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Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN has insured that Dutch citizens will no longer be able to access The Pirate Bay after taking 3 of the site founders to court last year. As of now they have won the case banning The Pirate Bay from the Netherlands by ordering The Pirate Bay to ban Dutch users.

The judge ruled that The Pirate Bay is not guilty of copyright infringement but the founders are guilty in assisting in copyright infringement. It is now thought that BREIN will attempt to use this victory to ban other torrent trackers from Dutch citizens.

Source: Torrentfreak

Today I got my hands on Microsoft Office 2011 for mac, which is currently in BETA. I managed to take a few screenshots off whats new. I must say I am quite impressed with it already.
One of the biggest things you will notice is entourage is now completely gone and replaced by outlook. Microsoft messenger now sports a new interface too which was very much needed in my opinion. But anyways less of the gibbering and more of the goodies:


Activation:



Communicator:



Remote Desktop:



Excel:




I took quite a few screen shots, if you want to see more including outlook, Microsoft messenger and more you'll need to download them from here

For icons and other resources click here

Lee.

Dear iPhone 4 Users,

The iPhone 4 has been the most successful product launch in Apple’s history. It has been judged by reviewers around the world to be the best smartphone ever, and users have told us that they love it. So we were surprised when we read reports of reception problems, and we immediately began investigating them. Here is what we have learned.

To start with, gripping almost any mobile phone in certain ways will reduce its reception by 1 or more bars. This is true of iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, as well as many Droid, Nokia and RIM phones. But some users have reported that iPhone 4 can drop 4 or 5 bars when tightly held in a way which covers the black strip in the lower left corner of the metal band. This is a far bigger drop than normal, and as a result some have accused the iPhone 4 of having a faulty antenna design.

At the same time, we continue to read articles and receive hundreds of emails from users saying that iPhone 4 reception is better than the iPhone 3GS. They are delighted. This matches our own experience and testing. What can explain all of this?

We have discovered the cause of this dramatic drop in bars, and it is both simple and surprising.

Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong. Our formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength. For example, we sometimes display 4 bars when we should be displaying as few as 2 bars. Users observing a drop of several bars when they grip their iPhone in a certain way are most likely in an area with very weak signal strength, but they don’t know it because we are erroneously displaying 4 or 5 bars. Their big drop in bars is because their high bars were never real in the first place.

To fix this, we are adopting AT&T’s recently recommended formula for calculating how many bars to display for a given signal strength. The real signal strength remains the same, but the iPhone’s bars will report it far more accurately, providing users a much better indication of the reception they will get in a given area. We are also making bars 1, 2 and 3 a bit taller so they will be easier to see.

We will issue a free software update within a few weeks that incorporates the corrected formula. Since this mistake has been present since the original iPhone, this software update will also be available for the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G.

We have gone back to our labs and retested everything, and the results are the same— the iPhone 4’s wireless performance is the best we have ever shipped. For the vast majority of users who have not been troubled by this issue, this software update will only make your bars more accurate. For those who have had concerns, we apologize for any anxiety we may have caused.

As a reminder, if you are not fully satisfied, you can return your undamaged iPhone to any Apple Retail Store or the online Apple Store within 30 days of purchase for a full refund.

We hope you love the iPhone 4 as much as we do.

Thank you for your patience and support.

Apple.

Nintendo's upcoming console, the 3DS, offers 3D gaming experience without the need of special glasses.
(those of you who have seen a 3D movie lately, know how much of an improvement this is)

The 3DS comes with a 3.5-inch 3D screen and a 3-inch touch screen below the 3D screen.
This handheld gaming device comes with a slider on the side of the console just to control the 3D effect on the games played.
It can also change the 3D effect to 2D. Moreover the 3DS will be backwards-compatible & feature an integrated 3D-camera.

Interesting is also that Nintendo has teamed up with film studios, such as Disney and Warner Brothers, to offer 3D movies for the 3DS.

The 3DS looks quite promising. Definitely something to keep an eye on.

Source: AllReviewsOnline.com

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1] Mac OS X 10.6.x Theme by gafmediastudio
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3] Windows 7 Theme by Katz93

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Windows Live Essentials 2011 Public Beta due out June 24th. Previously known as Wave 4 it brings in social integration such as Facebook and Youtube to apps such as Messenger, Photo Gallery and Movie Maker.

What other surprises may we see on release? Perhaps a x64 build but nothing has been confirmed but could well happen.

Source:Windows Live Team Blog

Unreal IRC server an open-source application has been found to have been infected with a trojan virus for over 8 months without detection, the Windows version was found to be without infection.

