May 4 2009

French pols reconsider piracy bill

French legislators reconsidered a bill Wednesday that would punish people who illegally download music and films by cutting off their Internet connections.


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May 4 2009

Old Japanese maps on Google Earth unveil secrets

When Google Earth added historical maps of Japan to its online collection last year, the search giant didn’t expect a backlash. The finely detailed woodblock prints have been around for centuries, they were already posted on another Web site, and a historical map of Tokyo put up in 2006 hadn’t caused any problems.


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May 4 2009

Tinker Away, Facebook Says

A wave of companies are aiming to give consumers new ways to tap into social networks.


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May 4 2009

How To Trace a Mobile Phone Location with Google Latitude

The one drawback of being so heavily into both the latest technologies and cool Internet applications is that when the two seamlessly combine to form the ultimate,


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May 4 2009

Italian Pirate Bay Trial in the Making

Following the Swedish verdict, Italy is now considering starting its own trial against the people involved with The Pirate Bay. This would be the first criminal prosecution against the Pirate Bay ‘founders’ outside their home country


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May 4 2009

MPAA Website, Now With Torrents

If it was up to the MPAA, every website with links to copyright infringing files would be banned from the Internet. Perhaps they should take a closer look at their own website first though, since it’s vulnerable to an XSS attack, making it possible to browse The Pirate Bay directly from the MPAA website.


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May 4 2009

Pro Tips to Breathe New Life Into Your Website

How a quick design refresh can be as effective as a full redesign.


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May 4 2009

Linux : 3 ways To Record Your Linux Desktop.

In this article I’ll include three ways to screencast your Linux desktop with the help of recordMyDesktop, XVidCap and Istanbul. These three applications are included in every major distribution.


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May 4 2009

Adblock Plus and (a little) more: Attention NoScript users

NoScript stupidly goes to war with Adblock plus.. n00b mistake!


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May 4 2009

Isn’t she beautiful? Oh yes! Isn’t she hot? Yes! Yes she is!

Her name is Space Shuttle Atlantis–and this photo is the closest most of us will ever get to her. She’s getting ready to go on a trip (NASA STS-125 mission) to upgrade the world’s greatest & bestest telescope with new hardware. That most beloved telescope, with millions and millions of admirers, is Hubble Space Telescope, a NASA Great Observatory.


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