According to AppleInsider, Apple released an update on Friday evening to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
The only distinguishable change noted in documentation, those people say, was a request by the Mac maker for its developers to add iCal and printing functions to their evaluation efforts, alongside AirPort, QuickTime and graphics drivers. A prior emphasis on VoiceOver was reportedly not extended to build 10D548.
The beta will also include tweaks that aim to enhance the performance of Apple’s 64-bit Logic pro audio suite. Other bundled improvements include better compatibility with third-party printers and OpenGL-grounded applications.
Apple reportedly listed no known issues with build 10D548, which now weighs in at 773MB as a Delta distribution.
Google Chrome has fast become one of the worlds most popular internet browsers. Most people dont know that you can now get Google Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux.
I have been having a huge amount of trouble getting my iPhone applications to sync with iTunes. Finally, in a moment of desperation, I righted clicked on my iPhone and chose the option “Transfer Purchases” and to my suprise and glee I successfully moved my applications onto to my computer.
To transfer applictions to iTunes from your iPhone:
Right click on your iPhone in the left hand explorer bar
Select “Transfer Purchases”
You should see a progress bar in iTunes and your phone should read “Sync in Progress”
If everything went as planned, all of your applications that were purchased on your iPhone should now appear in iTunes
The Pirate Bay was first ‘censored’ in Italy in the summer of 2008, when ISPs were ordered to prevent millions of Italians from accessing the world’s largestBitTorrent tracker.
The Pirate Bay chose to appeal the decision and eventually won the court case. The Court of Bergamo ruled that no foreign website can be censored for alleged copyright infringement and the block was lifted temporarily as the case was appealed once again.
A few weeks ago the Supreme Court reviewed the case and ruled that ISPs can be forced to block BitTorrent sites, even if they are not hosted in Italy or operated by Italian citizens. According to the decision by the Supreme Court, sites offering torrent files that link to copyrighted material are engaging in criminal activity.
This week the case once again appeared before the Court of Bergamo where it was decided that all Italian ISPs will have to deny their customers access to The Pirate Bay.
Pirate Bay lawyers Giovanni Battista Gallus, Giuseppe Campanelli and Francesco Micozzi told TorrentFreak that the Court followed the same reasoning as the Supreme Court, and deemed it unnecessary to bring the case before the European Court of Justice.
According to the two lawyers The Pirate Bay is still considering whether to appeal this decision or not, but that will not prevent or delay the block. “We don’t know when Italian ISPs will begin to re-apply the Pirate Bay filters, but we think that this will happen very soon,” Micozzi commented.
Aside from appealing to the Supreme Court, the Pirate Bay’s legal team is also considering bringing the case before the European Court of Justice.
It is doubtful that the verdict will have a strong impact on the piracy rate in Italy. The proposed DNS-filtering scheme can be easily bypassed by Pirate Bay users and there are hundreds of alternative torrent sites that can replace The Pirate Bay.
A bit of an embarrassment for Mozilla Firefox – and it comes at a a bad time too, right when they’re loosing their dominance in the browser world as Chrome catches up.
Mozilla has been known as a very safe browser as compared to its old enemy, Internet Explorer. In fact, many people used it for just that reason. So the last thing Mozilla needed was reports of Malware in two ad-ons which were available for download from their website.
“Two add-ons in the experimental section of addons.mozilla.org were found to be containing malware,” Mozilla said on its security blog. “These were not originally detected with the anti-malware scanning tools that we have been using. We have since increased the number of scanning tools, and will be taking additional steps to minimize the risk of further incidents.
It is thought that well in excess of 4,000 downloads of the ad-ons have taken place since they were first released in September. So are you one of the thousands of people who inadvertently infected their own machines? Well if you downloaded Sothink 4.0 and all versions of Master Filer then there’s a good chance you are. These installed Win32.LdPinch.gen and Win32.Bitfrose.32.Bitfrose Trojan respectively. So if you have downloaded these, I suggest running a scan of your system ASAP.
Its been well-known for decades that robots are replacing humans in many work-fields. The most obvious would be in manufacturing such as in car plants or food factories. But what about the humble barkeep? Could his days be numbered too?
Well students from Middlesex University think so. They recently showed off their Heineken Bot at the Kinetics Art Fair in London the other day. What the little beer toting fella does is wheel around in a pre-programmed path and serve people glasses of Heineken whenever they want one as you can see in the video below.
He’s basically just a walking keg with a few sensors but I think this is really cool. It might be a few more years before these things are common place (that beer looked a little too foamy for my linking in the video), but I like the principal of Robots serving us beer. Hopefully it’s not just a ploy to get us all drunk and take over the world during our epic hangovers!
