTM and was much impressed.

The WPtouch iPhone plugin for Wordpress will transform your WordPress-based blog when it detects that the user is accessing your page via an iPhone.  The result: a blog that looks just like an iPhone app.  Pretty cool and very customizable.

Batman: Arkham Asylum DLC is on its way.

Saturday Roundup

Finished Batman: Arkham Asylum last night and now I’m in the mood to watch “The Dark Knight”.  I haven’t enjoyed a game as much as Batman: AA in several years.  I can’t wait to see where Eidos takes the series.

Comparing Gaming Performance: Windows Vista vs. Windows 7

DriverHeaven provides a comparison in video performance between Windows Vista and Windows 7.  Take a look.

Another Borderlands Trailer

Am I the only one who doesn’t “get” the hype surrounding this game?

LucasArts Announces Lucidity

Check out my thoughts on the announcement.

Rails Magazine Issue #4

SlickDeals.net is listing that Dell Home has the Dell U2410 24″ UltraSharp H-IPS Monitor for $479.

Wednesday Roundup

Lifehacker Guide to Building a Hackintosh
Interested in building a powerful Mac without spending $2,000 on a G5 or MacBook Pro? If so, then you should check out this updated guide for Snow Leopard by Lifehacker.

Google Wave: 5 Ways It Could Change the Web
An interesting article on the prospects on the prospective business incentives of Google’s new Wave app.

Seam Recipes: Part 1
An article from the Seam team on some common Seam challenges. Hopefully there will be more from where this came from.

Death Spank Trailer
A new game by the designer of Maniac Mansion and The Secret of Monkey Island. LucasArts should bring Maniac Mansion and Day of the Tentacle onto XBox Live Arcade.

IRA and 401k Contribution Limits by Year
As the end of the year approaches, have you checked to see how much you are investing in your retirement? Here is a simple list of current and future contribution caps.

Geek Roundup

Welcome to our Geek Roundup for the week of November 16th through November 23rd.

Check out the latest Star Trek trailer at the official site.
Brian and I agree: remakes of classic movies with plenty of grit makes for good entertainment.

DZone has an interesting article on changes in the Java application server market.

Google has released a new theme system into Gmail.
Pretty sure Google can’t do anything wrong at this point.

Bjorn3d brings us a roundup of top-of-the-line video cards.

Geek Roundup

Welcome to our first Geek Roundup for the week of November 3rd through November 9th.

Gears of War 2 scores a 93 on Metacritic. [Source: Metacritic]
Too many games, not enough time.

A study by SquareTrade shows that BlackBerries are more prone to failure than the iPhone.
[Source: TechCrunch]
I might have to consider an iPhone in the future and ditch the BlackBerry 8830.

The folks at JBoss have released JBoss Tools 3.0 Beta 1.  [Source: The Server Side]
This is a must have for those of you doing any sort of Java EE development with JBoss Seam.

A mashup of 40 great (and free) icon sets for all of you Web developers out there. [Source: SixRevisions]

CNET reports that YouTube will start to host feature films as early as December. [Source: CNET]
I’m more interested in seeing how this turns out than ever using this feature.