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Vixy allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube’s videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online. It is using a compressed domain transcoder technology (outline in Japanese). It converts FLV to MPEG4 faster and less lossy than a typical transcoder.

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Researchers used the newer Internet addressing system, called IPv6, to break the records in December. Data started in Tokyo and went to Chicago, Amsterdam and Seattle before returning to Tokyo. The previous high of 6.96 Gbps was set in November 2005.

Speed records under the older addressing system, IPv4, are in a separate category and stand at 8.8 Gbps, set in February 2006.

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The SIEMENS GIGASET C460 is a generally good VoIP phone to purchase, you don’t even need a PC to start making internet phone calls. If you like flexibility, then you’ll love how easy it is to switch between internet and fixed-line calls. Just press a button. It’s that easy, especially thanks to plug-and-play convenience.

You can use the phone with free VoIP services like Skype and Gizmo.

Some of the Key features of this phone:

Dual Mode: VoIP and fixed line calls on one handset
* Supports the common SIP VoIP protocol
* Handset with high quality colour display
* Register up to 6 GAP-compatible handsets
* Transfer calls between DECT handsets
* Handsfree speakerphone built into handset
* Call conferencing
* Send and receive SMS messages from handset
* UK Caller ID display
* Configuration on supplied handset or built-in web server
* Headset Connection
* Alarm Clock
* Illuminated Keypad
* Polyphonic Ringtones
* Audible Caller Display
* Intercom

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With the image and file sharing websites growing in popularity more and more, it is hard to live with a dial-up Internet connection. Even if you live in an isolated or remote area, there are ways of getting cheap wireless broadband ISP. You can get broadband via satellite and many mobile companies offer facilities for you to connect via your mobile phone.

As with anything these days, the prices of wireless broadband modems are dropping and you can usually find a decent router for under £50 in most shops. Some cheap broadband deals will come with a free modem when signing up to a contract.

The main problem you can encounter with a wireless connection compared to a wired broadband network is security. You will need to make sure your connection is encrypted to stop other people using your connection. The encypting is not as hard to do as it sounds, and most routers and ISP modems come with instructions of how to do it. If you require any assistance, your broadband internet provider will be able to help you. And guide you through the process.

One of the common mistakes people do when they go wireless is to buy the cheapest available equipment, without doing any research. It is always worth reading broadband internet reviews and guides on wireless equipment before parting with your money. Remember, a reliable connection is more important than saving a few pennies on equipment.

How do you decide which broadband ISP supplier offers the right package for you with so many to choose from and such competitive prices on the market these days for high-speed connections?

Is “Unlimited Broadband” really necessary?

You may not need a huge download limit or a cheap unlimited broadband deal, if you only use your broadband Internet connection to surf the net a little, check your emails, and do a little online shopping. You need to be aware and know exactly what download limit you will require, or you could pay more than you have to simply because of an Internet service provider’s adverting. “Unlimited Broadband” is one of the ISPs favorite advertising lines and some of these so-called “Unlimited” download limits will have a fair usage policy (which is usually not well advertised and hidden amongst the small print). The advertising can make you believe that you need something, when you really don’t need at all.

Why is it important to compare prices?

Broadband suppliers update and change their offers on a regular basis. You mustn’t assume that because you have seen an advertisement somewhere, either on the radio or TV, that it will be the offer you get. You will need to check out the latest deals and prices before signing up to any contracts. Better still, read what other people have to say about their experiences and recommendations on various review sites like: Internet service provider reviews

You may also consider checking out the latest deals when it’s time to renew your existing contract. There are always special offers on for anyone making the switch to a new one, so there’s a good chance that you could find a better ISP than the one you’ve currently got.

What better to kick start the new year than to get your hands on a free Verizon wireless phone from Wirefly.com.

Yes you read that right the phone(s) comes free when you susbcribe to a new Verizon Wireless account at Wirefly.com.If you don’t already know by now, Wirefly is the internet’s #1 store for Verizon Wireless phones and plans and it’s absolutely safe to conduct business via their site as they are hacker safe and verified by VeriSign the dominant certificate authority on the Internet at the present time. 91

Among the phones that you could get for free with a subscription to a new Verizon Wireless account are :

Cherry Red LG Chocolate

Features:

Motorola RAZR -Pink

Features:

Besides the two features phones you can also get your hands on phones like the KRZR (Motorola), LG VX8600, Samsung A890, LG Chocolate and many many more.

