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MS sued over the use of ‘Vista capable’ logo
2008-06-04 04:35:00
A class-action lawsuit alleging that Microsoft deceived consumers has been given the green light by a federal court. The suit, fi led in Seattle, WA, alleges that Microsoft’s “Vista Capable� logo program—used on machines prior to the release of the OS—was intentionally misleading. Many of the PCs that sported the badge used Intel’s anemic 915 integrated graphics chipset, which was incapable of running Vista’s 3D Aero interface. Federal judge Marsha Pechman allowed the case to proceed based on a “price inflation� theory that consumers were tricked into paying more for machines with the “Vista Capable� badge. How bad were the Vista Capable machines? One email from a Microsoft employee said “even a piece of junk will qualify.� Source : Maximum PC Magazine
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New Rapidshare CAPTCHA - Playing Cats n Dogs, anyone?
2008-06-03 18:53:00
All right.. The new look rapidshare is alive and kickng .. But I liked the old layout better. The new CAPTCHA system is a real pain in the ass.. It generates a random code with twisted letters and numbers. But wait.. There are little kittens and dogs (apparently) attached to each of the letters. You have to enter the ones with the ‘cats’ alone and NOT the dogs in order to get through. And finding which one’s a cat and which is the dog is a real pain in the ass. Whoa! Apparently, the P has a DOG and NOT a CAT .. So, the correct code would be 6BLC and nothing else. Hey! That was easy, right ? CAPTCHA these days are becoming more of a mental challenge to genuine users, making it so difficult to get past them. Lets hope rapidshare changes their new CAPTCHA system  ASAP.
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New face, rapidshare
2008-06-03 09:46:00
News posted on 2 June 2008 on rapidshare.com about New Website We are going to launch our new website soon. We have changed our design and improved the usability.
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The Firefox 3 download Pledge
2008-05-29 09:56:00
The Mozilla user community is all set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. Pledge to download Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours. Although the official date for the release has not been declared yet, pledge today.. View the Pledge ...
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Samsung 82? LCD TV
2008-05-20 09:38:00
Samsung has announced a plan to showcase its latest LCD TV at SID 2008. Claiming to be the industry?s first 82-inch LCD TV panel, the display offers an ultra-definition resolution of 3840×2160 pixels. It has a 120Hz refresh rate. The screen has the ability to display ultra-definition (UD) resolution at 120 fps. Thus, it can ...
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Stalker : Clear Sky Min Sys Reqs
2008-05-18 17:08:00
  New Features : A living and breathing world - virtual monsters and stalkers migrate around the Zone, similarly to the player they are preoccupied with day-to-day things - feeding, fighting, looking for prey, trading, sleeping, taking rest Freedom of movement around the storyline, limited only by the player’s will and abilities The world of post-Soviet environment Authentic objectives of the Chernobyl exclusion zone - the power engineers city of Pripyat, Chernobyl NPP, Chernobyl-2 complex of over-the-horizon detection and more Atmosphere of eerie mystery and constant danger Multiple game endings System of weather effects and dynamic day/night shift Photo-realistic graphics, adding to the game atmosphere immersion Realistic ballistics, extensive arsenal of real weapon prototypes Unique multiplayer modes implemented within the game entourage - artefacts collection, anomalies, radiation, weather effects, day/night change, etc. Extensive map editor possibilities for multipl...
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Register on National Do-Not-Call List
2008-05-10 07:47:00
Any Mobile or landline subscriber who does not wish to receive telemarketing calls, can request their telephone number be included in the NDNC Registry. Such request are sent through their telecom service providers which will be stored in National Do Not Call Registry, which is expected to be established from Sept. 2007. Subscribers can make ...
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Google, Yahoo shared ad space
2008-05-10 05:56:00
Yahoo and Google , the world’s two biggest search engines, had announced a two-week experiment which is to share advertising space. During the pilot, Google will be able to place ads alongside 3% of results of Searches on Yahoo’s website. MS criticized Yahoo’s advertising trial with Google, saying any such deal would not be in the consumers’ interests. “Any ...
