An Internet research firm discovered spam bots are now able to register on Google's Gmail for spamming purposes. This latest attempt by spammers has been the most sophisticated recorded attempt to get around CAPTCHA, using both humans and bots.
Read more via Betanews
Spammers bypass Google's Gmail signup security
Pakistan removes YouTube ban after fixing bad routing
February 26 - 6:15 PM ET
Access to YouTube has been restored in Pakistan after the country ordered local Internet providers to unblock the site.
Quickies: MacBook air killer is official!
Following weeks of speculation about Lenovo’s alleged “MacBook-Air killer,” the company has finally given the ThinkPad X300 a green light.
Read more at http://news.digitaltrends.com/
Yahoo Buzz launched
And I don't like it. Why? Because the homepage is full of politics and because it doesn't have that digg style that attracts you.
Want to read more about Yahoo Buzz? Here
Want to read more about Yahoo Buzz? Here
Apple Introduces New MacBook and MacBook Pro Models
CUPERTINO, California—February 26, 2008—Apple® today updated its popular MacBook® and MacBook Pro notebook lines with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, larger hard drives and 2GB of memory standard in most models. In addition, MacBook Pro includes the latest NVIDIA graphics processors, now with up to 512MB of video memory, and Apple’s innovative Multi-Touch™ trackpad, first introduced in MacBook Air™. All Mac® notebooks include a built-in iSight® video camera for video conferencing on-the-go*, Apple’s MagSafe® Power Adapter that safely disconnects when under strain and built-in 802.11n wireless networking for up to five times the performance and twice the range of 802.11g.**
The new MacBook Pro features the latest Intel Core 2 Duo technology with up to a 2.6 GHz processor with 6MB of shared L2 cache; up to 4GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM memory and up to a 300GB hard drive, plus NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics with up to 512MB of video memory. Every MacBook Pro now includes a trackpad with Multi-Touch gesture support for pinch, rotate and swipe, making it more intuitive than ever to zoom and rotate photos in iPhoto® or Aperture™ 2 or browse web pages in Safari™; an illuminated keyboard that makes it ideal for dimly lit environments such as airplanes, studios or conference halls and a built-in ambient light sensor, which automatically adjusts the brightness of the keys as well as the brightness of the display for optimal visibility.
Featuring a gorgeous 13-inch glossy widescreen display, and with prices still starting at just $1,099, the new MacBook lineup comes in three models and includes faster processors and larger hard drives across the line; sleek white 2.1 GHz and 2.4 GHz models with 120GB or 160GB 5400 rpm hard drives and a stunning black 2.4 GHz model with a massive 250GB 5400 rpm hard drive, previously only available as an option. The 2.4 GHz MacBook models ship with 2GB of memory standard, expandable up to 4GB across the line.
Read more at Apple.com
Social networks over the world
Image from Le Monde.fr
Click on image to enlarge
In a few words here are the best over the continents:
North America: MySpace
South America: Orkut
Europe: Bebo
Africa: Facebook
Asia: Friendster
via Le Monde
North America: MySpace
South America: Orkut
Europe: Bebo
Africa: Facebook
Asia: Friendster
via Le Monde
Blogged.com...
Blogged.com is a nice way to discover new blogs in a very easy way. When you arrive on their website you will already see some categories with examples. Simply press them to take a look at the blog.
Take a look and why not submit your blog? Here
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hi5 is performing maintenance
It seems that hi5 isn't accessible for now. When you go to www.hi5.com you will see this:
We're performing maintenance right now, in order to make the site better than ever.
Please be patient - we'll be back real soon!
In place of GPS, a new iPhone app tries Twitter
The Unofficial Apple Blog has posted a program for the iPhone which enlists the help of Twitter to alert the user -- or someone else -- of the global coordinates of a properly-enabled device.
Read more via Betanews
500 million Firefox downloads
Firefox just reached 500,000,000 downloads. This is an absolutely phenomenal milestone for Firefox. It is sort of hard to imagine what that number means. For some perspective, that’s roughly the audience size of 10,000 Rome Colosseums combined. It would be the weight, in kilograms, of 8,500 Boeing 747 airplanes. In dollars, for $500 million you and 15 of your friends can fly to the International Space Station.
via The mozilla blog
via The mozilla blog
Adsense for Videos almost ready!
