Uniblue ProcessLibrary.com, might aid you in identifying an unknown Windows process. They offer a searchable index of common processes, identifying them by the manufacturer, purpose, and security risk level. They also offer ProcessScanner and ProcessQuickLink.

ProcessScanner will compose a report on all the processes running on your system. It maintains a copy of the report on their website and gives you the URL so you can forward the output to someone else.

If you prefer to stick with good old Task Manager, their ProcessQuickLink will add an icon to each process reported in Task Manager. This simplifies looking up unknown processes, as it adds an icon to each process reported in Task Manager. Clicking the icon brings up the corresponding ProcessLibrary page.

I like the library but found it valuable only for reassurance that a suspicious-looking process is actually benign. When infecting a system with spyware, the process scanner could not identify the process. I like the process library and the two free utilities they offer, but scattered among the library and various utilities you'll find penty of links to launch the SpyEraser spyware scanner, which is a dud.

Since the Wiimote uses Bluetooth to communicate with the Wii, it can be used with any computer that can receive Bluetooth. Johnny Chung Lee wrote a program for Windows that is a start toward doing what Microsoft’s $10,000 Surface can do.

With the right hardware, Windows Vista is pretty cool. I've been running Vista x64 for almost a year now. The media would have you believe that everyone hates Vista. It is commonly referred to as being buggy and unstable. That is simple not true. Vista has problems, but I've not seen one mainstream news source address one of Vista's "real" issues. One of these real issues for me has been file transfer speed. Some of which has been address in SP1.

I wasn't very happy with Vista when I saw my network performance fall from around 80 MB/sec with XP to around 10 MB/sec with Vista. I've had similar experiences, for instance when I moved from Windows 2000 to Windows XP. During that move I switched from my much beloved SCSI disk interface to the IDE disk interface. XP had serious issues with SCSI systems which resulted in poorer performance than their IDE counterparts.

Over the next few months of running Vista I finally discovered certain application, specifically ones that dealt with audio played a huge role in affecting the speed of file transfer, especially when transferring files over a network. With some of the resent Vista updates, transferring large files became manageable, while still inconvenient. For instant if I were going to move some large files, I might hang up my call on Skype or close any applications where were playing audio. There are some application that greatly affect the file transfer speed that don't appear to be using audio. I noticed the Steam client for Valve games really kills transfer speed. Kill the application while transferring a large file and watch a huge boost in your transfer speed.

Today I installed the service pack one release candidate (SP1 RC) for Vista x64. 

Today NVIDIA announced 3-Way SLI for 680i and 780i motherboards. This technology enables the use of three graphics processing units (GPUs) on a single computer, allowing up to three GeForce® graphics cards to be used in a single machine. NVIDIA’s new 3-way SLI delivers up to a 2.8x performance increase over a single GPU system, giving high-end gamers 60 frames per second at resolutions as high as 2560x1600 and with 8x antialiasing. 3-way SLI technology means you no longer have to dial back the image quality settings on the newest PC games. For example, gamers with 3-way SLI can play Crysis at high resolutions such as 1920x1200 with all the advanced DirectX 10 effects such as motion blur, ambient occlusion, and soft shadows turned on. 

"Here Comes Another Bubble" video by the The Richter Scales. 

Go to Google and enter google chuck norris in the search box and click I'm Feeling Lucky.

If you haven't already seen Chuck Norris Facts you should check it out too. My favorite is:

When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.

Miranda IM is a wonderful instant message client. I’ve used every major instant message client available, and nothing holds a candle to Miranda. It is a multi-protocol client, which means you can chat with friends on AIM, Jabber, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo, Gabu-Gabu, Google, and others all at the same time. Miranda hasn't gotten the attention it deserves in the past. It is so customizable it can be a daunting task to setup.

I thought I would document the setup and customization of Miranda on my computer. This isn’t intended to be a full guide, but just the specific plug-ins and themes I’m currently using. A basic knowledge of the Windows file system is required. You will need to know how to extract files from a ZIP archive to specific directories in order to install and customize Miranda. This usually involves extracting a dll file from a zip file and placing it in the Miranda Plugin folder. This guide is for Windows NT based PCs (Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista) and was written for Miranda IM v0.7.3.

I recently started renting high definition movies on Blu-Ray and HD-DVD discs from Netflix. So far I’ve received 7 Blu-Ray discs from which 5 have been defective. All five of them have the exact same small crack at the edge of the disc. The crack is usually a little more than a quarter of an inch long, somewhere along the edge of the disc. Before noticing the crack, I thought I was merely having trouble playing the new discs. New technology, new headaches; I’m used to that. A friend mentioned to look closely around the edge of the disc for a small crack. The crack was so faint and small I hadn’t noticed it. Problem solved I thought. A couple clicks on Netflix’s well designed site and I would have my replacement disc in a mere day. No dice. The next disc was cracked as well.

Team Fortress 2 (TF2) is the sequel to the game that put class-based, multiplayer team warfare on the map. The original Team Fortress was a was developed as a free add-on (mod) for Quake and it is sometimes referred to as Quake Team Fortress or QTF. The concept was sparked from Quake modification to create a sniper rifle. The sniper class was born and the game was born there. It was released on August 24, 1996 as a completely free add-on. When the game was first released the install process wasn’t for the technically faint of heart. Its fast pace first-person-shooter (FPS) action coupled with the strategy elements of its maps instantly raised the bar for multiplayer games. The characters classes Team Fortress brought with it, added that missing something to the multiplayer arena. In my opinion no game to date has been able to replicated its game play. FPS games have offered various weapons, but the weapon was always the only thing that set you apart from everyone else in the game. With TF, choosing from one of the nine characters didn’t just provide you with a different arsenal it also would dictate your tactics and the role you took in the game.

Transfz (pronounced transfuse) enables you to launch online searches from any document or application, by simply selecting the text and pressing a keyboard hotkey. In addition to standard web searches (Google, Yahoo etc.) you can also perform online dictionary lookups, Wikipedia searches or any other online query by creating custom entries for any site that offers a search feature. Transfz is also a clipboard manager and can keep track of the X last items copied to the clipboard. It can even process selected text, convert upper/lower case, count characters, insert dates and search/replace words in a selection. The processed text is automatically copied to the clipboard.

I just installed this and I’m already wondering how I got along without it. I’ve used similar applications in the past, but for one reason or another they have all been forgotten. This is however is a keeper.