Sorry for the delay in the announcement of the winners for the Rapidshare contest. Validating each entry took a bit of time. All the valid entries along with the points they had were mentioned in a list which was randomized and each was assigned a unique number. Three random number were picked out by Random.org and the winners were selected based on that. Before announcing the winners, i would like to thank all of you for participating.

Microsoft has released the Windows 7 RC for the Technet subscribers and it will also be released for the general public next week. Microsoft has also released the Windows 7 System Requirements for the Windows 7 RC. While Windows 7 is scheduled to release later this year, it will not be much different from the RC and the system requirements will almost the identical.

In the last post, i mentioned the Direct Download links of Windows 7 Beta using which you can download Windows 7 beta instantly. However, the product key was still not available from the Microsoft site. The guys at Neowin have found a way using which you can get the Windows 7 Beta product key instantly.

Microsoft released the Windows 7 Beta yesterday but Microsoft’s servers were unable to handle all the load so Microsoft removed the Download link. And today when I tried to download Windows 7, I got this message

Thanks for your interest in the Windows 7 Beta. The volume has been phenomenal — we’re in the process of adding more servers to handle the demand. We’re sorry for the delay and we’ll re-post the Beta as soon as we can ensure a quality download experience.

But Thanks to Haris from Sizzledcore, I was able …

A couple of days ago, Apple released the official 2.2 update for the firmware. Just two days after its release, the iPhone Dev Team has released the jailbreak of the firmware. The iPhone Dev Team has released the QuickPwn and Pwnage for 2.2 firmware for Windows and Mac.
For instructions on how to do this and the download link, you can visit there blog post mentioning the same. The team is still working on ways to unlock the iPhone 3G but it has been quite difficult sue to the baseband technology. …

One of the main features that almost all the latest browser like IE 8 , Chrome etc have in common is the “Private” browsing mode or the “Porn” mode. However, Firefox 3 was missing this feature and Firefox 3.1 beta 2 which will be released for the general public soon will have this feature.

Adobe has released the beta version of there Adobe AIR for Linux.  AIR is a cross platform runtime using which developers can create rich Internet applications which just sit on your desktop.

The highly versatile and open source VLC media player has launched the 0.9.2 version. The new version features a brand new interface. Many new codecs, protocols have been added for video playback and it now supports more formats.

IE 8 beta 2 came out with there “Porn InPrivate”, Chrome had “Incognito” mode, and even Safari has a stealth feature and now Firefox will also be coming out with there Privacy mode with Firefox 3.1. Even though there are add-ons for Firefox that does the job but none are worthwhile.

WinZip is one of the first and most popular archiving utilities available though now many have started using WinRar or 7-Zip. The new version 12 of the popular comes with some new compression features and enhancements. It now lets you compress JPEG images which were difficult to compress before as they are already compressed.