The new iMac G5 features a built-in iSight video camera for out-of-the-box video conferencing and Apple’s new breakthrough Front Row media experience. Front Row gives users a simple, intuitive and powerful way to play their music, enjoy their photo slideshows and watch their DVDs and iMovies, as well as popular movie trailers from apple.com and music videos and television shows purchased from the iTunes Music Store, on their iMac from up to 30 feet away using the new bundled Apple Remote. [Oct 12, 2005]

Linksys's WUSBF54G appears to be the same reference design as Zyxel's AG-225H: I reviewed Zyxel's version, a combination USB 2.0 802.11a/b/g adapter with Wi-Fi detector, a few weeks ago. Zyxel's was extremely well made, and the description and captures from Linksys's product look essentially identical. A fair amount of commodity electronics--inexpensive, useful, mass-market devices--are created by firms that don't have a retail sales presence. They develop reference designs which are shopped around to retail brands like Linksys and Zyxel. The companies license the design, create their own wrapper, and sometimes their own software, and sell the product....

Small shops do not always have the budget for the necessary tools required to monitor the services running on a Windows based server, yet it is imperative that these services be monitored. MAK examines alternative methods for checking all SQL Server services from one location and how to check the heart beat of SQL Server instances every few minutes.

Get a taste of what to expect from Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones in this amazing trailer.