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Leaked Modern Warfare 2 Game Torrents Download

David — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:02:58 +0000

Some gamers are just so generous in sharing their new game on torrent sites. It makes me wonder sometimes if it’s the game developers who leaked out these games themselves.

Modern Warfare 2 is a great game and it deserves to be bought (buy a cheap copy) but for torrent leechers and geeks alike, you can find the torrent downloads here (download at your own risk!) . No I haven’t (I won’t!) try them and don’t ask me for a game crack since I bought an original copy!

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BMW Vision Efficient Dynamics Concept Dream Car

David — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:16:38 +0000

Check this out. My indulgence of the month belongs to the BMW Vision Efficient Dynamics Concept Car.

Technical Data and Specifications

Mid-engine, AWD
2-door coupe, 4-pass
Engine: 1.5L/163-hp/214-lb-ft turbo diesel
Electric motors:139-hp/162-lb-ft front and 51-hp/214-lb-ft rear electric motors
Transmission: 6-speed twin-clutch auto
Curb weight: 3100 lb (mfr)
Wheelbase : 78.8 in
Length x width x height: 181.1 x 74.8 x 48.8 in
0-60 mph: 4.8 sec (mfr est)
EPA city/hwy fuel econ: 62 mpg (mfr est, European Cycle)
CO2 emissions: 0.35 lb/mile (est)

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Free Photoshop Image Editing Software Alternatives

David — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:36:00 +0000

Photoshop is expensive and it isn’t for the mass audience. There are freeware alternatives that offers similar capabilities (if not less) that can get you up and running with graphic designs without breaking your bank account.

Freeware Photo Image Editing Software

Photo.NET

Paint.NET offers similar navigations and UI layouts that every novice to professional Photoshop users are familiar with. For Windows only.

GIMP

Originally from Linux and ported to Windows and Mac, GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

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Buy Cheap PS3 Slim 120GB and 250GB

David — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:38:54 +0000

The new Playstation 3 slim takes less space, improved functionality and is more affordable too. Compare prices and buy one today!

PlayStation 3 250 GB

PlayStation 3 120 GB

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Buy Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Game

David — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:29:08 +0000

Getting a copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2? Here you can find places where you can buy the game for the cheapest price.

PS3

Xbox 360

PC
Only the standard edition is available for PC.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

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Yahoo SearchScan Labels My Site As Containg DANGEROUS Downloads

David — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:25:22 +0000

I was searching for my own site on Yahoo and alas, the search results returned had a big red exclamation mark with red keyword links mentioning “Warning: Dangerous Downloads.”

I admit, it has been N years since I’ve last search for anything on Yahoo and I’m quite surprised to know that for whatever reasons, Yahoo Searchscan, powered by Mcafee Siteadvisor, has labeled one of my page as containing dangerous downloads.

The link from yahoo brought me to the siteadvisor site.

Plus it also mentioned which file it had determined to be dangerous and on which page it was found (link here).

Does The File Really Contains Virus/Trojran?

To be fair, I don’t promote any warez, hacks, cracks, serials or any software that might contain any worms, virus or trojans on my site. Heck, I even download the file onto my computer and ran through a virus scan with AVG and Norton Antivirus and guess what – they found nothing! Either Mcafee is really good at catching virus or that it must be really good in giving false alarms. Or it might even be that both AVG and Norton Antivirus can’t find the virus but only Mcafee can? Whatever that is, it’s open for debate.

However, running a multi engine online antivirus scan on VirusTotal reveals that the file might in fact, contain trojan (scan results here).

Appeal For Reassessment

To make Mcafee Siteadvisor happy and to make sure that I don’t lose visitors from Yahoo (I know some people will freak out if they see red warnings), I removed the link to the file in question on my website.

I appeal for a reassessment at their user feedback form here.

So, let’s see how fast Yahoo can work on my appeal and get my site back to the “clean list” once again.

Update 1
I received this email shortly after the appeal form was sent. That’s good, someone’s really working on it.

Hello David,

This site has been queued for a full retest. Please note that any change (if warranted) may take up to 8 weeks to reflect. We thank you for your continued patience.

Sincerely,

(Name Removed)
Avert Services
McAfee SiteAdvisor

But wait a minute, 8 weeks?! That sounds a bit too long but we’ll see…

Update 2
Another email from siteadvisor after I sent them an email mentioning that I’m blogging about the experience here.

SiteAdvisor updates Yahoo! on a daily basis. Once Yahoo! has the data on their side, it can take up to 10 days for the ratings change to be reflected in their search results. We appreciate your patience during this process, and ask that you continue to monitor Yahoo! and their search results to ensure that your site is reflected correctly.

