Unconfirmed reports are coming about fully working unlocked versions of Apple's much hyped iPhone being sold at various stores in HongKong and China for around six times the price of the original unlocked version, these unlocked versions were very much anticipated and many iphone lovers in non-us countries were waiting for hackers/crackers/moders to unlock the phone.

These iPhone's are 100% unlocked and can be used with any GSM compatible SIM card, users are also able to make use of fantastic internet surfing capabilities offered by the iPhone using the EDGE network protocol in these unlocked versions.

Leaked version of Microsoft much awaited Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) is available for download, This particular Service pack was made available to a small group of testers from where it got leaked and made its way to other websites.

340 Mb in size Microsoft Windows XP SP3 Build 3180 contains all the critical hotfixes and updates since Windows XP SP2.

Fake news is being circulated around the internet of new Google Earth 2008 download being available on a website with the name earth-2008.org, in reality the site in question is displaying Google Pack download as a part of Google Adsense Referrals advertising network the owner simply make upto $2 per download when the misinformed visitor downloads the OLD Google Earth thinking it as a new 2008 version.

Google advertising network usually takes strong actions against such tactics and the publisher in question might get his account banned pretty soon.

Recently Torrent sites are getting spammed by malicious torrent uploads disguised as new movie releases, torrent users are reporting that they have downloaded various videos mostly claiming to be new movie releases or TV shows only to be confronted with a short video which advises them to download a new media player called 3wPlayer to view the rest of file. The few second clip show the Url to download this malware media player 3wPlayer.

The player installs a form of CIDHELP malware which is very hard to get rid of, The only solution to this problem is to make the user aware of this kind of tactic and reporting any such torrent to the torrent website for removal.

UPDATE:

Download & use this 3wplayer and similar video malware Auto-Fixer for windows to decode files (Special Direct Rapidshare Premium Link ~ 590 KB) >>

USAGE: decoder.exe 3wPlayerencodedfilename.avi outputfilename.avi

To decrypt the underlying video data you can the following perl script.

CryptLoad is the latest entry to the ever growing list of software tools to automate file downloading from file-sharing services like Rapidshare.com, rapidshare.de and megauplaod.com amongst many other.

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Windows XP Task Manager (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC) has a not so widely known "no titlebar" view mode just double-click on the empty area on the right side of the tabs. Once it has switched views, you can switch back quickly by double-clicking anywhere on the border.

Switch to the Performance tab before activating this border-less mode and you will have a nice and simple CPU monitoring desktop widget without using any third-party application.

µTorrent mUI (mobileUI) is a plain-text mobile version of the WebUI with most of the important µTorrent functions. You can start, pause, stop and monitor your downloads, and it also offers some additional info about every Torrent and a couple of settings. µTorrent mUI is a web app which will allow users to turn their iPhone or any other mobile phone supporting GPRS and a web-browser into a remote control for the best Windows Torrent client µTorrent.

* mUI requires a mobile with internet access and µTorrent with WebUI enabled.

Data corruption on optical media is a common problem due to physical damage to the media like scratches, surprisingly data can still be recovered from non-readable scratched sectors on CD and DVD's using the following method.

A CD/DVD reader uses a laser beam to read the data on the disk. This laser beam crosses the protective plastic layer and reads the real recording metal layer. If the protective plastic layer is scratched, the laser will be unable to pass resulting in non-readable disc.

Acronis True image is a popular hard-drive cloning/backup software with a high price tag, however you can get a re-branded version of True Image with the name DiscWizard as a free legal download from the Seagate website.