The Pirate Bay is a free site that doesn’t requires any registration to access most the content hosted on it. However, being a largely commercial service TPB is monetized and funded by online advertisements, donations, and merchandise. A huge amount of revenue is definitely needed to power such an active organisation and their mega server rooms that distribute indefinite content across the world everyday.

The Pirate Bay Without Any Ads -

We just discovered thepiratebay.ee, an official and new site address of thepiratebay.org. Surprisingly, it’s not just a mirror domain but a lite and ad-free version of The Pirate Bay that serves all the content from the original site but without any of the bloated advertisements, usually seen on the webpages of TPB. The index page aka homepage of the new TPB mirror site is also neat with minimal text and no extra images. TPB freaks would certainly find it amazing to use the new site with an .ee extension!

Comparing home pages of thepiratebay.org & thepiratebay.ee -

TPB Results page (See the difference):

This is an exclusive news, so please link to this blog post if you spread the word elsewhere. We’d appreciate it.

Bookmark http://thepiratebay.ee

Update: As pointed out by Lars in comments, the ad-free site of TPB comes with a catch. i.e. only registered users can use the tracker and the subscription fee is $4.99 per month. That’s disappointing.

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Dirpy, currently in beta, is a free and advanced Internet Digital Video Recorder online service that lets you record and convert your favorite YouTube videos to high quality MP3s in real-time. It offers many useful features like real-time conversions, ID3 metadata tags, offsets, support for high quality audio formats (including HD).

Besides converting YouTube videos to MP3, Dirpy offers the ability to easily download and save YouTube videos to your computer in a variety of different formats. It outputs YouTube videos in FLV and MP4 format – in standard, HD 720p, Full HD 1080p qualities. The handy Dirpy Bookmarklet makes it easier to quickly download a video from a certain webpage in desired format.

Dirpy is working on various other new features to improve and make it more interesting. Do check it out and spread the word if you’re glad to see them back!

Link: www.dirpy.com

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‘Smartbytes’ offers the ability to add high speed data transfer limit and continue browsing at higher speeds. Customers can opt for desired Smartbytes pack anytime after reaching 80% of their high speed bandwidth limit. The additional data usage bought is provided for the remaining period of your monthly billing cycle. Smartbytes unique data usage packs range from 1 GB to 50 GB starting at Rs. 99.

Additional Data Usage Packs at Airtel Smartbytes include:

• 1 GB for Rs. 99
• 2 GB for Rs. 159
• 5 GB for Rs. 299
• 10 GB for Rs. 449
• 20 GB for Rs. 799
• 50 GB for Rs. 1499

Upon opting for Smartbytes deals, you’ll be able to browse at higher speed as per your current plan for the provided high-speed data transfer quota. To add an additional data usage pack to your broadband plan, just visit www.airtel.in/smartbytes from your Airtel broadband connection to which you want to add it. Then select a desired data usage pack to purchase additional GBs for usage in the current bill cycle only.

>> Smartbytes is indeed a nice initiative from Airtel for users who cant adapt to low bandwidth and thus are looking out for some alternative. However, Airtel has made it more than easier to opt for Smartbytes as one doesn’t needs any special account logins to activate it. This is quite risky as anyone having access to your Internet network can go to smartbytes webpage and subscribe to any data plan without your knowledge.

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You can visit the above page and register now with your email id to get notified about the availability of Galaxy Nexus in India. The webpage also lists the main features of the device, some of which includes: Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich OS, 4.65 inch 1280 x 720 HD Super AMOLED display, 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 5-megapixel rear camera, 1GB RAM, Face Unlock, HSPA+ 21 Mbps (LTE in selected regions).

There is no info yet about the price of Galaxy Nexus in India and its availability date. But it is really great to see Samsung considering India as a strong market, who is actively launching most of their amazing smartphones rapidly here, straight after their official announcement. The recently unveiled Galaxy Note is also coming to India on Nov 2nd, watch the webcast live at 12:30PM on www.livestreampro.com/samsung/galaxynote.

via [BGR.in]

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“The Samsung/Google media event has been rescheduled to take place on October 19 in Hong Kong, China at S221 Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre.”

Following this news, the statue of Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) has also been erected in the Googleplex campus. Check out the below video uploaded by Android Developers.

Watch Android Event Live at YouTube on Oct 19th –

Google will Live stream the Google/Samsung Ice Cream Sandwich and Nexus Prime or Google Nexus press event on YouTube at 10AM, Hong Kong Time (HKT). That’s 7PM Pacific/10PM Eastern on Oct 18th, timing for India is 7:30AM, Wednesday. Check your Local timings here.

Livestream Link – www.youtube.com/android

We’re really excited to have the delicious ice cream sandwich, are you?

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Ubuntu 11.10 comes with a collection of 16 New Wallpapers, which all are intensely beautiful and I think the best ever introduced in Ubuntu OS. You can check them at the tour site by opening ‘View photos’ from the Welcome screen. All the backgrounds are in high-resolution and you might want to set them all as your desktop wallpaper.

A preview of some wallpapers:

Download Ubuntu 11.10 Wallpapers Pack (Includes the default background)

PS: I noticed 16 wallpapers on the tour site but two of them aren’t included in the pack. It seems they added it to the OS at the last moment. You can find both of them below. I’ll try to add their download links soon here.

Take the Ubuntu Tour @ www.ubuntu.com/tour

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Apple, Google and Amazon are paying a tribute to Steven Paul Jobs. Just check their homepage. Here’s what Apple said: (www.apple.com/stevejobs)

Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing
human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.

Apple Founder and former CEO, Steve Jobs Dies. Here are various big media sources where you can read in detail about this news.

Steve Jobs, Apple founder, dies – CNN

Steve Jobs Apple ‘visionary’ dies aged 56 – BBC News

Apple’s visionary Steve Jobs dead at 56 – Reuters

Steve Jobs, Apple’s Visionary, Dies at 56 – NYTimes

APPLE’S STEVE JOBS DIES AT 56 – Bloomberg

Steve Jobs dies; Apple co-founder was 56 – The Washington Post

Steve Jobs Dead: Apple Co-Founder Dies At 56 – The Huffington Post

Steven Paul Jobs, 1955-2011 – WSJ

Statement by Steve Jobs’ Family – Business Wire

Steve Jobs, 1955-2011: Mourning Technology’s Great Reinventor – TIME

Official Statement:

Apple Media Advisory – Apple

Statement by Apple’s Board of Directors – Apple

Other Interesting articles:

President Obama on the Passing of Steve Jobs – The White House Blog

Steve Jobs in his own words – CNET News

The Steve Jobs I Knew – AllThingsD

My Neighbor, Steve Jobs – PaloAltoPatch

Here is a great compile-up put up by Neowin stating “How the World reacts to Steve Jobs Death.” Do check it out if you adore and salute Sir Jobs.

The incredible and revolutionary devices we use, such as iPhone, iPod, and iPad powered by amazing software and technology were blessed and brought up by Steve Jobs and Apple team. So, do remember the legend and Thank him for everything he gave us!

Image credit – [jmak.tumblr.com , Nytimes]

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Here is an official teaser video just put up by them.

Apparently, Nexus Prime is what everyone is counting now for as it would be a beast and might be the best and most amazing Android smartphone yet!

Join us at the next SAMSUNG MOBILE UNPACKED event to witness another "perfect combination" that we’ve prepared for you on October 11th in San Diego.

You can also download the UNPACKED application from Samsung Apps (http://www.samsungapps.com/) and Android™ Market (https://market.android.com/)

Let’s see what’s that something BIG, Samsung has got for us! I’m excited.

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