So what are you waiting for? visit Wirefly.com today and get your free Verizon wireless phone(s).

It was just a matter of time before something like DivShare popped up and here it is.

DivShare is a free file hosting service for everyone with no registration required at all and it does have some pretty nice features:

* Upload unlimited files
* Serve unlimited downloads
* Files stay online forever! NEW!
* No pop-up ads or spam
* Incredibly fast, reliable servers

More great stuff:

* Add a link and logo to your download pages
* Easy image galleries and thumbnails
* Nearly every file extension supported

Check it out at DivShare

Enjoy!

Tech Support: “How much free space do you have on your hard drive?”

Customer: “Well, my wife likes to get up there on that Internet, and she downloaded ten hours of free space. Is that enough?”

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No, the best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating system.
- Bill Gates

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Customer: “My computer crashed!”
Tech Support: “It crashed?”
Customer: “Yeah, it won’t let me play my game.”
Tech Support: “All right, hit Control-Alt-Delete to reboot.”
Customer: “No, it didn’t crash-it crashed.”
Tech Support: “Huh?”
Customer: “I crashed my game. That’s what I said before. Now it doesn’t work.”
Turned out, the user was playing Lunar Lander and crashed his spaceship.
Tech Support: “Click on ‘File, ‘ then ‘New Game.’”
Customer: [pause] “Wow! How’d you learn how to do that?”

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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
- Rich Cook

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Customer: “So that’ll get me connected to the Internet, right?”
Tech Support: “Yeah.”
Customer: “And that’s the latest version of the Internet, right?”
Tech Support: “Uhh…uh…uh…yeah.”

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One Liners:

“Unix is user-friendly. It’s just very selective about who its friends are.”

“Programming is like sex, one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.” — Michael Sinz

“There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.”

“640K ought to be enough for anybody.” – This is not humorous by itself; but in the context it’s a classic by Bill Gates in 1981

Microsoft: “You’ve got questions. We’ve got dancing paperclips.”

“Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.” – Erik Naggum

“Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from hell.”

“SUPERCOMPUTER: what it sounded like before you bought it.”

“Windows95: It’s like upgrading from Reagan to Bush.

“People say Microsoft paid 14M$ for using the Rolling Stones song ‘Start me up’ in their commercials. This is wrong. Microsoft payed 14M$ only for a part of the song. For instance, they didn’t use the line ‘You’ll make a grown man cry’.”

“I’m not anti-social; I’m just not user friendly”

“A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light”

“The best accelerator available for a Mac is one that causes it to go at 9.81 m/s2.”

“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history – with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila”

“1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d”

“To go forward, you must backup.”

“I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code”

“A Windows user spends 1/3 of his life sleeping, 1/3 working, 1/3 waiting.”

“My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.”

“Better to be a geek than an idiot.”

“Windows isn’t a virus, viruses do something.”

“Geek’s favorite pickup line: Hey, does this rag smell like chloroform? ”

“Be nice to geeks when you’re in school, you might end-up working for one when you grow-up.”

“Difference between a virus and windows ? Viruses rarely fail.”

“Evolution is God’s way of issuing upgrades.”

“The only problem with troubleshooting is that sometimes trouble shoots back.”

“It’s a little-known fact that the Y1K problem caused the Dark Ages.”

“The box said ‘Required Windows 95 or better’. So, I installed LINUX.”

“Computer are like air conditioners: they stop working when you open windows.”

“once upon a midnight dreary, while i pron surfed, weak and weary,
over many a strange and spurious site of ‘hot xxx galore’.
While i clicked my fav’rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour,
” ‘Tis not possible!”, i muttered, “give me back my free hardcore!”
quoth the server, 404.”

“Mac users swear by their Mac,
PC users swear at their PC.”

“Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to driver error.”

“Dating a girl is just like writing software. Everything’s going to work just fine in the testing lab (dating), but as soon as you have contract with a customer (marriage), then your program (life) is going to be facing new situations you never expected. You’ll be forced to patch the code (admit you’re wrong) and then the code (wife) will just end up all bloated and unmaintainable in the end.”

“Real men don’t use backups, they post their stuff on a public ftp server and let the rest of the world make copies.” – Linus Torvalds

“There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand trinary, those that don’t, and those that confuse it with binary.”

