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Battlefield Heroes- A 0$ silent killer from EA 2008-03-03 10:52:20 EA is ready and set to launch Battlefield Heroes- one of a kind cartoon FPS game. The has become old owning to Valve’s Team Fortress 2 included in The Orange Box. This game looks the same as TF2 the only difference is you don’t have to shell money for it. Yes! EA is not going
Trism-A game for iPhone & iPod Touch 2008-03-01 23:42:47 Now its been evident, since the launch of Apple’s iPhone
, hackers have laid their dirty little hands of hacking it and make it work as they want. No doubt some really intelligent hackers must have been into creating some interactive stuff for making iPhone much more better than it is now. Finally, a developer has Read more:iPod
Look its Nvidia 9 series 2008-02-29 22:30:35 Nvidia released some pictures of the new 9 series
GPU which the whole world is waiting for.The 9 series GPUs which are smaller in design, consumer less energy.The resolution of the new GPUs can reach upto 2560 x 1600 which allows HD gaming, that mean the next gen gaming.
9600GT
Some more pictures on Tom’s Hardware Allround
Demonoid Tracker Online 2008-02-20 11:04:06 Three months I have been seeing demonoid tracker(0ffline) suddenly some days back the tracker seems to have started again.The private torrent community demonoid.com for which people feared won’t start again suddenly showed some miraculous update.
The domain is still hosted in US with the post-demonoid offline famous forum Subdemon forums but the tracker is hosted in Read more:Tracker
Clock Speed Of Nvidia Geforce 9800GX2 revealed 2008-02-19 11:35:00 Nvidia has finally revealed some details of the new 9 series Graphic cards, Nvidia Geforce 9800GX2 codenamed D9E.It will be clocked 600MHz as the core processor and 1.5GHz for shader graphics.This means the performance of this new Graphic card would be much better than 2×8800 GT in SLI.
It is expected to come by first week Read more:Clock
, Speed
Hide files with JPEG images 2008-02-19 02:22:23 Some files
are safe when they are hidden.No I am not talking about the lame hiding methods.Right Click on file>Tick Hidden.Done.Nope!This is something highly confidential secretive method of hiding files or rather masking files under any .jpg image.It looks great.So if you want to learn just read it carefully.The things you need are:
Compression software to
Intel’s Next Notebook Processor,Montevina 2008-02-18 22:38:49 Intel Inc. will launch its next Notebook
Processor in June 2008 with 1066FSB and clock speed will range from 2.26GHz-3.06GHz.
Its been real confusion in consumers who go out for buying a Intel Notebook and are left alone with the different codenames for different platforms and eventually end up buying something which is not exactly what Read more:Intel
Console Wars-The outragious battle 2008-02-16 07:52:06 Despite all the advancements in the gaming industry, its still very difficult to defy the winner of the Console
wars. All the advancements, all the research and all the graphic and processors breakthrough , its still not clear how to conclude the battle for the Best Gaming Console. Every console has made it clear
Yahoo says “No,No” to Microsoft’s bid. 2008-02-11 18:36:05 Its the time for Microsoft
to think and re-think why Yahoo
rejected the deal which could be the biggest acquisition on Internet.Yahoo Inc. rejected the bid stating the bid to be too low. According to Yahoo, Microsoft has “undervalued Yahoo” by giving this “small” bid.It did not clearly state the amount expected but clearly stated,
Microsoft’s answer to upset Windows Vista users 2008-02-10 05:34:18 Soon after Microsoft
announced it delayed release of WindowsVista
Service Pack 1, there was a sudden upset from Vista users
. Microsoft immediately responded to this wide disappointment and released a beta Windows Vista Service Pack Release To Manufacture(RTM) which can be downloaded by all Vista beta testers through Windows Update.
This Service Pack in available Read more:answer
IE 8 Beta for those IE lovers. 2008-03-10 20:52:22 For those who still love IE for don’t know what reasons here is a treat for you. Microsoft released IE 8 beta which looks more promising than IE7. Windows has even provided testing tools for developers .
The new IE for those 48% of Internet Users has few good things and a few bad things. Domain
Console Sales Update 2008-03-17 04:05:29 Microsoft’s XBOX360 sales are lagging behind the date given to buyers. The demand is more than expected and its even expected that the sales have touched 254,000 Console
s the previous month.
Nintendo Wii managing to get the market with sales touching 351,000 consoles last month. Wii managed to break the graphic barrier from the console market Read more:Sales
, Update
Vista SP1 will see the world on Tuesday 2008-03-17 03:51:28 Much ado about the Service Pack, Microsoft will release Windows Vista
Service Pack 1 this week. Amazon.com currently retails the Windows Vista SP1 from 19th March but few websites report the SP1 to be released on 18th March. Theres a lot of confusion about the release date as Microsoft is not ready to speak about Read more:Tuesday
Amazon.com’s Kindle Fiddles with the sales 2008-03-21 08:12:51 Within few months Amazon
’s own product Kindle is out of stock. Amazon.com is now facing problems with the high amount of demand and low manufacturing number. For those who don’t know Kindle, its just a E-book reader called as the best Wireless Reading Device ever made. Its is the one of all type of Electronic
9800GX2 is out! 2008-03-21 00:53:41 The mighty demon is out! Yes Nvidia’s 9800GX2 is out in the market. It is a dual-GPU card similar to the “now” best ATI/AMD 3870X2. Nvidia’s second of this tpye, the 9800GX2 is not a successor of 7950GX2 but a looks really good. As already discussed about Nvidia’s 9 series Clock speed, this GPU seems
2 minutes to hack Mac. 2008-04-02 09:13:05 One thing why Apple was predominant over other Operating Systems was the security. The so called “top level security” or “robust security” which Apple’s OSX operating system provides was hacked in less than 2 minutes
. The team Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) took just 2 minutes to crack this “robust security” and enter the OS with
A Wii-like controller for XBOX360 2008-04-09 00:07:35 A Wii
-like remote to play on your favorite console XBOX 360 might be on its way as reported by MTV news. Seems to aim for the best gaming experience.The news as per sources of MTV news have reported that Microsoft is been working very hard to develop a Wii-like remote for their popular console.
