Lightweight program frees Pandora from your browser so that you can listen to Pandora streaming radio from your desktop with nearly all the features, functions, and controls available on the full Pandora.com site. Sure you can use a browser to control Pandora, but that also means you constantly have to remember to keep it running in an open tab, and heaven forbid if you close it accidentally.
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DriverIdentifier: FREE App Scans PC for Driver Updates, Simplifies Installation
Simple, quick, and efficient way for making sure all your drivers are up to date; no more frustrating, time-consuming and often fruitless searches for driver updates.
Pirate Bay Blocked in the UK by June?
Swedish BitTorrent tracker site could be blocked in the UK by this summer. The British High Court has passed a ruling that could see BitTorrent tracker site the Pirate Bay blocked in the UK by June.
VLC Media Player 2.0 Adds Blu-Ray Support, Reworked Mac Interface
The best free media player around rolls out higher quality subtitles, faster decoding, reworked Mac and Web interfaces, more video format support and support for new devices and Blu-Ray Discs. VLC Media Player, already everyone’s favorite free media player, has gone 2.
5 iPhone Health Apps to Keep You in Shape
iPhone health apps that help you track your exercise, eating, mood and sleep. If you have better things to spend money on than a gym membership and personal trainer, you don’t have to resign yourself to the couch potato life.
How to Watch Any Video on the iPad
Guide to being able to watch any kind of video on the iPad in just a few simple steps. Apple’s iPad has become one of the more popular portable devices for watching video on the go, leading to an increased demand for methods to allow non-iTunes acquired content to play on them.
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
Tribler: BitTorrent Client that Doesn’t Need Tracker Sites, Can’t Be Shut Down
Tribler is, as the developers claim, “designed to keep BitTorrent alive, even when all torrent search engines, indexes and trackers are pulled offline,” and can only be shut down if you “take down the Internet” itself.
iSnooze Uses iTunes to Turn Your PC Into an Alarm Clock
Program lets you schedule times for iTunes to wake you from your slumber, complete with spacebar-activated snooze function.
The Best Free Social iPad Apps
A round-up of the best free social iPad apps that will keep your digital life thriving. Is there anything the iPad can’t do? This list of free social iPad apps will help you stay in touch with friends and family, without having to spend a dime.
uTorrent Control: Official Browser Plugin for Remote Download Control
UTorrent Control is a browser plugin for Explorer 8 and above, Firefox 3 and above, and Chrome that gives users access to their BitTorrent client downloads on the go. BitTorrent users are always looking for new and convenient ways to access and control their downloads on the go.
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.
BitTorrent
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.
Anonymous Posts Turkish Government Websites to ThePirateBay
Over 100 websites have found their way to BitTorrent filesharing website ThePirateBay recently. Included in the release is numerous government websites. Anonymous called it “Turkish Takedown Thursday”.
LulzStorm Posts 18 Italian University Databases to Monova
The AntiSec movement appears to have taken root in Italy. A hacker by the name of LulzStorm has posted the databases of 18 Italian University websites to BitTorrent filesharing site Monova.
F1Esc Dumps Data on US, Brazilian and Mexican Governments to ThePirateBay
In addition to leaking content from the Australian 2011 elections, it appears that Australia isn’t the only country to be hit by data leaks from this particular user. Up next is content from the US, Brazil and Mexico.
Movie Director Releases ‘A Lonely Place for Dying’ to BitTorrent Legally
Justin Eugene Evans, the writer and director of ‘A Lonely Place for Dying’ released the first part of the movie to BitTorrent via the VODO services recently.
Gadgets & Technology
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.
Google’s Chromebooks Now Available at Amazon, Best Buy
Debuts at Best Buy and Amazon.com with prices ranging from $379.99 to $499. Google’s highly anticipated Chromebooks are now on sale at Best Buy and Amazon.com with models from both Acer and Samsung.
Comcast to Bring Skype to Living Room TV
Announce partnership to bring “clear, widescreen Skype video calls” with customer’s exisiting HD TV and broadband connection.
Music
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.
Beastie Boys’ “Hot Sauce Committee Part 2″ Leaks to BitTorrent
Eight studio album leaks to BitTorrent tracker sites everywhere well ahead of its official May 3rd release date. The Beastie Boys’ long awaited Hot Sauce Committee Part Two has leaked to BitTorrent a little over a week before its official May 3rd release date.
The End of Music Piracy? O RLY?
A provocative headline can generate a lot of readers and a lively debate, but it can also do a poor job of indicating what an article is actually about.
French Record Labels Identifying 25,000 Pirates p/ Day
French labels trade body director general David El Sayegh says the music industry has been been identifying and submitting the IP addresses to the govt of more than 25,000 suspected file-sharers per day.