“If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.”

“It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.”

“I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: ‘Outlook not so good’. I said: ‘Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway’.”

“The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.”
“The term reboot comes from the middle age (before computers). Horses who stopped in mid-stride required a boot to the rear to start again. Thus the term to rear-boot, later abbreviated into reboot.”

“Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code.”

“The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones.”

“Hacking is like sex. You get in, you get out, and hope that you didn’t leave something that can be traced back to you.”

In a twist of events popular P2P software Limewire is now suing the RIAA for Antitrust And Consumer Fraud.

It all began when the RIAA sued Limewire after Limewire wouldn’t agree to simply roll over and pretend the RIAA’s interpretation of the Supreme Court decision in the Grokster case was actually what the Supreme Court said.

to quote:

The court actually said that services could be found liable, if they were shown to actively induce infringement. The RIAA and the MPAA pretended this meant that any file sharing network that had unauthorized content was flat-out illegal. Of course, that’s a bit of a stretch.

The outcome of this lawsuit is what i am anticipating, i’ve always been a user of Limewire and believe it or not have never downloaded any other P2P software, Limewire is just what the doctor ordered, i’ve got myself the Pro version which is even better!.

Let’s wait and see what happens to this particular lawsuit..go Limewire!

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UnBox will allow user to watch movies on their PC in DVD quality and users will have the choice of purchasing the movie/series or renting it.

Content can be downloaded to two different computers and can be stored on up to two portable media players that support Microsoft’s “PlaysForSure” technology. All purchases are stored in the customer’s Unbox account, and they can be re-downloaded on multiple computers.The good thing about it is that downloaded videos can be watched during downloading. According to the company, the “typical” broadband user should be able to start watching within five minutes of ordering a movie.

The bummer though is that at the moment it only works with Windows based PC’s.

When i visited the site it was pretty fast loading and the previews did look in good quality, i’m still hesistant to get an account but if you have one and have actually downloaded a movie than please do share your experience!

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Sony will launched Mylo (My Life Online) next month, the Mylo is a personal communicator and we’re bound to see similar products poping up in the marketplace very soon.

With the Mylo you can now chat with your pals with Yahoo! Messenger®, Google Talk® or Skype®, check and send e-mails and even browse the net with an Opera browser via Wi-Fi.
It will also have a media player, a 2.4″ LCD display allowing to view videos on the move and comes with a flash based memory of 1GB which can be expanded with Sony’s Memory Stick Pro Duo cards.

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August 31, 2006, keep that date in mind as Belkin releases the Wi-Fi Skype Phone.

This beautiful gadget was specifically made for Skype and is officially endorsed by Skype, it don’t get much better than that does it?

The cool thing about this phone is that it looks like a cell phone and you can make calls to your skype contacts or even landlines or cell phones with just a Wi-Fi connection.

It has a full color screen and is very easy to use allowing you to scroll through contacts and check their status. You can also dial numbers with the keypad, and add contacts. It’s basically just like a mobile version of skype.

The software also comes preloaded on the phone so there’s nothing you need to bother installing or downloading. It’s all Skype certified as well so you know it has to be quality.

Via: Coolest-Gadgets

Explay, an Israeli based company has produced a nifty gadget,a great addition to any mobile device -iPod & Cell Phones.

The Explay Nano-Projector is a mini projector that plugs directly into your mobile devices and displays an image on a screen as large as 30 inches.

Of course you could just upload the movies you have on your Cell Phones and iPod to your PC or Notebook but the beauty of this gadget is that it’s portable and relatively small in size and could be carried around along with your mobile devices.

It is set for an early 2007 release and pricing isn’t set just yet.

Explay’s nano-projector engines are built with a unique laser-based diffractive optical technology, a proprietary technology for enhancing micro-display efficiency, and a proprietary ASIC which tightly ties the components together. The combination provides a complete optic and electronic projector engine solution for simple and glueless integration into third party products.

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Amanda Congdon has left RocketBoom.com,some say she quit
Rocketboom to persue bigger and better things in L.A,while some say she was fired by partner Andrew Baron.

You can watch what she had to say on this matter via her blog (Video)

One thing’s for sure though,people will follow her instead of RocketBoom now…

Please take note that in practice, many of the files shared on this file hosting networks are copies of copyrighted music and movies. Sharing of these copies with strangers without authorisation from the copyright holder is illegal in most jurisdictions.

