Notorious file locker Megaupload has been taken down today as of 2:15PM, the day after SOPA was shelved. Seven individuals and two corporations- Megaupload Limited and Vestor Limited – have been charged by the FBI for piracy related crimes in the United States and New Zealand and forced to shut down Megaupload.com. This marks the largest criminal copyright cases ever in the history of the United States as the site generated $175 million in criminal proceeds and allegedly caused more than $500 million in damages to copyright holders. In response…

The popular image posting website is going down sporadically tonight due to a 4chan led denial of service attack. The login, search registration and voting features are also failing on 9gag.com and no posts posts have been recorded since 17 hours ago. This was presumably to keep 4chan users from uploading obscene images and up-voting them to appear on the front page. It appears that 4chan users, specifically residents of the /b/ section, are fed up with their content being re-published and shared on 9gag. The attack is also in…

This error appears in in some projects created with seam 2 when you try to create or edit a record in the web ui. It seems to be a bug. You need to modify one line in either your seam-home/seam-gen/view/edit.page.xml.ftl or seam-home/seam-gen/view/edit.xhtml.ftl depending on your version of seam. open up the file and change this line: <s:button id=”${‘#’}{${homeName}.instance.${property.name} != null ? ‘changeParent’ : ‘selectParent’}” value=”${‘#’}{${homeName}.instance.${property.name} != null ? ‘Change’ : ‘Select’} ${property.name}” to <s:button id=”${‘#’}{${homeName}.instance.${property.name} != null ? ‘changeParent${property.name}’ : ‘selectParent${property.name}’}” value=”${‘#’}{${homeName}.instance.${property.name} != null ? ‘Change’ : ‘Select’} ${property.name}” Then…

This article is a Guest Post: Carla Sanchez is a freelance writer for Omniture. Omniture is the world leader at cms software and search marketing; software that enables you to better understand your customers and increase your sales. As 2011 moves into full view, trends in search marketing will be highlighted by local and mobile search as well as social media marketing efforts. As the Internet industries grow up and mature, many businesses are looking at how search marketing will trend in 2011. And more importantly, how those changing trends…

Samsung is currently working on the development of a flexible AMOLED (active-matrix organic LED) that would take the technology of smart phones to the next level. How flexible? Watch the video below and begin dreaming about a phone that you can roll up and put in your pocket! The application on smartphones is of the largest interest, but television displays are also a future development idea. These displays produce a higher refresh rate than their OLED counterpart, while consuming less power for equal display quality. Can’t wait till this hits…

Recently, although historically reputable as the impenetrable operating system, Apple has been getting hit hard with security vulnerabilities, and in the first half of 2010, topped the list over Oracle and Microsoft. This page outlines the complete details of Apple topping the charts. Feel free to leave comments and opinions!

Don’t be fooled by claims that cameras with more megapixels are better, it’s not true. This is just a gimmick used to convince people that newer camera models with more megapixels are better than older ones.  Picture quality and picture resolution are two different things that camera manufacturers and salesmen often exploit to capitalize profits. The camera industry has relied on the megapixel as a measure of quality;  that more is better. Sure, this would be important if you were to blow up the image, but the image quality itself…

So you bought your first car and now you’ve been considering getting a new stereo deck with flashing lights and all the bells and whistle. Expensive? Maybe.  But if you read this guide you can learn how to do it, save money while doing it, and get that sweet stereo you want! Firstly, car head units come in the standard size called “DIN”. This size is meant to fit all dash spaces, and if you are removing a larger head/stereo unit you can purchase a head unit dash kit that…

Summit energy has long been slandered on the web for being a total scam of an energy company (i.e. http://forums.redflagdeals.com/canceling-summit-energy-676250/). It seems they are now going under the name of Goal Systems in some job postings. The person who answered the phone gave us the address which we instantly googled to find out that it was actually the address of Summit Energy. The posting that some friends of ours were responding to looked something like this: STILL LOOKING FOR A SUMMER JOB? Date: 2010-07-06, 9:02AM We are currently seeking well…

The Canadian credit card scene has changed slightly in the past few months with the introduction of travel rewards cards from Scotia Bank and BMO. These 2 Canadian banks did not offer competitive rewards cards in the past, but that seems to have changed. So are these cards better than some of the others we have already? Well it depends what you are looking for. The big three cards of the past have been the TD Infinite Visa, the RBC Avion Infinite Visa and the CIBC Aero Gold Infinite Visa….

The new way to chat between iPhone and Blackberry is Kik Chat. iPhone and Blackberry Messenger users can finally find some common ground with Kik Chat. Kik lets you chat blackberry to blackberry, iPhone to iPhone (basically iPhone BBM) and most importantly, Blackberry to iPhone all over your phone’s data plan. Flawless instant messaging complete with Read reports (you get to see when the other person has read the message you sent – a feature all BBM users can’t do without) Anyone used to using BBM should check out the…

As of March 16, the latest OS to be released for the BlackBerry Curve 8900 is 5.0.0.509. This is not a leaked version, this is an official 5.0 release. Currently the only carrier making it available for download (from the blackberry.com site) is Wind Hellas. To Download the new OS (note, people have reported this sometimes fails in chrome and Firefox: Go to the blackberry download site: http://na.blackberry.com/eng/support/downloads/#tab_tab_desktop Click “Access your service provider download site” Under Europe, Select Wind Hellas Select BlackBerry Curve 8900 and download the software Alternatively, you…