Until the end of this month you can pick up a 3 month xbox live subscription for just $9.99 which is half of the regular price. The special price is only for people who do not already have xbox live gold. However if your renewal date is before the 30th you can cancel and pick up the cheap price before it is gone. If you only have a silver subscription all you have to do is log into your xbox live dashboard or the xbox live site and subscribe.

Robbing a bank is wrong, because you are taking something that does not belong to you, and that you did not work for. However, I am not sure that the same morals have the same application in the cyber world. Stealing a car is one thing, but would it be so bad if you could just copy and paste your car? That difference is the line between piracy and thievery. Therefore I think the morale code needs to be adjusted and I will use the iPhone app store for my example. Say I were visiting Washington DC for the weekend and planned on using the metro there. I would never pay for an app that I would only use for a weekend, that's just ridiculous to me. However it wouldn't be to much of a hassle to pirate it. What difference does this make to the creator of the app? None at all because if I were not able to pirate it, I would of never bought it. Either way he doesn't make a dime so what does it matter? On the other hand when I first saw the Civilization Revolution App in the AppStore I did not hesitate for one second ...

If you were a zombie and I had to kill you, I'd cry. This post card may be a funny prank on a non-believer now, but one day it could become a reality. During a zombie apocalypse you can't always save your friends and family, and when are cornered sometimes you have to make a tough decision. Just remember it's not your sweet grandma that used to bring you cookies anymore. That old lady wants to suck your brains out your head through a straw. It's ok to be upset but take the shot.

Some interesting statistics on how much time we spend playing online games.

I just stumbled across this site that goes pretty in depth about copyrights and some of their problems. There are plenty of pages out there bashing copyrights, but this one was written in a unique voice with a passively rebellious sort of attitude. He points out some ridiculousness and gives reasonable ways to respond to our copyrighted world. Did you know that you can't even sing happy birthday without breaking a copyright law, or that the phrase "Freedom of Expression " is trademarked? You life is not read-only really brings to light wonderful points on the matter.

You check your facebook throughout the day hoping for some menial form of human interaction, and you are almost always disappointed. The one day out of the year that you are probably actually doing something in real life with real people, all of your facebook friends jump at the chance to spam your wall.

RedLaser was the iPhone barcode scanner back in the day, but lately there has been some new competitors in the appstore. To stay competitive RedLaser has became a free app. Which app will you use to find the best deals and save money?  Here is a side by side comparison of RedLaser to one of it's competitors pic2shop. Personally I feel like pic2shop has much more potential and features than RedLaser but does not have the professional feel that Redlaser does. I also have a harder time trying to scan things with pic2shop and it seems to be slightly less accurate. For now RedLaser is still on top, but it may not be much longer

On a fresh install of mint linux your default web browser is firefox and your default search provider is google, but when you do searches you get a strangely formatted Google result page that is ad ridden, and all around ugly. Luckily this problem is very easy to fix. The default homepage uses this search so you should change your homepage to the regular google or to wherever else you like. To change your homepage click edit on your top bar, go to preferences, then type a new homepage url. To fix the Google search box on your navigation bar go to this page and click the green "add to firefox" button. A dialog box should pop up. Check the box that says "start using right away" and click add. Your searches will now be back to normal.

I've been all Ubuntu on you laptop for a long time and successfully found ways out of using almost all windows only programs for a while now. Sadly, at the end of things there are just a somethings you just can't use linux for, like tethering iPhones and iTunes. Smaller rarely used programs just don't have alternatives and some hardware like the iPhone will only work with windows and OSX. However, I'm in no way giving up on Ubuntu so I broke down and decided to dual boot. The first thing I would suggest when dual booting is installing windows first and Ubuntu second because windows doesn't always play nicely with others and I much prefer GRUB boot-loader to the windows one. When installing windows I completely deleted all pre-existing partitions (after backing up everything important of course), and created a new partition for windows around 30GB to leave room for the OS, some apps, and anything else I may have to add in the future. When I installed Ubuntu I formatted a EXT3 partition for it around the same size and used the Ubuntu disc utility to format the rest of the drive FAT32. The FAT drive can be shared by ...

In my opinion an iPhone is incomplete until it is jailbroken. You may not think so if you have never jailbroken your iPhone,before but, for anyone who has and had to go without, you know what I am talking about. The iPhone 4.o firmware update is out and it is packed with all sorts of new features that are very tempting and may make you want to update. But beware, because once you do there's no going back and you won't be able to jailbreak for  a while. If you already accidentally updated your phone don't give up hope because numerous exploits found have already been found, and a new jailbreak is on the way. The 4.0 jailbreak is going to take more work than ever because the updated broke a lot of the apps in cydia including mobile terminal, 5 icon dock, and more. All of these need to be ported to the newer firmware which means there is almost an endless supply of work to be done. There is no estimated time out of when the jailbreak will be out, but with the help of a former Apple employee headway is being made.