Please also check out the Most Common Myths About File Sharing.

Today i’ve compiled a small list of Free File Hosting Service available,all the links below will lead you to sites that allow you to upload a minimum of 100MB,because really…who uploads anything lesser than that?

If you have a link,please chip in the comment and post it,much appreciated!

Thanks.

** File Size limits correct at time of this post**

Enough of chatter ,here’s the list:

Flash Player enables organizations and individuals to build and deliver great digital experiences to their end users.

You can download it here.

File size: 1,324 K
Download Time Estimate: 2 minutes @ 56K modem
Version: 9,0,16,0
Browser: Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, and CompuServe
Date Posted: 6/27/2006
Language: English

The question is..where is IE support….?

“Saturday Night Live” and “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” are just some of the programs that are making it’s way to YouTube -legally,thanks to an agreement between NBC and YouTube.

NBC in the past had been pissed off by YouTube who they claimed infringed copyright by allowing users to upload skits from “Saturday Night Live” and “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” among others,reaching a boiling point when when a video of a Saturday Night Live skit, called “Lazy Sunday” showed up on the site.

The spoof, featuring SNL regulars Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg rapping about eating cupcakes and going to see The Chronicles of Narnia, was viewed millions of times. Nonetheless, NBC asserted its copyright and asked YouTube to take it down.

YouTube meanwhile has no plans to follow the Napster route by infringing copyrights,instead
it’s co-owner Chad Hurley says it’s developing tools and putting process in place to control what’s going on in the site.

And with leading ad agency – Leo Burnett hailing YouTube as the advertising medium of the future,you can bet more will follow NBC’s route.

Source: NYTimes

It appears that the RIAA is quite pissed about the the recent trend of user using copyrighted music in their videos as background music,something similar to those seen at Gidol.

Some YouTube users have reportedly received cease and desist letters from the RIAA, demanding that the posted video be taken down. YouTube, however, is confident in its copyright policy because it warns people about violation, and pulls material upon request of the copyright holder.

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I stumbled upon DropSend today,a file sharing site with a difference.

One of the main thing that instantly caught my attention is the ‘Personalized Interface’ feature.With DropSend’s Business plan,you can personalize the file sharing interface,which is great for small or medium companies,all you have to do is just upload your logo and changed the colors to make it look like part of your site.

Once you signed up with one of their plans, your up and running (in 2 minutes they claim) to send files securely over SSL,Choose your own web address using “groupdropbox.com”. For example, if your company name is “Nike”, you could choose “nike.groupdropbox.com”,Store up to 100 GB of files and more!.

The other beautiful thing is you can use it as an online hardrive,and sending files from your desktop to your online storage is a breeze with Dropsend’s desktop tool,by just using the ‘drag and drop’ technique,it’s that easy.

Desktop Tool

Visit Dropsend Today

The Man Behind It

Ryan Carson

After some minor research,i’ve discovered that DropSend is apart of the Carson Systems Ltd.
And Carson Systems Ltd is owned by Ryan Carson.

A little about Ryan:

Colorado born Ryan has lived in the UK for six years. During that time he has worked as lead PHP developer at several design studios. He developed his first web app in 2003 before founding Carson Systems in early 2004. Shortly after that he built his second large-scale web application, the hugely popular DropSend and he is currently working on his third web app, Amigo, due for launch in July. He is live-blogging the development of Amigo over at Bare Naked App.

In 2006 he organised and spoke at the 800-seat conference, The Future of Web Apps and is a passionate advocate of developing forward-thinking web applications.

Ryan writes regularly on the topic of building web apps. His articles appear on several websites including: for A List Apart, Signal Vs Noise (37signals), Design In Flight, Treehouse, and BD4D
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Taken from : Carson Workshops

One of those operating the Pirate Bay site, Fredrik Neij, said that it had reopened using servers in the Netherlands.

Tobias Andersson,spokeman for the site has demanded “an apology from the police and from the justice ministry and we want our servers back .”

ThePirateBay.org is widely known as the largest search index for BitTorrent, a system used for sharing large files over the internet.

Source: BBC

Visit: ThePirateBay.org

You can read the Official release notes by Yahoo HERE

Unlike YouTube.com, Yahoo Video’s only limit is file size, and that limit is 100MB.

