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Whilst innocently surfing the web, CMNL has come across something that brings back memories…the option to play handwritten homebrew games on recent technology, and the ability to play old games for old machines on the same!

Two places provide a product for the Nintendo Wii allowing you to play homebrew/backup/imported games – and emulators for the N64 & Sega Genesis are included!

One is here : www.homebreware.com

And the other is here : www.homebrewinstaller.com

Enjoy!

GoogleMail (or GMail, if you prefer), is great. Google Calendar is also great. In fact, both are modern miracles by virtue of the fact that they offer desktop style applications through a web browser.

Many people are not willing to make the jump and ‘live in the cloud’ as they say, favouring traditional desktop applications such as Outlook or Thunderbird with Lightning to manage their email and calendaring requirements.

The benefit of ‘living in the cloud’ is that no matter what machine you are on, anywhere in the world, you can have access to your email, address book and calendar. But how can you do it with no easy way to synchronise your data to your desktop apps?

Enter GCalDaemon. It works as a bridge between your desktop and the cloud, allowing you to see your Google Calendar in your desktop app, and also synchronises your address book with your Google Mail account!

It can be a little tricky to set up, but full instructions are given on the website.

Works on Windows, Linux and OS X, and requires JAVA. Download it from here.

Please note, I intentionally have not mentioned Boro’s defeat yesterday to Reading from a last minute goal. Nor do I intend to mention it…

OpenDNS has been profiled many times before by lots of different people – but here’s a use for it that you may have missed.

If you create an account on OpenDNS.com, you are able to switch on the site blocker. This will not only help protect you from phishing attacks, but is great if you have kids – there is an option to block “adult” sites. Safe surfing for all the family!

In case you haven’t heard of OpenDNS before, it is a service that aims to speed up your internet access. Each time you look for a website by name, a DNS server is contacted to turn that name in to an IP address. OpenDNS is basically a superfast DNS server – but with extra bells and whistles.

Check it out at http://www.opendns.com.