Mac OS X has been on the forefront of an increasing number of malware infections with a number of trojans appearing in free software. OpenSpy being rampant and tracking and recording user activity.

With the gain in market share and the lack of protection from it's users both Linux and OS X are attracting the attention of hackers and malware makers. Long gone are the days of feeling safe using an OS besides Windows. It's recommended to be cautious about what you download and perhaps invest in an anti-virus solution.

Source: ZDnet

Ludacris : (Today, 07:00 PM) Ok Currently the people at the WWDC are waiting for Jobs to appear. What a wonderfull world is beeing played


Ludacris : (Today, 07:01 PM) Jobs just entered the room

Ludacris : (Today, 07:03 PM) facts are beeing presented (Over 5200 attendees, 57 countries, sold out in 8 days)

Ludacris : (Today, 07:05 PM) Now they are resuming the iPad, talking about the capeabilitys.
Ludacris : (Today, 07:05 PM) The Slide says "I was sitting in a cafe with my iPad, and it got a girl interested in me. Now that's what I call a magical device" - email to steve jobs

Ludacris : (Today, 07:06 PM) Now they are showing news from all over the world presenting the ipad
Ludacris : (Today, 07:09 PM) The best 17 ipad apps are beeing presented.

Theo Gray from Wolfram Alpha said about the ipod: I earned more sales of The Element for iPad in the first day than from the past 5 years of Google ads on periodictable.com"

Ludacris : (Today, 07:10 PM) "the ipad is one of the worlds best ebook readers"
Ludacris : (Today, 07:12 PM) within 8 weeks, the iBookStore has reached 22% sales of the world wide ebook market
Ludacris : (Today, 07:12 PM) Now they are talking about HTML5


Ludacris : (Today, 07:14 PM) 15,000 apps are submited per week in 30 languages and 95% of all apps are beeing approved within the first 7 days
Ludacris : (Today, 07:15 PM) and the top 3 reasons for rejecting the app would be
1) all is not what description says
2) app uses private APIs
3) App crashes
Ludacris : (Today, 07:17 PM) now Jobs is presenting 3 new "entertainment apps"
Ludacris : (Today, 07:17 PM) 1) Netflix Movie Streaming for the iOS Plattform
Ludacris : (Today, 07:18 PM) "Netflix on the iPad is a huge success. The Netflix App is the most used app in the USA" - Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO
Ludacris : (Today, 07:19 PM) Netflix will use HTTP Streaming for best quality - i guess using HTML 5.
Ludacris : (Today, 07:19 PM) and it will be available this summer and for free
Ludacris : (Today, 07:20 PM) now, jobs came back and introduced Mark Pincus, CEO of Zygna.
Ludacris : (Today, 07:20 PM) the next "Entertainment App" is FarmVille for the iPhone
Ludacris : (Today, 07:20 PM) (almost noone is applauding :laugh:)
Ludacris : (Today, 07:21 PM) According to Mark Pincus, 7 Million Users play Farmville on Facebook
Ludacris : (Today, 07:22 PM) Farmville for iPhone syncs to your Facebook account so you will have your Farm everywhere
Ludacris : (Today, 07:22 PM) the App even has Push Notifications
Ludacris : (Today, 07:23 PM) But the App does not work flawlessly... Not really a good idea to present a not finnished app at the WWDC
Ludacris : (Today, 07:24 PM) You can make your farm in your browser, play on facebook and farm on your way.
Farmville will be available by the end of June
Ludacris : (Today, 07:25 PM) Now Karhik Bala, Senior Vice President Activison is presenting Guitar Hero
Ludacris : (Today, 07:25 PM) *Karthik
Ludacris : (Today, 07:26 PM) Guitar Hero comes with all the big Artists from the Rock Aera, e.g. Queen
but infact, the app is like TapTap Revolution, but with better graphics
Ludacris : (Today, 07:30 PM) It is available from today for $2,99
Ludacris : (Today, 07:30 PM) now steve jobs is on the stage
Ludacris : (Today, 07:30 PM) 222,00 apps on the Appstore,
5 Billion Downloads from the App Store
Ludacris : (Today, 07:30 PM) $1 Billion Paid to developers
Ludacris : (Today, 07:30 PM) now: the iPhone
Ludacris : (Today, 07:32 PM) US Marketshare: RIM: 35%, iphone: 28%, windows mobile: 19%, Android: 9%, Other: 9%
iPhone: 58.2%, Android: 22.7, RIM 12.7, other 6.5
Ludacris : (Today, 07:32 PM) now: iPhone 4

















