After the MegaUpload seize, other file sharing sites are frightened for acts against them. FileServe and FileSonic has disabled so many functionality that allows for piracy content.

FileServe were paying 25$ per 1000 downloads. They won't pay uploaders for download again.

Both FileServe and FileSonic have removed all the copyrighted content in one night. Now it's impossible to download your favorite TV series from FileServe again.

Everybody wonders how RapidShare will react to this issues.

File sharing service MegaUpload is seized by FBI. The owner Kim Dotcom (he has legally changed his surname to DotCom from Schmitz) is arrested by FBI. They seized his all assets.

Why MegaUpload is seized?
They were awarding the file uploaders by paying for downloads. MegaUpload didn't removed illegal and copyrighted content from their servers. The main reason is about piracy.

Who is Kim Dotcom?
Kim is an old hacker. He was charged for 20 months because of internet hacking activity. Then he escaped to Taiwan. He earned a big wealth from MegaUpload. He has "dotcom mansion" in New Zealand. He feeds giraffes in his farm, he has 18 luxury cars. He has arrested with 16 million GBP cash in his mansion.

Yonverter is a free and online tool that you can easily convert YouTube videos to MP3, DIVX, MP4 and AVI formats and download directly to your PC or mobile phone.

You don't need to install any software or plugin into your computer or phone. All browsers and operating systems are supported. You can use Yonverter with your Windows, Mac or Linux computer. iPhone and Android formats are fully supported. Yonventer is the way to download your favorite music and videos from YouTube.

DreamHost has just got hacked. They realized that their main database has been hacked. You can get the news from them here.

They're requesting from their clients to change their FTP and Shell accounts. Hackers probably stole the whole password database. The interesting things is, why they're stored in plain text?

If you're a DreamHost customer who use the same password for everywhere, now it's time to update your password.

Do you still play Super Mario? Or do you miss this game? This video is for you.

Have a break with writing code and listen this song. It's for you C geeks. If you're a C coder, you should cry while listening this song.

Greetings system administrators. This is your day. Being a system admin is a hard work. Yes it's a funny profession, but dealing with servers, computers, networks everyday get us a little stressed. So this day is our holiday. Even we geeks too should lay back and have a rest. Or if you're a little social geek, you can even give a party at your server room :)

We geeks are celebrating SysAdminDay since 2000. It's the last Friday of July. Its original name is System Administrator Appreciation Day and it had been started by Ted Kekatos on July 28th 2000.

You can get detailed information about sysadminday here.

Happy sysadminday to you!

You must see the Gear Ring design of Kinekt Design. Are you an engineer or some kind of geek who loves machines? This ring is made for you!



The Gear Ring (designed by Ben Hopson and Glen Liberman) is made from high quality matte stainless steel. It features six micro-precision gears that turn in unison when the outer rims are spun (as can be seen in the video). It is currently available for purchase in four standard US ring sizes: 9, 10, 11, and 12. It can be purchased at http://www.kinektdesign.com.

You Convert It is a web tool to convert media formats to another. It can convert Youtube videos to avi and send them to your mailbox. It converts between so many file types such as avi, mov, flv, mp3 or zip to tar or even doc to pdf.

You don't need to install tools like that to your personal computer. It just do what you need, online and free!

It deserves a try ;)

Google introduced Chromium OS on previous months. Now they announced that they released the source codes of the OS to public.

Chromium OS is an open source project which is managed by Google. You can get detailed info on official Chromium OS website.

You can also download and see the source codes at http://src.chromium.org/

Facebook, a website where you can find your childhood love, has acquired FriendFeed. FriendFeed announced the news on their blog. Here's Facebook's press release about this acquisition:

PALO ALTO, CALIF.—August 10, 2009—Facebook today announced that it has agreed to acquire FriendFeed, the innovative service for sharing online. As part of the agreement, all FriendFeed employees will join Facebook and FriendFeed’s four founders will hold senior roles on Facebook’s engineering and product teams.

“Facebook and FriendFeed share a common vision of giving people tools to share and connect with their friends,” said Bret Taylor, a FriendFeed co-founder and, previously, the group product manager who launched Google Maps. “We can’t wait to join the team and bring many of the innovations we’ve developed at FriendFeed to Facebook’s 250 million users around the world.”

“As we spent time with Mark and his leadership team, we were impressed by the open, creative culture they’ve built and their desire to have us contribute to it,” said Paul Buchheit, another FriendFeed co-founder. Buchheit, the Google engineer behind Gmail and the originator of Google’s “Don’t be evil” motto, added, “It was immediately obvious to us how passionate Facebook’s engineers are about creating simple, ground-breaking ways for people to share, and we are extremely excited to join such a like-minded group.”

Taylor and Buchheit founded FriendFeed along with Jim Norris and Sanjeev Singh in October 2007 after all four played key roles at Google for products like Gmail and Google Maps. At FriendFeed, they’ve brought together a world-class team of engineers and designers.

“Since I first tried FriendFeed, I’ve admired their team for creating such a simple and elegant service for people to share information,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO. “As this shows, our culture continues to make Facebook a place where the best engineers come to build things quickly that lots of people will use.”

FriendFeed is based in Mountain View, Calif. and has 12 employees. FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being as the teams determine the longer term plans for the product.

Financial terms of the acquisition were not released.