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Welcome ScT users!
2008-06-02 11:00:00
If you’re here it probably means you read my thread and googled me. As you can see I haven’t haven’t really updated this place since back in August 2007 but feel free to take a look around. Thanks again for stopping by
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Chat Box Temporarily Removed
2008-05-19 08:27:00
Due to the recent spam I’ve been getting in the shoutbox, I have had to remove it. This will be put back up as soon as I find a viable spam-blocking solution. However, in the mean time, feel free to use the Chat Room (you can find it in the navigational panel at the top) Furthermore ...

Apple Soon to Revamp iPod line
2007-08-30 16:55:00
Apple Inc shares rose more than 5 percent on Wednesday on growing expectations that the company will announce a revamped line of iPods next week. Technology news Web sites have speculated that Apple could launch a new video iPod with a large touch screen similar to the iPhone, and a redesigned iPod nano in time ...
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O2 Closes In On Exclusive iPhone Deal
2007-07-10 13:23:00
O2 is on the verge of wrapping up a deal to exclusively sell the Apple iPhone in the UK with a view to launching the iPod-based handset by Christmas. A number of Europe’s largest operators have been linked with a deal to sell the iPhone in Europe over recent weeks. It is understood that formal ...
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FeedBurner Premium News Feed Now Free
2007-07-10 13:14:00
After being acquired by Google a month ago, RSS provider Feed Burner plans to make its premium news feed management services available to publishers at no extra charge (manual activation will be necessary). FeedBurner’s Stats PRO and MyBrand services were previously available for an additional monthly fee of $5. Stats PRO includes tools to allow users ...
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Microholography: 500GB DVD-sized discs
2007-07-10 13:13:00
A group of scientists working together with the Institute of Optics and Optical Technologies at the Technical University of Berlin claim to have discovered a way to store 500GB worth of data on DVD-sized discs. The scientists are members of the Microholas Project, coordinated by Dr. Susanna Orlic, which plans to double the storage capacity ...
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Latest Additions to Leopard OS X
2007-06-12 18:00:00
When OS X 10.5: Leopard debuts in October, it will feature a redesigned Desktop and new Finder. Those new features were among the changes Steve Jobs introduced during a preview of the forthcoming OS X update code-named Leopard during his Worldwide Developers Conference keynote speech Tuesday. Originally slated for a spring 2007 release, OS X 10.5 ...
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Apple Safari 3 Beta Available on Windows
2007-06-11 17:52:00
Isn?t it ironic? At the end of 2005, Microsoft decides to discontinue Internet Explorer for Mac support and now in mid-2007, Apple Incorporated decides Safari is coming to Window s . Safari will join iTunes and QuickTime as the third Macintosh application officially ported to the Windows platform. At Apple?s World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco today, ...
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Firefox Increasingly Popular In Europe
2007-04-18 14:18:00
XiTi Monitor, a Web analytics company based in France, reported that the numbers for Mozilla Fire fox use among Europe ans increased from 19.4% in April 2006 to 24.1% in March 2007. The company draws its data from visitors to Web sites using its analytics service, which collects data such as the visitor’s browser and location, said ...
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Google Apps To Include PowerPoint
2007-04-18 14:13:00
Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced the web search giant will be adding a presentations application to Docs & Spreadsheets. Docs & Spreadsheets will now feature a word processor, a spreadsheet, and a presentations application. However Schmidt said the suite isn’t a direct competitor to Office because Docs & Spreadsheets doesn’t have all of Office’s functionality. Instead, ...
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iPhone Brand Recognition High Among Teens
2007-04-17 12:37:00
A new survey performed by Piper Jaffray shows that 84 percent of their 500 teenagers sampled have heard of the Apple iPhone. According to our resident scientists, the sample size is just large enough to make deductions about the entire teenage population; hooray for statistics! According to a senior Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, some ...
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The Beatles Finally Coming to iTunes?
2007-04-17 12:36:00
It would appear that the final obstacle to get The Beatles music on iTunes, and other services, has finally been overcome. Apple Corps, which is owned by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the widows of John Lennon and George Harrison, has finally settled a £30m royalty dispute with EMI Group. The company began legal proceedings against ...
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Mac OS X Leopard Delayed Due to iPhone
2007-04-17 12:22:00
Apple has just issued a press release statement announcing that Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard has been delayed until October. The reason? iPhone: “we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide ...
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Microsoft Redefines ?Vista Capable?
