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To protect themselves against excessive monitoring, security exploits and ISP throttling, some BitTorrent users turn to anonymizing services such as VPNs and proxies.

Over the past months interest in these privacy protection services has surged. However, for some less technically skilled people all the talk about privacy settings and IP-leaks may prove to be too much.

The latter group is now catered for by TrafficPrivacy, a new and fully anonymous BitTorrent client that launched this week. Feature wise the client is relatively limited, but unlike others it has a fully configured and dummy proof anonymity option built in. Simply enter your login credentials and everything just works.

“TrafficPrivacy’s mission is to provide users with real 100% protection and anonymity without additional settings, which can be quite difficult for non tech savvy users. That’s why we include protection into a tiny BitTorrent client,” TrafficPrivacy’s Alex told TorrentFreak.

As with other anonymity services a long term subscription to TrafficPrivacy doesn’t come free. The service is currently priced at $6.95 per month, but there is a 7-day free trial available for people who want to give it a spin before committing to it longer term.

Contrary to VPNs or BitTorrent proxies, users will have to swap their current BitTorrent client for the TrafficPrivacy software. This is a deliberate choice from the makers, as it’s the only way to guarantee that all the privacy settings are properly configured.

With Vuze, uTorrent and other clients people often forget to use the right settings or get confused by the terminology, which can result in their true IP-address leaking out. The new client’s goal is to avoid this.

“The target audience for TrafficPrivacy are users who put a lot of value on their safety and anonymity, but do not want to configure all the complicated settings. We want to keep everything as simple as possible and let users feel safe without tinkering with various privacy options in current BitTorrent clients,” Alex says.

TrafficPrivacy BitTorrent Client

One thing to keep in mind is that TrafficPrivacy only offers anonymous BitTorrent transfers. Other traffic, such as that generated by a web browser, will be linked to the user’s regular IP-address. Users can see if anonymity is turned on directly from the client, but it’s always wise to verify it through an external service that checks the BitTorrent IP.

To guarantee the user’s privacy the company says it doesn’t keep any connection logs that can be traced back to individual customers. Also, if the TrafficPrivacy servers happen to go down the client will stop working entirely.

“If TrafficPrivacy server goes down, all downloads stop and it doesn’t leak the real IP-address,” Alex informs TorrentFreak.

The TrafficPrivacy team are no newcomers to the security scene. The new client was developed as part of the existing TorrentPrivacy proxy/VPN service, but when the new client was finished they decided to turn in into a completely new product and a brand of its own.

While TrafficPrivacy might not appeal to all BitTorrent users, its ease of use and simplicity will probably be welcomed by those who are less technically skilled.

Source: TrafficPrivacy Launches Anonymous BitTorrent Client

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Bluetooth

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Net Master HD is the ultimate mobile solution for all your network analysis and diagnostic problems designed specifically for the iPad. Net Master HD is a utility application developed for Network Administrators and IT Professionals but presented in a format targeted for non-professionals. All the essential networking tools are available in one convenient mobile application.

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• LAN Scan for complete scanning and diagnostics of all devices connected to a Local Area Network
  —- Includes: TCP Connect LAN Scanning, ARP table scan
  —- Also includes NetBios Scan, Bonjour Scan and Port Scanning
  —- Reverse DNS Lookup
  —- Wake On LAN functionality
  —- Dictionary lookups for MAC addresses, Port addresses and many Bonjour Services
  —- All information presented to the user in a easy to understand user interface
  —- Save previous Scans to reload and review later

• Port Scanning is a essential network utility for every IT professional. This utility application lets you check what services are listening on a network and is useful for making sure no service ports are open that shouldn't be.
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• Geographical Trace Route for determining the route path and measuring the transit times across an IP network.
  —- Asynchronous Trace algorithm provides extremely fast results
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  —- Geo-location information for hops
  —- Reverse Hostname (DNS Information)
  —- IP Address of each hop
  —- Monitors Average packet round trip time
  —- Packet count and lost information
  —- WHOIS hostnames and IP address range
  —- Works over WiFi or Cellular network connection
  —- Save previous Traces to review later

Note: Geographical route of hops is based on third-party publicly accessible IP geo-location services. There are occasions when location data for those services is incorrect causing anomalies in the visual presentation. This location information will become more accurate as more users run traces from various locations.

