Archive for December 6, 2006

UPX For Windows 2.91 Beta

UPX is a free, portable, extendable, high-performance executable packer for several different executable formats. It achieves an excellent compression ratio and offers very fast decompression. Your executables suffer no memory overhead or other drawbacks because of in-place decompression.

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FileZilla Server 0.9.21

FileZilla Server is a small and fast FTP Server. The server looks like the famous G6, but it is free.

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Azureus For Windows 3.0 Beta

Azureus is a Java based BitTorrent client that offers multiple torrent downloads, queuing/priority systems (on torrents and files), start/stop seeding options and instant access to numerous pieces of information about your torrents. It also features an embedded tracker that is easily set up and ready to use.

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YouTube blocked in Iran

The ban on YouTube reflects a growing official sensitivity to private films on the internet, an issue highlighted by a recent online video which appears to show an Iranian soap opera star having sex. With some 7.5 million surfers, Iran is believed to have the highest rate of web use in the Middle East after Israel.

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Subversion 1.4 Released!!

Eargerly awaited by some, especially those using TortoiseSVN and other source control clients. Subversion 1.4 is now available.

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NASA Telescope Discovers Black Hole Gulping Star

A giant black hole displaying horrifying table manners has been caught in the act of guzzling a star in a galaxy 4 billion light-years away, scientists using an orbiting NASA telescope said on Tuesday.

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MySpace.com Moves to Keep Sex Offenders Off of Its Site

My Space.com, the social networking site, said Tuesday that it was developing technologies that would help combat the use of its site by sexual predators by cross-referencing its more than 130 million users against state databases of registered sex offenders.

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What You Have to Know Before Moving to Windows Vista

I was inspired by one of “what you should know when moving to Linux” articles, and though that Windows Vista has a lot of innovations in comparison to Windows XP, and I know that some users still don’t know why they should or should not migrate to Vista.

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Eight million Opera Mini users

“When we launched Opera Mini, we hoped the world would embrace it. We always believed in the power of a mobile browser, but we couldn’t anticipate how eagerly so many millions have welcomed Mini. Ten months have passed since we offered it. More than 8 million people have not only downloaded, but use Opera Mini consistently. We are amazed”

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Grand Theft Auto for the Nintendo Wii?

Could there possible be a Wii version of GTA? Reggie says he has done “all it can” do to bring GTA to the Nintendo Wii. Everything is now up to Take Two on if this ever popular title will be made for the Wii. Expect details in 2007.

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CSIRO to demonstrate 6 Gbps Wi-Fi link; 12 Gb/s link planned

Read it again slowly: six (6) gigabits per second. Over wireless. With more to come.

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New Inventin: Data Can be Stored on Paper

Time to say Good bye to cds, DVDs and zip drives…A student from India developed a technique to store data on paper.

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