Geoff Richards

Parabolic Heat Transference Case Mod

Ever had the urge to broadcast your Double Kickflip Indy to all your mates? Skateboard enthusiast Michael Buffington builds a half-pipe with a difference.

July 22, 2005 | 14:43

Hollywood may demand DRM for big HDs

Hollywood studios may insist on DRM for the next generation of small-yet-capacious perpendicular recording hard drives. Who controls the contents of your Video iPod - you, or Hollywood?

July 21, 2005 | 16:02

Firefox 1.1 scrapped

The next version of Firefox will be 1.5, not 1.1 as planned. There are also new features planned for Firefox 2.0 / 3.0

July 21, 2005 | 13:05

Xbox Live hits 2 million

Microsoft have the competition licked, surging past 2 million Xbox Live subscribers worldwide. The Xbox 360 launch brings improvements too.

July 21, 2005 | 08:52

Battlefield 2 by Butterkneter

Game-themed case mods are all the rage these days. So what better way to celebrate the recent launch of Battlefield 2 than with not one but two amazing mods?

July 19, 2005 | 08:50

Doom: the Movie details

Photos and plot details emerge for the Doom movie - a $70 million adaptation of a decade-old computer game. Is it doomed to flop?

July 18, 2005 | 15:11

Beta test FireFox

Help make open-source browsers better by beta testing FireFox 1.0.6, Thunderbird 1.0.6 or Mozilla Suite 1.7.10.

July 18, 2005 | 14:01

Battlefield 2 v1.02 released

After a nightmare week, Battlefield 2 has been patched again to fix the memory leak. We also have details of the new expansion pack, Battlefield 2: Special Forces.

July 16, 2005 | 07:03

LANFest 2K5 Mod Contest

If you live in or around California, pack your casemod into your car and head to LANFest 2K5. You might win big prizes from NewEgg, including a 7800GTX graphics card.

July 16, 2005 | 06:25

PGR3: Textured, not stirred.

This week's PGR3 Focus is about Textures. You won't believe the detail in these 1024x1024 building textures.

July 15, 2005 | 16:18

Win an Alienware PC

Alienware are giving away a fully-loaded Athlon 64 Aurora: Star Wars Edition PC with SLI. Read on for details.

July 15, 2005 | 12:49

iPod license to print money

iPod sales have increase six-fold in the past year, and generate a third of Apple's revenue. But Sony is fighting back.

July 14, 2005 | 14:39

MP3 Turns 10 Years Old

On this day in 1995, the researchers at Germany's now famous Fraunhofer Institute voted unanimously to use .MP3 as the file extension for the new MPEG Audio Layer 3 format. They took the rest of the week off.

July 14, 2005 | 05:14

GoldenEye Source

The N64 classic GoldenEye is coming to a PC near you. GoldenEye Source is a mod for Half Life 2, using Valve's Source engine. But will the lawyers let it live?

July 12, 2005 | 15:06

iTunes phone at V Festival

The latest media reports suggest that Motorola will unveil their anticipated iTunes handset at this year's V Festival in 5 weeks' time.

July 12, 2005 | 05:41

Pimp your Mac mini

The compactness of the Mac mini has found favour with car modders, who are integrating the tiny Apple into their dashboards, providing in-car iTunes, DVD, GPS and more.

July 11, 2005 | 14:28

Battlefield 2 patch withdrawn

Battlefield 2 fans caught some unexpected friendly fire when the v1.01 patch contained a fatal memory leak; EA responds to the flack.

July 11, 2005 | 09:47

Top 10 downloads of past decade

CNET Download.com, celebrating its 10th birthday this year, have announced the Top 10 downloads of the past 10 years.

July 8, 2005 | 09:54

Bulletproof iPod?

Tough enough for a tour of duty in Iraq, this 'Armor for iPod Photo' case was milled from solid aluminium.

July 7, 2005 | 09:52

Real Wood iPod by ZapWizard

Bored with your iPod's white case? ZapWizard was, so armed with his trusty Dremel, he carved a new case from solid hardwood. The end result is nothing short of stunning.

July 5, 2005 | 03:14

Bizarrely real buildings

Project Gotham Racing 3 hit new heights of graphical detail - Bizarre Creations having to defend screenshots as 'not fake'. We also have three new in-game screenshots.

July 1, 2005 | 07:56

Sony to lose $100 on every PS3?

Sony could lose over US$1 billion on Playstation 3 in its first year, according to a report by Merrill Lynch Japan. Can they afford to go toe-to-toe with cash-rich Microsoft?

June 29, 2005 | 15:18

Short straw for Firefox users?

One in ten UK websites fail to work properly when viewed in Firefox, according to a study of 100 leading consumer sites by web-testing firm SciVisum; bit-tech fully compliant

June 24, 2005 | 05:08