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Rapidshare Michael Clayton 2007 DVDRip download links
2008-05-01 13:10:00
Michael Clayton (2007) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465538/ 120m26s 608×256 650kbps English mp3 146kbps vbr SAMPLE : http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=bb2b7e1 http://rapidshare.com/files/98…. http://rapidshare.com/files/98… Rapidshare download links below Michael Clayton 2007 DVDRip
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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS,Hardy Heron is out
2008-04-26 06:40:00
Ubuntu’s latest version, Hardy Heron was released last night. It features GNOME 2.22, a new version of the Nautilus file manager, Linux kernel 2.6.24, PolicyKit, Firefox 3 Beta 5, Brasero (A CD/DVD burning application), Transmission BitTorrent client, World Clock Applet, Vinagre remote desktop (VNC) client , Uncomplicated Firewall, Totem movie player with a YouTube plugin that makes it possible to search for and play YouTube videos directly, Inkscape (PDF viewer), Xorg 7.3 etc. to name a few.. Download it at : http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download Or Upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
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Mounting USB drives on Red Hat / Fedora Core 2
2008-04-23 20:24:00
Earlier distros of Linux does not have the automount daemon (autofs). Users would have to mount USB drives themselves. Mounting the ‘drive’ actually means mounting the File System contained within the drive. Here’s how to go about : First, make a directory in /mnt/ where the USB drive can be mounted to. This can be ...
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FEAR Minimum System Requirements
2008-04-20 17:51:00
First Encounter Assault Recon (FEAR) Minimum System Requirements · Windows® XP or 2000 with latest service pack installed · DirectX® 9.0c (April Edition) (included) · Pentium® 4 1.7 GHz or equivalent processor · 512 MB of RAM · 64 MB GeForce? 4 Ti or ATI® Radeon® 9600 or equivalent with hardware T&L and pixel shader support · 5.0 GB free ...
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Manually entering XP boot information onto Ubuntu GRUB
2008-04-20 16:48:00
If you did not partition the existing windows hard drive for Ubuntu and disconnected the one with Windows installed during the installation and installed ubuntu on a separate hard disk, you will run into this boot problem of XP not showing up in the Linux boot loader (GRUB) and will have to add the Windows ...
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demonoid.com is back online
2008-04-17 11:10:00
After being offline for quite a few months now, demonoid.com, one of the most popular torrent trackers that was shut down, has come back online. Visit demonoid.com for more ..
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The World?s Lightest Mobile Phone
2008-04-11 12:08:00
The Guinness World Record for the world?s lightest mobile phone has been awarded to modu for its tiny and sophisticated mobile phone.The modu weighs 40.1 g with a dimension of 72.1 mm x 37.6 mm x 7.8 mm modu is claimed to be the world?s first modular mobile phone. The tiny, sleek mobile phone can be ...
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?User Agent? String
2008-04-08 09:27:00
The “User Agent ” string is a part of every request to a web server that tells it what type of agent (browser, spider, etc) is requesting the content. There are some sites that will give you different content depending on the user agent string. Some common ‘User Agents are’ : Browser User Agents Firefox (WindowsXP) - Mozilla/5.0 ...
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Blu-ray protection cracked by Slysoft
2008-03-30 14:26:00
Slysoft says the new version of its AnyDVD will allow users to make “backup security copies” of high definition movies available in blu ray discs. The claim is a blow to Sony which developed the Blu-ray format. The discs are protected by an anti-piracy system called BD+. When it launched in 2007, developers boasted ...
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Get ready for Firefox 3
2008-03-24 19:19:00
“In many ways Firefox 3 is much more stable than anything else out there,” Mozilla Corp Vice President of Engineering Mike Schroepfer said in an interview. Additions boost security and allow users to run Web sites when they are not connected to the Internet. Mozilla also says Firefox 3 uses less RAM than Firefox 2. Engineers at ...
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Google to cut DoubleClick jobs
2008-03-13 10:22:00
Google plans to make an unspecified number of job cuts at DoubleClick Inc following the closing of its $3.1 billion acquisition of the advertising technology company. “An immediate task we’ll undertake over the next few weeks is matching and aligning DoubleClick employees with our organizational plan for the business,” Google said in a blog post. “As with ...