Ludacris : (Today, 07:33 PM) 8 great features:
1) Complete new designs: "I think you have seen it" - "but you havent REALLY seen it", steve said - everyone is laughing
Ludacris : (Today, 07:33 PM) THe new iPhone really looks good
Ludacris : (Today, 07:35 PM) its only 9.3 mm thick (24% thinner than the iphone 3Gs)
flash on the back
front facing camera
noise canceling mic on top of the iphone
Ludacris : (Today, 07:36 PM) small gaps in the case of the iphone allow the case beeing used as antena
Ludacris : (Today, 07:37 PM) the iPhone 4 has the Bluetooth, WiFI and GPS antennae on the left side of the case and UMTS and GSM on the right side
Ludacris : (Today, 07:37 PM) the next feature is the so called "Retina Display
Ludacris : (Today, 07:38 PM) This retina display has 4x as many pixel as the iphone 3gs on the same area and alltogether 326 pixel per inch
Ludacris : (Today, 07:41 PM) Apple has bought special projectors as not many projectors have more than 300dpi
Ludacris : (Today, 07:43 PM) Heh. Steve:" Wifi here is pretty much crap". The iPhone 4G Demo Devices can not connect thanks to AT&T
Ludacris : (Today, 07:45 PM) Steve: "any suggestions how to fix this here?"
Someone in the Crowd: "Get Verizon!"
Ludacris : (Today, 07:47 PM) the iphone 4 has a 3.5 inch display, 960x640 pixels (4x more than the iphone 3gs), 326 pixels per inch, 800:1 contrast ratio, IPS technology for superb color and wide vewing angle and it has 78% of the pixels on iPad
Ludacris : (Today, 07:47 PM) the iPhone 4 has an A4 CHip
Ludacris : (Today, 07:49 PM) the battery will last longer. and now apple is showing the inside of the iPhone 4
Ludacris : (Today, 07:50 PM) the battery lasts 7 hours with 3g talking, 6 with 3g browsing, 10 with wifi browsing, 10 when watching video, 40 when listening to music and 300 hours in standby

Ludacris : (Today, 07:50 PM) HSDPA & HSUPA up to 7,2 down and5,8 up
Ludacris : (Today, 07:51 PM) besides the compas and g sensor the iphone 4 also includes a gyroscope. this allowes even more exact position locationing
Ludacris : (Today, 07:53 PM) now steve is playing jenga on the iphone
Ludacris : (Today, 07:55 PM) now they are presenting the new camera system (Feature #5)
Ludacris : (58 minutes ago) 5 Megapxe, but with an Backside Illuminated Sensor, so it collects more Photons (light). Tap to Focus, 5x Digital Zoom
Ludacris : (58 minutes ago) 720p 30fps video recording
Ludacris : (58 minutes ago) iMovie for the iPhone
Ludacris : (55 minutes ago) iMovie finds recognices the geotag and suggests e.g. the san francisco theme
Ludacris : (54 minutes ago) just like on the mac, iMovie for the iPhone supports a "wordlmap animation"
Ludacris : (51 minutes ago) iMovie will be available in the Appstore for $4,99, in case apple approves it *laughter*
Ludacris : (50 minutes ago) now they turned off all the 600 wifi hotspots

Ludacris : (44 minutes ago) iPhone OS is now called iOS - the way I always called it
Ludacris : (43 minutes ago) the iOS Golden Master is available NOW.

