This week, I have mainly fucked about with my Xbox 360.

1. Free Xbox 360 wireless internet.

If like me, you can't afford to fork out £60 for the micosoft wifi adpter, then you may find this useful.  All you need is a crossover cable, and your wireless enabled laptop or pc.

This only works if your Xbox 360 is reasonably close to your PC.  First, make sure your computer has internet access over the wireless network.  Next, plug the crossover cable into the ethernet ports on the back of your Xbox 360 and computer.  Don't worry if the network it creates says it has limited connectivity or has no IP address. (Note: the cable supplied with your Xbox 360 is a cat5 ethernet cable, not a crossover cable.  You will need to buy one off Ebay or something.  They cost about £1.)

Next, right click the wireless network symbol in the bottom right of your computer screen.  Click 'status' and then 'properties'.  in the 'Advanced' tab, check the box that says "allow other network users to connect through this computer's internet connection".  Thats it.  Turn on your Xbox and set up an Xbox Live account.

2. Free Xbox Live Gold

As far as I can tell, each time you make a new profile on your Xbox 360, you can get a month's free Xbox Live gold subscription.  When your month's subscription wears out, just make a new profile and a new Hotmail account to sign up with.  It's free.

3. Use an External hard drive on your Xbox

Pissed off with having to rip each CD to your Xbox's puny 20GB hard drive? So was I.  So here's a way to use an external HDD.  Assuming you already have a hard drive and caddy lying around, you simply need to format it with a FAT32 partition (easier than it sounds).

Just download and install Paragon Partition Magic, plug your USB hard drive in to your computer and use the program to create a new partition.  It's actually pretty easy and uses a nice graphic interface.

You can find it on any decent torrent engine, such as Torrentspy but make sure you don't accidentally download an illegal copy without paying for it.  It takes only a few seconds to create the partition and then you can stuck any mp3s on it you want from your computer in no time at all!

4. The Screamer - Annoy your friends (copyright Mike Booth and Will Horton).

Take a party blower like this:

If it hasn't already ripped itself off, remove the shit paper end.  In its place, stretch a balloon over the end.  Secure the balloon with tape or an elastic band.  Inflate the device as discreetly as possible.  All of these components are rife at parties. When one of your mates inevitably K.O.s through fatigue or intoxication, throw as many of these babys as possible in their direction and ravel in the 30 seconds of chaos that you unleased.

The beauty is, when the victim tries to stamp on the buggers to pop them and end the pain, it only aggrevates the screamers, causing higher pressure inside the ballon and thus a louder and more obnoxious noise to be emitted.

Why not mix it up a little? Throw a couple of these bad boys in a dark room where two or more of your friends are fornicating to totally kill the atmosphere.  In the dark, they won't know what's happening.  Be imaginative.

That is all the creativity I have in me for this week.  I also bought a laser quest game on offer for £8 from £20 at Argos!  Mental.  Eddy bought some too.  I reccommend you all buy a set so we can have a mad game in the Easter hols.  Its on like Donkey Kong biatches :P