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Google has banned the world largest human edited web-directory DMOZ from its index, searching for DMOZ does not bring the directory as the top result, also Google cache does not show anything for the domain.

As expected Unlocking your iPhones may void your warranty, According to some reports any iPhone running "some third-party apps" and operating on other mobile network then At&T are flat out rejected at Apple stores for service siting the reason being "the warranty was voided," and added that the mobile was "blacklisted" against future service or return.

A new service by Google named "Google Shared Stuff" is now online, this new service lets you share your links with your friends and everybody else public). The service make use of a bookmarklet in your browser's bookmark bar which popup's a new windows as shown below.

Published by Acclaim Games in collaboration with Nexon from South Korea, 9Dragons is a relatively new free martial arts fantasy MMORPG game, depicted in the historic times of the Ming Dynasty of China, the game immerses players into the world of ruthless clans, epic battles for the survival of China.

The game features cutting-edge 3D graphics, it includes real Chinese historical and geographical features and facts like the famous Great Wall of China and the Shao-Lin Temple.

A player may join clans in 9Dragons which are based upon several schools of Kung Fu which are separated into two major factions, The Black Clan and The White Clan. The White Clans include: Shaolin (male disciples only), Wu-Tang Clan, and The League of Beggars. The Black Clans include: Sacred Flower (female disciples only), The Brotherhood of Thieves, and Heavenly Demon Clan. Each Clan has its own separate but very similar requirements for admission.

S.W.I.N.E. is a real-time tactical strategy game in which you must carry out extremely varied missions while taking advantage of the terrain and your units’ special abilities.

Game Features:

• 12 missions for each race plus additional multiplayer maps with a
  variety of playing modes for hours of entertaining gameplay
• 15 different combat and service units for each race, with their own unique roles and attributes
• Units gain experience and can be upgraded by the player continuously for progressive gameplay
• Dynamic weather effects, day and night missions, a variety of landscape types heighten realism

Here comes good news for iPhone lover's outside USA, the so called iPhone Dev Team has released a open source fully-automatic utility named "anySim" to unlock the iPhone ready to be used on any network with all features.

This software needs to be copied over to the phone and executed, it's fully automatic, the whole process takes around 3-5 minutes :D.

Microsoft has forced Autopatcher to close, but here is a little known but handy service "WindizUpdate" which allows you to update windows without visiting the MS site, I am yet to test the service but basically it allows you to update your computer without IE and without transferring any personally identifiable information from your computer, few more advantages of using the service are listed on the WindizUpdate website, in future the service plans to provide driver updates along with windows update.

Microsoft is doing it again, users are reporting stealth updates at Microsoft Windows XP and Vista forums, files are getting updated without consent and even while Windows Update is turned off.

The new update has the version number 7.0.6000.381,A user Dean-Dean at the Microsoft forum states:

"Windows Update Software 7.0.6000.381 is an update to Windows Update itself. It is an update for both Windows XP and Windows Vista. Unless the update is installed, Windows Update won't work, at least in terms of searching for further updates. Normal use of Windows Update, in other words, is blocked until this update is installed."

Dean-Dean names several files that are changed on XP and Vista as below:

In XP, the following files are updated:

1. cdm.dll
2. wuapi.dll
3. wuauclt.exe
4. wuaucpl.cpl
5. wuaueng.dll
6. wucltui.dll
7. wups.dll
8. wups2.dll
9. wuweb.dll

As more and more users are switching to the latest version of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007, users are facing trouble using these new formats in older versions of office but their's a solution provided by Microsoft as Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack, installing this 28 Mb update will enable earlier versions of the Microsoft Office to open, edit and save files in the latest format of the software.

By installing the Compatibility Pack in addition to Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003, you will be able to open, edit, and save files using the file formats new to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007. The Compatibility Pack can also be used in conjunction with the Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003, Excel Viewer 2003, and PowerPoint Viewer 2003 to view files saved in these new formats. For more information about the Compatibility Pack.