The Voyager

“Thanks to the email-leakage from MediaDefender-Defenders we now have proof of the things we’ve been suspecting; the big record and movie labels are paying professional hackers, saboteurs and ddosers to destroy our trackers. While browsing through the email we identified the companies that are also active in Sweden”. TPB reported this to the police

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Blogger Play is a real-time slideshow of photos Blogger users have recently uploaded to their blogs. It’s a great snapshot of what people are thinking and posting about, right now!

Images on Blogger Play are from blogs that are public and listed on the web, and also from public Blogger profiles.

A Turkish court has banned YouTube access after someone complained that the world’s most popular video sharer was hosting clips that insulted the country’s founding father. And, yes, you’ve heard all this before.

In response to a Turkish resident who stumbled onto YouTube videos badmouthing not only Mustafa Kemal Ataturk but President Abdullah Gul, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the national army, the court has ordered the Turkish Telecommunications Board to block access to the entire site, The AFP reports.

Τα avatar, εικονικοί χαρακτήρες σε ψηφιακούς κόσμους, θα μπορούν στο μέλλον να εργάζονται και ως διερμηνείς της νοηματικής γλώσσας, χάρη σε λογισμικό που αναπτύσσει η IBM. Στο μεταξύ, μια άλλη αμερικανική εταιρεία προσπαθεί να τα εφοδιάσει με τεχνητή νοημοσύνη. Οι ερευνητές της εταιρείας Novamente ανέπτυξαν μια «μηχανή νόησης» (cognition machine) που «σκέφτεται» και ελέγχει τη συμπεριφορά των εικονικών χαρακτήρων.

Όπως αναφέρει το BBC, η τεχνολογία αναμένεται να δώσει αρχικά avatar-κατοικίδια ζώα, τα οποία μαθαίνουν από την εμπειρία, ενώ αργότερα θα ακολουθήσουν πιο πολύπλοκοι χαρακτήρες. «Θα ήθελα να πραγματικά δημιουργήσω εικονικούς ομιλούντες παπαγάλους και στη συνέχεια εικονικά μωρά» δηλώνει ο Δρ Μπεν Γκέρτσελ, ιδρυτής της Novamente. Οι δημιουργίες του αναμένεται να εμφανιστούν σε εικονικούς κόσμους όπως το δημοφιλές Second Life.

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The universe has many unanswered questions: are MySpace users inherently promiscuous? Does Facebook turn you into a social recluse? Is Slashdot populated exclusively by geeks who were bullied as children? Does habitual blogging make you a sad, attention-seeking Billy No-mates?

Just like the stereotypical middle-aged man in a Ferrari, the things we do, clothes we wear and Web sites we visit say a lot about our personalities. Over the next few pages we aim to discover exactly why our favourite Web sites are so popular, and find out what our surfing habits say about us.

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Information Architects Japane created the Web Trend Map for 2007.

The 200 most successful websites on the web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective.

Visit the clickable edition (which is a good idea for a start page), learn more about the the Web Trend Map or download it below to use it as a wallpaper or as a screensaver, unfortunately only for the OSX users.. (more…)

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl. When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server.

Check below the screenshots of this blog : (more…)

Scan any file for viruses before you download it to your computer with web site Dr.Web. After installing the Firefox extension, performing the Internet Explorer registry hack or adding the Opera tweak, you can scan any directly linked file for viruses through your browser’s right-click context menu.

Dr.Web [Firefox Add-ons via the How-To Geek]
Dr.Web® Anti-virus Link Checker for MS Internet Explorer [Dr. Web]
Dr.Web® Anti-virus Link Checker for Opera [Dr.Web]

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As the second biggest browser out there, and the biggest open source one, Firefox has a tool for just about anything you can dream up. In this list, Mashable has collected over 300 of the best.