World's most famous bittorrent network ThePirateBay is all set to mock the new swedish Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) legislation which empowers copyright holders get personal details of file-sharing users from ISP's, scheduled exactly on the same date when IPRED gets into effect The Pirate Bay announced their new global anonymity service named IPREDATOR offering subscribers more anonymity than traditional VPN services.

Unlike any other VPN service IPREDATOR assures that no user activity logs of anykind is stored, the service is currently under beta and will be released to public before 1st April 2009 costing a moderate 5 EUROS a month.

Unlike iPod Touch First Generation jailbreaking the newer iPod Touch Second Generation requires a different approach as QuickPWN currently does not support iPod Touch 2G, luckily iPod 2G is now jailbreakable and QuickFreedom is a new utility which can get the job done pretty easily via a simple to use wizard styled user interface, QuickFreedom works on Windows XP and Vista allowing users to jailbreak and install Cydia and Installer with options to change the boot logo.

QuickFreedom supports jailbreaking the latest iPod Touch 2G with 2.2.1 firmware, the 5-step jailbreaking process is quite simple and can be done easily as described next.

After a long-wait of six years Rockstar games has announced the sequel of popular game franchise Max Payne, the upcoming game title Max Payne 3 is scheduled to be released in Winter 2009 on PC, XBOX 360 and PS3 platforms.

The sequel features a new chapter in games main character detective Max Payne life, Max Payne is now a few years older, more world-weary and cynical than ever.

If you think you don't need an anti-virus software for Mac then you might regret your decision taking chances with your data and privacy, although very limited but there exist viruses for Macs and to get protection from these baddies you need an Anti-virus solution, luckily like Windows there are quite a few good free anti-virus software's available for Mac OS X, PCTools iAntiVirus and ClamXav are two such free solutions for your Mac computer.

PCTools iAntiVirus is very simple to use with minimal options, the free software provides efficient real-time protection with automatic smart-updates.

We had shared Windows 7 Theme and Windows 7 Transformation Pack for XP earlier on this blog, for achieving something similar on Windows Vista we now have Windows 7 Transformation Pack For Vista, the transformation pack includes Windows 7 Theme, Logon UI, Windows Media Player 12 for Vista, New Sound Schemes, Wallpaper and User Pictures.

Despite all the warnings if you upgraded your iPhone to the latest iPhone OS 3.0 Beta without a developer account you must be locked-out from normal phone functionality, downgrading your iPhone to an earlier version is pretty straight-forward but downgrading your baseband (which is responsible for the unlock being not functional anymore) is not possible with newer versions, You can downgrade iPhone OS 3.0 To earlier 2.2.1 version using the following guide.

Users have now found a way to install and use iPhone OS 3.0 Beta on iPod Touch without an developer account, the hack involves using the iPhone OS 3.0 Beta .IPSW restore file with iTunes blocking the applications access to internet via firewall.

The trick is that iTunes uses an active internet connection to verify whether the current device using the BETA OS is developer registered or not, if it founds non-developer registered device using the BETA OS iTunes syncing is disabled, this simple check can be easily bypassed using the hack described next.

Rapidshare premium users were very disappointed when the leading file-hoster decided to cut heavily on premium users daily download bandwidth, to provide some relief to heavy-downloaders the service has now announced Rapidshare Happy Hours for Premium customers, during HappyHours only 10% of data downloaded will be counted to your traffic balance for example if you download 500 MB during HappyHours, only 50 MB

Despite being the standard and most used application for reading PDF documents worldwide Adobe Reader is hated by many, over the time Acrobat Reader has become bloated with unwanted features and increasing loading times making users switching to alternate lightweight PDF readers, being a standard compliant PDF software Adobe Reader has advantages over other PDF readers as it renders PDF documents perfectly when many lightweight PDF readers fail to do so, to solve the bloat problem some talented developers have removed the unwanted bloat from the official Adobe Reader installation and released the non-bloated software as Adobe Reader Lite 9.1.

As expected, iPhone OS 3.0 Beta is now out in the wild and available for download on bittorrent sites and will soon make its way to popular file-hosting and sharing sites like Rapidshare, Megaupload and Mediafire, the BETA preview is meant for developers and need an iPhone 3G registered as a developer handset to work, which means you need to pay $99 to Apple for an Developer account to test this out, if you upgrade without the developer registered iPhone you will get locked on the emergency screen, as already confirmed by the iPhone Dev Team this latest release is jailbrekable on all devices and a custom IPSW is expected to be released soon which might get installed on non-developer registered iPhones.