Ludacris : (41 minutes ago) this month, apple is going to sell the 100 billionth iOS device.
Ludacris : (41 minutes ago) Featuer 7: iBooks
Ludacris : (36 minutes ago) now they are going to talk about iAds
Ludacris : (28 minutes ago) Long talk, no real features....
Ludacris : (28 minutes ago) iADs will be available for all iOS4 Devices on July 1st.
Ludacris : (26 minutes ago) 48% of the US mobile advertising 2010 (in 2half 2010) was ordered as iAds
Ludacris : (23 minutes ago) One more thing... Videotelephony
Ludacris : (22 minutes ago) and now the notebooks have to be shut down again.
Ludacris : (21 minutes ago) iPhone 4 Videotelephony is called FaceTime but it is only allowed via WiFI
Ludacris : (21 minutes ago) and its iPhone 4 to iPhone 4 only aswell
Ludacris : (21 minutes ago) (of course, how should it be done with a device without front camera )
Ludacris : (20 minutes ago) ok. the front, aswell as the back camera can be used for videotelephony.
Ludacris : (20 minutes ago) it can be used in landscape or skyscblockedr format
Ludacris : (15 minutes ago) the iPhone 4 will cost 199$ with a 2 year contract at AT&T and the 32 GB iphone will be $299
Ludacris : (14 minutes ago) it will be available on june 24th and preorders start on june 15th
Ludacris : (13 minutes ago) the iphone 4 will be available in 88 countrys within september 2010
Ludacris : (12 minutes ago) australia, austria, belgium, canada, denmark, finland, hong kong, ireland, italy, luxembourg, ntherlands, norway, new zealand, singapore, south korea, spain, sweden and swizerland will get the iPhone 4 in july
Ludacris : (11 minutes ago) and germany will get the iphone on june 24th.
Ludacris : (10 minutes ago) And once again, apple is acting as if they invented telephony. "Were bringing Videoclaling to the world"
Ludacris : (8 minutes ago) http://live.benm.at/liveblog/uploads/c2c201cfd7226d27a587b2ce2f3a509c.JPG
Ludacris : (8 minutes ago)
Ludacris : (8 minutes ago) (little note heh didn't know images are available in here :/)
Ludacris : (7 minutes ago)
Ludacris : (6 minutes ago) http://live.benm.at/liveblog/uploads/cadfb83bf9fdc64d61d01c030f1d271e.JPG
http://live.benm.at/liveblog/uploads/bd84d2edcbaf66c8ec9d8bd3fb995fa2.JPG
Ludacris : (5 minutes ago) "The iPhone 4 will revolutionate everying, again"
Ludacris : (2 minutes ago) Steve Jobs is presenting the developers. http://live.benm.at/liveblog/uploads/66d5188f134ef6bb96777570f405819e.JPG
Ludacris : (2 minutes ago) Now the Keynote is over. I hope you have had fun

http://movies.apple.com/media/us/iphone/2010/tours/apple-iphone4-design_video-us-20100607_r848-9cie.mov

Microsoft is planning a public beta of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 for the end of July. This update will feature RemoteFX for Windows Server 2008 R2 giving users hardware rendered experience for remote users. For Windows 7 all this Service Pack will deliver are a roll-up of previously released updates and select hotfixes. You can expect a final release of Service Pack 1 during the end of the year.

Source: Neowin

It's relatively well known that Half-Life 2: Episode 3 has been long overdue and eagerly awaited since Episode 2 left us at a cliffhanger. Now with the surprising news of Portal 2's canceled E3 event with a big "surprise" coming could a new Half-Life be on the verge? Recently a teaser image from an unknown source has appeared from twitpic.


Is this real or a great fake leading us to a deep depression? All my hopes go towards Episode 3 and all logic should point towards this. Will we see Episode 3 at E3 or is the cake once again a lie?

Microsoft has revealed Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 revealing new features and a more complete look compared to the leaked M2 build. Microsoft is setting up Essentials to be a direct competitor to Apples pay-for iLife suite. Microsoft is claiming Windows is now the best OS for editing and organizing pictures with Windows Live Photo Gallery.

Featuring the Scenic Ribbon UI seen in Windows 7 through Paint and WordPad, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker and Mail all feature the ribbon UI. Photo Gallery now features photoshop like editing features with Facial Recognition, Batch Editing and a new feature called "Photo Fuse" allowing you to cherry pick your best parts of a picture and edit these all into 1 picture. Movie Maker now more complete in Wave 4 featuring "AutoTheme" allowing you to quickly add in transitions and music within mintues. You can upload your videos to Youtube or your favorite social network. With Mail you now get a more complete experience similar to Outlook.

It now appears Windows Live Mesh has been combined into Windows Live Sync giving similar features but without the desktop. You now get 2GB of SkyDrive storage through Windows Live Sync.

Source:Windows Live Preview

I've had the privledge of taking a glimpse into the development of Windows Media Player 12. Gaining access to screenshots of the initial milestones that Windows Media Player 12 has gone to get to what you see today. All though not the most interesting aspect of the development of Windows 7 it is one of the most visual.

Windows 7 Milestone 1 era
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Number of downloads: 235
Windows Media Player in build 6519 we see the minor changes that define the start of WMP 12's development all though I call this Windows Media Player 11.5 as the changes are so subtle. You see the initial reconfiguration of the tabs to the right side of the screen to make room for a breadcrumb bar for ease of navigation. New button leading to the Now Playing Window and a button that is for favorites but doesn't quite work like that I'm not sure what MS intended for it but it never made it into RTM. We also can preview songs which is useful all you gotta do is right click and click "Preview" and a little window pops up with a play button. The new Now Playing window makes its apperance here as well, still needing a touchup and some nice polish but its Milestone 1 so you get what you get.

