Category: Tech News

Online search engine leader Google Inc. has agreed to censor its results in China, adhering to the country’s free-speech restrictions in return for better access in the Internet’s fastest growing market. What happened to Google’s motto of “Don’t be evil”? 🙁

HandBrake is a free GPL’d multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. Its very useful for making dvds ipod compatible and also its a great way to backup DVDs onto your computer or external hard drive. * Supported sources: o Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (even encrypted) o PAL or NTSC… Continue reading Free DVD to mp4 (Ipod compatible) converter

Google has finally taken its online news service out of beta, and has added a feature that automatically recommends stories to subscribers of its personalized search offering. Google News, launched in September 2002, is a computer-automated system that lists related articles in groups, which the search engine calls “clusters.” The service, which does not use… Continue reading Google News out of beta

Flock is a free, open source web browser, built upon on the Mozilla codebase. It is lightweight and superbly elegant. Flock also offers full integration with sites like Flickr and del.icio.us. And not just a bookmark bar button that adds links to your del.icio.us homepage, but a button in the toolbar which adds the current… Continue reading Elegant new browser – Flock

Forget those piddly wiretaps. The next frontier in warrant-free surveillance is upon us, and it’s open to everyone. A UK service called World Tracker apparently uses cell tower data (or GPS, when available) to track the location of just about any GSM cellphone. Just enter the number you want to track into the service’s handy… Continue reading Track the location of a cellphone