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Gmail And Their Recent Design Changes

Thursday, November 20th, 2008 Posted in Everything, Internet & Downloading, Rants | No Comments »

Gmail is fantastic, in fact I'd go so far as to say that it's one of the best, if not THE best web-mail service available to date. The features are plentiful, the space is obscene (i can fint more in ...

Recent News Round-Up : June 18th

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in Audio, Console, Consumer Electronics, Everything, Gadgets & Peripherals, Gaming, Hardware, Industry News, Internet & Downloading, Linux, MP3 & Music, Memory & Media, PC, Rants, Retail, Visuals, Windows | 5 Comments »

It's been a while so bare with me while i remember where the SUBMIT POST button is... I thought I'd mix it up a little for this one, time to recap all those little stories from the past few weeks. The ...

OpenSSL Security Flaw Found In Debian

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 Posted in Everything, Industry News, Linux | 1 Comment »

Linux users can stop being so smug as of right now, no longer are they untouchable in the realms of e-security. The debian team themselves highlighted and announced today they have discovered a rather large flaw in the system used ...

Demonoid is alive and kicking!

Saturday, April 12th, 2008 Posted in Industry News, Internet & Downloading, MP3 & Music | 6 Comments »

That's right, the popular, semi-private, Netherlands Canadian Brazilian/Ukranian (sp?) hosted bit-torrent search engine and tracker is now back on-line and fully functioning for the first time in EXACTLY 6 months. To recap for those who have been living under a rock ...

So… Creative Are Getting A Bit Nasty

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Posted in Hardware, Industry News | No Comments »

Ok, ok, let's all stop the fighting and arguing for a second... Take a step back, here's my account of what's gone on thus far: Creative release drivers for vista Users download vista driver pack and find it to be nearly unusable ...

BD+ Copy Protection Cracked – BluRay DRM

Thursday, March 20th, 2008 Posted in Consumer Electronics, Industry News | 3 Comments »

Looks like slysoft have done it. In their latest offering of their popular "AnyDVD" application (named "AnyDVD HD"), the eye-catching bullet in the feature list is: New (Blu-ray): Removes the BD+ protection from Blu-ray discs! (for increased compatibility with titles released by ...

UK Retail Games Sales Surpassed Music Sales

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 Posted in Industry News, MP3 & Music | 2 Comments »

The ERA (Entertainment Retailers Association) have published the latest figures for the UK's public buying habits with regard to Music, DVD and Games. What has been forcasted for years has now happened, sales of video games have surpassed that of ...

Microsoft Reduces Vista Prices – Upgrade Retail Versions

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 Posted in Industry News, Windows | No Comments »

Microsoft announced a few days back that they are now dropping the price of certain versions of windows vista. Most notably, the retail boxes of the upgrade versions. Microsoft said that they have sold over 100 million units since the ...

Comcast Traffic Management Called To FCC Hearing

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 Posted in Industry News, Internet & Downloading | 3 Comments »

Internet users everywhere are holding their breath in anticipation today as Comcast are called to the second part of an FCC hearing to address issues surrounding their rather promiscuous traffic shaping, peer resest and network management techniques. For quite a while ...

Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 5 Released (Hardy Heron)

Monday, February 25th, 2008 Posted in Industry News, Linux | No Comments »

The latest alpha of the next version of ubuntu has surfaced on the internet. The final build of 8.04 (named Hardy Heron to continue ubuntu's strange alphabetical naming system...) is due to be released mid-april this year (2008). Now, back to ...