The rise of Bit Torrent and the fall of trading

Nice post at Eric's Music Ramblings.

I remember the good old days of mail trading. Anxiously waiting for the mail man to come by with your new goodies (cassette tapes and later DAT tapes and eventually cd's). Kinda makes me feel old ;).

Microsoft will push IE7 through windows update

It will even make it a high priotiry update, because the security should be much better. Also there will be a tool available for those who doesnt want to get it.

News.com
Slashdot
Discussion on channel9.

Technorati: IE7, Microsoft

Redesigning logos Web 2.0 style

There is fun thread on the Yay Hooray boards. A lot of these logos can also be found on flickr though.

Technorati Tag: Flickr

VMN Storage

1 GB of Free Online Storage on VMNStorage.com


You get 1GB and a modified version of AceFTP (for Windows). Seems to work nicely, I just signed up after getting the invitation email in my Gmail account. Not sure why I got it, maybe I signed up for something some while ago ? Anyway, it cant hurt to have 1gig of storage in a central place ;).

Technorati tags: vmn+storage

Technorati

Looks like technorati redid their site, giving it a somewhat more colorful yet cleaner look ! It also seems to be less of a mess, it's easier to search and stuff. Will definately take a closer look ;).

Technorati tag !

YouTube - David "The Hoff" Hasselhoff - Jump In My Car

OMG o.O.

YouTube - David "The Hoff" Hasselhoff - Jump In My Car: "David 'The Hoff' Hasselhoff - Jump In My Car"

OpenDNS

OpenDNS recently opened up. It's a replacement DNS for your ISP's DNS. It seems to work pretty good over the short period of time I have tested it.

OpenDNS: It's Not SiteFinder for Obvious Reasons
OpenDNS on photomatt.net.
Tom Raftery's IT Views

Technorati tags: OpenDNS

9rules.com: What is Web 2.0 ?

What is Web2.0 ? Interesting discussion right here:

9rules — Browse: Read anything about everything

Looks like everybody has gotten their own definition ;).

Fun column at PC Magazine

There is a great column at the PC Magazine site by John Dvorak.

The current PC platform is so close to being permanently broken that I'm stunned that people aren't already up in arms. Every­one should be sued for false advertising.

Indian Bloggers angry at ban

According to the BBC news, at least 17 sites were banned by the government, some are even hosted at blogger.com ! Apparently it's the Indian ISP's that block 'm off...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5194172.stm

Sysinternals Sold to MicroSoft

Microsoft finally bought the site that revealed the Sony rootkit and that brought us many excellent windows tools !

Betanews Article
http://www.windowsvistadownload.co.uk/?p=20
Blog post by founder of Sysinternals

Zoom Player

A new version of my favourite media player ZoomPlayer Pro is out now :). Wel worth registering as it gives you full control over what codecs are used for decoing avi's, mp4's dvd's etc. Together with ffdshow and Nvidia decoder (for MPEG2, dvd's for example) a perfect combo !

PodShow Plus

Posted are little review of the new Podshow Plus site at greendale.tk. I am not very fond of it, to put it mildly ;). Had to use it again today to find the new feed for the Gillmor gang, and they moved their feeds to podshow plus. It wasnt a pleasent experience searching for the rss feed :(. And then once I found it, it turned out my links in iTunes had finally updated ;).

New template

Found this template on the blogger template site. Though I liked the previous one, it was a little dark (actually very dark). This one looks move lively :). Only added the technorati box on the right as far as customization goes !

w.bloggar

Already am using MarsEdit on my Mac Mini, but I thought I'd give this one a try. It can be found at
http://wbloggar.com/.

Looks very nice so far, quite a few editing options and compatible with a lot of blog software. Shame my Greendale.tk blog doesnt seem to work, I think it's a server side security thing, that prevents posting from other sites...