The source Read more:controller
Youtube to go beyond video sharing 2008-04-08 23:44:44 Youtube announced the development of video
portal which could help youtube users to create a database of videos they want to share by uploading it from their own website once the application is installed. The video submission and appearance will all be done from the same application by logging in with their youtube account Read more:beyond
Facebook Chat=Facebook Instant Messenger. 2008-04-08 23:24:03 For all facebook users this news might delight your mind. Now you don’t have to write on someone’s wall or send a message, instead for the ease of communicating facebook has introduced Instant Messenger
feature. Making it much easier to stay in touch.
Facebook
with 69 million users had a built-in email like system to send
Android Hacked! 2008-04-12 16:59:50 You call them crazy or call them intelligent, hackers at XDA forums have smeared a way to run Android
on HTC TyTN II keeping AT&T service intact. Though a little buggy, but Voila its Android.
The video isn’t clear as such but looks great to see Android on Windows Mobile. The video showcases Android inside Windows Read more:Hacked
Demonoid Back Online! 2008-04-11 20:48:44 After exactly 6 months of most frustrating downtime. Internet’s most favourite tracker Demonoid is back online with a new administrator. The homepage confirms that Deimos, the former administrator, left the Demonoid staff. The site seems to be working properly, as does the tracker, but expect some downtime in the next few days. The best part
Flash Update for Apple to cover a security hole 2008-04-11 14:23:18 The recent “Hack Mac” promenade brought Adobe Flash
in limelight as a security
threat to Apple
. The vulnerability with the roots close to cross-domain content is named the critical of all the security threats. But Adobe revealed that a security patch has already been made and delivered in the next Flash Player 9, eliminating the Read more:Update
, security hole
CAPTCHA in 60 seconds!!! 2008-04-15 11:31:52 Everyone in aware of Completely Automated Public Turning test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. (CAPTCHA), the distorted image you see while registering a account. Making CAPTCHA sound easy, a image seen at the end of a sign-up page wherein alphanumerical are used like a 3 year old kid has written
Windows 7 to come your home by 2010 2008-04-14 19:54:18 Microsoft has confirmed a successor for Windows
Vista , code-named Windows 7, it will start shipping from 2010. Giving 3 years for users to use the disappointing predecessor. The planning stage for Windows 7 is already over and development will take 3 years with no delays as earlier, stated Microsoft.
Microsoft confirmed, this time there wouldn’t
Rapidshare’s immediate action for CAPTCHA bot 2008-04-16 18:58:36 It was amazing to see the security breach this CAPTCHA system had few days by when a bot cracked the CAPTCHA of Live sign-up in less than 60 seconds. Boom and Bang the bot did it with utmost ease leaving no chance of any doubt regarding the high priority of security needed for CAPTCHA as Read more:immediate
Baywords.com-Venture of The PirateBay 2008-04-17 02:08:41 Ever thought you lack the right to speak whatever you want on a blog? Ever thought the laws might grip you cold if you blog something which is provocative? Well yes everyone once in their life had a twitch in their mind whether to blog this or not. Now Piratebay, Internet’s largest bit-torrent tracker has Read more:Venture
OrkutApps. Do they sound like FacebookApps!? 2008-04-16 23:33:41 Well facebook had it why should Orkut lag behind. The one thing why Facebook was a inch higher than Orkut in Social Networking was the reason Facebook Apps. Now Orkut doesn’t have to worry about it. Google has planned to take Orkut one step higher than it is now.
Orkut has added Applications but the only
Vodafone to bring iPhone in India Soon 2008-04-19 07:06:59 Apple confirmed this year, iPhone
will be launched in India
soon, one day. But the date, month wasn’t announced. Now Vodafone
has something good for Indians, they will launch iPhone in India this september. This means no need of buying unlocked iPhones from risky market. Better wait till the official launch as Vodafone is very
AMD Unveils Three New Phenom Triple Core 2008-04-23 19:03:15 Advanced Micro Devices(AMD
) unveiled three Phenom Triple
core processors for less than $200. The three new models are the Phenom X3 8750, 8650 and 8450, which have clock speeds of 2.4 GHz, 2.3 GHz and 2.1 GHz, respectively, per core. Pricing is $195 for the 8750, $165 for the $8650 and $145 for the Read more:Three
AT&T launches its own Browser 2008-04-23 06:22:11 AT&T the wireless telecoms company is getting it feet into Internet. With the launch of a browser, the company claims to built good relationships with the customers in a better and newer way. The browser name Pogo is still in private beta stage which mean AT&T will make sure people will get real good product