Another site has just come into the bit torrent scene, by using a recently uploaded torrent of the entire contents of the Pirate Bay, to make a “copycat” site. The data was made available a week ago by a user who trawled the original Pirate Bay site and created a torrent – virtually mirroring all [...]
Breaking news: Facebook has bought out FriendFeed in a bid to continue their fight against the popularity of twitter The employees of FriendFeed will move across to work for Facebook but there was no mention of how much the online aggregator was sold for. Does this mean the beginning of the end for FriendFeed? Is [...]
If you’re into your comics, or just like the unique look and style of them, you’ll be pleased to know Google has introduced some new themes to spice up your homepage. Commemorating Comic-Con’s 40th Anniversary, many famous comic artists have been involved in creating the latest set of themes for iGoogle. Over 50 comics are [...]
It’s been a story that’s been going on for years. Whether or not the guys who run the Pirate Bay website are actually committing a crime or not. Well it seems that a court in Sweden have decided that they are. The court in Sweden have handed out a 1 years prison sentence for Frederik [...]
If you’re unlucky enough to live outside of the UK, the US or Germany, then you will notice that the free use of last.fm to stream music has been taken away. A move that in keeping with the current economic climate, and the acquisition of last.fm by CBS, means that users outside of the 3 [...]
There goes another year! During the past 12 months, we’ve had lots of stories here on Tech Snake and some changes to the website. Because of this I thought I would compile the most interesting and important stories for 2008. So sit down, take a load off and lets have a look through the last [...]
Deal after deal have fallen through, and now Sky Broadband are the latest on the list of companies unwilling to front the £600 million asking price. Sky, only prepared to part with £450 million, ended talks with the Italian owned ISP (who also have Pipex & Homechoice under the Tiscali umbrella). Of course, you can [...]
The Beta tag has been taken off – which must be the quickest in Google’s history, after Chrome is updated to version 1.0.154.36! Among the most recent updates are: Improved Speed (with more apparently due in the future) Stability & performance tweaks for the inbuilt plugins (flash etc.) Bookmark import/export & management options Good changes [...]
Google has updated it’s RSS reader visually as well as adding some features that users have requested. Announced on the Google Reader blog, firstly they’ve cleaned up the look, removing what Google calls "visual clutter" – choosing to keep the colours toned down a bit, in comparison to the old reader. On the left, noticeably, [...]
The old fort, which it’s owner (Roy Bates) declared a principality – although the UK still claim it’s within their waters – was involved in hosting data off-shore, in an attempt to circumvent internet hosting laws in most countries. For the last couple of days, however, the main website for "HavenCo" is not hosted on [...]
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