Encrypted Bit Torrent is future of file sharing

The founders of Pirate Bay, one of the largest public bit torrent piracy website, is now in court fighting a legal battle over whether they have committed any wrongdoing by directing users to illegal content, even though none of the content actually reside on Pirate Bay’s servers.

OneSwarm

The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has also gained some notoriety as of late due to their strongarm tactics to coerce universities and ISPs into giving up private data for use in prosecuting download of illegal copyrighted content. Their efforts have thus far been futile, garnering many criticisms and ridicule from netizens everywhere, and hilarious stories of how their tactics have led them to prosecuting dead people and toddlers who don’t know how to use a computer!

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How YouTube looked like in 1985

Wow, you wouldn’t believe this. YouTube was actually started as early as 1985! A complete failure at that time but it’s amazing how it has survived so many years and become so successful these days!

All right… this is a prank but it almost made me rolling on the floor laughing as it made me laughing so hard! 🙂

This video “YouTube in 1985” tries to show us what the popular YouTube service would have been if it had initially operated in 1985 as a “mail-order video” site. Check out the video… it’s so funny!

Intel Atom and VIA Nano

A story came out of PC World recently showing that VIA’s Nano microprocessor manages to beat the Intel Atom in every single test, further advancing arguments that the new Intel Atom chips are a large technical failure but a huge commercial success.

VIA Nano

The Atom, which will be appearing all over netbooks this year and beyond, have always been criticized as being slow and not up to par. VIA Nano, a competing product, have recently been tested to see how the Atom will fare and the results are not good at all.

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Looking for a good mouse

I have been doing some research as I’m looking to put down some cash on a good mouse, but I want to maximize my performance per dollar ratio in order to get the best deal. And with today’s competitive gaming mouse market, you are bound to be blindsided by the incredible amount of advertising and marketing speak that would render any sane consumer a mindless zombie slaving his money to the next company to flash some cleavage topped off with a dose of 3D graphics.

Computer girl

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Tests confirm FAT32 best filesystem for USB Drives

If you ever had a question that goes like “Which filesystem is best for my USB drive?”, now you can have the answer. Intrepid geeks over at Test Freaks have made a massive benchmark of USB drives and how they performed when formatted with different filesystems. The short answer is: stick to FAT32.

USB drive benchmark

The defaults settings show that FAT32 is fast and compatible across all hardware, so there is little risk of anything going wrong such as going to a friend’s house and finding out his computer can’t read your flash drive. The three filesystems tested were FAT32, NTFS and Ex-FAT. While FAT32 and NTFS is the more recognizable of the two, Ex-FAT is a new filesystem which only Vista can currently access, unless you install the appropriate drivers on an XP machine before you can access it.

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Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive

If you have just brought a brand new internal 3.5-inch Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 drive, be warned that it is currently experiencing some major problems which can lead to premature drive failure!

Seagate hard drive

If you own a Seagate that is 1TB and above, chances are you are affected. The new 1TB drives are using 7200.11, Seagate’s new family of hard drives that have improper firmware which can lead to your drive being unusable only after a few months.

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iPhone 3G ad

Recently, Apple announced that iPhone applications in App Store has reached a staggering 15,000 applications. This is certainly a huge jump in a very short period of time compared to the previous milestone of 10,000 applications which took up to 4 months to reach!

Anyway, let’s check out iPhone’s latest ad.

What do you think? Does the cool ad make you wanna dump your current mobile phone (be it Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung or even LG) and fork out RM3k for an iPhone 3G? 🙂

iPod Touch Gen2 Tethered Jailbreak!

The past few weeks, the internet has been rife with announcement that a jailbreak has already been found for Apple’s newest iPod, the second generation Touch. For fans this has been a long time coming and meant that they can finally enjoy a jailbroken iPod Touch with all the fun things you can do with it.

iPod Touch Gen2

However, the current jailbreak method is still a bit dodgy and requires you to jump through a few hoops. It’s definitely not a one-click solution yet. Another problem with the current jailbreak solution is that every time you boot up your iPod, it will be stuck with a white screen and you need to connect it to your computer and run a command before it will properly boot. This is termed a tethered jailbreak and meant that you have to be tethered to the computer when you are restarting the iPod.

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