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HDData measures all kind of Hard Drive parameters. If one of these parameters is exceeding a threshold or sensing an SMART error, HDData will warn you, HDData will Act for you. You can control what actions HDData will execute for you when the Hard Drive Temperature reaches a Warning and/or a [...]
Filed under: Internet, P2P
In what must surely be the least surprising news of 2010, a study by a French university found that piracy increased after France’s enactment of a ‘Three Strikes Law‘. Under the bill, which went into power in July 2009, repeat offenders can be cut off from the Internet. If being cut off [...]
Filed under: Internet, Google, web 2.0
Showing off the truly omnivorous and omnipotent nature of Wave, there is now an internal Extension Gallery. All you have to do is hit the ‘Extensions’ button on Wave’s Navigation menu and voila!
Until now, it’s always been a bit tricky to find ‘proper’ extensions for Wave. There have been a [...]
There are just so many different ways to rob a Best Buy. First some sophisticated thieves pulled off a Mission:Impossible-style heist in which they cut a hole in the roof and never touched the floor. Now some guys in a stolen U-Haul decided to just ram [...]
Here’s a guy who sounds like a real lovely person to be around: The CEO of Prada Japan. A lawsuit alleges that he asked an employee to “eliminate” around 15 managerial staff he described as “old, fat, ugly, disgusting or not having the Prada look,” following [...]
As part of a settlement in a privacy lawsuit filed against Netflix late last year, the video delivery service has called off their $1 million Next Big Thing contest that started the whole problem in the first place.
You might recall that last August Netflix launched their [...]
In a move to cut down on paper and ID fraud, United Airlines has announced passengers can now opt out of paper boarding passes and have digital boarding passes sent to their Internet-ready phones.
Much like the paper passes, the digital ones will have a barcode that [...]
Filed under: FPS, Puzzle
As we mentioned earlier, Valve head man Gabe Newell picked up his Pioneer Award at the Games Developers Choice Awards on Thursday night. Some people thought we might get another new Portal 2 viral dealie during his acceptance speech, and they were not disappointed in the least. Near the end of Newell’s [...]
Filed under: Contests, Indie
During GDC 2010 on Thursday night the award ceremonies for the 2010 Independent Games Festival were held. While more and more contests and awards have been launching as of late for the indie games scene, the IGF still remains the most prestigious of all these awards with many award winners turning into [...]
Filed under: Contests, Culture
Last night the annual Game Developers Choice Awards were given out during GDC 2010 and, sad to say, there was very little for PC gamers to be happy about when it came to the winners. Most of the catagories were won by console exclusive titles. Batman: Arkham Asylum did manage to win [...]
