As Starcraft 2 Beta approaches details have been shed on the Battle.net service which is an underlying component for all blizzard games. [Read more...]
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02/11/2010 Leave a Comment
WordCamp is a Wordpress conference being held on May 1st, in SF Mission Bay Conference Center, and on may 2nd a developers’ unconference is held at the same location.
Tickets are avaiable at $50, and $60 walk-in. You can volunteer or buy a ticket.
We’ll be covering the event live, and keeping an extra eye out for anyone trying to sniff our packets. If anyone wants to join us, drop a line below.
First Windows 8 Build Screenshots
02/01/2010 Leave a Comment
Comrades at WZor, as promised, have publicized a number of screenshots from a Windows 7 post RTM build as well as the technical data from build 7700.0.100122-190.
MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.7.POST-RTM.7700.X64.RETAIL.ENGLISH.DVD-WZT
FILE: 7700.0.100122-1900_x64fre_client_en-us-GRMCXFRE_EN_DVD.iso
SIZE: 3,231,166,464 byte
SHA1: C0CB719B781D49B39D8CC93A27F990A366B8E4C7
MD5: EBEB8AEC73339536564D26DB584A9474
CRC: B3F323D6
The silent death of Technorati
01/05/2010 9 Comments
UPDATE 1/30/2010: bayareatechpros.com has finally been approved. I should note that the thumbnail of the website remains unchanged and I am unable to edit site info or do anything with the claim at this point.
UPDATE 1/7/2010: It appears as though Technorati is inching forth, but the backlog which they are developing far outweighs the amount of blogs being approved.
UPDATE 1/7/2010: An employee, Phillip Winn, who is a senior web developer has taken up a PR stance and resumed replying to the thread. It appears as though Technorati is inching forth, but the backlog which they are developing far outweighs the amount of blogs being approved.
Technorati has been an authorative and integral part of the blogosphere, positioning itself as a benchmark and indexed search engine for blogs in the start of the Web 2.0 boom. This was then, however, and how fast things change…
In October to November of 2009 a peculiar problem arose, the real-time search engine of Technorati was no longer indexing new blogs. According to some wizardly mathemagic a new blog is created every second and Technorati, as a search engine, is not indexing any of the 26,000,000+ new blogs which were created in the past 2+ months, according to math. [Read more...]
Operation Chokehold: take down ATT data network
12/15/2009 Leave a Comment
The iPhone, with its aesthetically pleasing and functional design, beckons users to enjoy internet access, YouTube, and other data services. AT&T as the single exclusive network and reseller of the iPhone, carries a tremendous data burden on its already deficient network. Rather than focusing on the issue at hand, the unreliability and overstress of the network, CEO Ralph de la Vega voices his displeasure with the amount of traffic AT&T customers demand from his network and attempts to redefine the smartphone based upon its keyboard size and potential data use rather than OS capabilities.
I will go ahead and point to the obvious; if you want an unclogged network do not force iPhone users to stick with it. You can’t have two things at once, pick priorities; though it seems AT&T intends to nibble what it cannot eat, and keep it on a 2 year contract of sub-par service and coverage.
YouTube phases out old accounts
12/01/2009 Leave a Comment
If you signed up for YouTube prior to Google’s acquisition you may be displeased to see that you are no longer allowed to use your YouTube account independent of your email. The change merges your YouTube account with whatever email was associated with it at the time.
The qualifying conditions are as follows:
- You’ve signed up for their original YouTube account before May 2009.
- You’ve joined your YouTube and Google Accounts together.
- You’re still signing in with your original YouTube password.
Future of Torrents; DHT, PEX and Magnet Links Explained
11/24/2009 Leave a Comment
This week The Pirate Bay confirmed it would shut down its tracker for good, instead encouraging the use of DHT, PEX and magnet links. This move confounded many BitTorrent enthusiasts, who although wishing to adapt, were confronted with hard to grasp terminology and technology. Time for some explaining. [Read more...]
Modern Warfare 2 vulnerable to Virus and Trojan attacks
11/19/2009 Leave a Comment
Modern Warfare’s silly practice of opening ports and connecting directly to hosts leaves an easy path for a hacker to launch an attack against your PC. This can become a keylogger, or place your computer under a botnet.
Check the original post for further information:
http://www.modernwarfare2.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=181646
GPU video acceleration with Flash
11/19/2009 3 Comments
Yesterday news spread of Adobe Flash 10.1 adding GPU acceleration support. Today, ATi has released drivers supporting GPU acceleration.
This update is beneficial to ATi users as it will allow fully smooth playback of high resolution, high definition, videos; Hulu, YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook Video, and others… As browser and flash playback has been CPU dependent in the past the long overdue inclusion of GPU acceleration will be a huge blow against video playback stuttering and choppiness through consistent and high framerate.
Office 2010 Beta is Live!
11/18/2009 Leave a Comment
Microsoft has just unlocked the download links on their Beta Office 2010 suite. It is available for both Windows and Windows Mobile platforms.
Theyre up for grabs at Microsoft’s site now!
A new, interesting to watch, feature of Office 2010 is the Outlook Social Connector “OSC”. It features an activity stream (think facebook wall) with support for LinkedIn, facebook and twitter integration will be out at RC or commercial release. [Read more...]
