Founder and Editor of Crenk. Im CEO of Insomnia Ltd which owns and operates RouteNote (Digital Music Distributor), Adphilia (Site Representation Firm) and Black and White Music (Music Recording Studio).
Internet video startup Myka has launched its Linux based set top Bittorrent box. The Myka set top box comes in 80 GB, 160 GB, and 500 GB high-definition versions. The boxes themselves are equipped with a built-in Bittorrent client which supports most of the video and audio formats.
The video below gives a very quick look at Myka’s playback quality, and includes an ever-so-brief look at its support for iTunes HD:
1. Download Purplera1n for Windows (works only on Windows Vist & Xp)
2. You must have installed iTunes 8.2. if you don’t have iTunes 8.2 then download iTunes 8.2 from here
3. Connect your iPhone 3GS 3.0 to computer
4. Double Click & Start Purplera1n
5. Click “make it ra1n”.
6. Wait. On bootup, run Freeze, the purplera1n installer app
7. Follow onscreen instructions to complete jailbreak
Mac version of Purplera1n coming soon
Over at digital music store CDBaby they have been making a lot of changes recently. Since the sale of the company the site itself has been going through a lot of changes. A while ago CDBaby announced to their community that they will be updating their website which is long overdue and here are early pictures of what it is going to look like.
Disclosure: Im CEO of Insomnia which owns and operates RouteNote a digital music distributor.
Back in February we did a quick review about a new web service called Stimator. Stimator is a real website valuation estimator.
There are six major factors involved in the calculation:
11th February 2009 = Crenk.com = $17,351
2nd July 2009 = Crenk.com = $1,657,315
Aviary has just launched Screen Capture Talon that can let you capture any webpage from any browser, by simply putting Aviary.com/ in front of the URL. You can capture a page at different resolutions or to only capture a portion of the page as well.
After capturing the page, you can edit it, add simple markup to it and save it to your desktop.
Aero Snap is a new feature which has been added to Windows 7, but its is also supported for both Windows XP and Vista. Aero Snap is a simple tool that allows the user to drag and drop any window to the top of your screen to maximise it or take it to the left or right to snap it to the side and re-size by 50 per cent.
Aero Snap is free and you can download it here.
Have you ever wanted to turn your Ubuntu system into a Mac? Im not exactly too sure why you would want to do this in the first place, but over at MakeTechEasier they have a great article on how to do this.
If you want to change this
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A couple of days ago we reported that Firefox 3.5 will be released on June 30th. Here is the official release!
Windows: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.5&os=win&lang=en-US
Mac OS X: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.5&os=osx&lang=en-US
Linux: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.5&os=linux&lang=en-US
As far as I can tell there is only one site that can still predict accurately your future page rank from Google. Their used to be iwebtool but that has stopped working and Page Rank Prediction is the only one standing.
The site itself is very simple, its just a box in which users can input their urls and then the predictor accurately predicts what your new page rank is going to be at the next update.
Page Rank Prediction is predicting that Crenk will be a page rank 5 at the next update, which is great news for us if it is true. Only time will tell and we are expecting to see a new page rank update in the next few days.
It has been confirmed by the guys at The Pirate Bay that they are in the process of selling their site. Gaming company Global Gaming Factory X is in the process of acquiring The Pirate bay for $7.8 million (SEK 60 million). The acquisition is scheduled to be completed by August and will see the site launch new business models to compensate content providers and copyright owners.
The story was broken by Torrentfreak and they are going to keep updating everyone once new information comes to light.
Global Gaming Factory X will not just acquire The Pirate Bay site but they will also acquire the file-sharing technology company Peerialism. Global Gaming Factory X claims to have the biggest network of internet cafés and gaming centers in the world, so this technology will be a great addition to their company.
Global Gaming Factory X is also very interested in changing The Pirate Bay’s business model which will allow the compensation to the content providers and copyright owners.
“We would like to introduce models which entail that content providers and copyright owners get paid for content that is downloaded via the site,” said Hans Pandeya, CEO Global Gaming Factory X.
“The Pirate Bay is a site that is among the top 100 most visited Internet sites in the world. However, in order to live on, The Pirate Bay requires a new business model, which satisfies the requirements and needs of all parties, content providers, broadband operators, end users, and the judiciary,” said Pandeya.
File-sharing technology company Peerialism will also be acquired by Global Gaming Factory X for a total of SEK 100 million, of which at least SEK 50 million will be in cash.
I find the amount of $7.8 million to be a little low, based upon The Pirate Bay having similar traffic numbers to Mininova which have 727 million pageviews per month. If each pageview could be monetized at $1.00 CPM (per 1000 views), then The Pirate Bay would be making $727,000 per month.
For Crenk Bing is now the third most popular search engine in terms of traffic. However, about a month or so ago I actually submitted our site to be added to the Bing search engine. Since this time we have seen a slight increase in traffic and our site has been indexed properly, but we still aren’t even appearing for the results we should appear for.
For example our own site name Crenk, you would think we would appear as the first result obviously. However, we still dont even appear in the results at all, even after being properly indexed by Bing.
There have been a lot of people reporting about the Pirate Bay’s new video site, Techcrunch UK, Mashable and Boy Genius, but the story was broken by the leading site in the Torrent space, TorrentFreak.
The basics of the story are as follows, the Pirate Bay team has continued developing its video streaming site – which will open up to the public within 5 years. On The Video Bay users can share video clips without having to worry about getting them taken offline due to copyright violations, true Pirate Bay-style.
The Pirate Bay team themselves announced about 2 years ago that they were working on a video streaming site, but we had no idea when we would actually see something. Pirate Bay Spokesman Peter Sunde agreed that it might take a while before the site goes live and told us that “it will be done when it’s done, in the future, in like a year or five.”
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