Topic: Media
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Fair Use Just Isn't Fair Anymore
I’m not sure if you’ve been paying attention or not, or perhaps don’t even care. If you don’t care, you might want to start paying attention, because at some point recent changes to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act may make you pay for your own content multiple times.
With the recent … More »
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Use CCleaner to Clean Your Computer
There are a lot of utilities that can be used to clean a computer. These do something more than the usual “Disk Cleanup” ($ cleanmgr), are easy to use with custom features and are faster too. Cleaning up your computer can improve its performance and ensure greater privacy. For a … More »
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The Pirate Bay Trial Begins
We have all heard of the Pirate Bay, the bit torrent search engine site. It was sued by some biggies of the MPAA like MGM Pictures and Sony BMG, and the case began its trial yesterday in the Stockholm district court.\r\n\r\nA police investigation took place way back in 2006 and … More »
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Read My Guest Posts
570 days ago by Sravan | 2 CommentsJason was kind enough to accept my guest posts for his blogs Microsoft Weblog and Uncover the Internet. These are my first guest posts ever: one about Microsoft’s involvement with Open Source and another about watching movies legally on Youtube. I hope you enjoy them.
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From Those Who Welcome Spam
Gmail is a pretty good mail service provided by Google which strives towards accurately catching spam, and is very successful in catching the phish. One thing that empowers the people behind Gmail is the volumes that Google sees.
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Symantec Report on the Underground Economy
For the first time, Symantec Corp. publicly released a detailed report of its findings about the “Underground Economy” (cyberworld) through its observations between July 2007 and June 2008. Though this report was released nearly two months ago, I came across it only now.
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How To Delete Posts From Windows Live Writer
594 days ago by Sravan | 7 CommentsWhile Windows Live Writer is a wonderful blogging software that lets bloggers work offline, it is poorly documented. Ironical. On top of it, the Windows Live Writer blog, much like other Windows blogs has no search feature to check for help.
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Tech Channel Roundup From Steve Jobs to Steve Ballmer
First Juan was not excited about this year’s MacWorld. Then he worried about Steve Jobs’ hormone imbalance, which I must say is something only Apple lovers are capable of. Now, after watching MacWorld ‘09, he decides that Phil Schiller’s keynote was just fine.
Jason, celebrating his three-year anniversary at Microsoft Weblog, … More » -
3 Problems We Will Face on Twitter
607 days ago by Sravan | 8 CommentsThe last year can also be called “the year of Twitter”. The micro-blogging social media tool where each user answers the question, “What are you doing?” has gone viral so much so that there have been a billion tweets in 2.5 years since its launch. Latest news is breaking through Twitter … More »
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PC Vs Mac Transformers Video
I came across an amusing short film through one of my twitter friends, @stanleytang. The video has some wonderful visual effects, takes unexpected turns, and keeps us at the edge of the seat. Inspired by Transformers, what starts off as a harmless debate about whether the PC or the Mac is … More »
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Tech Channel Roundup of Year End Retrospections and Forecasts
We are still more than ten days from the new year, but a majority of the world has already started retrospecting the last twelve months and forecasting the next twelve.
Jayvee inspects the culture of FAIL on the Internet and finds that video advertising is going to decline. Actually, the rate of … More » -
Help Me Recompose the 12 Days of Christmas Spam
While the 12 Days of Christmas start on the 25th night, I believe the 12 days of Christmas spam start 12 days before that night. Because spammers know that this is the time when shopping is at a peak and the actual 12 days are “duller” with people celebrating and … More »
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Two Bad Open Source Add-ons
634 days ago by Sravan | 2 CommentsThere have been posts circulating the blogosphere about a couple of add-ons recently: Pirates of the Amazon and IMDB Pirated Version. I believe they are a bad thing to have come during particularly bad times.
Pirates of Amazon is a Firefox add-on. Whenever a user visits a media page in Amazon … More » -
Three Thumb Rules to Defend Yourself Against Spam
While spammers are getting more innovative by the day, most victims still fall prey to the primitive types. I suggest three thumb rules to defend yourself against the seven common types of spam mail that I’ve recently mentioned. They are all common sense, but if common sense were abundant among … More »
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Tech Channel Roundup After Thanksgiving Week
The Mac users can cheer up once again. Juan brings us news that Google Calendar supports iCal. In fact, I’ve read somewhere that Google Calendar is trying to be as syncable and integrable with other calendars as possible.
Milo recently summarized a Sandra Gittlen series called “Mac Vs Vista” quoting her … More »



