File sharing has unfortunately attracted all kinds of scams over the years. One common way to get money from unsuspecting users is to set up bogus websites for P2P services that charge good money for membership plans and then offer little more than access to freely available applications.

Netzwelt also talked to other lawyers as well as consumer advocates who all had heard of the Fastload scheme, which means the company is probably targeting hundreds, if not thousands of German P2P users with its extortion attempt. Lawyers and…

This introduction is about the little things. Things that help ease everyday tasks but go a long way into making you a better user, editor, programmer - a better computer user.

gD - takes you to the first (intelligent) instance of the word under the cursor in the same file. It is intelligent, since in a programming language, it takes you to the definition or the declaration of the function or variable. gj…

Google can now index flash files. very good news for webmasters. hopefully flash will be fully searched like normal HTML in coming days

Adobe says they have developed an optimized Flash player for search engines and are collaborating with both Google and Yahoo!. Yahoo! has not yet implemented the technology, although they stated that Yahoo! is committed to supporting webmaster…

(CNET) — The Flip Video Mino is the fourth generation of Pure Digital’s popular straight-to-Web mini camcorder, designed to make shooting and sharing low-resolution videos very easy.

You can play back one clip, string several together to make the aforementioned movie mix, pull a single frame (still photo) out of the video, and share your clips with selected viewers via e-mail or the Web. When sharing via…

When running in Unity view on VMware Fusion, Windows icons that show up in the Mac dock and application switcher are blurry because Windows icons are low resolution.
In this blog post you can see how to easily switch those blurry icons out with gloriously full resolution icons, to make your Windows apps that much shinier and Mac-like!

First you will need to find replacement icons. As we mentioned above, there are a number of well-designed and free icons on the web. Just do a Google search for "free icons" and you'll be sure to stumble upon…

Here are nearly 50 Photoshops envisioning Bill Gates in retirement. They range from the hilarious to the mean-spirited to the downright-insane, and are all pretty damned awesome.

Last week, I asked you to create visions of Bill Gates in retirement. You responded. As per usual, the easiest joke had the most entries (this time, it was Bill Gates working at the Apple Store/at the Genius Bar), many of which were left…

Vista: Tweaked, Tuned, and Hacked presents over 40 tweaks and tricks to make Vista run better, faster, and less annoying. Learn how to boot faster, get rid of annoying prompts, activate the hidden “super-admin” account, and even use YOUR video clips as an animated wallpaper! >

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10 free installer applications for Java

Autojar creates jar archives of minimal size from different sources (classes, directories, libraries). Starting from one or more classes, it scans the bytecode recursively for other classes, extracts them from their archives if necessary,…

Most people recognize MediaDefender for their clumsy anti-piracy efforts, but there is much more to them than that. In fact, they are warming up advertisers and record labels to use LimeWire and other file-sharing software to distribute millions of legitimate, but branded, MP3s.

Why does that rember me about: “At the end of the session the EMI bosses thanked them for their comments and told them to help themselves to a big pile of CDs sitting on a table. But none of the teens took any of the CDs, even though…

a list of useful WordPress tricks and you are probably already using some of them, if not going to when making a WordPress theme

Andrew, heh i’m glad you like it If you have some PW issues or questions go ahead and post them b/c that’s how i’ve written this article - people asked questions, so i’ll be happy to help..

Postica, an online service that lets users post virtual sticky notes on a personal note board, is pretty cool. Not only can you create quick reminders to yourself, you can upload documents and files to notes and share them with friends, family, colleagues, anyone.

If you need to access a file on different computers, it's quick and easy to upload it to Postica, compared to e-mailing the file to yourself or hunting for that USB key. In fact, I found myself using the site for that purpose while…

PersonalGrid lets you upload files and folders and publish them online or share them with your friends. Seems to have a pretty slick UI, all ajax based.

upload any file, privately share with anyone, one click to publish

Recently, the need for space has become immense. Files have become increasingly larger, there are more things to download and so on. Store single files as large as 5G.

7. Badongo - Badongo is an exceptionally neat file host, and I would most certainly rate it as one of the best. As a unregistered user, you are allowed to upload up to 4.8GB a day and as a free, registered user, 12GB a day. To make it similar…

You delete an important file, somehow it skips your Recycle Bin altogether, and for all practical purposes, it's disappeared into the ether. But before you hit the big red panic button, there's a very good chance that your file is still alive and kicking somewhere on your hard drive'you just need to know how to find it.

Ack! The computer ate my term paper! We've all been there at some point. You delete an important file, somehow it skips your Recycle Bin altogether, and for all practical purposes, it's disappeared into the ether. But before you hit the…