Now, 10 days sounds more reasonable.

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How To Load ISO, NRG, UDF, BIN, DVD, CCD Disk Images Without Burning A CD/DVD

David — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:10:52 +0000

Disk images has been a popular way for sharing operating systems, enterprise software applications and games. For example, all windows operating system in MSDN and the Ubuntu operating system can be downloaded in .iso format. Other popular format for disk images are .nrg, .udf, .bin, .dvd and .ccd.

So what do you do with these so called disk images with file extensions .iso, .nrg, .udf, .bin, .dvd, .ccd? Most people will simply burn it to a CD/DVD but that’s not the only way of doing it.

Loading Disk Images: The Environment Friendly Way

I don’t know about you. But I hate burning CD/DVD. Unless ABSOLUTELY necessary, burning CD/DVD produces a disk which is often just going to be used for – once. So here’s how you can load your disk images without even burning one.

1. Get a copy of Slysoft Virtual CloneDrive. It’s the best and easiest to use that I’ve used so far. Daemon Tools and Alcohol 120% are 2 alternatives, but probably more useful for advanced users.

2. Install and select all supported disk image formats.

3. Select OK/Agree if being prompted to allow the installation of a driver. The driver is needed to emulate virtual drives when CD/DVD(s) are loaded.

4. Now, when the installation finished, go and look for a .iso file which we’ll be testing. Right click on the .iso file and you should see context menu to “Mount Files with Virtual CloneDrive”.

5. Once an image has been mounted (step 4), you can go to My Computer and you should see there’s now a new drive which contains the content of the .iso file.

This method works great for me. In fact, I’ve upgraded windows vista to windows 7 in-place using this method by just mounting the windows 7 iso disk image while I was in windows vista.

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Ironman Anime Trailer

David — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:54:41 +0000

Ironman fans will get to see their hero again in anime in 2010. Here’s the trailer.

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Affiliate Marketing: The End of Ringtones Offer?

David — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:19:00 +0000

Just received an email from Jamster (through CJ) quoting:

Over the past year compliancy rules and regulations in the mobile content market have become more and more strict. This has resulted in countless audits, fines, and affiliate partners links being pulled. Because of the seriousness of the liability involved in affiliate offers for mobile content, Jamster has decided to deactivate the public US offer and pull all links associated with the program. The full scope of legacy compliancy issues and constant policing of the program has hurt the growth potential of this channel and we have been left with little to no options.

This is not the resolution that we have liked to proceed with, but because of the servility of the punishments but certain carriers, we are left with no choice. We greatly appreciate all of the business that our affiliates have sent to the Jamster program over the years and wish all of you the best of luck.

Jamster was one of the forerunners with ringtones offers and created a hell lot of money for affiliates (and themselves obviously) as well as a lot of frustration for consumers who subscribed to their “mobile content services” without reading the fine print and paying a handsome amount of money each month without knowing it.

So what does this mean? Legacy compliancy issues and constant policing of the program is definitely something good for consumers but no so for ringtones affiliate marketers. Notice also that they are just dropping the program links in US, but so what? They are literally still running their offers in other part of the world anyway – Australia, Brazil, France, Italy etc. Besides, there are lots of other mobile content provider apart from Jamster nowadays.

From a healthy netizen and consumer point of view, let’s hope it won’t be long that the same goes for those rebills such as teeth whitening, weight lose, muscle gain, acai and google money tree bullcrap.

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Motorola Droid Features Details + Video Reviews

David — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:15:53 +0000

Motorola steps up to the plate with Motorola Droid, the first phone to run on Google’s new Android 2.0 operating systems.

There are tons of technical details which has been nicely compiled here. For the rest of us, videos are simply better to see what the buzz is all about.

Pretty cool, huh? So I might be wrong after all for saying that Android phones are incompetent when it comes to competing with Apple’s iPhone here. That had seem to be the case before Motorola Droid was announced. In fact, the Droid could be just what Motorola needs to save its mobile market share and bring more choices for consumers when it comes to smartphones.

However, there’s still one thing that will bother most people who have used iPhones before. There’s still no multitouch support in Motorola Android! You know, those actions where you zoom in and out of a photo or webpage using your fingers (known as multitouch) is still not yet implemented into Motorola Droid. I’m wondering if that’s the limit of the hardware itself or if that’s a limitation of the operating system (Google’s Android 2.0).

And guess what? There was even a video campaign mentioning implicitly what iPhone (iDont) can’t do but Droid does.

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