After a week of rumors, Yahoo! officially announces its buyout of Tumblr for $1.1 billion with vows to keep the service independent. It’s official. Yahoo is buying out the up and coming blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion, mostly in cash. This acquisition, of course, was met with numerous negative comments from Tumblr users during the week leading up to the deal.
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Efemr Lets You Set Tweets to Self-Destruct
Control how long you want your tweets to be visible to the world at large. We sometimes forget that by using social networking sites we put tremendous amounts of information out there for anybody to see and collect.
Hide My Ass VPN: User Setup and Installation Guide
Quick how-to-guide for getting one of the more popular VPN services around up and running so that you can begin protecting your traffic from the prying eyes of hackers and govts, and thwart arbitrary geographic content restrictions and Internet filtering regimes.
Kim Dotcom is a Hypocrite When it Comes to 3D Printing Guns
Kim Dotcom might like to sound off about the freedom of the internet, freedom of speech, freedom of thought and expression, but that apparently doesn’t extend to the blueprints of 3D printable guns, as he’s told Mega staff members to remove any copies of the blueprint from the file locke
BitTorrent Bundle Allows Artists to Sell Content Inside a Torrent
Creates functional stores within torrents where additional content can be unlocked for consumers to enjoy. Late last week BitTorrent Inc.
US Senator Calls For Regulation of 3D Printers
The Liberator may have given gun enthusiasts a huge boost in confidence, but the 3D printable gun may also be attracting unwanted attention for 3D printing enthusiasts as well. Right now, a US Senator is calling for regulating 3D printers.
US Government Censors DEFCAD Website
3D printing has been around for a while, but with the possibility of printing a gun, there’s been a very contentious debate surrounding the technology. Now, the US government has stepped in and taken down content.
Guides & How To's
Top 5 BitTorrent Clients for Mac
Are you looking for BitTorrent software for your Mac? Here is a list of some of the more popular BitTorrent clients available for the Mac OS.
How To Setup and Use BitTorrent Sync
An easy-to-follow guide for users wishing to setup and properly configure BitTorrent sync so that they can safely and securely share data with family, friends, and multiple devices.
How-To Guide for Complete Facebook App Privacy
How to stop your friend’s Facebook apps from using your personal information. Facebook is all about sharing information, and there are a number of Facebook apps that do just that.
How to Watch MLB Games Online for Free
Forget expensive Major League Baseball subscription packages and watch your favorite baseball team play for free online from virtually anywhere in the world.
How to Bypass ISP Filters and Access The Pirate Bay in the UK
Guide to circumventing the country’s High Court ruling ordering IPS to block BitTorrent tracker sites, that list now including The Pirate Bay, Kickass Torrents, H33t, and Fenopy It was February of last year that the UK’s High Court found that the operators of Swedish BitTorrent trac
3 Quick Ways to Watch Movies for FREE!
Learn how and where to watch your favorite movies whenever and wherever you want. In the age of mobile tablets and smartphones, watching movies on-demand has never been in greater demand, and thanks to innovation, the number of sites offering free movies to watch on-demand has never been greater.
Apps & Mobile
SafeIP: Free Program for Encrypting Your Internet Traffic
SafeIP lets you encrypt all your Internet traffic with a private proxy, protect your online identity, and is completely FREE without ads. Safe IP is a cool program that provides anonymous, private, and secure web browsing for FREE.
Efemr Lets You Set Tweets to Self-Destruct
Control how long you want your tweets to be visible to the world at large. We sometimes forget that by using social networking sites we put tremendous amounts of information out there for anybody to see and collect.
Top 5 Android Apps for Downloading Free Music
A roundup of the top 5 free Android music apps for finding and downloading free music online. The great thing about smartphones these days is that they’ve basically become portable computers, empowering users with the ability to listen to and watch pretty much anything they want to on-the-go.
FB Checker Identifies Fake Facebook Profiles and Pics
Free program lets you analyze and verify the authenticity of Facebook users before you add them to your list of friends.
Earbits Brings Its Music Discovery Service to the Android
Two years after its official launch, Earbits launches its free music discovery service on the android – its first mobile product. Unlike traditional music apps, like Spotify, that do not allow much interaction with users, Earbits hopes to engage both musicians and their fans.