Google posted today on their blog about the launch of their new Adsense feature, this is about Ads inside your Youtube videos:
In a very short time, watching videos online has become a common pastime, and the imagination of artists and other content owners continues to fuel this trend. Meanwhile, across the industry, advertisers and video publishers continue to look for the best solution that balances the needs of video fans with the need for video sites to generate the revenue that enables them to continue to be creative as they grow.It all started when Google bought Youtube for $1.6 billion... and now, 9 months after Adsense for video was in private beta... it's finally here (almost as I said before)!
The ads format? Video and text. Both of them come in a banner.
Learn more:
What should Digg do next?
This will make a big change to the Digg system, why? How will stories get to the front page will change.
It solves a common problem found on Digg and other sites where multiple articles on the same story compete with each other to get to the home page. One person may submit a story from USAToday. Another may submit basically the same story but from the Washington Post. Those stories are tracked separately on Digg, and votes are split between them as users discover them
How should I make this? On the homepage display the stories with the most diggs and below them (on a little line over there) I would add the similar stories (also known as duplicates) ordered by time of submission.
via techcrunch
Quickies: Yahoo! Filters Pirate Bay From Search Results
As of this weekend, Yahoo started to filter some of Pirate Bay’s pages. For some mysterious reason, several pages from the tracker disappeared from Yahoo’s index. Unintentionally or not, a search for “The Pirate Bay” doesn’t show a link to the homepage of the popular BitTorrent tracker.
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Quickies: Harvard Site Hacked and Leaked on BitTorrent
The Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences website appears to have been the subject of a major security breach, as server backups, site databases and contact databases are leaked to BitTorrent. The 125MB file is currently being tracked by The Pirate Bay.
Read more
Download manager for Rapidshare
This is a nice one... why? Because this tool can even read captchas (the code you need to enter in order to download the file).
The program is called jDownloader and it can help you download from sites such as Megaupload and Rapidshare.
It comes into German but you can change the language as downloadsquad writes here:
Now you're almost ready to go. But before you can download any files you'll have to accept the terms of service for each site you want to download files from.
- Click the Extra button
- Select Konfiguration
- Select the Benutzeroberfläche tab
- Under Sprache, select English
- Hit the Speichern und neu starten button to save and restart in English
- Click the Extra button
- Select Configuration
- Select the Hosts tab
- Check the boxes next to any file hosting service you expect to use.
via downloadsquad
GTA IV will have multiplayer support
This is about the PS3 and the XBOX 360 versions of the game. Rockstar officialy confirmed this to http://www.gamesindustry.biz here:
"It's always something we've been open about, both versions will support online multiplayer capabilities," a Rockstar spokesperson told GamesIndustry.biz
Grand theft auto is scheduled for 29th of April 2008
Read more? Here you go!
Doodle for Google
Doodle 4 Google gives U.S. students in grades K-12 the opportunity to design a doodle for the Google homepage. Students will be asked to draw a doodle that best represents the theme "What if...?" We ask ourselves this question every day when we build our products, so we thought we would ask the same of the future doodlers.
How a doodle is made?
Find out more about the contest on the Doodle4Google website here.
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iPhone users Google more than other mobile handsets
50 times more queries than any other mobile phone? This is very good for Apple and the iPhone.
Even Google was confused about this and said "we thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again."
In a few years going this way, the queries from the mobile phone will turn compete with the queries from the regular PC users.
via http://smartphone.pdablast.com/
Even Google was confused about this and said "we thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again."
In a few years going this way, the queries from the mobile phone will turn compete with the queries from the regular PC users.
via http://smartphone.pdablast.com/
Lenovo X300 vs. Apple MacBook Air... competition is on the way!
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What would you chose? Personally I think that Lenovo X300 comes with everything you need from a MacBook air plus some new features. Before deciding to buy a MBA (MacBook air) youdefinitely need to check what Lenovo has.
via engadget.com
via engadget.com
Posting in the future made easy (Blogger)
Did you notice the "Scheduled" button before? Maybe not, why? Because you need to use Blogger draft to have access to this feature. Blogger draft lets you test the blogger updates even when they are in testing.
What is a scheduled post? It's a post saved on blogger's servers that will come online when you set it to appear.
