Jan 15
Recent events in the US and elsewhere have given rise to renewed and more mainstream interest in cryptography. But while the more popular methods are slowly proving to be inadequate, … Continue reading
Jan 06
Ubuntu will be including a default new scope with the aim of encouraging its philosophy of Free Culture directly into the user experience via the search engine of the OS. … Continue reading
Jan 06
Ubuntu is going to add BitTorrent search capabilities directly into its Unity desktop.
Posted in: Today's ChiliUbuntu is going to add BitTorrent search capabilities directly into its Unity desktop. Which is neat.
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Dec 31
Torrents increased by 50-percent over the past year, as internet users uploaded rising amounts of content – much of it copyrighted – despite attempts by content owners to lock down … Continue reading
Dec 30
WrapUp: BitTorrent Tracker for Reddit Users, Firefox 3.6/4.0 Delays, and More
Posted in: Today's ChiliThis article was written on January 04, 2010 by CyberNet.
Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about. Don’t forget to send in your own tips, or just leave a comment on this page if you think you’ve got something we should include.
–News–
Google Chrome Nabs #3 Browser Spot
Internet Explorer has been on a rather fast decline, and that point is driven home by the fact that it has lost nearly 1% of its market share in each of the last 6-months. Chrome keeps on pushing forward as it squeezes into 3rd place past Safari, but still lags far behind IE and Firefox. All browsers seem to be making progress with the exception of IE, and with some luck we may see Firefox cross the 25% threshold next month.
BaconBits: BitTorrent Tracker for “Good” Reddit Users
I have to say that I was rather surprised to see a BitTorrent Tracker that is geared solely towards the Reddit community. In order to be a member of this site you must have signed up at Reddit over 3-months ago, have at least 100 comment karma, and have at least 1 link karma. As long as you meet those requirements there is nothing else you have to worry about… meaning there is no certain ratio you have to hit to remain an active member.
Firefox 4.0 Pushed Back to Late 2010/Early 2011
Mozilla is letting the deadlines slip once again. The Firefox 3.6 release is now expected sometime in the 1st quarter of 2010, which kicks back Firefox 4.0 to the late 2010/early 2011 timeframe. I understand that issues arise and release dates have to be adjusted accordingly, but I hope Mozilla realizes how competitive the browser market is becoming now that Google has joined the race to dethrone IE. Maybe Mozilla needs to hire on some more people so that they can hopefully meet their initial targets.
–News in Brief–
Most Pirated Movie of 2009 Makes Heaps of Money
Star Trek is said to be the most pirated movie of the year, and according to estimates the movie still profited over $100 million.
Verizon Forces Subscribers to Use Bing
Microsoft struck a $500 million deal that has forced Verizon Blackberry users to use the Bing search engine.
Google Android Event Tomorrow
Google temporarily posted the support page for the Nexus One, which is expected to officially be announced tomorrow.
–Tips, Tutorials, and Reviews–
How to Temporarily Change the Default Program for Filetypes
Coffee is a pretty cool portable app that will let you define a custom set of default applications to use when the program is running. For example, you could use Coffee to make a portable version of Firefox your default browser. All you’d have to do is plug in your USB drive, fire up Coffee, and it will kick in and make the portable Firefox the default app for your web surfing needs.
Enable Windows Aero in Vista/Windows 7 Home Basic
If you’re running Vista or Windows 7 Home Basic I’m sure you’re aware that you can’t take advantage of everything the OS has to offer since you don’t get Aero support. Well, this app will remove that limitation. Assuming your graphics card can handle Aero this app will make the necessary changes so that the additional functionality will be made available to you, and it will disable future hardware checks that could cause Windows to disable it.
–Tips in Brief–
SPlayer – A Lightweight Media Player
This portable media player is compact, free, has a clean UI, and is easy on system resources. A killer combination.
Check Unread Counts for Gmail, Wave, Reader, and More in Chrome
This Google Chrome extension will monitor most of your Google services for unread items.
Upload Files to Dropbox by Email
If you leave this app running on a PC you’ll be able to upload files to your Dropbox account simply by attaching files to an email.
Thumbnail Database Files (thumbs.db) Cleaner
You could simply just search your computer for these files, but this provides a slightly different approach for deleting those pesky thumbnail files from your machine.
Manage Your Windows 7 Library Settings
Get complete control over your Windows 7 libraries: add/remove them, change icons, change default saving location, and more.
–Downloads–
- Defraggler 1.16.165 [Homepage] [Mirror]
- Dropbox 0.7.97 [Homepage] [Mirror]
- FileZilla 3.3.1 RC1 [Homepage] [Mirror]
- Foobar2000 1.0 Beta 6 [Homepage] [Mirror]
- ICQ 6.5.2024 [Homepage] [Mirror]
- Notepad++ 5.6.4 [Homepage] [Mirror]
- Paint.NET 3.5.2 [Homepage] [Mirror]
- TeraCopy 2.1 [Homepage] [Mirror]
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Dec 29
HBO’s Game of Thrones is a very popular TV series, there is no denying that fact. We often get to hear exactly how popular this series is when it smashes all piracy records. Earlier this year we reported that Game of Thrones season 3 finale had become the top BitTorrent download and also the most pirated show in the U.S. “sprint season.” So it shouldn’t come as surprise to see that this very series has turned out to be the most pirated show of 2013. It has actually held on that title for two years in a row.
AMC came in second and third, its insanely popular series Breaking Bad was at No.2 with the series finale being downloaded illegally over 4.2 million times. Breaking Bad was trailed by AMC’s The Walking Dead, another hit series, which saw roughly 3.6 million downloads for an episode that hasn’t been named. The Big Bang Theory, Dexter, How I Met Your Mother, Suits, Homeland, Viking and Arrow complete the rest of the list, released by the folks at TorrentFreak. Sure there has been a lot of hue and cry about online piracy and how these illegal downloads are costing studios an insane amount of money, its safe to say that the pirates aren’t going away anytime soon.
Most Pirated Show Of 2013 Was Game Of Thrones original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Dec 27
The end of 2013 is nearly here with only a handful of days left before we ring in the new year. As we all know, the downloading of TV shows … Continue reading
Dec 24
It would appear that bands that have gotten over the madness hump that is the realization that their music is being pirated have begun taking advantage of that fact. One … Continue reading
Dec 19
BitTorrent Chat Detailed, A Decentralized Messaging Service That’s Big On Privacy
Posted in: Today's Chili
Recap 2013 and the revelations about rampant electronic spying by the NSA certainly come to mind. Edward Snowden has released, and continues to release, a barrage of highly confidential documents that detail how the agency has been tapping into electronic communications. While major companies say that they’ll do more to protect user data, some simply don’t see it as enough of a guarantee for their privacy. So back in September, the folks at BitTorrent revealed that they are working on a messaging product so that “your messages stay yours: private, secure and free.” Today they shed some more light on the service called BitTorrent Chat.
BitTorrent Chat Detailed, A Decentralized Messaging Service That’s Big On Privacy original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Dec 16
AT&T has been awarded a patent that would let the company track subscriber browsing behavior, assign them a “reputation score”, and then block “high-risk” subscribers from being able to access file-sharing services. The patent is called “Methods, devices and computer program products for regulating network activity using a subscriber scoring system”. In other words, the […]
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