Guide to setting up a VPN account with VPNHQ, and protecting your data and Internet traffic from identity thieves, overzealous copyright holders, and govt filtering regimes for $7 dollars a month. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) has never been more important it seems. Public Wi-Fi connections are fertile ground for identity thieves and criminals.
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Mark Zuckerberg: Of Rejection, And The $100 Billion Last Laugh
How Social Ineptitude And Rejection Brought Mark Zuckerberg To Where He Is Today “Mark, I’m not speaking in code,” says an exasperated Erica (Rooney Mara) to a pre-Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, just prior to dumping him.
Facebook Messenger for Windows: Chat, Live News Feed on Your Desktop
Facebook Messenger for Windows app lets you interact with your Facebook friends from your desktop. Let’s face it: Facebook has become part of our lives. It used to be that the morning newspaper was the first thing you opened in the morning with your cup of coffee or tea in hand.
DVD Flick: Freeware Program for Creating, Burning DVDs
Easy-to-use program allows users to burn nearly any video file to DVD with a few clicks; supports over 45 video file formats, and contains no adware, spyware, or limitations of any kind.
Boomerang for Gmail: Chrome Extension for Sending, Tracking Future Emails
Chrome extension allows you to schedule emails to be sent at a later date or on a recurring basis, and will remind you if you don’t get a reply from the recipient.
100% Apple: How the Tech Giant is Both the 99% and the 1%
Despite a wave of populist anger at corporate profits and income inequality, Apple has managed massive success without angering the masses. This week Apple announced its 1Q12 earnings, which can best be described as staggering. The Cupertino giant hauled in an unprecedented $13.
Guides & How To's
VPN Setup Guide: VPNHQ
Guide to setting up a VPN account with VPNHQ, and protecting your data and Internet traffic from identity thieves, overzealous copyright holders, and govt filtering regimes for $7 dollars a month. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) has never been more important it seems.
A Beginner’s guide to downloading with uTorrent
Easy step-by-step guide that will help you start downloading movies, music, TV shows, and more in no time at all with uTorrent. For most people getting started with the whole “BitTorrent downloading thing” can be pretty intimidating.
VPN Setup Guide: VyprVPN
A quick guide to setting up Giganews’ VyprVPN and protecting your traffic from the prying eyes of hackers and govts, and thwarting geographic content restrictions and Internet filtering regimes.
How to Watch NFL Football Games Online For Free
Forget about expensive NFL cable TV subscription packages, this guide will show you how to watch NFL football games online for FREE! With NFL preseason well underway it’s important that NFL football fans know how to tune into their favorite games, especially you fantasy football fanatics.
5 Best Alternatives to Megauplaod
List of several alternatives to the recently shuttered file-hosting site Megaupload. Yesterday file-hosting site Megaupload was shuttered by US authorities, and the move left many scrambling for alternatives.
Apps & Mobile
Facebook Classic: Chrome Extension for Getting the Old Facebook Back
A simple extension for turning back the clock on many of the more obtrusive Facebook updates like the Ticker and “Top Stories” Newsfeed.
Never go Hungry Again: 5 Top Restaurant Apps for the iPhone
From the initial idea to paying the bill, this list has your meal out covered. It’s the end of a long working week. You come home, and there’s nothing in the fridge, nor do you feel like doing anything that requires effort – like cooking.
Facebook Messenger for Windows: Chat, Live News Feed on Your Desktop
Facebook Messenger for Windows app lets you interact with your Facebook friends from your desktop. Let’s face it: Facebook has become part of our lives. It used to be that the morning newspaper was the first thing you opened in the morning with your cup of coffee or tea in hand.
DVD Flick: Freeware Program for Creating, Burning DVDs
Easy-to-use program allows users to burn nearly any video file to DVD with a few clicks; supports over 45 video file formats, and contains no adware, spyware, or limitations of any kind.
