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Freespire is a free version of the popular Linux distribution called Linspire. With Freespire, the choice is yours as to what software is installed on your computer, with no limitations or restrictions placed on that choice. How you choose to maximize the performance of your computer is entirely up to you.

- Is a community-driven, Debian-based Linux distribution.
- Is always made available for free use, distribution and modification, now and forever.
- Is powerful enough for the most sophisticated Linux user or developer, yet easy enough for someone completely new to Linux.
- Is available with 100% free, open source software or with the option to include legally licensed, 3rd party codecs, drivers and software.
- Legally supports (or has one-click access to support): MP3, DVD, Windows Media, QuickTime, Java, Flash, Real, ATI drivers, nVidia drivers, Adobe Acrobat Reader, proprietary WiFi drivers, fonts, and so on.
- Provides free access to the entire Freespire open source application pool using apt-get.
- Offers optional use of the Linspire CNR (click and run) Service. The CNR Client is open source.
- Includes a total development environment, which can be easily expanded using apt-get or CNR.
- Provides easy-to-use yet advanced installation and configuration options.
- Utilizes the community IRMA project to provide Freespire in dozens of different languages.
- Is community supported at no charge, with optional enhanced support available.

Alright, so if you want to download Beta 1 you can head over and download it. More information on this release can also be found here. This is the first release and it is about 2-weeks ahead of schedule. While this is considered to be Beta 1 they are trying to get some improvements and bug fixes in before it is officially released.

This data recovery software is free and developed by a Russian named Ivan Komlev. It features a friendly user interface and only three steps required to copy files from damaged CD.

1. Choose source drive
2. Selecting destination drive and folder
3. Copy files automatically.

Dead Disk Doctor – allows copying files from scratched or damaged CD, DVD disks, unreadable Floppy and Hard Drives or other media. It replaces lost data with random bytes reading files by expandable blocks.

The Dead Disk Doctor website says that this freeware “works excellent with Video or Audio files”. From logic, I think that’s true because you can skip a few seconds in video or audio files and you can still play it. As for data, if any part of the bytes are being replaced by random data, it will definitely corrupt the data.

Another good news is Dead Disk Doctor works on Intel Pentium 133Mhz or equivalent supporting Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP or higher with only 32Mb RAM and 7Mb free disk space on hard drive for installation. Of course you’ll be needing more disk space to recover and copy your dead disc data to your hard drive.

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The file sharing site The Pirate Bay are operating with revenues far exceeding previous estimates. The most expensive ads cost €20,000 for a single day. And that’s only for the Scandinavian market.

With ad revenues from the entire planet the bottom line is even more attractive. The money is channeled through a company in Switzerland sharing an address with another company specialising in tax planning.
The controversial file sharing site The Pirate Bay is far from the innocent hobby project cofounders Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm want people to think.

The police investigation of The Pirate Bay is about violations of copyright law because the file sharing site helps Internet users share files with copyright protected material.

The police will investigate how ad revenues are managed and if tax is paid. If the prosecutor can show that the site is being run commercially the suspects risk a harder punishment than if it’s just a hobby project.
‘The authors of the law spoke of one year in prison. The maximum penalty is two years’, says prosecutor HÃ¥kan Roswall.

The past four months the Swedish company Eastpoint Media have sold ads for The Pirate Bay for an average of €60,000 per month, according to sales manager Luar Busa. The police raid on 31 May resulted in even more visitors to the site and prices for ads went up accordingly.

‘The biggest ads today cost $20,000 and so far we’ve sold four’, says Luar Busó.

Source: Rixstep

Freeware program RipIt4Me helps you back up your protected DVDs with relative ease.

RipIt4Me works in conjunction with previously-mentioned DVD Shrink and DVD Decrypter to back up DVDs with some of the strongest copy protections that the other two have a hard time handling by themselves. Whether you’ve got sticky-handed rugrats handling your DVDs or you appreciate the importance of backing up your media, RipIt4Me looks like an excellent program to add to your toolbox.

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If you’ve given the newly-released Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 a spin, you’ve noticed that there aren’t a lot of eye-popping new features. However, there are some subtle improvements that make it a nice upgrade.

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