Laptop Screen Replacement Made Easy

Laptop screen replacement can be a tricky thing to master and repair companies take total advantage of this fact by charging out of the world prices to do it. The following post has also be made into a handy PDF for you to print and have next to you when you replace your screen.PDF Download> [...]

Aussie ISPs Propose Anti-FileSharing Warning Notice Scheme

Five of Australia’s largest ISPs have today put forward a detailed proposal to deal with the issue of illicit file-sharing. The paper proposes the implementation of a warning letter process, but unlike the 3 strikes-style regime in neighboring New Zealand, would not include an Internet disconnection sanction. Instead, rightsholders would head back to the legal [...]

Public Block Lists of Malicious IPs and URLs

The following is a list of websites that maintain and provide public lists of known and suspected malware sources. These lists can be used for preventing malware infections, managing incoming email, or testing purposes. Note: Be very careful when visiting these sites, for many of them contain direct links to malware. Malware Block Lists (Domains/URLs) [...]

Best Geek/Tech Books Around for Christmas

So Christmas is creeping up on us slowly but surly again and if you are stuck on what to but for the geek in your life I have compiled a list of some of the best geek/tech books around. All of the following books can are available on the new Amazon Kindle Windows 7 Annoyances [...]

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on the Net November 2011

The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, ‘Conan the Barbarian’ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’. ‘Our Idiot Brother’ completes the top three. This week there are four newcomers in our chart. Conan the Barbarian is the most downloaded movie of the week. The data for [...]

Mexican Blogger Decapitated (Warning: Graphic image below)

Warning: Graphic image below As reported by Wired By Robert Beckhusen The moderator of a popular Mexican social network has been murdered, allegedly for tipping off the authorities about the local drug cartel. Nicknamed “Rascatripas” or “Scraper” (literally “Fiddler”) on the network Nuevo Laredo en Vivo, the 35-year-old appears to have been handcuffed, tortured, decapitated and dumped beside [...]

Android Phone Apps Could Be Hiding Malware

Mobile phone apps downloaded from Android’s official store could contain malware that steals sensitive information and banking passwords, a report has claimed. Anti-virus firm Kaspersky said that the number of attempts by hackers and malicious mobile phone programs to steal data from Android phones spiked by 34 per cent last month. Once inside a handset, [...]

BPI and MPA Demand UK Pirate Bay Blockade

Following the High Court ruling ordering UK ISP BT to block Usenet indexing site Newzbin2, it was only a matter of time before that momentum was capitalized upon by the movie and music industries. Today a coalition of companies led by the BPI demanded that BT also block The Pirate Bay, either voluntarily or by [...]