It’s a GIRL Technology

    Piracy has been a great issue in today’s technology.  In the rise of accessing information easily through the Internet, part of it is the rampant copying and unlicensed redistribution of information through writable media, such as CDs/DVDs.  This is against the owner’s rights. 

   There have been a lot of attempts done by software companies to protect their products, such as the hidden copy-protection software of Sony BMG which automatically installs files and hides these to the system which restricts how many times the discs’ tracks could be copied but this software leads to certain issues that endangers the user’s system because the removal of the files installed can disable the PC’s CD Drive (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10053831/).

    These issues serve as a motivation for the researchers to pursue this study.  The researchers want to look for solution/s against piracy that will be both convenient to the users and the industry.  

   Almost every one depends on writable media for file storage.  CDs/DVDs are the most frequently used storage media.  However, in today’s technology, these storage media are prone to direct copying without authorization from the owner of the CD/DVD.  This act can be out of the control of the software developers or the owners because this may come unnoticeable. In the software industry, if the act of piracy continues, the industry will surely deflate.

    Piracy, also, is the greatest factor that propagates viruses, spywares, and other malicious threats that harm the system.

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So What’s technorati? It keeps track of your favorite blog as well as the most popular searches, top tags and such. 

Last friday, I was with my classmates in the computer lab and we had  a fun time trying out a cool website called Peter Answers . You ask this particular website of intimate questions and he answers you back. I mean literally he knows every question about your personal life, pet peeves and such. I mean how in the world can a website know about my personal question? I was laughing my ass out when I found out how my classmates fooled me with his prank. Hahhaha…

Anyway here’s how it works:

In the box where you type "Peter please answer the following question" you type a "." just a period. It will show up in the box as a "P". then you must type in your answer, if you want to trick someone. say you are going to "ask" "who is sitting next to me?". and it’s a kid named joe. you then type in "joe" and it will show up as the "ete" of peter. (the longer the answer the more letters of "peter please answer.." it will type out.) when you are done typing out your answer keep pushing the period button to finish out the "peter please answer.." statement. then in the question box type your "who is sitting next to me" question. and then you will trick your friends!

 I tried it out with my family. I fooled my little sister and told her that Peter is our long lost brother who died when he was young. And my mom was practically screaming at me for making my little sister cry.

 Try it out: http://www.peteranswers.com/

Everyone’s talking about their favorite myspace or friendster or better yet, the facebook social network. Since facebook’s launch of 3rd party developers, thousands and thousands of applications had been uploaded to the Facebook app. One of the most interesting app I found in facebook is the "we’re related" app. It’s similar to add-a-friend, but the only difference is that its add-a-relative. Cool huh?

According to Jason McGowan, the product manager of We’re Related, this app can do the following:

-Find your relatives on Facebook

- Keep up with your family

- Build your family tree

- Share news and photos with your family

It’s a social network for families. The problem with it is that they still have so many bugs and issues. Some users claim that it isn’t working. Well, I think we should give them the benefit of the doubt since it’s a new app, so I guess they still haven’t fixed some bugs and other issues. The admin also defended that they are doubling their efforts as they double their developers.

FYI: We’re Related is a sister company of familylink.com. 

For more information, visit we’re related.