Pingdom is a great service and they have put together another great viral article.
Facebook has announced that it now has 400 million active users. Just one year ago Facebook had 150 million users, so 2009 was an incredible year for the social media giant.
There can be no doubt that Facebook is pretty much unstoppable at the moment, a real juggernaut.
According to 4chan’s Twitter account and status update blog, they have been “explicitly blocked” by the Verizon wireless network.
Chris Poole (4chan Founder) wrote yesterday afternoon, “Over the past 72 hours, we’ve been receiving reports from Verizon Wireless customers having difficulty accessing the image boards. After investigating, we found that Verizon is dropping traffic… only on port 80 (HTTP). No other subdomain/IP/port is affected, which leads us to believe this block is intentional.”
However, a couple hours ago, Poole posted, “After an hour and a half on the phone, we’ve received confirmation from Verizon’s Network Repair Bureau (NRB) that we are ‘explicitly blocked.’”
Multiple Verizon FIOS/DSL customers have let us know that the boards are still accessible from other devices not on the Verizon wireless network. However, we’re confused as to why Verizon wireless would block a website and still allow access on other parts of its network.
Before any phone is released onto the market it goes through a series of test. Some to test the hardware. Others the operating systems. And others, to see how who can break it first. We have come across two videos in which the new Nexus One from Google is put through a series of tests to see how durable the phone is and to show the public just how such a strong phone is actually built.
We don’t get to see any of the phones break into smithereens (I don’t think my heart could take it!), but it’s pretty cool to watch them bend, flex, bounce drop and crash around the testing lab! Check out the short film (which is episode three in the series) in the HTC testing labs.
The next video in the series is the mass manufacturing of the device. As the films narrator rightly points out, the manufacturing of this phone is like no other in that quality is given prominence. Some of the machines and techniques used are pretty cool. You also get insider information from the experts.
Millions of Americans, and indeed people around the world, tuned in to watch the highlight of the US sporting year, the Super Bowl. As Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, hinted yesterday, Google did indeed run an advertisement during the Super Bowl for the first ever time.
The ad has since become a hit around the Internet, especially on sites such as YouTube on Twitter, all within a few hours of being broadcast in the third quarter ad break of the Super Bowl. I watched it on YouTube, and I have to say it’s pretty well done. It basically summarises Google’s search functionality in a way which I’m sure has millions of US families going ‘Awwwwww’. Check it out below.
There’s a strong rumor saying there’s an internal Facebook project developing to be released to the public soon: Facebook’s Webmail.
As greedy as it could sound to you, it really doesn’t seem like a big shock, Facebook is the biggest social network available with over 350 million users and with an amazing growth in the last few years. Constantly looking for new ways to expand; a while ago we’ve showed you an interview of Facebook’s founder and CEO, Mark Zuckeberg, that said Facebook is not intended to be a simple website, they are looking to represent your identity in Internet.
There isn’t much information about the project, which already has a codename: Titan and that your mail address will be the same used in your vanity URL. In my case should be augusto.a.alvarez@facebook.com. And of course, you will be able to set E-Mail Clients like Outlook or Thunderbird to access your mail using POP or IMAP protocols.
The webmail really sounds like a very possible next step. Could we expect next a bigger instant messaging experience?
YouTube has been the dominant social space for videos around the world. The most highly searched video site has everything fromentertainment, DIY videos, music, clips, and more residing on the Google servers and made accessible to all of us with a simple search. With over 1 million searches a day, they are doing something right.
Most recently YouTube made big news with the release of their Univision channel for the growing Spanish speaking market. This brings into the fold a whole demographic that may have been apprehensive to use Google due to language barriers, but now content in their native language will be something that they can adapt to, and YouTube will surely reap the benefits. This is the fruits of a deal that was agreed upon and announced to the press back in November. With Univision providing full content, whether it be clips or entires shows, the video are now searchable from within YouTube giving exposure to both brands in an amazing way.
This is a huge move for Univision, as this is the first time their content has been made available on the internet outside of their own proprietary websites. Combining content from Univisions major networks, Univision, TeleFutura, and Galavision, the network plans to expand its content, seek original programming for the internet, and have notable celebrities share weekly wrap-ups of shows to keep users caught up on everything happening at the station.
According to AppleInsider, Apple released an update on Friday evening to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
Google Chrome has fast become one of the worlds most popular internet browsers. Most people dont know that you can now get Google Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux.
The Pirate Bay was first ‘censored’ in Italy in the summer of 2008, when ISPs were ordered to prevent millions of Italians from accessing the 
According to 4chan’s Twitter account and status update blog, they have been “explicitly blocked” by the Verizon wireless network.
