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Changes in micro Torrent Version 1 8 alpha build 7491 2008 01 03
Feature add Copy to the Logger tab context menu
Change only use quot B quot for sizes not rates
Fix IPv6 resolution for DNS names
Fix intermittent DNS failures
Fix stall in un choker at startup
Fix crash with large numbers of sockets
Fix string corruption on Win98

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Changes in Orbit Downloader V2 5 1 Jan 3 2008
Improvement make Youtube video download more smoothly
Change retry times to 99 by default per download
Fix files can not be created when file names contain special characters
Fix a bug may cause downloaded file name error
Fix connections stalled in rare cases
Fix a bug may clear downloading and completed list in rare cases

Veoh could possibly be treading in litigious waters with the Thursday addition of content from Hulu.com, a video rival from NBC Universal and News Corp.

Hulu launched its private beta in late October with ad-supported content from a variety of studios, including MGM, Universal, Sony Pictures Television, Fox and NBC. Unlike Veoh, however, Hulu signed licensing deals with these providers for legal access to their content.

Veoh, which launched its beta in June, pulls streaming content from many video sources with or without a site's permission. It was sued by Universal Music Group in late summer for copyright infringement, and the case is still pending.

"We haven't heard anything from Hulu, so I can't comment on their reaction, but we do think that we can be a valuable source of distribution for their high-quality content," a Veoh spokeswoman said in an e-mail.

As a result, Veoh added Hulu content to its "TV Shows" section early Thursday morning. It will feature 21 shows from Fox, almost 60 NBC selections, four FX programs, and five each from the Sci-Fi Channel and USA Network, Veoh said.

Veoh might want to do a quick spell check, however, as promos for video from NBC's "30 Rock" tout the appearance of writer and star "Tina Frey" instead of Tina Fey.

"While we do not have a distribution partnership in place with Veoh, Hulu videos are currently available on our distribution partner sites: AOL, Comcast, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo," said Hulu spokeswoman Christina Lee. "We encourage the viral distribution of Hulu content in accordance with our terms of use."

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Filed under: Wireless, Networking
We hate to be bearers of poor news, but it looks like those of you squeaking by on a WEP-protected or unprotected wireless router have yet another reason to undertake the difficult task of selecting “WPA” on that router admin screen. A team of researchers at Indiana…

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So much for rolling out new features. Microsoft isn't exactly going around advertising it, but if you've downloaded Service Pack 3 for your copy of Office 2003, you might have noticed that the latest release actually features decreased compatibility with old file types.

With SP3, Office 2003 has dropped support for documents created in old versions of Word, Excel, 1-2-3, Quattro, and Corel Draw, because, according to Microsoft's Support Center, "[b]y default, these file formats are blocked because they are less secure. They may pose a risk to you."

Opening up these files post-SP3 requires a trip to your Windows Service Registry. Adds Wired's Monkey Bites blog, "Which files are blocked depends a bit on your environment since network administrators can add whatever file formats they want to the registry, but by default it appears most files in formats which existed prior to Office 97 won't open."

Or, as the blog points out, you can simply use a third-party program like OpenOffice to open and convert the files to a new, readable format.

As for the validity of Microsoft's security claims, PC Magazine's contributing security editor, Larry Seltzer, had this to add (from the Security Watch blog):

File parsing is probably the area of computing most subject to security vulnerability. Extensive validation checking is necessary in order to prevent malformed files from causing errors in the software that could allow an attacker to take control of the system. You may remember, about a year ago, there was a wave of "zero-day attacks" against corporate targets using malformed data files.

Microsoft has decided that any efforts they may put into securing the file interpreters for these formats are not ...

that is just the faintest whiff of a rumor, but Sony Asia just put up a questionnaire in which it asks how interested PlayStation Store for PC customers would be in a “Monthly subscription plan (1 price for unlimited download).” That suggests that the company is at least thinking about a service…

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Gadgets, Gaming

Yeah, Skinit has been providing skins of all sorts to a myriad devices for some moment now, but apparently, it has just gotten around to teaming up with D-Link. Granted, we’ve no notion what type of cruel, tactless individual would actually go so far as to spend money (and simultaneously demolis…

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CES, Gadgets, Networking

At first listen, one may assume that leaping onto subway tracks for an iPhone is totally and utterly insane, and while we’d tend to agree, it’s not like we haven’t seen folks do similarly zany things in the heat of the moment. Reportedly, a vacationer in New York recently dropped his iPhone down…

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Cellphones, Gadgets

Generally speaking, boom microphones run counter to the logic that a Bluetooth headset should be as small and discreet as possible, but Joby may have stumbled upon a solution that brings the audio benefits without making the sides of our faces look too ridiculous. The Zivio Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR h…

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Cellphones, Gadgets

It’s been a little while since we final heard from the folks at Boston-Power, who’ve been touting their better, safer laptop batteries for by a year now, but it looks like they’ve been doing anything but resting on their laurels, and they now seem set to step up their game in a big way. Help…

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Gadgets, Laptops

whether you’ve been toying with the view of overclocking your rig, you may want to prevent it from experiencing any catastrophic meltdowns. Looking out for you (and your hardware) is CoolIT, which is readying a new lineup of liquid cooling innovations for release at CES. Among the new MTEC CPU /…

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CES, Desktops, Gadgets, Peripherals