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The People Have Spoken!

America Online Inc. plans to make three small but significant modifications to the terms of service for its AIM instant messaging product to head off a firestorm of privacy-related criticisms. The tweaks to the terms of service will be made in the section titled “Content You Post” and will explicitly exclude user-to-user chat sessions from […]

Unalienable Rights

Ok, My three biggest interests have got to be computers, music and politics. Now when all three cross paths in a story like this I just can’t keep quiet.
I assume most if not all of my readers have at one point and time used AOL Instant Messenger to communicate with friends. WELL, AOL has […]

My Firefox Extensions

Its been a while since I’ve posted anything tech-related, or anything for that matter. I’m bored and being a nerd so here ya go; A list of all the wonderful extensions that I use to make my firefox browsing life easier and smoother.
If you’re in the dark about what firefox is, leave my site now. […]

Current (Working, I Think) ‘.torrent’ Indexing Sites

In the wake of recent events, I’ve decided to post a list of all of (at least to my knowledge) the best BitTorrent Indexing Sites still online:
#BT
#digitaldistractions
#enterprise
A.B.StarTrek
BitTorrentDownloads
BitTorrent Portal
BlueWolf
Bubbas-World
ByteMonsoon [BTF]
CD/DVD Heaven
CD/DVD Heaven ALT.
Central Hive
CrawlClick
Crazy Mazeys
DeadTrunks
deZign-toRRents
DotTorrent
E2 North West
E.O.T.N
Evil Timmys
Filesoup.com
GoodRoms Heaven
GreenLight
HawkiesWorld.Org
Hustlers Place
Jupiter 2000
KerrazY-Torrents
LokiTorrent
MrTwig.net
MySpleen
PhishHook.com
http://www.tvtorrents.tv
http://www.orbdesign.net/
http://www.btefnet.net
http://www.fulldls.com
http://www.tv-swarm.com
http://www.bi-torrent.com
http://isohunt.com
http://torrentspy.com
http://thepiratebay.org
http://torrentreactor.net
http://filelist.org
http://newtorrents.info
http://elitetorrents.org
http://lokitorrent.com
http://www.lickmytaint.com/bt.html
http://www.420joint.com/bt/
http://www.torrentsearch.com
http://www.bitconsole.com/
#BT-GM on EFnet
http://www.nswhub.com
http://www.torrentspy.com
I’ll post updates as I figure them out, peace out-
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Hello again and welcome to migraineheartache’s Weekend Update. Where you’ll find all the important news stories from this past week in tech. Well lets get on with it:
I Want My MTV!
MobiTV has been billed as the first provider to offer/broadcast real-time video to cell phones. The service, offered by Sprint, costs an additional $9.99 monthly. […]

Well I was just frequenting one of my many Google Groups and someone posted that Google had just released their (to my knowledge) very first piece of standalone software! The Gmail Notifier which can be found here:
http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/.
It allows the user to keep the program running in their system tray all the time and have a […]

Weekend Update (News That You Use)

Welcome to Weekend Update where you’ll get all the latest news stories that I care enough to report from the past week in tech.
A Gmail By Any Other Name…
As reported by this article on InternetNews, when news about Google’s IPO broke on March 31, 2004, some companies (Cencourse, Precision Research and ProNet Analytics) made a […]

Weekend Update

Ok, So maybe you came here this Saturday expecting a Web Design Tutorial/Tip. Well I’m here to tell you that I’ve officially changed Saturday to “Weekend Update” for the tech field. I’ll be reporting on some of the big stories that happened over the past week in my own wonderful fashion every Saturday from here […]

Generation 4 iPod Released!

MSNBC: “The considerably tweaked fourth-generation iPod will roll out this week, and Newsweek got an advance peek. It looks a bit different, operates more efficiently, has a few more features and costs less. Here are the highlights….” Improved battery life, upto 12 hours, a click wheel, more efficient menus, multiple on the go playlists, and […]

Well, it looks like eBay has been inspired by all those millions of iTunes song sales. They’re running a six-month test offering downloadable music through authorized sellers, who would have to ‘ensure copyright protection for the content and meet service-level agreements.’ Also of note, ‘music buyers won’t be allowed to resell the files on eBay.’ […]