Filed under: Internet, P2P
Just one week ago, The Pirate Bay permanently shut down its BitTorrent tracker. Now, in the wake of a civil dispute in the Netherlands, Mininova has removed all of the 'useful' torrents from its search listings. Just like that -- no more films, anime or TV for you! For five years, since the demise of Suprnova, Mininova has ruled the P2P roost. While Mininova itself didn't track torrents it did act as a great 'middle man', with links to almost every torrent out there. But as usual with such 'hiccups', all is not lost: with Mininova gone we will simply head to other torrent search sites for our illegal and grey-market fix. Full story...
Filed under: Microsoft, Browsers
Few things get blog commenters as heated as software rivalries -- especially browser wars.
Filed under: sxsw
Today there are more cable channels offering sports, more sporting in general -- and more interest in sports than ever before! It is, as they say on the web, a firehose of content.
Filed under: Google, Microsoft, web 2.0
Rejoice, small-, medium- and enterprise-size users of Microsoft Exchange! You can now migrate your company's entire database of contacts, emails and calendars to Google Apps.
Filed under: Utilities, Windows
ImgBurn is an excellent, free application for all kinds of burning tasks.
Filed under: Business, Internet
In the ever-shifting maze of domain names, ICANN, and approved registrars, companies often behave as if their valuable intellectual property is in the crosshairs of evil domain-name squatters.
Filed under: Design, Developer, Internet
Lifeyo is an incredible content management system for someone just trying to put together their first website.
Filed under: Audio, Web services
Our main man Nik Fletcher loves Spotify -- along with just about everyone else on the Continent who has access to the awesome streaming music service.
Filed under: OS Updates, Windows Mobile, Microsoft
Our sister site, the adorable and trustworthy Engadget, has "super-double-ultra-plus-confirmed" with Microsoft that Windows Phone 7 will not launch with copy and paste functionality.
Filed under: sxsw
A quick look into why content strategy is a critical element in the design process.
Filed under: Browsers, Mobile
Opera's latest mobile browsers are all grown up and ready to leave beta! Opera Mini 5 is good to go on your BlackBerry or other Java-ready phone, and Opera Mobile 10 is out for Symbian and Windows Mobile devices.