• Ping is another essential network utility that determines the availability of a host via a Domain Name or IP Address.
  —- Bookmark feature fallows the user to store and monitor multiple game servers latency at the touch of a single button.
  —- Email ability for saving results.

• WiFi Finder is a powerful WiFi hotspot locator that includes Yelp business information and reviews for each hotspot.

—- WiFi finder to quickly and easily find FREE or paid WiFi hotspots from your current location.
—- Integrated with Yelp database to provide complete information on the business associated with each WiFi hotspot.
—- View WiFi hotspot search results in a list view or on a map without leaving the app.
—- Save favorite WiFi hotspots for convenient access.
—- Look up Business addresses and phone numbers for WiFi hotspots.

• Subnet Calculator for providing the information needed to make decisions regarding your subnetting.

All the networking tools for the IT Professionals in one application.

Just received an email regarding my TechNet subscription expiring soon.

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This includes Microsoft Windows OS, Microsoft Server Software (includes small business but NOT enterprise software), Microsoft Office for Windows and Mac, and more.

You're entitled to 2 licenses for each software for Standard subscriptions.

I think professional allows up to 10 licenses per software (Can someone confirm if this is the case?) as well as access to the enterprise server platforms.

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East Coast Cruises (operators of the Triabunna to Maria Island ferry) are making the service free for three months (to boost winter numbers).

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Vin Diesel is more Diesel than ever in the new trailer for Riddick. It’s a return to the style that made the Pitch Black a cult hit.

Actors often talk about their “passion project.” Riddick is Vin Diesel’s. The only reason the movie was even made was because he pushed so hard for it. The studio wanted to continue with another PG13 mediocre followup like Chronicles of Riddick, which would have been terrible. Vin Diesel had a vision of what the end result needed to be, but it wasn’t what the studios wanted. Eventually he got his way, but at a price.

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Needless to say, if you aren’t following Vin Diesel on Facebook, you’re doing it wrong.

If your reaction to the announced demise of Google Reader was to scream “But my starred items!”, then this is the tutorial for you. Read on as we show you multiple ways to extract all your starred articles from Google Reader.

Chromebooks aren’t “just a browser”—they’re Linux laptops. You can easily install a full Linux desktop alongside alongside Chrome OS and instantly switch between the two with a hotkey, no rebooting necessary.

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In late 2012 the 3D blueprint website Thingiverse decided to ban 3D gun designs, citing their terms of service which clearly prohibit files used to make weapons.

Enter DEFCAD, a site dedicated to hosting designs that have been banned at Thingiverse. Namely, the entirely printable 3D gun design which clocked up more than 100,000 downloads within its first two days of release.

This did not sit well with the Department of State Office of Defense Trade Controls who kindly requested that DEFCAD remove the availability of the 3D printable gun documents, enthusiastically named “The Liberator,” citing a possible violation of International Traffic in Arms Regulations.

In the letter from the State Department, which can be read in full at Forbes, the Government explains that it wants to review whether the designs are in compliance with arms export control laws.

While the attempted censorship of the 3D gun blueprints may come as no surprise, the popularity of these files is a vivid example of the daunting task faced by those charged with censorship of information.

While DEFCAD promptly complied with the request to remove access to the design, it was shared so widely during the short window of availability that it is now virtually impossible to prevent any further distribution. Currently, there appears to be several torrents available for the design at The Pirate Bay and the site informs us that these will not be censored.

“TPB has for close to 10 years been operating without taking down one single torrent due to pressure from the outside. And it will never start doing that,” A Pirate Bay insider told TorrentFreak.

Guns on The Pirate Bay

The Pirate Bay is not out to promote guns, but they do have a great interest in 3D printing.

“We think the whole idea of a printable object is interesting. You can print guns for sure, but even better you can print plowshares and other things as well. The problem is not the object but what you do with it. Just as with a cooking knife.”