2007-04-10 20:57:00
Two weeks ago, Dianne Kelley started a class-action lawsuit against Micro soft alleging the software company is engaging in deceptive practices by branding new computers with a Windows Vista Capable logo even if they could only run Vista Home Basic. Although Microsoft strongly refutes Kelley?s claims, the threat of a lawsuit may have caused the software ...
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Apple Sells 100 Millionth iPod!
2007-04-10 15:53:00
Apple has announced it has sold the 100 millionth iPod ? the first iPod was sold five and a half years ago, in November 2001. Since then Apple has introduced more than 10 new iPod models, including five generations of iPod, two generations of iPod mini, two generations of iPod nano and two generations of ...
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Popular IM, Gaim, Forced to Change Name
2007-04-08 19:18:00
It was announced, yesterday, that the popular multi-theaded instant messaging client, Gaim, has undergone a name change. The new name, Pidgin, comes after years of secret discussions and legal issues with internet giant, AOL. The issues revolved around the name “Gaim” and AOL’s defense of their “AIM” trademark. The developers explain in their blog: Many years ago ...
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Trick To Get Google Pagerank 10
2007-04-08 19:06:00
So you want to get into link exchanging, but no one wants to trade with you because your pagerank sucks? You can now use a technique known as 302 Google Jacking to spoof a google pagerank 10. 1. Buy a domain. 2. 301 Redirect the domain either in your .htaccess, PHP header (anything server side) to a ...
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Create Your Own Google Maps
2007-04-07 01:33:00
Google Incorporated is now providing free tools designed to make it easy for people to share their local geographical knowledge by creating customized maps that can assemble information from a variety of sources. Thousands of hybrid maps are already available on the Web, documenting everything from local housing markets to active volcanoes. Google has simplified the ...
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Forget YouTube: Try These If You Want Hard Core Copyright Infringing Conten
2007-04-07 01:17:00
YouTube is clearly the most popular video sharing site on the web. But limits on video length, DMCA takedown notices and billion dollar lawsuits have damaged YouTube?s ability to facilitate serious copyright infringement. The smaller guys are now stepping in to fill the void. Full length copies of well known TV shows and/or movies are ...
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Mac OS X Leopard Release in June
2007-04-04 01:57:00
Apple is currently planning to release Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard in June , mostly likely at or around its Worldwide Developers Conference, reliable sources report. As recently as January, Apple had been targeting a ship date of end March but in recent weeks the company moved the date back. The reason for the delay is ...
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Why are geeks often atheist?
2007-04-04 01:26:00
‘Geek ’ brings to mind a long list of traits - Glasses, obsession with science, a high IQ. Recently, however, a new trait has come to light to add to the long, esteemed list: Atheism. Despite being widely known, there has been very little in the way of explanation proposed for this phenomena. It is the ...
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Is Google Too Powerful?
2007-04-02 17:43:00
It’s the year 2014, and Googl e zon, a fearsomely powerful combination of search engine Google Inc. and online store Amazon.com Inc. has crushed traditional media to bits. Taking its place is the computer-generated Evolving Personalized Information Construct—an online package of news, entertainment, blogs, and services drawn from all the world’s up-to-the-minute knowledge and customized to match your ...
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Firefox 2 Tweak Guide
2007-02-19 20:16:01
The release of Mozilla Fire fox 2 further expands the capabilities and features of this highly regarded Internet browser, proving that just because you are popular doesn’t mean you should slack off. Some of the new and updated features include: a visual refresh, integrated phishing protection, browser session resuming, live Titles and JavaScript 1.7 support, among others. Regardless of how you feel about Mozilla Firefox, it’s quite fair to say that much of the change and innovation in Internet browsers in recent years has happened because of it. This guide goes through numerous configuration tips and tweaks for Firefox 2 , covering all aspects of the browser such as the options menu, preferences, CSS customization, interface, extensions and more. View: Firefox 2 Tweak Guide @ TechSpot

Cisco, Apple Wrestling Over iPhone Trademark
2007-02-19 20:16:01
The Cisco versus Apple trademark dispute still hasn’t been resolved: Cisco is granting Apple’s request for more time to reply to the lawsuit filed by the networking giant. “Cisco has agreed to give Apple an extension until Wednesday, Feb. 21. Cisco is fully committed to using the extra time to reach a mutually beneficial resolution,” the company stated in a media release. Cisco spokesman John Noh said the company wasn’t seeking money, but wants to negotiate an interoperability agreement with Apple. On January 10, Cisco announced it had filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent Apple from infringing upon and deliberately copying and using Cisco’s registered iPhone trademark. Cisco said it obtained the iPhone trademark in 2000 after completing the acquisition of Infogear which previously owned the mark and sold iPhone products for several years. The original Infogear filing for the iPhone trademark dates to March 20, 1996. Linksys, a division of Cisco, has...