Discover Great Apps With Appsfire
Appsfire provides many tools for you to discover and share the greatest apps out there. With 500,000 apps in the app store and 300,000 in the Android Market , it can get kind of crowded. Everyday new apps are released but it’s impossible for anyone to keep up.
BitTorrent
uTorrent Tiny Client: Chrome Extension to Remotely Control Your Downloads
Google Chrome extension adds the uTorrent Web UI to your browser, giving you virtually complete control of your downloads on the go – even streaming playback! As an avid BitTorrent user there’s nothing more important than being able to control my downloads on the go.
Share: BitTorrent App Simplifies Personal File-Sharing
Standalone personal media sharing app makes it easy to share movies, pictures, music and other content with family and friends. Never one to rest on its laurels, BitTorrent Inc. is once again trying to reshape P2P file-sharing with the release of Share, a unlimited personal media sharing app.
uTorrent Remote Optimized for the iPad
New interface designed for a “great touch experience” on the iPad; gives users the same functionality already available on the PC-based uTorrent remote. BitTorrent Inc. is definitely taking the influx of Apple products seriously.
uTorrent, BitTorrent Mainline for Mac Get Stable Versions
Mac users finally get to enjoy the some of the same functions and features that their PC counterparts have for years. A stable uTorrent for Mac BitTorrent client has been more than three years making.
Porn Industry Sues the Blind
He’s one of thousands in the lawsuit campaign against file-sharers, but he seems to be an unlikely candidate. He’s legally blind and too busy with his personal life to secure his WiFi connection.
Gadgets & Technology
Mark Zuckerberg: Of Rejection, And The $100 Billion Last Laugh
How Social Ineptitude And Rejection Brought Mark Zuckerberg To Where He Is Today “Mark, I’m not speaking in code,” says an exasperated Erica (Rooney Mara) to a pre-Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, just prior to dumping him.
100% Apple: How the Tech Giant is Both the 99% and the 1%
Despite a wave of populist anger at corporate profits and income inequality, Apple has managed massive success without angering the masses. This week Apple announced its 1Q12 earnings, which can best be described as staggering. The Cupertino giant hauled in an unprecedented $13.
RIP Steve Jobs 1955-2011
Today I was in my living room playing with my son when on the TV news they announced Steve Jobs had passed away. I was shocked, I mean I knew he was ill, problems in the past with cancer. Didn’t he just step down as CEO yesterday? This can’t be true.
Bypass Google Censors with “Gee! No evil!” Add-On
Firefox add-on restores words filtered from Google’s Autocomplete. There’s a new Firefox add-on called “Gee! No evil!” that circumvents Google’s Autocomplete search filtering regime.
Apple Offering Unlocked iPhone 4 for $649
16 GB iPhone 4 model costs $649, and the 32 GB model costs $749. Apple iPhone fanatics will finally be able to do what their brethren overseas and across our Northern border have been able to do for more than a year now – buy unlocked models so you can pick your own carrier.
Music
Last.fm Free Music Player: Chrome Extension for Playing Music On-Demand
Last.fm Free Music Player lets you stream songs by your favorite artists on-demand right from within your Chrome browser. Want an easy way to play music by your favorite artist on-demand without having to listen to poor quality YouTube videos? Then the Last.
Splash.FM : The Social Network for Discovering New Music
New site uses the power of social networking to help discover and share good music with family, friends and others.
Spotify Launches in the US
Reports are surfacing that Spotify, a popular legal streaming service offered in Europe, has traveled across the pond to set up shop in the United States. There’s an interesting report on CNet that says that Spotify is now being offered in the US.
Prince Compares Piracy to “Carjacking”
Blames piracy for his decision to never make another album again. Adds that he “can’t stand digital music.” Prince is looking more and more like a guy named Prince who was formerly an artist rather than his one-time moniker the artist formerly named as Prince.
Prince Wants to Outlaw Cover Songs
Says copyright law should be “reformed” to prevent other artists from performing remakes of his hit songs.
