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Apple has released the latest version of iTunes. The iTunes Store now offers songs without DRM protection as well. It appears that you will be able to upgrade your existing songs to the iTunes Plus (DRM Free) version as well.

The iTunes Store also offers songs without DRM protection, from participating record labels. These DRM-free songs, called “iTunes Plus,” have no usage restrictions and feature higher-quality encoding.

The first time you buy an iTunes Plus song, you specify whether to make all future purchases iTunes Plus versions (when available). You can change this setting by accessing your account information on the iTunes Store.

If you already have iTunes Store purchases that are now available as iTunes Plus downloads, you may upgrade your existing purchases. To do so, visit the iTunes Store and follow the onscreen instructions.

Source: Mac Rumors

Now this looks pretty cool, a hardware firewall on a USB drive. This looks promising…. Slick and stylish as well.

Yoggie Security Systems has squeezed a complete hardware firewall for Windows systems into a USB key sized form-factor. The “Yoggie Pico” runs Linux 2.6 along with 13 security applications on a 520MHz PXA270, a powerful Intel processor popular in smartphones and other high-end consumer devices.

It uses the open source U-Boot bootloader to copy its Linux-based OS and application stack from secure, read-only flash memory onto a separate flash-based boot device.

Link: Linux Device

Just for some laughs… Microsoft has set up an iPod Amnesty Bin for employees to dump their iPods in favor of a Zune.

In what can be seen as either a joke or a real attempt to get employees to give up Apple iPods in favor of the Zune MP3 player, the team at Microsoft that builds Zune has set up a bin at its headquarters so employees can drop in iPods they don’t want to use anymore.

Link: Infoworld

Wohoooo! Finally! Blizzard has unveiled that the long-awaited video game it is developing goes by the name of “Starcraft 2“. That’s right. Starcraft 2 is coming! After 10 years of waiting, the sequel of one of the best RTS game ever is coming.

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I know its a bit late but what the heck….. the Wordpress Team have announced the release of version 2.2 “Getz”. It includes a number of new features, like the Widgets integration, and several bug fixes. It’s named in honor of tenor saxophonist Stan Getz.

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Sort of…. After a long hiatus, I’m back blogging again. So what happened? The usual, too busy… lots of things to do but so little time. Not to mention that I got addicted playing Company of Heroes and Command & Conquer 3 which took hours of my “already” limited time.

Right now, I’m trying to boost my ranking at EA’s C&C 3 ladder matches. I’m still having problems with Nod and Scrin’s rush attacks though. Hopefully, I can find a way to counter it. If you have some ideas or want to have a match with me, feel free to leave a message here.