While most of the new-year celebrations are over now, our friends at LotSoft, Inc are still celebrating giving away free genuine licensed copies of their BDlot Blu-ray Ripper PC utility.

BDlot Blu-ray Ripper is a Blu-ray decrypting and copying tool for users to backup Blu-ray discs to their local storage. The versatile utility allows users to protect their favorite DVDs easily from cracking, scratching, other damages or loss, ignoring any mainstream Blu-ray protections, such as BD ROM Mark, BD+, BD-Live, UOPs, AACS, region code, etc., enjoy perfect Blu-ray DVD quality 1:1 backups with original Blu-ray movies contents (BDAV M2TS audio track, subtitle track, video track, and menu), deleting those annoying FBI and Interpol messages and useless subtitle or audio tracks, user can also transcode Blu-ray discs/backups to MKV, MP4 and other popular formats and watch these videos on iPhone, iPad, iPod, Android, Samsung mobiles, tablets, as well as other popular portable gadgets.

ESET Smart Security 5 is out now, the complete computer security suite offers top-notch all-round PC-protection featuring powerful anti-malware scanner, a two-way firewall and intelligent antispam module to effectively eliminate all types of security threats. The newly improved ThreatSense engine, proactive heuristic technology, Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS), Cloud-Enhanced Whitelisting (Cloud-Powered Reputation technology, anti-rootkit and parental control features makes this the perfect PC-security companion addressing today's security threats.

Follow the steps below to get your personal free 90 days activation key for latest ESET Smart Security 5.

We have shared trick's to unlock the ipod volume lock, the forgotten Apple iPod Touch Pin Code, and the iPod's Forgotten PassCode. Luckily, the trick to reset the forgotten screen-lock without loosing the data (factory reset) on Apple iPod is still same for the newer model. This time we have an easy to follow step-by-step video tutorial on how to get rid of this problem.

While some love the new facebook timeline profile design and other hate it, for the haters we have shared the simple hack to de-activate the feature even tough not officially supported by facebook.

A new feature of the timeline profile design is the ability to upload big-banner sized "Cover Images", here are some of the best websites to get cool facebook cover banner designs and customize them making you stand out of the crowd.

Volume² is an free advanced Windows volume controller replacement, allowing users to control system volume by rotating the mouse wheel, hotkeys, or simply moving the mouse cursor to the edges of the screen. Users also get configurable, cool display options and the current volume level numbers gets displayed in the taskbar. The application also supports the audio mixer feature with advanced volume controls, scheduler, an on-screen display (OSD), command-line support, the ability to store and recall presets via one mouse click or system-wide hot keys.

The only worth talking-about feature in Apple iPhone 4S is without a doubt the virtual voice assistant "Siri", while the popularity of this feature has caused many ports and hacks on other devices like "Spire", Android Speaktoit and in-works "Google Majel" why should "Windows Phone 7" be left aside. Thanks to new free (also adfree), virtual voice assistant application "Ask Ziggy" downloadable from "Windows Marketplace" this is now possible.

Ask Ziggy makes use of renowned Nuance speech-to-text analysis and natural-language-processing (NLP) technology coupled with advance web scraping and mash-up techniques to offer a worthy experience, a demonstration video is available after the jump.

After giving us the much awaited untethered jailbreak for A4 CPU powered Apple devices running iOS 5.01 - "Corona", pod2g has tweeted some great news for Apple iPhone 4S and iPad 2 users running iOS 5.01.

Like all previous releases of this game title, Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA IV) was also a hit, and analysts are already predicting that upcoming new release of the game "GTA V" will be the 2012's biggest release. Industry analyst Jesse Divnich of EEDAR has now gone on-record (via gameranx) predicting that the upcoming Rockstar title will beat last year's popular Modern Warfare 3 or any other games in sales for year 2012.

If the newly introduced "Facebook Timeline" feature is not your cup-of-tea, there is no official way to get rid of it. However, thanks to the nifty hack shared ahead "Facebook" users can still revert-back to the old Facebook profile look.

On a newly installed "Windows 7" setup my portable USB hard-disk drive failed to get recognized, the strange part was "Windows 7" was able to recognize the external HDD correctly and notices it when it gets plugged in/out but the drive was not shown under "My Computer" or any other drive display option. To get rid of this problem follow the instructions provided below.