Here is an interesting info-graphic displaying how costly printer-ink is compared to other liquids.

While the PirateBay and other public trackers are having problems with the authorities for copyright infringements many users are fleeing to private trackers to satiate their hunger for free media, However, These days not even private trackers seem immune to problems, ratio cheaters are using new tools to download faster and without having to upload back to the community - These users generally complain that the admins are "ratio fascists" and that the whole thing is more or less pointless since the BitTorrent protocol already rewards people for seeding.

Even the creator of BitTorrent Bram Cohen has come out against private tracker admins using ratios to ban people:

From Bram's Blog:

Some BitTorrent web sites have implemented upload/download ratios, with banning of people whose ratio gets too out of whack. The problem with this approach (aside from that it's completely unclear that not uploading is a problem to begin with, since tit-for-tat works well) is that it's overly punishing. Just a little bit of threatening to ban people can get the overall balance to be very heavily weighted on the side of uploading, making it difficult for people to accomplish a reasonable amount of upload even if they try.

We have shared tricks on how to cheat your torrent share ratio when in extreme need but all of them required users to download utilities like RatioFaker, RatioMaster, Tracker-Pro or GreedyTorrent but new free online service RatioCheat takes-care of your cheating needs without requiring download any utility on your computer.

Few days ago I shared a post on how to activate and setup BSNL 3G on your mobile phone, however, if you are using Apple iPhone 3G/3GS then sadly BSNL does not provide you any automated method to configure iPhone specific 3G settings, sending an SMS with iPhone as phone model to receive configuration settings result in the reply below.

After lots of tinkering I was able to get BSNL 3G working on my Apple iPhone 3G and surprisingly all it needs is a single APN value to get configured as demonstrated below.

Adobe Photoshop has always been the leader in image editing arena, however, using the popular image-editor even for basic-editing tasks like removing backgrounds or patching spots needs practice and know-how of the software but the upcoming version of Adobe Photoshop CS5 which will be a part of Adobe Creative Suite 5 is all set to make things simpler with introduction of smart content-aware image editing features better described as 'PatchMatch' - an algorithm which quickly finds approximate nearest neighbor matches between image patches.

PatchMatch is lot more then simple patching or spot-removal, to get a better gist of what this new technology is capable of doing watch the video demos below to see it in action.

News of Apple's rumored tablet computer once again got fire when MacRumors revealed a possible trademark registration named 'iSlate' accompanied with 'Magic Slate', according to the reports the names were trademarked by Slate Computing, LLC in November 2006 which seems to be a proxy corporation used to secretly get the trademarks.

Lookout a new cross-platform mobile device security, backup and anti-theft solution has opened its gates for public beta testing, I have been lucky to be on the iPhone private-beta from past few months but forgot to write the review and giveaway 50 exclusive invites for iPhone users which is still under private beta and is available to selected users only.

Lookout supports a wide-range of devices including Windows Mobile, iPhone (Private Beta), Android, Symbian, Balckberry, Palm, Samsung, Sony-Erricson and many other offering users complete peace of mind with inclusion of an advanced anti-virus, firewall, and intrusion prevention technologies; allowing backup of contacts, photos, video, e-mail, and text messages to the cloud, and in-case your device gets lost or stolen lets you locate your device (needs GPS), sound an alarm or even wipe your personal information remotely from the web.

Opera has always been the leader in innovating web-browser technologies and once again the Opera team has came-up with some promising stuff with public release of Opera 10.5 Pre-Alpha, the major new features worth mentioning here would be the all new JavaScript rendering engine Carakan which is touted to be 7x faster in benchmarks then it's predecessor Futhark used in current stable release of Opera 10.10, new Presto 2.5 engine with support for CSS3 transitions and transforms with more HTML5 features, new hardware accelerated VEGA graphics library and support for private tab (no need to open a window) apart from the new address-bar and other GUI enhancements.

We have reviewed lots of free and paid VPN services on this blog and have always provided our readers with exclusive free accounts to try things out, so here we are once again with another VPN service review and free account giveaway.

New VPN service WideVPN provides something no other VPN service we have reviewed so far offered - a selection of 200+ IP's from servers all over the world (US,UK,EU,CA,HK,JP,TW,SG,KR...) from a single-account, another good thing is WideVPN does not need any third-party client and works on Windows, Linux, Mac, iPhone or any other platform supporting PPTP or L2TP VPN protocols.

MalwareBytes and SUPERAntiSpyware are two effective utilities I often use to get rid of stubborn malwares from infected computers and they have never let me down when in need, the good news is now you can use SUPERAntiSpyware without installing it for a quick scan on target computer.

The company calls it SUPERAntiSpyware Online Safe Scan but actually it's more like a full-blown 9.35 MB portable download which requires no installation and leaves no traces behind, the good thing is it can be updated so you can have it with you on your portable drive for immediate rescue.