Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on April 23, 2006 by CyberNet.

Orbitfiles.com appears to be stepping into online storage before Microsoft and Google can get there. They currently give a user 1000MB to store their files at no cost. The nice thing about their file storage is that you can make some files public, which would allow you to send a URL to a friend and let them download the file.

They also have a nice backup program called Hercules. With Hercules you are able to synchronize a directory on your computer with their online storage. This is especially useful so that you can schedule a backup while you are sleeping at night.

If 1000MB isn’t enough for you then you can spend $4.99 per month to get 5000MB! This is a very good offer when you compare it to other online storage systems (5GB at Xdrive is $10).

Now what about limitations? Sites like Streamload offer an astounding 25GB for free, however, they only allow you to have 500MB of bandwidth usage per month. With Orbitfiles you get unlimited bandwidth usage but they limit you to 30MB files if you are uploading with their web interface. If you upload files using their Hercules software then there is no limitation there either.

I am impressed at what this company has to offer at no cost but I am still going to anxiously await the release of Google’s GDrive. Google has rumored that they will offer unlimited storage with unlimited bandwidth, and how can anyone beat that?

Orbitfiles.com Homepage

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This article was written on December 17, 2006 by CyberNet.

For around 2-weeks I have been watching the µTorrent forum because they were recently acquired by BitTorrent. I have been a uTorrent user for quite some time but news of the acquisition left me a little disappointed. I began wondering whether the two programs were going to stay independent of each other or if they would slowly start to merge the two applications together in hopes that people wouldn’t have a problem accepting it.

Reading through the posts in the forum makes me believe that µTorrent will be losing some faithful users because of the acquisition though. This conclusion is from posts like these:

Back to BitComet for me!

Time to switch back to BitComet. This sucks. 🙁

This could be bad.
If it does get bad, it’s back to “no decent Bittorrent client in existence” for me.

Sucks for all the people who were helping this community.  (webUI, forums, GUI themes, etc.)

One user even went on saying that there is a solution to the problem, and that is to disable the program from automatically updating which will keep µTorrent from getting a bloated update later on down the road. Other’s recommend that you should backup the program files for µTorrent and also the profile folder that is associated with it.

As for me I am just going to wait it out. I think BitTorrent would be stupid to step in and make µTorrent a bloated Torrent client because there are already plenty of those. The people who use it, such as myself, love it so much because it is really small and no installation is even needed to use it. As of right now I guess this is the only information that we have as far as what will happen:

Q: How will uTorrent’s technology be integrated with the current BitTorrent client?
A: Although uTorrent is lightweight, it is missing the patented innovations BitTorrent has made at the protocol level. It is also lacking an implementation for Mac and Linux. We will improve uTorrent in these arenas.

I just don’t like how it sounds when they say µTorrent is missing things that BitTorrent already takes advantage of. For me that is just a nice way of them saying they are going to make the application more bloated.

–The Poll–

So now I want to use this as a way to lead into our new poll. In the sidebar you’ll see 12 different BitTorrent clients that you can choose from. Pick the one that you use the most and over the next few days we’ll see which client tech enthusiasts think is the best!

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This article was written on March 24, 2008 by CyberNet.

How many times have you plugged a device into your computer only to find out that the operating system doesn’t have the drivers you need to run it? Depending on how new your operating system is you should find that device recognition is fairly good… Vista alone ships with over 19,000 drivers for devices that you use everyday.

The problem is that the operating system is not future-proof, and will obviously not include drivers for devices that haven’t even been created yet. Microsoft has filed for a patent that may make that a thing of the past, regardless of whether you have an Internet connection or not.

The patent outlines a plan for devices to include a small flash memory component that contains the drivers need for the device to function properly. When the user plugs the device into the computer the operating system will automatically recognize that there are drivers stored internally on the device, and then install them. What’s even better is that the drivers on the device are updateable so that taking the device from one computer to another will always result in the latest drivers being used.

This is a great step that Microsoft is taking to make device installation even easier, and I’m sure manufacturers will be taking advantage of it considering the price of flash memory is rapidly dropping.

Microsoft Patent [via istartedsomething]

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This article was written on June 07, 2006 by CyberNet.

The links are active for the Windows Vista Beta 2 Public Download. I won’t say much other than go get it!

English Download (x64 also available)
German Download (x64 also available)
Japanese Download (x64 also available)
Go Here To Get Your Serial

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This article was written on April 08, 2008 by CyberNet.

The robots have begun to invade the world, starting with Firefox 3! That’s right, the next-generation browser may not be what we were expecting all along. They are trying to pose as friendly inhabitants of the browser, but don’t get sucked into their evil spell. It’s too late for me, but save yourselves by switching to Internet Explorer!

Okay, maybe that’s a bit over-the-top, but the robots have definitely found a home in the latest Firefox 3 Beta 5. As James pointed out via a comment all you have to do is type about:robots into your address bar and press Enter. You should see this message:

Here’s a screenshot of the message you’re presented with.

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You’ll notice that the title of the page is “Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!” What does it mean? It’s from the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still released in 1951, where that particular message was meant to stop the robot Gort from destroying Earth [via Wikipedia].

What’s even better is that clicking the “Try Again” button will just replace it with another button that says “Please do not press this button again.” Naturally you’ll want to click it again, and then it will just disappear.

Note: This Easter Egg is only available in Firefox 3 Beta 5 and beyond.

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