How to make such posts? Simply go to create a post (Note: You need to use Blogger draft, it's the same with the regular Blogger and doesn't need any registration) press post options and enter you date and hour.
Simple as that. Enjoy!
What is a scheduled post? It's a post saved on blogger's servers that will come online when you set it to appear.
How to make such posts? Simply go to create a post (Note: You need to use Blogger draft, it's the same with the regular Blogger and doesn't need any registration) press post options and enter you date and hour.
Simple as that. Enjoy!
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Yahoo Buzz! New competitor for Digg or Google
According to valleywag.com Yahoo plans to launch a Digg competitor on 26th of February.
As they write here:
Why a competitor for Google? People who will use this service will need to publish Yahoo ads instead of Adsense ones (from Google).
Buzz, built under the direction of VP Tapan Bhat, will begin with a limited number of publishers -- about 100 -- and will rank stories based on popular search results and user voting. By summer, Buzz will open to the entire Yahoo Publisher Network. In other words, if you let Yahoo sell ads on your site, it will allow your stories to appear on Buzz.It is a little bit different from what Digg makes. When submiting a story to Digg you just have to wait for the visitors to come and visit the website. If you want this from Yahoo you will need to have Yahoo ads on your site (not good...). And another different thing? You can submit stories on Digg even though you don't own that website that has the story, while on Yahoo you will simply can not because of the ads.
Why a competitor for Google? People who will use this service will need to publish Yahoo ads instead of Adsense ones (from Google).
Google makes move into Chinese digital music
Mozilla releases Firefox 3.0 Beta 3; adds several features
Nokia and Google to offer Google Search to Nokia customers worldwide
Industry leaders collaborate to provide mobile users fast and easy access to relevant information
Mobile World Congress 2008, Barcelona, Spain/Espoo, Finland - Nokia and Google today announced that Google's popular search engine will be integrated with the Nokia Search application. The integration will begin in select markets with the Nokia N96, Nokia N78, Nokia 6210 Navigator and Nokia 6220 classic. Google search will be extended to additional Nokia handset models in the future. Ultimately, Nokia will make Google search available to its customers in over 100 countries around the world, serving mobile owners speaking more than 40 languages.
Nokia Search, now with Google, offers fast and easy access to web information from the handset. In addition, Nokia Search also makes it possible for users to search content on their device and use local search engines for a complete search experience. Nokia Search is available on many devices and provides direct access with one click from the active standby screen, saving users time and steps in their searching. Once users have found the information they are seeking, Nokia Search enables users to act on that information by engaging device assets such as maps, messaging or the browser with just one click.
Read more at nokia.com
Read more at nokia.com
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Apple Releases Aperture 2
Major Upgrade Features Improved Interface, Faster Browsing & Enhanced Image Processing
CUPERTINO, California—February 12, 2008—Apple® today introduced Aperture™ 2, the next major release of its groundbreaking photo editing and management software with over 100 new features that make it faster, easier to use and more powerful. With a streamlined user interface and entirely new image processing engine, Aperture 2 also introduces new imaging tools for highlight recovery, color vibrancy, local contrast definition, soft-edged retouching, vignetting and RAW fine-tuning, and lets users directly post their portfolios on the .Mac Web Gallery* for viewing on the web, iPhone™, iPod® touch and Apple TV®. At a new low price of $199, anyone can easily organize, edit and publish photos like a pro.
Wikipedia on your iPhone
As mashable posted here, why not have the entire wikipedia on your iPhone?
Wikipedia is not that big as it sound... guess what? only 2GB of your storage and you have all you might need to know in your pocket.
Note: After you download this, you will not need an internet connection to access
Want to have it? Go here
via mashable
New stores from Apple in Europe
Apple in Europe? They only have Apple Stores in two countries: UK and Italy.
On the Job Opportunities page you can see that Apple is now hiring staff for new stores in Switzerland and Germany. Nice the see that Apple wants to promote their products elsewhere than US.
Website: here
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Hackers manage to unlock newest iPhones
Quickies: Yahoo to reject Microsoft bid
According to the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo is going to reject Microsoft's takeover bid.
Great news to see that Yahoo is loving its users and will not give them for money.
