Stanford’s computer graphics class holds a video game writing competition each year at the end of the term, and this year’s results are finally online. You can download all the finalist entries from the website. The winning entries featured very original game concepts, such as sending a spiked soccer ball through wormhole planets or infesting… Continue reading Stanford’s Computer Graphics Competition 2005

The new iTunes 6.0.2 comes with a surprise: it’s spyware and adware – It has been confirmed that iTunes is now tracking your music preferences and using that data to recommend other songs from the iTunes Music Store. Basically, iTunes is tracking your music and sending the data back to Apple servers. This info is… Continue reading iTunes is malware?

Symantec Corp. has confessed to using a rootkit-type feature in Norton SystemWorks that could provide the perfect hiding place for attackers to place malicious files on computers. The anti-virus vendor acknowledged that it was deliberately hiding a directory from Windows APIs as a feature to stop customers from accidentally deleting files but, prompted by warnings… Continue reading Rootkit in Norton SystemWorks

µTorrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint. It was designed to use as little cpu, memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected from advanced clients. Changes + New features:- * Bitcomet style add dialog * RSS Reader * Speed wizard to select… Continue reading µTorrent 1.4 released

Firefox 1.5 finally has its counterpart – Thunderbird 1.5 is here! Thunderbird is a free, full featured email, RSS, and newsgroup reader. New features included automatic updates, anti-phishing protection, inline spellchecking, saved search folders, podcasting, RSS improvements, the ability to delete attachments from messages, and a whole lot more. Download Now