BitTorrent Sync Alpha Now Open to the Public
Allows you to synchronize folders and files of any size across multiple devices along with family and friends you give access to. Being able to access content whenever and wherever you want is one of teh driving forces of BitTorrent Inc.
BitTorrent
BitTorrent Bundle Allows Artists to Sell Content Inside a Torrent
Creates functional stores within torrents where additional content can be unlocked for consumers to enjoy. Late last week BitTorrent Inc.
BitTorrent Sync Users Share More Than 1PB of Data
Program proves to be a popular method for sharing folders and files of any size across multiple devices and with family and friends. A few weeks ago BitTorrent Sync was made available to the public and the program has quickly caught on with users. For, according to BitTorrent Inc.
Hadouken: Open Source, Lightweight BitTorrent Client for Windows
Hadouken is a lightweight BitTorrent client for Windows designed to run “headless” as a Windows Service. Hadouken is a relatively unknown BitTorrent client that was released in October of last year, making it one of the newest client to hit the BitTorrent scene.
BitTorrent Used to Promote “Arthur Newman” Film, Angers Hollywood
Cinedigm and BitTorrent, Inc. ingenuously partnered to promote Colin Firth and Emily Blunt-driven film “Arthur Newman”, but agreement has led Hollywood to blast it as a “deal with the devil.
PirateBay Settles in Iceland
The Pirate Bay has been moving around quite a few different domains recently, moving away from its Swedish domain earlier this month to one in Greenland (.GL) but that seems not to have stuck, as now it’s moved on over to an Icelandic .is domain.
BitTorrent Acceleration Program Allows Startups Access to BitTorrent Labs
BitTorrent launches BitTorrent Acceleration Program, opening up its lab to startups while also offering product integration, promotion and partnership opportunities.
Gadgets & Technology
Mt. Gox Dwolla Facing Financial Issues with US Authorities
Feds seize assets from Mt. Gox Dwolla account and accuse the service of violating money transfer regulations. Bitcoin is growing rapidly with several companies investing thousands of dollars on the venture. The Japanese startup Mt.
Brightcove Announces Live Streaming Module for Its Platform
New Brightcove Video Cloud Live module will allow Brightcove users to easily stream live events on a wide variety of devices. In order to be competitive in the video streaming service, companies need to stand out from streaming giants like Netflix.
Google Combines Paid and Free Storage for It’s Platforms
Google web users now have access to 15GB of storage shared between Drive, Gmail and Google+ Photos. Until recently, Google users needed to keep track of free storage on all Google products separately.
Dutch Government Proposes Bill to Hack Your Computer
The Dutch government is proposing a bill that would allow the government to hack anyone’s computer – including those located outside of the Netherlands. The bill was signed by Ivo Opstelten and published.
Skype Battles Another Patent Infringement Suit for Its Services
Copytele, a patent enforcement entity, has filed a patent infringement suit against Skype’s calling and messaging service.
Music
Google Play Music All Access Offers On-Demand Subscription Service
Google has unveiled the Google Play Music All Access service at their I/O that will directly compete with other on-demand music services like Spotify.
Spacebar Allows Users to Listen In On Concerts
Spacebar app streams the audio from a concert in real-time directly to users iOS mobile device for the price of a couple dollars. Whether you don’t have enough time to go to a concert or simply are not in the area, it’s always a letdown when you cannot see your favorite band perform.
Twitter Launches Service for Discovering New Music
Uses Twitter activity to “detect and surface the most popular tracks and emerging artists” and delivers them on the iOS app or the web. Last week we mentioned how Twitter was rumored to have a new music service in the works, and now it’s officially gone live.
BBM Music Will Officially Shut Down June 2nd
Blackberry will begin phasing out BBM Music in April with complete shutdown of the music streaming service June 2nd.
Spotify Announces Integration Deal with LG for Media Players
Spotify announced that they have struck an integration deal with LG to offer Spotify premium services on a range of connected LG media devices. LG and Spotify have announced that the popular streaming service will be available on all LG smart media products released this year.
Pandora Now Available on Windows Phone 8
Pandora is now available on all Windows 8 phone and will offer users an ad-free experience until the end of 2013. Back in October of 2012, Microsoft announced that the Pandora App would be available for their Windows Phone 8 and offer one full year of unlimited, ad-free music.
