Recently the leading torrent search site start blocking searches from USA based users. Instead they see this message.

Sorry, but because you are located in the USA you cannot use the search features of the Torrentspy.com website.Torrentspy’s decision to stop accepting US visitors was NOT compelled by any Court but rather an uncertain legal climate in the US regarding user privacy and an apparent tension between US and European Union privacy laws.

As announced on 21 august Adobe Flash Player 9 will support H.264 codec which will improve WEB video quality.

This will allow video developers to reduce their cost for  encoding and preparing data for transmission.

Asus announced that they will start shipping of Eee PC in July/August with 2 different models with 7″ and 10″ screens and 2GB SSD for 15s boot time with price tag: $199 and $299 respectively.

For more information

Red Hat Developer Studio 1.0 (beta1) is released for download and comments.

Red Hat Developer Studio is a set of eclipse-based development tools that are pre-configured for JBoss Enterprise Middleware Platforms and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Linux and windows versions are available.

The size of download (at least for Linux) is 530 MB.

Read installation manual for how to install.

TIP: to run jar archive issue

java -jar <jar archive>

at terminal.

Here is how it looks:

RH Dev Studio screenshot

check it out 

What technology is faster for document printing, Laser? Or Ink-Jet?

Until recently the answer was “Definitely Laser”, but Epson is changing the situation.

Recently they announced that their new SOHO model C120 will print with amazing 37 ppm (pages per minute).

Another plus is that it will cost approximately $90 USD, but be careful and check your TCO.

In short:

[T]he court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyrights.

Source.

Virgin America inaugural flight is from New York’s John F. Kennedy International and Los Angeles International Airport to our home base of San Francisco.

Why:

  • Power outlet on every seat
  • MP3’s
  • USB plugs
  • Broadband Internet – soon

NOTE: I’m not an affiliate just passing the info.

After long years of HTML 4 domination is time for change and version 5 of HTML is under way – probably under pressure of whatwg also working on HTML improvement.

Hopefully the two work-groups will merge their efforts in near future.

Most of the old elements will remain, but a lot of new ones is included as:

  • article
  • section
  • header
  • footer
  • nav
  • address
  • aside
  • figure
  • dialog
  • ……

Work in done also in Interactivity, Embedded media etc. There are a lot of new attributes too.

Microsoft made public Microsoft office 2007 compatibility pack.

This free software will allow users of Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2000, and Microsoft Office XP to open, edit, and save files in new Open XML format introduced in 2007 version of Microsoft Office.

Download it now (~27 MB) – requires Live ID

RedHat announced beta release of RHEL 5.1

This release improves/fixes:

  • Virtualization
  • Laptop/Desktop
  • Storage
  • Network
  • Windows compatibility
  • Security
  • …..

For more information see the announcement.

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