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Google Releases Chrome 27, Loads Pages 5% Faster!

Jared Moya — Wed, 22 May 2013 11:00:08 +0000

New Chrome 27 Stable version includes a number of optimizations so that all users will enjoy an even faster browsing experience. As if you didn’t already have a million reasons to switch over from browsers like the painful-to-use Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s clunky Firefox, Google just launched an updated stable version of its Chrome browser that boosts page loading times by a staggering 5%! “The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 27 to the Stable Channel,” says the always pithy company in a blog post. According to Google, the speed boost comes courtesy of a new “smarter behind-the-scenes resource scheduling.

Efemr Lets You Set Tweets to Self-Destruct

Jared Moya — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:13:42 +0000

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. Taken individually the stuff we create is not always sensitive information, but over time, and taken as a whole, it cane be. Also, as we age and our lives change we don’t necessarily want past thoughts and observations to come back and haunt us. Stuff we thought was witty and cool to tweet about back in our teens will usually make us look downright foolish later on, especially to prospective employers or college admission deans.

Hide My Ass VPN: User Setup and Installation Guide

Jared Moya — Wed, 15 May 2013 20:31:15 +0000

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. We can all agree that Internet always has and always will be plagued by challenges to content access and data security, and it’s only the solution that many disagree about. One of the of the easiest solutions that many choose is a VPN connection. A VPN is a virtual private network with “virtual” encrypted connections routed through the Internet to remote servers.

Kim Dotcom is a Hypocrite When it Comes to 3D Printing Guns

Jon Martindale — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:15:34 +0000

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 locker. How they could learn what those files are, without the decryption key that prevents people unlawfully accessing content on the site is unknown. Of course this wouldn’t be hypocritical, if it was merely a legal issue.

BitTorrent Bundle Allows Artists to Sell Content Inside a Torrent

Jared Moya — Mon, 13 May 2013 11:34:47 +0000

Creates functional stores within torrents where additional content can be unlocked for consumers to enjoy. Late last week BitTorrent Inc. continued its push to revolutionize content distribution, announcing the release of a new product called BitTorrent Bundle Alpha that offers “direct-to-fan Collaboration.” A few weeks ago it launched BitTorrent Sync, a program for sharing folders and files of any size across multiple devices and with family and friends. The program quickly caught on with users sharing more than 1PB of data. BitTorrent Bundle now creates virtual storefronts within torrents. “We used to buy music at independent record shops downtown,” it says.

US Senator Calls For Regulation of 3D Printers

Drew Wilson — Sun, 12 May 2013 18:52:00 +0000

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. Last Thursday, we reported on the US government censoring content on DEFCAD.org, a website that contains certain kinds of object files for 3D printing. The move was sparked when someone successfully 3D printed a fully functional handgun called the “Liberator”. The successful fabrication and subsequent raid by authorities generated two unprecedented traffic spikes to the website according to Alexa.

US Government Censors DEFCAD Website

Drew Wilson — Fri, 10 May 2013 01:06:23 +0000

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. The technology can print many interesting things such as human body parts, plastic figurines and even an entire building. Some, such as myself, have already seen the technology and wondered if we’ll witness the same kinds of debates we’ve seen with music and file-sharing all over again. In the last few days, there’s been some controversy over someone creating the blueprints to print an entire fully functional gun. Some say it’s the dawn of a new era where there the government can exert less control over the citizens.

Kim Dotcom publishes Mega White Paper

Jon Martindale — Tue, 07 May 2013 12:28:06 +0000

Founder of Mega and Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, has published a white paper describing and breaking down the case between the United States and Kim Dotcom. It’s an extensive document published just moments ago, so it’s going to take some time to go through, but let’s take a quick look through it at this stage in its release. One feature immediately noticeable about the document, is that it’s headed “The United States vs You (and Kim Dotcom,” showing that Dotcom is keen to continue representing himself as somewhat of a side issue in the whole argument, as well as suggesting that ultimately, his battle with the governments of both New Zealand and the USA, is a battle we’re all part of.

BitTorrent Sync Users Share More Than 1PB of Data

Jared Moya — Tue, 07 May 2013 11:36:07 +0000

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., users have already shared more than 1PB of data. “To date, more than a petabyte of anonymous data has been synced between BitTorrent Sync users,” says the company. “A petabyte! To put that into context, the Internet Archive, one of the world wide web’s largest repositories of media, houses 10 petabytes of data. Sync is massive. And it’s growing. Over 70 terabytes of anonymous data are synced daily.

Hadouken: Open Source, Lightweight BitTorrent Client for Windows

Jared Moya — Mon, 06 May 2013 12:18:17 +0000

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. What makes Hadouken different from the others is that it’s both headless AND open source. “Hadouken came about a while ago with the aim to fill a niche market for users looking for a BitTorrent client running as a native Windows Service,” says the program’s developer. So what is headless? Headless means that the BitTorrent client runs without a GUI. meaning that there’s no window in your taskbar or icon in your system tray.