Hurray for the EFF, The LOC and DRM Exemptions!

Hurray for the EFF, The LOC and DRM Exemptions!

Jul 26, 2010 | 0 |

We reported months ago that the group The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF )acts as the champions of tech users. Its recent goals include going to battle for us against the evil arch enemies of fair use. Well the EFF prevailed this time when it petitioned the Copyright Office and the Library of congress on our behalf. Today, in a historical move, the Library of Congress released a statement that floored us all but I will bet it especially hit Apple. SInce 1998, The Digital Millenium Copyright Act  has made it illegal for us to crack the DRM placed on...

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Google Introduces New Image Search Interface

Jul 21, 2010 | 0 |

On Tuesday, Google introduced a redesigned interface for Google Images. Google Images product manager Nate Smith says that images have become one of the most popular types of Google searches and that Google decided to update its image search to keep up with the increasing number of images online. Bing’s image search may also have added to the decision to add a redesign, considering the similarities of Bing’s scrolling and the new instant scrolling in Google Images. The new Google Images is being brought out over the next few days, but is available now for most image searches. “We hope they not only make it easier to search for images, but also contribute to a better aesthetic experience,” said Smith in a post on Google’s Blog. “We see images as a major source of inspiration, a way of connecting the world — and their growth is showing no signs of slowing down.” You can now able to scroll through up to 1000 images on a single page, the image tiles have less white space between them, there’s keyboard navigation, the previews have been made bigger, and there’s now a hover pane that shows the image preview when rolling over a thumbnail. The page that loads when a user clicks on an image shows the image in the frame of the Web site that hosts it. Clicking outside the image...

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Swedish Pirate Party Launches ISP

Jul 21, 2010 | 1 |

The torrent-dedicated website TorrentFreak has reported that the Swedish Pirate Party, who is the host of The Pirate Bay,  has launched their own “Pirate ISP”. To defend torrent users everywhere, the Swedish Pirate Party volunteered to provide bandwith to The Pirate Bay after legal issues in May.  Now the Party has decided to partner with other companies to provide consumer internet service. The service began beta testing in the city of Lund yesterday with around 100 residents. Their initial aim is to gain 5% of Lund, and move on to other parts of Sweden. At the Hacknight conference in Malmo, Sweden, the CEO of Pirate ISP said that they will not allow the Swedish Government to monitor Pirate ISP users and will refuse to retain logs. He also said that any attempt to force the ISP to do so will result in a constitutional issue. It was also clear on how Pirate ISP would respond to outside interference, in particular from the United States, saying “They can bring on whatever they have, we will refuse to follow there. We don’t agree with what they are saying and we don’t agree with the laws they are making so if they have an issue with us, then we will have an issue – but that’s it.” For most potential Pirate ISP customers who intend to use the service to file-share, the...

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Chrome 6 features announced

Chrome 6 features announced

Jul 21, 2010 | 0 |

Want the ability to print preview in Chrome? Me, too. But we’ll have to wait, because it’s one of the features that didn’t make the Chrome 6 cut.

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Apple's $15.7 billion in revenue is highest ever

Apple's $15.7 billion in revenue is highest ever

Jul 21, 2010 | 0 |

Propelled by sales of the iPhone and iPad, Apple earned $3.25 billion in profit on $15.7 billion in revenue, its highest quarterly revenue ever. The company reported its fiscal third-quarter results on Tuesday. Its reported earnings for the quarter represent an 88 percent increase in revenue over the same quarter a year ago, when Apple recorded revenue of $8.34 billion. The $15.7 billion figure is also on the high side of what Wall Street had been expecting: Analysts were anticipating between $13.82 billion and $15.74 billion in revenue, and earnings between $2.65 and $3.74 per share. Apple had offered...

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Facebook surpasses a half-billion users

Facebook surpasses a half-billion users

Jul 21, 2010 | 0 |

Facebook isn’t letting its milestone of 500 million active users around the world go unnoticed, with a big “Facebook Stories” promotion rolling out a Wednesday evening appearance on the ABC World News.

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Tethering App Sneaks into iPhone App Store

Tethering App Sneaks into iPhone App Store

Jul 20, 2010 | 0 |

Get it while it’s hot, because this sneaky tethering iPhone app is certain to be yanked out of the App Store  very, very soon. A new app, Handy Light, seems harmless enough: it turns your iPhone into a flashlight with 5 different color settings. On the surface, it’s just a simple $0.99 app. Under the hood though, the app is actually a SOCKS Proxy tethering app, capable of turning your iPhone into an Internet tethering device. It takes a few minutes to set up, but after you’ve followed the instructions in the YouTube  video above, you will be tethering...

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