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Why piratebay is here to stay
Piratebay is a website that provides torrent files and magnet links for peer-to-peer sharing using BitTorrent protocol which was founded in 2003. Very recently they celebrated their 10th anniversary. Loads of government agencies and private sectors tried to kill the service of free speech and they failed. They actually failed big time. Piratebay showed the…
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New Facebook Login Page Appears Again
Facebook showed me the New Facebook Login page again which I had reported over a month ago.Only this time I waited and refreshed the page a few times until they stopped showing me the new login page and also this time the background image kept changing after a few minutes of refresh. This is how…
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Yahoo! To Reveal New Logo On September 4
Yahoo! has been on a roll ever since Marissa Mayer was appointed as the CEO and has acquired few major startups like Tumblr and Rockmelt.Yahoo has revealed it’s going to get a new branding. A brand new logo will go live on the Yahoo! homepage on September 4. Yahoo is going tease the public with…
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Nova Launcher Gets An Update, Introduces New Scroll Effects
Nova Launcher, one of the highly used home replacement on android, has released an update. It is now at version 2.2 and has the following new features included along with quite a few bug fixes : Custom Dock Styles Custom Unread Count Badge Styles (Prime) New scroll effects (Prime) The prime version comes at a…
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Feedly Pro Launched For 5$ A Month
Feedly today launched a paid version of their RSS Reader. You can subscribe to Feedly Pro for USD 5 per month or USD 45 per year which will give you features such a search and also https version of feedly.The first 5000 applications can get lifetime subscription for Feedly Pro for about 99$. Feedly Pro Features : Search:…
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Yahoo has acquired Rockmelt
Yahoo is on a roll as they continue to acquire startups and they confirmed to have acquired former browser maker RockMelt. RockMelt had recently shut down their browser to focus mainly on content recommendation engine which is something Yahoo has been focusing on a lot recently.Rockmelt engineers plans to share their four year experience of building great products with Yahoo…
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“Bad Piggies” From Rovio Mobile Goes Free For iPhone And iPad
Good news for iPhone & iPad users !Bad Piggies is available for Free on iPad and iPhone as Apple’s App of the Week. Bad Piggies game is free for one week on the App Store, Download when it’s free. Alternatively it can be downloaded from (link no longer available)
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CCleaner 4.04 adds Windows 8.1 support,Opera 15 and IE 11 Cleaning
CCleaner, the number-one tool for cleaning your Windows PC has just been updated to v 4.04, adding support to windows 8.1 preview builds.CCleaner protects your privacy online and makes your computer faster and more secure. Easy to use and a small, fast download. We highly recommend it & consider it a must have for your…
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Three New Features Added To Digg Reader
Some of the requested features on the digg forums have been taken into consideration and Digg announced the update on it’s Digg Reader platform. View Unread Only To browse only your unread items, simply click All Items in the top right corner, then select Unread Only. Mark As Unread You can now mark read items as unread by…
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Google Chrome Extensions for Penetration Testing
With e-hack around the corner I thought of posting a few amazing Chrome Extensions I use for checking vulnerabilities on Websites. E-hack is a Capture the Flag event which is going to be conducted on 27th July in Chennai. If you haven’t registered already you can still register here.You can find the full coverage about…
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Download Unofficial BBM For Android
XDA Senior member SigitCGumilars has released “BBM For Android” quite some time back, when we tested it previously it did not work. After a long gap, we just tried it yet again & shockingly it worked ! Although the developer has abandoned the project since Blackberry has decided to launch its messenger on the play…
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Why MEGA Wins Over Dropbox?
Being faithful MegaUpload user for a long until it ceased to exist, It came as a surprise when Kim Dotcom came up with yet another company. He proved his worth, thanks to his never give up attitude. MegaUpload is now a thing of past, thanks to the illegal raids by FBI and was shut down…
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Yahoo Hack India All Set To Happen In Hyderabad On July 13 – 14
Yahoo India R&D had announced the sixth edition of Yahoo Hack India to happen in Hyderabad about a month ago and the event is sold out. This will be Yahoo’s first hack event in India hosted outside Bangalore, where Yahoo has its second largest R&D center. Due to the overwhelming response from developers across India in the past 5…
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Introducing Xbox Music on the Web
Microsoft introduces Xbox Music Service for the Web. This means that if you are a paying subscriber of this service, you can now access your media through a compatible web browser. With an Xbox Music Pass, you can now access your Music Pass collection and playlists on your PC through the top web browsers, including Internet Explorer 8+,…
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Search For Images By Usage Rights On Bing Search
Microsoft’s Bing Search now allows you to search for images on it’s search engine platform with categorising by different types of license of the image. This is a impressive move and will help a lot of people who search for free stock images and this new feature can help them to know if’ the image is…
