If you want to know how to create a content management system with php where you can make password protected pages that require to be registered, then this article should help you, but going through the code of a very basic CMS system and providing you the code to play around with. Read the Full article at IceTeks

Building your own MAME Arcade box is something that has become quite popular around the Internet these days. HTPCnews.com takes a look at two pivotal parts to the creation of your very own MAME Arcade box that you can view / play on your big screen TV via a HTPC or some sort of dedicated box if you care to build one. First they take a look at the X-Arcade Two player Joystick which looks and feels just like what you'd expect to use at an arcade! Then they review a front end to organize and create a professional feeling to your box when you are searching your 1000's of MAME titles for a game to play.

We've updated our handy graphics comparison chart, adding a stack of new graphics cards with relavent links to related TR reviews and articles. While it's a pretty complete compendium of current and past hardware, we haven't listed some of the more obscure and OEM-oriented versions of every graphics part. The comparison chart will give you a good idea how the various graphics options stack up in terms of pipeline configuration, fill rate, and memory bandwidth, but keep in mind that there are a few manufacturer-specific SE, LE, 64-bit, and Golden Ultra Turbo Sample Editions out there that don't necessarily match.

Just spotted this bit of Info posted over at FutureMark's Forum by valtterieranen.

There seems to be enough interest for smooth mousing to warrant a little guide on how to radically increase the smoothness of the MX series mice.

This tweak requires SP2.

TweakGuides have thrown up their latest guide that looks at tweaking your ATI Catalyst Drivers!

After the recent release of ATI's new Catalyst Control Center, I've revamped my ATI Catalyst Tweak Guide, adding two new pages and many and various updates throughout the guide to cater to the changes brought about by the Control Center and the Catalyst A.I Feature. As well as descriptions of all the new features, included is some invaluable advice on how to prevent the Control Center from taking up a massive amount of system resources, so it's a must-read, even if you've read the guide before.

Eric Vaughan has put up a Beta version of this guide, updated for SP2. I would appreciate any feedback so please check it out.

Lockergnome.com are detailing a few select game design blogs that are prominent in the game theory community. These various blogs are a great starting point for people who are interested in the field and are looking for a place that has a lot of information.

With prices of computer parts dropping quicker than anyone could imagine, building a full scale high performance HTPC couldn't be cheaper! HTPCnews takes a look at various parts that have been proven to work extremely well together and compiled it all together into their latest $1000 hardware guide, Building an AMD A64 HTPC for $1000. Included in this guide are imbedded links to a great deal of their other guides from the past that have been updated for use at the current time... including their PVR Identification guide, HTPC Audio 101, Quieting and Cooling your HTPC Case, and much much more.

The AMD Athlon64 and AthlonFX line of processors has been on the market long enough to become a standard, rather than the 'newest thing.' The excellent performance offered by these chips (running 32-bit benchmarks) has been well documented. PCI-Express support is coming soon care of the Nvidia nForce 4, and the next wave of chipsets, due around Christmas should result in a whole lot more 64-bit capable desktops popping around the world.

This is a simple introduction and how-to for the Security Center. I'll introduce the Security Center to you and show you how to enable/disable the main settings.


Thanks, TweakHound :)

Short-Media have thrown up a new article which asks does Windows Service Pack 2 slow you down?

Microsoft released Service Pack 2 and millions installed it. Did boat anchors come with the enhancements? We threw 108 benchmarks at Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2 in an attempt to declare a winner.

Today TweakTown are going to tell you about some of the best Spyware remover programs available for you to download, how to use those programs, and also how to monitor processes which are running on your computer to establish if the processes are a security risk or not. After you?re finished with this guide your PC will be free of Spyware and running the way it should without any nasty programs running in the background chewing up your computer performance and violating your privacy.

Lockergnome.com are detailing a few select game design blogs that are prominent in the game theory community. These various blogs are a great starting point for people who are interested in the field and are looking for a place that has a lot of information.

Team Radeon takes a look at getting the most out of Tweaking Halo: Combat Evolved for the PC!

In this guide they guys at Madshrimps show you how to make you Hard Drives sparkle, and with the correct light setup in your case, they can even become your "center piece", if done right

As probaly most of you know when you overclock your videocard you get higher performance, but you may have absolutely no idea how increasing the memory or GPU frequency impacts the card performance. Why when you "unlock" some features of the card (unlocking dispabled pipelines for instance) the card gains big performance boost. And what is the difference between the cards with 64, 128, 256bit memory bus?

At Madshrimps: See how an ugly dull box turns into one spectacular looking case, guest writer Antonio shows of his creation: sandblasted side panels, professional painting and near unbreakable windows are some of the excellent features of this "big black" casemod.

Chaos of the AEP Emulation Page did a C64 Emu Comparsion a week ago. Now it is also available in english language. The tested Emulators were CCS64, Hoxs64, Frodo and VICE. You will find the test here: AEP C64 Emulator Comparsion.

Today TweakTown have posted an article for you which investigates the current state of DDR vs. DDR-2 memory in the industry. We have included in-depth information about what is different about the two technologies, possible adoption problems for AMD with Athlon 64 and benchmarks comparing both on an MSI motherboard which supports both memory standards. If you're wondering what we are to make of it all... Read on!

One of the more vexing discoveries as memory performance testing was extended to the Athlon 64 platform was that memory often did not perform the same on both platforms. You simply could not assume that a memory that did DDR550 on the Intel 478 chipset would perform the same on the Athlon 64. We have also discovered that certain memory actually performs much poorer on Athlon 64 than on Intel 478, while other memory consistently performs much better on Athlon 64. With these variations, it was time to establish an Athlon 64 memory test platform and run new baseline tests on some of the best recent memories.