District 9 Torrent is out now and pirates are all over it!

Brandon Davenport Sep 7, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Internet, News

With over a million downloads in less than 24 hours, Peter Jackson’s Sci-Fi thriller District 9 is well on its way to becoming the most pirated movie of 2009. The huge download spike is caused by a DVD quality version of the movie that leaked onto various BitTorrent sites yesterday.

In the present day and age, no blockbuster movie can escape the fate of being pirated. However, the popularity of the various rips and titles can differ drastically, and a recent leak of a high quality version of Sci-Fi thriller District 9 might become a record breaker.

Two weeks ago a Telesync version of District 9 already found its way onto the Internet, but the rate at which the freshly released R5 release is being downloaded easily beats all other titles released in 2009 to date!

[via torrent freak]

This means that District 9 is a Geek movie with momentum to carry it on for 20 years as a classic SiFi movie, right up there with Star Trek and Star Wars. I mean c'mon, anyone who saw it was utterly suprized by the fact that you don't need a 300 Million dollar budget to make a good movie.

Why its a geek movie:

Geeks download torrents, and 99.9 percent of a geeks watched this movie (Including me)

Broadband Definition Fight

Ricardo Trejo Sep 6, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Internet

Video Game - E3 2009 - Attack of the Show

So who else was a bit surprised that G4 was actually capable of bringing you a quality interview about something not related to a meme or a crappy youtube video?

Anyway, the interview is with MG Siegler of TechCrunch,who shines a bit of light on this whole definition battle between the FCC and the ISP's on what constitues as "broadband speed". Rural areas are looking to get their hands on the high speed internet per Obama's plans to have everyone snag a piece of the digital pie. However, these companies are looking to put in as least amount of cash that they can do so - hence why they would like to clearly define what THEY feel is "high speed" internet.

And THEY believe broadband is lower than 1mb per second, whereas other country's like Japan and Korea get 80 to 90mbps speeds.

[G4 Via TechCrunch]

Wordpress Sites are under attack | You need to upgrade

Brandon Davenport Sep 5, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Hacks, Internet, News, Websites

If you’re running a self-hosted WordPress blog that isn’t up-to-date (version 2.8.4), you’re advised to upgrade immediately to the latest version of the software to avoid an ongoing attack. Users of WordPress.com hosted blogs are not affected.

There are two clues that your WordPress site has been attacked.

There are strange additions to the pretty permalinks, such as example.com/category/post-title/%&(%7B$%7Beval(base64_decode($_SERVER%5BHTTP_REFERER%5D))%7D%7D|.+)&%/. The keywords are “eval” and “base64_decode.”

The second clue is that a “back door” was created by a “hidden” Administrator. Check your site users for “Administrator (2)” or a name you do not recognize. You will probably be unable to access that account.

All users are advised to upgrade to the latest version of WP, while those already affected are in for a trying weekend: you’ll likely need to export your all your content with the built-in XML WordPress export, uninstall and reinstall WordPress and re-import the content. It’s a nasty attack that goes all the way into the database, so exporting the database will result in exporting the hacked code too.

For those unaffected: upgrade today. For those affected: the WordPress community is here to help.

Upgrade Here

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How to use Gmail while your offline

After yesterday's 8 hour downtime of Gmail I'm sure some people out there were a bit worried of how to access their precious emails. So is there a way to get to them without forwarding them to Outlook or another desktop application? Well, Google came up with a solution earlier this year with their Google Lab's "Offline Gmail" add-on.

Instructions after the break [...]

the Best Free facebook apps for Windows mobile

We can all agree that most Windows mobile apps sort of lack in the "esthetics" category. Lets admit it, most Windows Mobil apps today look like they were made to corrospond with the styles of 2002. Here is an example, and yes that's what I mean, uuugly!

Anyways, in this post I'll show you some nice Windows mobile facebook apps that look almost as good as they work [...]

Demonoid going Down (For a few Days)

Ricardo Trejo Sep 2, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Internet

Don't know if anyone's been aware of it, but Demonoid has been a bit sketchy these past few days. Well, looks like we have ourselves an explanatiore for the cause of this disrruption:

“We are experiencing power outages that have caused some ram and hard drive issues. We might have to shut down everything to fix and prevent further damage.”

Not sure when service will be consistent. In regards to how long the downtime could be suspected to last:

 “…days maybe, until we can change the power circuit.”

[Via TorrentFreak]

Share files the easy Way - S4ve.as

Ricardo Trejo Aug 31, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Internet

Ever needed to upload a file to share with your friends or whoever online? There could be millions of reason as for why you would need to share files over the internet, so S4ve.as (get it?) has come up with a very easy and simple way for you to share your precious 0's and 1's.

You get 24 hours of hosting, you don't need to be online, no file size limit,, and it's free. You can't bneat that!

[Lifehacker Via S4ve.as]