Opera Team posted a teaser to the upcoming Opera Desktop Web-browser v 11.10 which is code-named "Barracuda", while no information regarding any expected feature of release dates were disclosed the Opera Team said that the first snapshot build of Barracuda will be made available in the near future, and take another popular Opera feature to the next level.

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Thanks to all the free services offered by Google, it knows too much about you - What you search, what websites you browse, what you email and to whom you talk etc., here is a hilarious take on this Google Privacy issue.

Video after the jump.

First version of popular science fiction first-person shooter video game Crysis got cracked and leaked on internet 3 days before official retail date, surprisingly enough a pre-build full-version of the sequel Crysis 2 (PC) has now leaked on torrent websites and file-locker services 45 days ahead of official release date. Shockingly the leak also accompanies full source-code of the game including multi-player functionality and the Solidshield master key files that deals with the online DRM.

Sony sued George Hotz for hacking into their his gaming console Sony PlayStation 3 but GeoHot seems to be enjoying this battle as he posted a new video replying to Sony the RAP style - enjoy the crazy video after the jump.

Official trailer for upcoming sequel of much awaited movie of X-MEN franchise "X-MEN : First Class" is now posted online and can be enjoyed after the jump.

Before mutants had revealed themselves to the world, and before Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Not archenemies, they were instead at first the closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to prevent nuclear Armageddon. In the process, a grave rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto’s Brotherhood and Professor X’s X-Men.

Just four-days ago I posted a review of Viber for iOS citing unavailability of an Android version, the good news is the application can now soon be expected on Android platform as an official video of Viber For Android is now posted online.

Microsoft has finally unveiled another major milestone to final release of Internet Explorer 9 by making IE9 Release Candidate download available for everybody. The "Release Candidate" build features a new ActiveX filtering system which allows users to “turn off ActiveX” for all sites and then re-enable it on site by site basis, on the UI part users can now have tabs on a separate line from address bar, apart from these changes many improvements were done in overall web-browser performance, standards & platform support, user experience and security as detailed next.

Application eco-system is the biggest advantage of today's smartphone market, Google Android just surpassed Apple iOS in terms of total usage - with this added advantage of wider audience the Android application eco-system is bound to expand as more developers come-in to get advantage of this large user-base. To makes things even more interesting and favoring for the Android app. eco-system, Myriad the team behind Dalvik Turbo virtual machine has demonstrated "Alien Dalvik" virtualization which allows Android applications to run on non-android platforms like Nokia N900 (MeeGo) without any modifications at same performance levels.

Alien Dalvik is scheduled to get unveiled at upcoming Mobile World Congress and an official demonstration video is already out showing it in action.

Rapidshare copyright woes made it loose traffic to competing file locker services like Hotfile.com as evident from the Alexa traffic chart shown below, the heat is now shifted to Hotfile as MPAA has now sued them citing copyright infringements. The MPAA lawsuit against Hotfile on behalf of 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios, Columbia Pictures, and Warner Bros. accuses Hotfile of not only "facilitating copyright infringement" but committing "direct infringement" by awarding users cash incentive for doing it and making money from the illegal activity.

Rapidshare Vs Hotfile Traffic Comparison

Get My Videos Back is a small and specialized application for Windows developed specifically to recover audio and video files from scratched CDs and DVDs, including support for reading source file byte by byte which comes handy when the optical-disc has lots of small scratches.

Get My Videos Back is very basic, portable application which gets the job done with options to save the job and continue them later.