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Number of downloads: 207
 WMP12 (PM1) 2.png (44.37K)
Number of downloads: 198
I wasn't told what build this was from but we'll call it Post-M1 for now. You get a closer look to what we have now, still looking like Windows Media Player 11 though. You see the media guide moved to the bottom left hand corner, you see aero extended into the tab and breadcrumb area as well. The Now Playing window improved since our last look now giving a bit more use to it. Also a Radio Guide button that was seen in and out throughout various Windows 7 builds but never made it into RTM it doesn't seem to do anything though.

Windows 7 M2 era
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Number of downloads: 218
 WMP (M2) 2.jpg (11.67K)
Number of downloads: 192
Windows Media Player 12 in Windows 7 Milestone 2 is probably the closest you'll get at seeing what WMP12 would look like with glass. Microsoft finally moved in the newer 7 UI into WMP12 showing the new light blue folderband that will be seen all throughout explorer in M3 and RTM oddly it's not seen anywhere else in M2. Aero is still present but it fits in a bit more than before and you can see more fit and polish throughout. The Now Playing window is a bit cleaner than what you saw in Post-M1 but still doesn't resemble the polished look that we see in RTM. “Favorites” button is still present and still without any real function, no thumbnail controles appear, it's just the same taskbar band as ever.

Windows 7 M3 era

This is where you finally get a look at what you finally get when you purchase and install Windows 7. Still features the older Vista control buttons and a background that resembles the aurora used in M3 and Beta 1. Aero is gone with Microsoft citing it confused users or maybe it was just to make the UI more consistent with Windows 7 even though this wasn't done with Windows Picture Viewer.

Windows 7 RTM
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Number of downloads: 157
This is what you're looking at right now as you read this if you're using Windows 7

Don't ask for files or more screenshots, don't ask for build numbers as I have nothing else to give, don't bother giving me PM's either. Wish I could give you more info on the development of Windows 7 UI wise but there's not much that you haven't seen and whats left isn't exactly interesting or visual at all.

As of today Google has started their public beta of encrypted search using SSl. When you visit Google you will notice on your URL bar it has a certificate (Depending on which browser you use)Identifying Google and that it is using 128bit encryption.

There may be a slight delay in regional rollout and might be some slight issues on certificate varification but this is all expected with a beta and should be relatively pain free soon.

Check it out

Microsoft has announceda revamped version of Hotmail and now calls it Windows Live Hotmail. In a press briefing in San Francisco, Chris Jones,
corporate vice president for Microsoft spoke about the changes in the company's mail service. The new Hotmail focuses mostly on the revised Inbox features,
adding/sharing photos and MS Office documents. Is Microsoft taking on Google? We say this as all these features are already present in Gmail.



It was about time that web's one of the most popular free mail service Hotmail got a well-deserved revamp.
New Windows Live Hotmail does carry the same social networking interface on the landing page. Once you go to the Inbox,
you'll be offered options to manage the clutter. For instance, the new Sweep feature that helps you get rid of the mails that you don't want anymore.
These mails could be newsletters, or website offers which you have signed up for sometime in the past but don't want to receive now.
Such mails can be directly moved to other folder or Trash cab. This is pretty much similar to the Gmail filters option.



New Hotmail also offers automatically sweeping the mails from the Inbox. In case you've added your Gmail and Yahoo Mail Inboxes,
then they can be swept too. Apart from that, the new Hotmail will allow auto-preview of photos without leaving the Inbox.
It also offers a preview of photos from third party services like Flickr and SmugMug. Alternatively,
it gives users an option to upload photos and share them through Microsoft' cloud-based SkyDrive.
Thus, users just have to email a link instead of sending a bunch of photos.

Even videos from third party services like Hulu and YouTube can be watched without leaving Hotmail. For the mobile devices,
Microsoft will allow pushing Windows Live e-mail, contacts and calendar onto cell phones using Exchange ActiveSync. However,
for using Hotmail and corporate Exchange account, users will have to use a smartphone that supports dual ActiveSync connections.

Hotmail will also allow viewing, editing and sharing Microsoft Office documents even if the Office suite isn't installed in the system.
So naturally, Hotmail will take help of MS Office Web's editing tools.

Hotmail users will also get a number of separate views for watching social network updates, shipping information, email from other inboxes and so on.

The most important update is that Microsoft will now offer an option to use an encrypted HTTPS secured connection.
We believe this option should be set as default just like Gmail did after it saw a cyber attack originating from China.



Microsoft will also offer an option to add multiple aliases to a single account and update a mail account with a new name.
Both these features are currently under the testing phase and would be made available sometime later.

New and revamped Windows Live Hotmail will be rolled out to users in the coming week.