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• The Nintendo DS Comes Into Its Own*
  Tuesday 28 June 2005 – 06:00
  After a slow first year, the Nintendo DS is finally picking up steam, with online gaming and a pile of great titles. Here is a look at the platform's 2005 line up.
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• Printing Your Own CDRs With Ink*
  Tuesday 27 January 2004 – 06:00
  Once reserved for Corporate America and those with a fat wallet, the ability to use a consumer level ink jet printer to print on optical media comes home. Now the average consumer can forget about toying with adhesive labels and just print right to the disc. It can be as easy as it sounds can it? Another marketing ploy or a useful feature?
• Make Your Own Athlon Overclocking Device*
  Saturday 13 November 1999 – 06:00
  Forget the soldering action we published in the first Athlon overclocking-article. With a bit of electronic knowledge you can make your own Athlon-overclock card that connects to the internal connector of the Athlon-CPU.
• The Feds can own your WLAN too*
  Thursday 31 March 2005 – 10:22
  WEP cracking usually conjures up images of geeks with evil intent. But Humphrey Cheung recently attended an FBI demonstration that showed at least some law enforcement types not only know about the latest generation of tools but also how to use 'em.
• CPL to Develop Its Own Multiplayer Shooter for Pro Competitions*
  Tuesday 19 December 2006 – 10:32
  Pro gaming took another evolutionary step this week when the Cyberathlete Professional League announced Project Severity, a new multiplayer online game being developed exclusively for CPL competitions. In other news, CPL competition ramped up during the second day of tournament play with some truly memorable matches.
• How to Build Your Own Solar Powered PC, Part 3*
  Thursday 13 September 2007 – 01:37 in Hardware
  Part I: Fundamentals Part II: PC Hardware Part III: Solar Power Equipment Part IV: Live Test Our solar panels orient themselves automatically to the sun’s position, and provide power for our solar-powered PC. A battery stores excess (or unused) power to
• How to Build Your Own Solar Powered PC, Part 2*
  Monday 3 September 2007 – 05:45 in Hardware
  In the first installment of this series of articles we dealt with the technologies that permit solar energy to be collected and converted into electricity, to drive a solar-powered PC. In this, the second installment, we examine the components we chose
• Build Your Own Mini-PC for $80*
  Friday 25 July 2008 – 08:40
  Dip below the conventional mainstream market and you'll find highly integrated platforms priced at about $80 dollars. We take a look at a Celeron-powered Intel board to see what sort of performance is available for less than $100.
• How to Build Your Own Solar Powered PC, Part 1*
  Wednesday 29 August 2007 – 10:10 in Hardware
  Tom’s drives a desktop PC including monitor with solar cells 24/7. In the first part of this project we focus on the technical foundations that underlie solar energy. After that, we dig into the necessary configuration of a solar-powered PC, including co