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Microsoft wants to ?catch-up? with Google
2008-03-13 10:18:00
Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer pledged that the company would gain share against Google Inc in online advertising and Web searching, even if it’s his “last breath” at the company. “So it may be my last breath at Microsoft, but we’re going to be there, working away, building share,” said Ballmer during a bantering question-and-answer ...
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Google share values plummet
2008-03-13 10:07:00
NEW YORK: Google Inc, whose shares have plunged more than 40 per cent since November and could fall almost another 20 per cent due to the US economic slowdown and aggressive spending by the Internet search engine company, according to the latest issue of Barron’s. Google shares dropped to a new 52-week low of $435.78 Tuesday ...
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Wordpress Image watermark plugin
2008-03-13 07:54:00
Marekki?s Watermark Plugin for Wordpress inserts your logo or text in your wp-upload pictures. You can watermark in two different ways. Insert watermark while a picture will be uploaded, or Insert watermarks on all chosen pictures from a directory [like wp-uploads] on your web-server. Get Watermark plugin for Wodpress here.
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Microsoft StartKey - Windows on a USB
2008-03-10 07:20:00
Microsoft has been working on a new product known as ?StartKey? ? that will allow users to carry their Windows and Windows settings with them. StartKey isn?t just for USB sticks; it also will work on other flash-storage devices, like SD memory cards. StartKey has its roots in an agreement Microsoft made with SanDisk in ...
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10 things to do before you die - eBay
2008-03-03 18:10:00
10 heart-thumping, hair-raising, adrenalin-pumping experiences you wouldn’t want to miss. And you can win them for just Rs.1* each. #Bid on one/more experiences #Track the bidding action and raise your bid ebay.in has come up with a new auction - 10 things to do before you die. It starts with “Co-pilot a L39 Combat Air ...
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Dr. Seuss? 104th birthday today
2008-03-03 01:30:00
It’s the 104th birthday of Theodor Seuss Geisel ? better known as Dr. Seuss today. A giant inflatable Cat in the Hat will be at the birthday celebration site along with 2,000 pieces of cake. Geisel’s widow, Audrey, will cut the first slices. Check out seussville - Which features games based on Dr. Seuss’s books, extensive ...
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Joomla.org converts forum from SMF to phpBB
2008-03-02 17:05:00
The Joomla ! community just completed migrating from SMF over to phpBB3. Brad Baker posted some of the details on the reason for Joomla.org’s use of phpBB3. The main reason to move over to phpBB stemmed from Joomla.org’s discomfort from bridging GPL applications with non-GPL applications. Baker says : Why did ...
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Microsoft acknowledges the truth about Vista
2008-03-01 11:25:00
Microsoft finally publicly acknowledged what most of us have known all along. It blinks and reduced the price of Vista , while acknowledging the fact that Vista sales is poor in retail segment. The main segment of Microsoft?s revenue with Vista has been in selling OEM versions, which is shipped with a new PC/Laptop. However it is ...
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Sun acquires MySQL
2008-03-01 07:12:00
Sun Completes Acquisition of MySQL On Tuesday, February 26, Sun announced it completed the acquisition of MySQL, the world’s most popular open source database The billion dollar acquisition makes it the largest open source software deal ever and makes Sun the owner of a critical part of the popular LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL  Perl/Python/PHP) open source software ...
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?Yahoo or not, the Web is hot? says Gates
2008-02-29 12:08:00
SEATTLE: Microsoft Corporation plans to invest heavily in Web search to compete against Google Inc, even if it fails to acquire Yahoo Inc, the company’s chairman Bill Gates said. ?We can afford to make big investments in the engineering and marketing that needs to get done. We will do that with or without Yahoo,? ...
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Auto delete old posts - Wordpress Plugin
2008-02-28 20:54:00
Auto Delete Posts is a plugin to automatically delete posts after a set expiration date. The plugin deletes all posts regardless of category that are older than a set expiration date. [Source] The expiration is set in number of days. Download Auto Delete Posts v0.5 wordpress plugin.
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