Sony DRM Rootkit Violates Open Source LicenseNovember 19th, 2005 Sony's infamous rootkit based DRM software has been at the center of much attention for the last few week. That are facing a class action lawsuit.
Steve Jobs Advocates Abolishing DRMFebruary 7th, 2007 Steve Jobs in his Thoughts on Music article explores the alternatives to DRM going forward. He explores three options - 1.
Thought experiment: Google Web Accelerator and phpMyAdmin comboMay 11th, 2005 What would happen when a GWA user uses phpMyAdmin?
How to copy as plain text from any sourceJune 2nd, 2009 Suppose you are doing some research work at the internet from wikipedia and various other sources and want to copy bits and pieces of information from all the webpages in your doc. The annoying part is, if you simply copy them, there is a chance that many junk codes (like: hyperlinks, ad on hovering your mouse on a certain word etc) can come and disturb the way you want to save them or just won't let you copy that easily next time.
Copy the Exact Text with Link URL, Quote, Page Title etc through QuoteURLTextNovember 25th, 2008 Suppose you want to copy and paste texts from a web page. Though the data can easily be copied (unless that particular website has copy protection) as plain text and pasted to yours, its painful to take all the metadata alongside it.
How to Extract the Text from an Image? March 30th, 2009 Did you ever download an awesome wall paper that had a lovely message in the background and you wished if you could set that over some of your snaps? Well, you can always do that through photoshop and all. But it takes so much of time and energy, no? What if there was a genie who could just cut the text out of the photo? Yes seriously.
Swedish software company buys Pirate Bay filesharing site for $7.8 millionJune 30th, 2009 Swedish software firm buys Pirate BaySTOCKHOLM — A small Swedish software firm announced Tuesday it has purchased The Pirate Bay, the popular filesharing Web site, for 60 million kronor ($7.8 million). Global Gaming Factory X said the deal would include rights to use the Pirate Bay domain name and accompanying Web sites.
Sony Rootkit Class Action Lawsuit SettledMay 23rd, 2006 Customers who bought Sony CDs with XCP copy control software (rootkit) are set to get refunds as a result of the consolidated class action settlement. Sony was sued in three separate class action lawsuits, which were consolidated into Monday's settlement.
Introducing Prologue for Corporate CommunicationsFebruary 6th, 2008 Many of us have a distributed work force which often leaves people wondering what others are doing. Twitter is a great service for updating status.
How To Disable Windows Genuine Advantage WarningJuly 13th, 2006 Previously I described how to remove the Windows Genuine Advantage Notification Tool. It is a simple tool to get rid of the home calling of Windows Genuine Advantage notification tool.
How To Remove Windows Genuine Advantage Notification ToolJune 26th, 2006 Windows Genuine Advantage includes two main tools - Windows Genuine Advantage Validation and Windows Genuine Advantage Notification. The WGA Validation tool checks that an instance of Windows XP is properly licensed, and is required for some Windows updates.
Is Link in Lieu of Payment From Education & Non-Profit Sites Acceptable?January 30th, 2008 Imagine Company X provides a service. X is nice enough to offer it for free to education and non-profit sites.
Tiny New MP3 and Video Player From Creative Improves Upon iPod NanoJune 21st, 2006 Creative announced Zen V which offers great features in a tiny, flash-based form factor (about the size and shape of a smooth-cornered Zippo lighter). The player gives you everything you get with the iPod Nano except iTunes compatibility, and adds a few solid extras.
Kindness Thy Name is Apple iTunes: Price Reduced to 69 Cents, Strips Copy ProtectionJanuary 7th, 2009 Apple Inc. has finally come up with a plan which is literally music to the ears of all the apple lovers. Well that is because Apple is finally getting rid of their controversial digital rights management for songs and also reducing the prize to a great extent.
Translator Plugin Pro Version 4.0 UpdateNovember 20th, 2006 We are working on Version 4.0 of Translator Plugin Pro for WordPress blogs. The key features we are focussing on are:
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