Pirate Bay gets a new name: Liberty Bay?
Perhaps it’s a blatant F.U. to content creators everywhere or maybe it’s just an F.U. to Rockstar, but the Pirate Bay has gone out of its way to temporarily rename itself “Liberty Bay” in honor of the upcoming Grand Theft Auto IV. The purpose for the publicity stunt is unclear, but — considering the company’s [...]
Twitter Twerp Scan – block Twitter spammers
Twitter users are increasingly starting to question whether the frequent number of Twitter accounts that are following them are actually people, or simply a form of Twitter spamming. The rule of thumb with that sort of question is usually that if you think something nefarious might be going on, unfortunately, you’re probably right. The next [...]
Presdo: Yet another online scheduling app
Is it just us, or has there been an explosion of online scheduling services over the past few weeks? First there were Jiffle, Tungle, and When is Good. And now there’s Presdo. Like the other services, Presdo makes it easy to schedule meeting with one or more people. You send out a request, and other [...]
1 million viruses, worms, and trojans on the loose
The internet is a scary place. No, we’re not talking about predators out to rob you or offer candy to your kids. We’re talking about malware like viruses, worms, and trojans. According to security company Symantec, the amount of malware on the internet has reached an all-time high, with over 1 million malicious programs in [...]
Microsoft: Vista UAC was supposed to piss you off
One of the first things Windows XP users will notice if and when they switch to Vista is the User Account Control, affectionately referred to as UAC or “Why the hell does this window keep popping up!” The UAC prompt is a security feature that will alert you if you are about to make changes [...]
Hulu Gives International Users a Sign
One of the most valid complaints about Hulu has been its lack of availability outside the United States. But the company is now at least acknowledging international users, rather than giving them error messages, reports Emily Turrettini on WatchingTV Online. She got the message below when she tried to use the online television service from [...]
Windows Tip: Simulate "No to All" in file copy dialog
Everyone of you must have encountered the “Confirm File Replace..” dialog box while replacing a lot of files at once in Windows. This box is displayed each time a file with a similar name already exists in the destination directory. Clicking the “Yes to all” button will replace all the files with identical names and [...]
A quick look at Kubuntu 8.04 Beta
Recently, we reviewed Ubuntu 8.04 beta. We received several complaints for cranky people in the comments, and so we decided to take a look at some newer code. Always in search of variety, however, we decided to spice things up a little bit by trying Kubuntu instead of Ubuntu. We downloaded the nightly build of [...]
Flickr caves in, agrees to free donut demands
A few days ago we reported that Flickr users were revolting. Wait, no that came out wrong. What we reported was that a group of very attractive (or so we assume) Flickr users are unhappy about the addition of video to the site. So they did what any self-respecting group of netizens would, they started [...]
Amic Email Backup: Free backup for your email account
Backup. It’s so hot right now. Backup. Amic Email Backup is another new email backup solution, designed for ease-of-use and offering support for a wide variety of email accounts, such as Outlook Express, Outlook, Eudora, IncrediMail, Opera Mail, and more. Amic Email Backup not only saves the text of the emails themselves, but the address [...]