There are no time, bandwidth or total storage limitations. Videos can be set to public or private, and viewers can search and sort videos by popularity, category (pre-defined by Yahoo) or tags (user created). Like YouTube, videos can be rated by viewers, commented on, embedded into other websites, etc.

Visit Yahoo Video

Source: TechCrunch

You would have come across many problems as well in downloading files, such as time limits,one download at a time from a IP address,etc…

But rejoice!, there’s tips,tricks and hacks out there to overcome this problem.

for example:

Byepass the Rapidshare data download limit

Rapidshare limits each user to a certain amount of downloading per day based on the users IP address. You can easily cheat rapidshare by showing a different IP address.

1. Clear your browser cookies.
2. Open the command prompt (Start – Run – cmd.exe)
3. Run the following simple commands:
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
4. Type exit to close the DOS window. Restart the rapidshare download job.

This trick may not work if your ISP has assigned you a static IP address. (BSNL assigns a dynamic IP)

Free Rapidshare Premium Account

To login into the RapidShare – PREMIUM-Zone without using your credit card or PayPal, During certain periods, Rapidshare provides free premium account to normal users. The free premium rapidshare links are valid for 24 hours. The URL to try is rapidshare.de/cgi-bin/freeaccount.cgi It may be possible that all rapidshare free premium accounts are taken so try again later.

More Rapidshare hacks – Search for files on megaupload and rapidshare

Search Video on Megaupload: avi|mpg|mpeg|wmv|rmvb site:megaupload.com
Search Audio Music files on MegaUpload: mp3|ogg|wma site:megaupload.com
Search Software Warez ISO Programs on MegaUpload: zip|rar|exe site:megaupload.com
Search ebooks and magazine on megaupload: pdf|rar|zip|doc|lit site:megaupload.com

Search Video on rapidshare.de avi|mpg|mpeg|wmv|rmvb site:rapidshare.de
Search MP3 Music cds files on Rapidshare: mp3|ogg|wma site:rapidshare.de
Search full software programs on Rapidshare zip|rar|exe site:rapidshare.de
Search pdf files, documents, ebooks, magazines: pdf|doc|lit|rar|zip site:rapidshare.de

For megaupload and rapidshare searching, narrow down you search for what you want by putting your query at the first part.

Say if you want to search for da vinco code ebook use the query
da vinci code pdf|doc|lit|rar|zip site:rapidshare.de

Say if you want to search for madonna mp3 files and music videos use the query
madonna mp3|wmv site:rapidshare.de

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How does this work?

If you’re in the US or Canada, you can use SkypeOut to call any landline or mobile number in both the USA and Canada for free.

If you’re in the US or Canada and calling any other country, OR if you’re in any other country and calling landline or mobile numbers in the US or Canada, the standard SkypeOut rates apply.

Of course, Skype-to-Skype calls continue to be globally free, so no changes there.

Full article on Skype

Also in the reports it states that in the next five years, 30.3 million will switch from digital music players to mobile music phones and are more likely to pay a premium for phones with music playback function and data-related services.

The addition of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity will open new possibilities for content acquisition and distribution. Companies such as MusicGremlin are developing Wi-Fi-enabled digital audio players that can download content directly from an online store without the need for a PC. Online music services also can automatically push out content to the device removing the consumer’s responsibility to update content on the digital audio player. By subscribing to periodically updated play lists, consumers can have the spontaneity of radio without the commercials, Yankee Group said.

Source & More: Personal Tech Pipeline

The Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers has issued the latest in a series of wireless standards,WiFi-N or better known in it’s technical name as 802.11n.

This new Wi-Fi Version performs up to five times faster than current gear.

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Prices start at an affordable $9.99 for 16 episodes of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”, with subscribers being able to download the show after it’s been broadcast.

more via : Reuters

That’s just what Google is planning to do, the web is a buzz with Google “Total Storage” offering
dubbed Gdrive.

The GDrive, previously the subject of chatroom rumour, would offer a mirror of users’ hard drives.

The question is would you accept the offer?

via : BBC

In his Budget 2006 speech, Lee said: “Other countries and cities are already implementing ultra-high speed broadband and wireless networks. Some are laying fibre to homes, in anticipation of future demand.

More via: ZD net Asia