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Firefox Hands Out Cookies From Strangers
2007-02-16 08:13:01
Firefox suffers from a flaw that allows attackers to manipulate the authentication cookies of virtually any website, a vulnerability Bugzilla has deemed severe. It’s the second major security lapse for the open-source browser in as many days. The defect, which stems from the way Firefox writes to the “location.hostname” property of the document object model, can be exploited by a specially doctored script that sets variables that normally wouldn’t be accepted when parsing a regular URL, according to researcher Michal Zalewski, who uncovered Monday’s vulnerability as well. View: The full story News source: The Reg
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Windows Vista Upgrade Secret
2007-02-16 08:13:01
There is a well known Wind ows Vista Upgrade secret in the IT community. In this article I talk about it and the possible legal implications! Please take this article “as-is” I provide no warranty of any kind by providing this information. Well to be honest it is no big secret as you can find this information anywhere online and many Microsoft staff must also know about it as they created this process! The “secret” is that the setup program (setup.exe) in Windows Vista ’s upgrade version will accept an installed copy of XP, W2K, or an un-activated copy of Vista itself as evidence of a previous installation. …and it is this last option that enables you to perform a “clean install” of an upgrade version of Windows Vista to any formatted or unformatted hard drive! Basically you are installing Windows Vista twice to take advantage of this trick. Is This Windows Vista Upgrade Secret Legal? Probably not. I am no legal expert but I am guessing...

Google to launch Web-Based Powerpoint
2007-02-14 20:11:01
Google is working on a Web-based Power point clone to complement its Docs & Spreadsheets application, according to files accidentally discovered by Alex at the Google Operating System blog. The information in the files refers to an application called “Presently” — apparently a reference to ‘Docs and Spreadsheets’ original name Writely.com — that can convert documents into online slideshows. The files have since been modified by Google to remove reference to the term “Presently,” but a screenshot remains. By launching an online slideshow app, Google completes its office suite and moves closer into competition with products like Zoho, ThinkFree and of course Microsoft Office Live. View: The full story News source: eWeek
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Wanted: Ad-Aware 2007 Beta Testers!
2007-02-14 20:11:01
Many of you have been eager to know about the latest version of our anti-spyware product, Ad-Aware 2007. You may have also read in the February edition of Lavasoft News that we are currently in a VIP beta testing phase, and our developers are working directly with the experienced team of VIP beta testers to provide you with a more powerful anti-spyware tool that doesn?t load down your computer resources. We know that a lot of you can?t wait to get your hands on the final product. Well, we have some exciting news for you. You?ll get that chance in early March when we release our first public beta for Ad-Aware 2007, Release Candidate 1 (RC1)! (more…)
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Pirate Windows Vista Out Already
2007-02-14 20:11:01
As Microsoft kicked off the global launch of its long-awaited Wind ows Vista , the software giant’s new operating system also hit the streets of China - in pirated form. In an electronic market in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, scores of sellers were offering the brand new software for as little as 10 yuan ($1.66), along with Microsoft Office, anti-virus software and others. The sellers said Vista was available several weeks before its launch, although they would not say how they got hold of the version. Described as the “official version of the new generation operating system” on its cover, the pirated copy offered an identification code at the back of the disk for downloading the software. Microsoft could not be immediately reached for comment. News source: AustralianIT
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YouTube Shares Ad Money
2007-02-14 20:11:01
YouTube founder Chad Hurley has confirmed that his team was working on a revenue-sharing mechanism that would “reward creativity”. The system should be available in a matter of months and is to be supported on various forms of advertising, including short clips (up to 3 seconds) shown ahead of the actual film. The offer is not, however, for all of YouTube?s 70m users: it applies only to people who own the full copyright of the videos that they are uploading to the YouTube website. YouTube is currently working on “audio fingerprinting” technologies to identify copyrighted material, Mr Hurley said in a session on social networking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Hurley emphasized that YouTube was still working out the technology and processes involved - both for the rewards system and the video clip advertising system. The features will be rolled out one by one: “There won’t be one big release,” he said. Other video sharing...
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