The torrent site also says it welcomes Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson to start publishing designs on The Pirate Bay. A year ago TPB launched a 3D print section where the blueprints would fit nicely.

“When Defcad is closed down there is still TPB. Cody is welcome to upload everything on Defcad to TPB as well, so the users can comment on the crap.”

“Cody Wilson’s site has been branded ‘A Pirate Bay for 3D objects’ which is kind of funny, since TPB has had its physibles section more than a year already, with lots of objects in there. And since the whole idea behind TPB is to not let outside pressure judge, TPB is prepared for things like that.”

The Pirate Bay insider welcomes a debate on gun laws and U.S. oppression of free speech. “We laugh at their gun love since it’s so obviously the wrong way to go.”

“We think that the good thing about the discussion about 3D printers and their gun laws might bring more focus on the double standards that the U.S. is having and hopefully – people will start printing signs to protest against the guns, the corruption and the threats against freedom of speech that the U.S. is pushing on us.”

For now the 3D gun links posted on The Pirate Bay are from unverified sources. Printing those might not be such a good idea, but it is clear that the original designs are not going away. All one needs in order to access these files is a hash, there is no longer a central source that can be shut down to prevent public access to these files.

This BitTorrent connection also gives the term Defense Distributed a whole new meaning.

The takedown of the blueprints could very well mark the beginning of an era where proponents of so-called cyber warfare begin using military resources in attempts to regulate a data distribution protocol which has, thus far, been impossible to regulate.

At the minimum, it’s the start of a crackdown on 3D blueprints, which will undoubtedly become more common as technology advances.

Ryan Smith contributed to the article.

Source: Pirate Bay Takes Over Distribution of Censored 3D Printable Gun

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Printing in 3D is all the rage right now. So let’s step into the future and check out what’s believed to be the world’s first 3D printed gun firing off a round.

That’s a pretty cool invention, obviously. And kind of terrifying as to what the future could hold. Can there be 3D printed nuclear weapons? 3D printed sex robots? Will they all also make the same kind of pathetic “pew pew” sound that this 3D printed gun made when firing? The future is scary. (thanks for the tip, Josh)

Once dead social startup Digg today announced plans for a Google Reader replacement, after conducting a massive user survey.

The software will see a June beta release but te company also said the final product might not be free, unlike Google's ubiquitous RSS software.

Following Google's announcement that it would be killing off Reader as of July 1, Digg said that it would take it upon itself to fill the gap with its own RSS service.

The company conducted multiple surveys on discovery and reading features, as well as "more ancillary features like read later and sharing."

The survey responses, available here, showed that 75% of the 8600 respondents share news via email, compared to 55% who share stories via Facebook or Twitter.

"It almost goes without saying that our reader will include seamless sharing to all these services," Digg said in a post on its official blog.

{loadposition dswan}"Free products on the Internet don’t have a great track record. They tend to disappear, leaving users in a lurch. We need to build a product that people can rely on and trust will always be there for them."

The blog post also laid out plans to include support for Pocket, Instapaper, Evernote, and Readability.

Digg fans can sign up online here to participate in surveys and receive updates about the new product.

In July 2008, the company took part in advanced acquisition talks with Google for a reported $200 million price tag, but the deal ultimately fell through.

Four years later, on July 12, 2012, Digg was sold in three parts: the Digg brand, website and technology were sold to Betaworks for an estimated $500,000; 15 staff were transferred to the Washington Post's SocialCode for a reported $12 million; and a suite of patents were sold to LinkedIn for about $4 million.

The first solar eclipse for 2013 will occur on May 10, and will be visible from Australia, eastern Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the Gilbert Islands.

In addition to this annular eclipse (which occurs when the Sun and Moon are exactly lined up, but the apparent size of the Moon is smaller than that of the Sun; thus, the Sun appears as a very bright ring (a "Ring of Fire" as it is sometimes called), or annulus, surrounding the dark disk of the Moon), a partial eclipse will also be visible.

