Bmon is a commandline program that comes in very handy for watching the throughput of data ports. While there are several GUI utilities to do this, the fact that Bmon is a terminal program allows you to log into a remote server and monitor its throughput. In fact, it’s installed on my server so I […]

Having just realized how infested some people’s pc’s actually are with virii and spyrii and other-ii, I decided to do a tip on spyware removal utilities, please people, use them; It’s for your own good.
Ad-Aware
This is a spyware removal utility that scans your memory, registry and hard drives for known spyware components and lets you […]

Today’s article is going to focus on a very effective form of video game AI that I’ve been looking into recently.
Rule-Based Systems, or RBS’ are extremely flexible techniques, capable of performing low-level control as well as decision making. Once the rulebase is in place, adding new behaviors is relatively easy as rules are modular.
Intro
Using […]

Having been a user of Blackbox for several years and many versions, I was a bit skeptical about Fluxbox’s ability to extend a window manager that in my opinion, was already great.
It should be pointed out that the instructions at the Fluxbox site for making Fluxbox your default window manager only apply if you are […]

iPhoto Keywords Made Easy
Apple’s implementation of keywords feels somewhat kludgy at best, and it’s a bit confusing, especially at first.
You have to open a special keywords panel, and also show the keywords in the main library. From there, when you want to categorize an image, you select the image(s), then find the keyword to assign […]

Login To The Administrator Account From The Welcome Screen
Ever want to access the administrator account from the welcome window without having to boot to safe mode. When at the screen press CTRL-ALT-DEL twice. This will bring up the login screen were you can type a user name and password in.
Mac OSX Icon Sizes
Ever wanted you […]

Hello again and welcome to migraineheartache’s Weekend Update. Where you’ll find all the important news stories from this past week in tech. Well lets get on with it:
I Want My MTV!
MobiTV has been billed as the first provider to offer/broadcast real-time video to cell phones. The service, offered by Sprint, costs an additional $9.99 monthly. […]

Well in the ongoing to push to keep my content fresh and new and because I get bored easily I’m changing yet another day’s theme here at migraineheartache. Friday, will now be (And I hesitate to call it this, but…) Dark Tips. Now I’ve honestly stolen that term straight from my good friend Kev Rose […]

Well I was just frequenting one of my many Google Groups and someone posted that Google had just released their (to my knowledge) very first piece of standalone software! The Gmail Notifier which can be found here:
http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/.
It allows the user to keep the program running in their system tray all the time and have a […]

Well I’ve decided to switch focus… a little. In the migraineheartache. Weekly Schedules - Thursday is going to now become Programming Articles/Tips day. Today I’m going to start with a quick little one on Game AI:
A method for handling computer intelligence that I’m using is a little simpler to implement than neural-nets: not necessarily better […]