Internet - Part 30

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Demonoid goes down

posted on November 12, 2007 in BitTorrent, Internet with 2 Comments

The popular BitTorrent tracker Demonoid was forced to go offline. This time by the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association). Demonoid is currently down and below the quoted from there index page. The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry [...]

Wink free people search

posted on September 6, 2007 in Internet with 1 Comment

Wink let’s you find people from other social networks like MySpace,Bebo, Friendster and others from one central location. You will need to register a profile at Wink and also register the the social networks you belong to into your Wink profile. Your people search can be based on name, location,school,work,interest and more…. Tools from Wink, [...]

ZYB free online mobile backup

posted on September 2, 2007 in Internet with 10 Comments

ZYB is currently the only web service providing a one stop mobile data backup solution through zyb.com. The service was started back in 2005 by 3 friends (About ZYB) and is 100% free. ZYB enables you to backup and share your mobile data (contacts, sms, and calendar) online easily without the need for bluetooth or [...]

YouTube down?

posted on August 27, 2007 in Internet with 7 Comments

Can you access YouTube? I can’t. All I get is “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable” Mashable had an update stating that YouTube was down but came back after a 6 hour outage but somehow I still can’t get throug. Sorry guys, Mashable’s post was from 2006. My bad, totally missed that. Thanks David. Update (21:11 GMT +8) [...]

Skype’s recent outage explained

posted on August 27, 2007 in Internet with 0 Comments

Skype’s back now. The major outage experienced by millions of Skype users a few days back was a results of Skype’s load balancingÃ‚Â algorithm not being able to coupe with a sudden surge of login requests. Why the sudden surge in login request? Microsoft had released a patch through windows update and most of the [...]

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