This partial eclipse will be visible in Australia, Indonesia, Oceania, and much of the central region of the Pacific Ocean.

The annular path of the May 10th solar eclipse begins in Western Australia near Collier Range National Park at 22:33 Universal Time (UT).

According to the NASA article Annular Solar Eclipse of May 10, “Traveling northeast, the shadow quickly sweeps across the Northern Territory where Tennent Creek experiences an annular phase of 3 minutes 4 seconds. Since the eclipse occurs here shortly after sunrise, the Sun is just 16 [degrees] above the horizon. On the central line 70 km [kilometers] to the north, annularity lasts 4 minutes 27 seconds at 22:37 UT.”

{loadposition william08}Then, NASA continues with, “The antumbral shadow crosses the Gulf of Carpentaria and reaches the Cape York Peninsula at 22:44 UT. As it does so, it crosses the track of the previous year's total solar eclipse (2012 November 13). Four minutes later, the shadow departs Australia at Lakefield National Park (22:48 UT).”

The NASA article adds, “The next landfall in the eclipse path occurs in eastern Papua New Guinea at 23:00 UT. The central line crosses Basilaki Island where annularity lasts 4 minutes 59 seconds with the Sun at an altitude of 39 [degrees].”

And NASA adds, “Traveling at 0.98 km/s [kilometers per second], the antumbra next reaches the Solomons where Choiseul, the largest island in the chain, lies at the center of the track. Annularity is now 5 minutes 16 seconds and the Sun is 49 [degrees] above the horizon (23:15 UT). This is the last major landfall in the path.”

For more information on this first solar eclipse of the 2013 year, please read the before-mentioned NASA article “Annular Solar Eclipse of May 10”, which is part of the NASA Eclipse Web Site.

The YouTube video “Annular Solar Eclipse Coming May 9 and 10, 2013” is shown above. It is provided by GabeHashTV and is found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du7gkl9l1mw.

Remember to wear protective eye wear whenever viewing a solar eclipse. Check out the Space.com article "How to Safely Observe Sunday's Solar Eclipse" (this article was publlished for an earlier solar eclipse) for more on the proper way to observe this solar eclipse, and all solar eclipses.

You may know how to care for a kitchen knife, but when's the last time you paid your simple pocket knife the attention it deserves? Instructables user kennethisme has a great tutorial on how to care for your average folding pocket knife, from cleaning the blade to lubricating the body.

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While it does not happen often, every once in a while a security update to patch Windows causes more problems than it solves. Case in point, security update 2823324 that was a part of this month’s Patch Tuesday release for Windows 7. Some users have been experiencing endless rebooting or a failure of their system to restart after installing the update. To counteract the problem Microsoft has published a KB article to help get affected systems up and running again.

Broken glass effect courtesy of Photofunia.

As a first preventative step Microsoft has pulled the patch from its automatic update service. They are also currently investigating the problem while working to correct the security update.

If you or someone you know has encountered problems due to 2823324, then you can use the instructions listed in the KB article linked below to remove the update and bring your system back to life.

Just looking for good 32GB microsd card and came across this deal. 2500+ sold already.

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The entry price for Ultra HDTV plunged by more than $10,000 earlier this week thanks to Sony's new 4K sets, but now it's going even lower with this model from Seiki. The brand is new to the US market and as such unfamiliar to most, but with a $1,300 listing on TigerDirect it's been lighting up AV enthusiast and deal-hunting forums alike. We haven't yet had a chance to see this display, but hope to take a look shortly. In the meantime, there are plenty of reasons not to be an early adopter -- the infamous eye charts suggest 4K's impact at this size may be reduced, it's an unknown company with unknown standards for quality and service, a new HDMI standard may be incoming and there's no content until the $699 FMP-X1 player arrives this summer -- but with a sub-$2K pricetag some would say you can't afford not to have an Ultra HD set in your possession. Those same people would also suggest inviting us over to watch the game (sports, console, but most likely a super high-res PC title if you can manage) on it, and indicate we are willing to bring refreshments.

[Thanks, Eric Kotz]

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