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Microsoft has launched the new WorldWide Telescope, a free web-based program that puts together images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and others.

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Skype today announced that the company has started offering unlimited overseas calling to selected countries. The new Unlimited World Plan gives you Unlimited calls to landlines in 34 countries worldwide for $12.95 per month while the Unlimited Country Plan allows you to have unlimited calls to landlines in the country of your choice in 34 destination countries worldwide for $5.95 per month.

 

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Demonoid is back after almost 6 months of being offline because of a problem which started June of last year . Last February, reports about the Demonoid tracker being moved to Ukraine created speculations about the return of the popular private BitTorrent tracker.

With its resurrection, Deimos, the former administrator, left the Demonoid staff because of person reasons.

Welcome back!

Since a few months ago, Deimos, the site administrator, lacks the necessary time to take care of the website, because of personal matters he’s been needing to attend to. For this reason, he has decided to leave the site staff.

Before leaving, he assigned a new site administrator from among his friends to take care of the site. The old moderator team will continue helping with the site, unchanged. We will try to keep running everything just as it always has been.

The trackers and website seem to be working properly, and should any issues arise, they will be taken care of as soon as possible. The site might be going on and offline over the next days as we work out any problems.

Welcome back, and enjoy your stay!

- Umlauf
Demonoid Site admin

 

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Converting a file like an mpeg video to a quicktime file can be a pain specially if you don’t have the proper software to do the task. Normally you have to download one, or two, sometimes three utilities just to convert a file to a format you like.  If only we can avoid this hassle just to convert a file to a different format.

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Getting hacked is embarrassing for any website. Getting hacked when you sell security software has to be humiliating, but Trend Micro is not the only security vendor to have its Web site hacked in recent months. In January, parts of CA’s Web site were infected with a very similar type of attack which redirected their visitors to a malicious Web site hosted in China.

A Trend Micro spokesman confirmed that the company’s site had been hacked Thursday, saying that the attack took place earlier in the week. “A portion of our site — some pages were attacked,” said Mike Sweeny, a Trend Micro spokesman. “We took the pages down overnight Tuesday night — and took corrective action.”

Some Anti-virus vendors offer Online Scanners on their website. These tools often requires you to download a small plugin which enables your browser to utilize their online Anti-virus offerings.

Good thing about online AV scanners is they give you a real world benchmark on how it scans and detect viruses in the wild. This a good determining factor if you are looking for an Anti-virus solution for your home computer.

Here are the list of Online Anti-Virus Scanners I found around the web:

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With the release of their Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista a couple of weeks ago, Microsoft is now getting ready for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1. Microsoft have revealed a full features page which lists the additions to their flagship browser Internet Explorer.