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Windows 8 To Feature OEM Activation v 3.0, Will Break BIOS SLIC Activation Hack

Crackers stroked a major blow to Microsoft anti-piracy efforts by releasing a BIOS SLIC based Windows 7 Activation Crack days before the official release of the software, while there are many other cracks and hacks like RemoveWAT used to pirate Windows 7 the BIOS SLIC hack allowed pirates to hide from Windows anti-piracy measures identifying itself as an OEM install.

According to a tweet by sp3ciali5t this is going to change with "Windows 8" as it will feature the next version of OEM Activation (OA 3.0).

Google Unveils "Gmail Motion Beta" Enable Users To Control Gmail Using Body Motion

Gmail Motion BetaFearing motion sensing technologies developed by rivals like Microsoft Kinect and Opera Face Gestures, Google has now came up with their very own motion-sensing technology allowing users to control Gmail using body gestures.

Named "Gmail Motion BETA" the technology aims to provide an alternative to keyboard and mouse used traditionally for human-computer interaction, Gmail Motion recognizes users body movements using computer's built-in webcam and Google's patented "spatial tracking technology" effectively translating them into meaningful characters and commands. Movements are designed to be simple and intuitive for people of all skill levels. The company also plans to expand the new motion detection technology to Google Docs (Google Docs Motion) later this year.

Gmail Motion Beta

A complete walk-through of this new feature including images, videos, and available gestures are posted below.

Make Your Incompatible Add-ons Work On Firefox 4

Mozilla Firefox 4 has made it's way to the final release, and while most of the addons are compatible with the new update few still needs updation. There could be two reasons for an addon not to work with Firefox 4 - the first being it got functionally broken because of the new changes made in Firefox 4 (very rare), and secondly the developer has not yet updated/declared the addon to support the updated firefox version. Luckily, we have a fix for the second problem as shown below.

Firefox 4 Addon Compatibility Reporter

Microsoft Kinect Hacked To Control TV Without Remote

We have seen examples of developers hacking Microsoft Kinect to creating some awesome applications. An Indian developer has now demonstrated something which can be the future how we will be controlling our televisions without a remote control just by gestures, video demonstration after the jump.

Microsoft Kinect Controlling Tata Sky DTH Box

IOBit Game Booster 2 Premium Free Genuine Licenses Giveaway

Every computer gamer wants to squeeze-out the last bit of computing power possible, and utilities like IOBit Game Booster 2 (Free version reviewed earlier) help them achieve there goal. Under a limited period promotion IObit is giving away Game Booster 2 Premium license worth $9.99 regularly for free during the entire week from Feb. 21 to Feb 27.

Game Booster 2 is designed as a “one-click-switch” to turn any PC into a “game machine” that provides a better and smoother gaming experience. It works by temporarily shutting down unnecessary background processes and services to concentrate the computer’s resources on the gaming application being played. Afterwards, users can easily switch the PC back to normal operation, restarting all the shut-down processes and services. According to a recent user survey, 80% of gaming enthusiasts say their gaming experience is “remarkably improved” by Game Booster 2.

 IOBit Game Booster 2 Premium

Free Pro Licenses For 360Amigo System Speedup To Repair, Optimize And Boost PC Performance

360 Amigo Logo360Amigo System Speedup Pro is an all-in-one professional quality application to maintain, optimize and repair errors to improve PC performance. Equipped with all the needed system maintenance, optimization and repairing utilities the PRO version of the utility costs $19.90 to purchase but is being given away for free under a limited time promotion.

Neatly organized under three main sections - System Cleaner, System Optimizer and Tools, 360Amigo System Speedup Pro comes with junk file cleaner, registry cleaner, Smart defragmenter, system restore manager, service manager, process manager, internet defense, driver manager, uninstaller, data recovery and 15+ more nifty modules making it one of the most comprehensive system maintenance utility suite out there.

360Amigo System Speedup PRO

Hostizzle - Free USA VPN Service For Everyone With 100GB Monthly Bandwidth On 1GBps Port

There are quite a few free VPN service providers but all of them have very restrictive limits on free accounts, Hostizzle is a new VPN service provider offering free US based IP anonymity service with a very generous quota of 100 GB monthly data usage on a 1GBps port. Using secure OpenVPN protocol with 1024-bit SSL/TLS certificates and Blowfish encryption the service is surely going to lure users looking for online anonymity, bypassing internet-censorship and country specific content block.

USA Proxy used to access hulu

Apart from offering the generous free usage quota the service also creates custom OpenVPN installer with built-in user certificates, so all you need to do is to enter your email address and download a ready-to-use OpenVPN setup requiring no settings to work.

SARDU - Free Utility To Create CD, DVD And USB Disks With Multi-Boot Support

Why settle for a single computer rescue bootable disk when we can have multiple tools on a single medium, thanks to free utilities like SARDU (Shardana Antivirus Rescue Disk Utility) - creating bootable rescue disk with all sorts of rescue tools becomes a matter of minutes.

SARDU enables usesr to prepare bootable CD/DVD or USB disks including a comprehensive collection of antivirus rescue disk's, utilities, Linux Live distros, and other popular Windows PE and recovery disks with ease.

Rescue Tools Multi Boot CD/DVD/USB Menu
Boot Menu

Free Bootable USB Drive Creator Tool For Windows

Numerous tools and tips have been posted on this blog to create bootable disk drivers and here we have yet another simple utility to get the job done easily on Windows.

"Bootable USB Drive Creator Tool" does what it says by allowing users to create their USB disk-drives bootable using the straight-forward, minimalistic, self-explanatory user-interface.

Bootable USB Drive Creator Tool

GeoHot Offered Free "Windows Phone 7" By Dev Team To Let Him Jailbreak And Develop Upon

WP7 Jailbreak

Unlike Sony and Apple, Microsoft is actually encouraging (or having a soft spot) for jail-breaking their mobile-phone, impressed by Microsoft's approach with ChevronWP7 jailbreakers (they called them to Redmond and gifted them the T-Shirt shown below) jail-breaking star GeoHot posted "perhaps a more appropriate way to deal with jailbreakers, I’m going out to buy a Windows 7 phone" on his website which resulted in some rather interesting response from Windows Mobile 7 Dev Experience Team Director "Brandon Watson" who tweeted back offering a free phone to him to develop upon :

"#geohot if you want to build cool stuff on #wp7, send me email and the team will give you a phone - let dev creativity flourish #wp7dev"

WP7 Jailbreak Reward
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