The Minority Report

As loyal readers of The Minority Report know, I stea…uh…quote from Ghacks regularly enough and this morning when I read their tutorial on burning DVD’s using Imgburn I thought I would throw my two cents in.
I use Imageburn almost weekly and it’s never let me down. It’s freaking awesome!! There isn’t too much [...]

Obviously, this blog uses Wordpress but we also use Wordpress as a “development” platform for other projects as well. Some of these features supplant plugins and other are just freaking awesome for ease of administration.
The Wordpress developers have released version 2.9 of their popular blogging script Wordpress which can be downloaded from the official [...]

I thought this was interesting from gHacks today considering that I put up the Tech Support Cheat Sheet the other day, tongue firmly in cheek.
These are serious troubleshooting flowcharts from the Computer Repair with Diagnostic Flowcharts book by Morris Rosenthal.

Computer repair flowcharts can aid even inexperienced users to analyse the computer hardware problem with the [...]

Daniel Pataki over at gHacks posted this nice article about using the WordPress API, specifically the Wordpress Template Tags, to do more with your blog.

If you’ve been developing themes, or taking a go at modifying your own, chances are you’ve run into the Wordpress Template Tags page. This part of the Wordpress Codex lists numerous [...]

I’m sure that this vulnerability will be fixed almost immediately but because I love WordPress (and Wordpress Mu) and use it for tons of blogs, I thought it best to clip the entire post from Martin @ gHacks today.
It looks like it could be used for DDOS attacks but not for access. WordPress (and [...]

I figure I’ll hop on the Office 2007 SP2 announcement train too.
Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 is out today and I’ve already downloaded and installed it. I still have to reboot after this post so I don’t know how its going to stack up but I am looking forward to trying the native support for [...]

Martin on gHacks posts these tips to speed up your SSD drive. He’s totally right that SSD drives are going to be in all of our computers in another few years. They are basically working out the kinks now.
For example, Microsoft Research Cambridge team recently published Migrating Server Storage to SSDs: Analysis of [...]

As always gHacks has the skinny on stuff that nerds and nerd wannabes need to know. Jack posted a great introductory article to all the Ubuntu flavors of the day.

Here is the list of the distros that Jack covers:

Eeebuntu
Xubuntu
Gobuntu
Ubuntu Studio
MythBuntu
CrunchBang
OpenGEU

I would read his take on them but I can tell you that Ubuntu is [...]

Martin over at gHacks posted this lucent and well thought out post about content copying…or…scraping as it’s called in the biz. I suggest you read the whole thing if you are interested in free back links because the “blackhatters” and I use that term very loosely here, can actually help your SERP position if [...]

I don’t know how this Martin cat from gHacks keeps finding this cool shit but this video was cool.
He talks about the viral marketing genius of Samsung but I’m talking about the shear power of this system. Watch the video and be amazed the machine rips an entire DVD faster than the chick can [...]

Finding ring tones on the Internet is a fucking pain in the ass. Why this term ranks so fucking high and in turn is Web-link spammed into infinity is mind boggling. Must make some people a shitload of money. Regardless…
So I find a post about a free ring tone search engine on [...]

Looks like a hard drive benchmarking utility from the fine people that brought you the JPEG & PNG stripper.

Measures both sustained and burst data transfer rates of your hard disks, cd/dvd-roms, flash cards/sticks, floppys, etc. Realtime graphical display. HD_Speed – www.SteelBytes.com
Version 1.5.3.64
Date 4 August 2007
Windows WinNT4, Win2000, WinXP, Win2003,WinVista
Languages English, Spanish, FrenchHD_Speed – www.SteelBytes.com

gHacks is talking about a cool tool to remove metadata from JPEGS and PNG files.
Many image formats support so called metadata which are shunks of information stored in the image file itself. This can include the digital camera model used to take the images, time and date the picture was taken or GPS [...]