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Microsoft Fixes Windows 7 Student Edition Upgrade Problems
8:42AM Sean Fallon | While most of you had a painless upgrade to Windows 7, some experienced problems with the downloadable Student Edition from Digital River. Microsoft acknowledged the problem and has now come through with the ISO file you so desperately need. More »
Software
Upgrade To Win 7 By Installing Heaps Of Apps At Once With Ninite
8:40AM Sean Fallon | Simply put, the Ninite installer is one of the easiest ways to get many of your favourite apps loaded up after that fresh Windows 7 upgrade. More »
Entertainment
Foxtel. Now It’s About Downloads
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Amazon Tries To Make Amends For Deletion Of 1984 With Warm Words, Cold Hard Cash
1:59PM Rosa Golijan | Remember Amazon’s remote deletion of all Kindle copies of 1984? Big bro’ Amazon is trying to make nice by offering affected users some pretty words along with $US30 checks in lieu of redelivery of 1984 (with your original annotations). More »
Music
Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood To Audiophiles: Simmer Down
4:00AM Adam Frucci | Radiohead caught some flak when they released their last album online as 160kbps MP3s a couple of months before a CD would be available. Turns out, they couldn’t care less about FLACs. More »
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Five Pirate Bay BitTorrent Alternatives
5:20AM Matt Buchanan | The Pirate Bay we know and love, though still harbouring torrents for now, is going away. But that doesn’t mean BitTorrent is dead. Far from it. Here are five places to get your torrent on after it closes for good. More »
Software
Windows 7 Available Now For TechNet And MSDN Subscribers
3:38AM Jason Chen | If you’re one of the TechNet or MSDN users, you can go ahead and download Windows 7 RTM for yourself. And yes, as our review says, it’s really safe to upgrade. Though, if you’re a TechNet or MSDN subscriber, you’ve probably been playing with the RC for a while. [TechNet and MSDN via Geeksmack] More »
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Student Suing Amazon After They Deleted Homework From His Kindle
7:38AM Sean Fallon | Forget blaming it on the dog, thanks to Amazon students have a 21st century excuse for lost homework. When Amazon foolishly yanked 1984 from thousands of Kindles, Justin Gawronski’s electronic notes for a summer assignment became useless. More »
Gadgets
Why Amazon’s Power To Delete Books Is Absolutely Horrifying
10:00AM Matt Buchanan | Editors from Columbia’s Science and Technology Law Review explained to us a year ago the pitfalls of not owning your Kindle books, a fact that Amazon revealed to be more horrifying than we thought. Guess what? It’s worse. More »
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