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Update: Corrected Typo thanks to Small Potato
In Two separate news articles.
Looks Like The Harry Potter Pirate Might be Caught.
The guy who took pictures of the stolen harry potter book and put them on the net forgot to remove the EXIF data which contains the serial number of his Canon camera which means he can be […]

Google now allows you to put adsense on your private forums and website which are accessible only by logging in.
We’ve recently launched a new feature called Site Authentication to take care of this problem. Using Site Authentication, you can give our crawler access to your login-protected pages by passing it information to log into your […]

Looks like hackers and pirates are on a roll this week. First Windows Media DRM got cracked, this allowed people to remove DRM restrictions from their music and videos. Now TechCrunch is reporting that the latest book from J.K Rowling popular harry Potter series Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows has been released by pirates […]

Microsoft’s Digital Rights Management System for music and video has been cracked, this allows people to strip their music and video free of the DRM restrictions and to allow unrestricted use of their music and video. This isn’t the first time it has been cracked (hacker have cracked it twice before). Just like how apple […]

Check this post here by the so called usability Guru Jakob Nielsen on his website (I refuse to call it a blog, if you can’t comment then its not a blog) were he is typically saying blogging sucks. Lately he’s either been out of touch or he is getting too old. My dad can’t understand […]

Intel and other chip makers are moving towards multi-core architectures which means you can run each OS on a single core. In the coming years most people won’t be satisfied with running a single OS, they would like to have the best of both worlds. As a web designer I need to check my website […]

Flock has come out of beta and they just released version 0.9. It looks pretty neat. Blog editor still sucks (it spits out nasty html code) you can see whats new here http://www.flock.com/welcome and what’s new here http://www.flock.com/compare
Here is a brief list of new things in Flock.

MyWorld: a dynamic home base for all your […]

Mary Jo Foley reports that her source in MS confirmed that Service pack for windows Vista will be out in the middle of july. Here’s what’s there in the Windows Vista Service pack 1.

Performance tweaks lessening the amount of time it takes to copy files and shut down Vista machines (Yeah, I know Microsoft said […]

Orkut is extremely popular in India. Its the MySpace for Indians. Sabeel Ahmed a terrorist (and I am ashamed to say an Indian National) who was arrested by the Australian police recently has a profile on Orkut, I was curious so I went to his profile to have a glance, his ScrapBook (Comments Section) is […]

Google has launched an Official Gmail and Orkut Blog. This has been long over due. Almost all the products that Google have their own official blogs. Gmail is one of Google most popular services. So which Google Blogs do you read. Here is a list of Google Blogs that I read.

Source: googlified

FeedBurner is now offering its PRO services for free to everyone. This includes its Statistics Package TotalStats and MyBrand which lets you brand your Feeds. This comes after its recent acquisition by Google. They haven’t opened up its Ads network to everyone yet though.

 
Source: Mashable

Microsoft is getting on the the Web 2.0 Bandwagon slowly. They recently announced the Windows Live Folders and Windows Live Photo Gallery, both of which are in Closed Beta. I just realized that I was part of the Windows Live Folders Beta tester. I gave it a test run. The Live Folders is nothing ground […]

Lets face it Google has a good standing in the geek community. People rarely go after Google. I find it very Ironic that people hold double standards when it comes to Apple Vs Microsoft Vs Google. I like to look at them with a neutral eye. First Google got some really bad PR for ranking […]

Google Redesigned their online Docs And SpreadSheets Applications it looks really neat and organized.
Here’s what’s new:

Looking pretty - The entire document list has been given a complete visual overhaul - new icons, more content, and better organizational controls. We know users spend a lot of time here and we aim to make it feel more […]

If you are a Microsoft fan or would simply like to visit Redmond and take a look around, here’s a quick way to get them to fly you to Redmond for free and give you the red carpet treatment. GET A ZUNE TATTOO. Yes its that simple, I am what the heck its just a […]