After a series of meetings over the past week, Yahoo's board determined that the $31 per share offer "massively undervalues" Yahoo, the person said
Digsby: Manage Social Networks, Email and IM - 1000 invites
If you are the one who talks to friends, co-workers and others using several different IM services, check several email accounts or even use multiple Social networks such as MySpace or Facebook you would like to link them all together in one simple and clean software.
The software is called Digsby and it will help you organize your contacts from Yahoo messenger, Google Talk, Jabber, ICQ, AOL IM and Windows Live Messenger, e-mail, Facebook and MySpace into one single client.
So it allows you to talk to your contacts no matter which IM they use, you have an e-mail notifier and a pop-up to keep track of your Facebook or MySpace account.
Want to take Digsby for a spin? Even if it's in private beta, we managed to get 1000 invites for all our iMoka readers. Enough talk, it's time for action, if you want to try Digsby simply go to download and install Digsby and when prompted for an invitation code simply enter "imoka".
The installation goes very smooth and you can even create your Digsby account from there (which is very good). After the instalation you can simply add your IM, email and social network accounts to the client. Go to Tools > Preferences to add them.
This is the best way to link all of the above in one single software and I recommend it 100%.
System requirements:
Windows XP and Windows Vista. No version for Mac or Linux as they are currently under development.
Installation:
- Download Digsby
- Install it and when asked for an invitation code enter imoka
- Add you accounts and you are ready to go!
What would I change at the MacBook Air?
Display: First of all, Apple wanted this MacBook to be Ultra-Portable which means the 13-inch display is a little big for it. Maybe a 11 or a 12-inch would be better.
Optical drive: Now what everybody saw at this laptop is that it doesn't have an optical drive. I think that you need one. Even if you don't really use it... at some certain point it will come in handy.
CPU: 1.6 or 1.8GHz (C2D)? I don't think it's that good. A lot of new notebooks have 2.0 or even better CPUs.
HDD: 80GB? Hmm... it could be better.
Built in Ethernet port: because I don't think everyone has a wireless router.
USB Ports? 1 more could be better.
and...
Price: $3000 for the 1.8GHz one is way to much!
Conclusion? Apple sacrificed performance to make MBA a thin notebook. If you are a regular user you may not see that this is bad but in the long run it would be better to have a thicker notebook with better performance.
Spanish Facebook begins next week
It will not be called "Livro de caras," but on Monday, Spanish will be the default Language for anyone connecting to Facebook from a Spanish-speaking nation.
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HTC's Shift UMPC set to finally go on sale
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Yahoo! goes Live and then goes Playback
Yahoo! recently launched Y! Live. What is this? If you have a webcam you can start streaming live video to a dedicated site or so it should be. Why am I saying this? Because this service went down as soon as it appeared online. If you go to their website you can read:
Maintenance
Yahoo! Live is an experimental release. We’ve experienced heavy traffic and are taking a breather to tune things up a bit.
Check back later – or learn more about Y! Live on our blog.
Yahoo! Live is an experimental release. We’ve experienced heavy traffic and are taking a breather to tune things up a bit.
Check back later – or learn more about Y! Live on our blog.
Enjoy it when it will be back online... (in a few hours?)
// It's back online
Firefox 2.0.0.12 goes online and fixes crashes
Mozilla Firefox is a web browser that has 16% of the recorded market share in December 2007 making it the second-most-popular browser worldwide.
Mozilla launched Friday the version 2.0.0.12 of their browser that includes many fixes:
MFSA 2008-11 Web forgery overwrite with div overlay
MFSA 2008-10 URL token stealing via stylesheet redirect
MFSA 2008-09 Mishandling of locally-saved plain text files
MFSA 2008-08 File action dialog tampering
MFSA 2008-06 Web browsing history and forward navigation stealing
MFSA 2008-05 Directory traversal via chrome: URI
MFSA 2008-04 Stored password corruption
MFSA 2008-03 Privilege escalation, XSS, Remote Code Execution
MFSA 2008-02 Multiple file input focus stealing vulnerabilities
MFSA 2008-01 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.12)
Download link: here
If you want to test the Firefox 3 Beta 2 you can download it from here
Yahoo hosting goes unlimited
or maybe we should call it "unlimited". From now Yahoo will offer unlimited web hosting for its small business customers.
What do you get?
- unlimited disk space
- unlimited data transfer
- unlimited email storage
- 1,000 email accounts
Click here to view the hosting plan