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One of the most famous browser plugin, PicLens has added Youtube and Amazon to provide futuristic Graphic Display of images as well as videos.

PicLens and Youtube

For youtube, The PicLens plug-in will install a grid button on your Toolbar, which you click to activate the PicLens full-screen interface. Click a thumbnail to start playing a video, while the search box lives in the upper right of your screen. As video starts playing, standard YouTube controls appear at the bottom of the video.

PicLens and Amazon

On Amazon, the main Amazon.com page doesn’t support the PicLens button, but if you click on the button anyway it will open up the PicLens UI. From there, change the Web site search to Amazon, type in your search term, and images of whatever item you searched for will pop out.

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Apple’s new iPhone OS and App Store have certainly opened some new doors for iPhones old and new. But has Apple’s shiny walled garden not felt quite jailbreaky enough to inspire you to upgrade? Now you can safely make the leap and free your inner iPhone with release of a jailbreak tool for iPhone OS 2.0.

With a post titled “Thanks for waiting,” the infamous iphone-dev team has announced Pwnage 2.0, a new version of its jailbreaking and unlocking software for the iPhone and iPod touch. Pwnage Tool can now jailbreak iPhone OS 2.0 running on an iPhone 3G, iPod touch, and original iPhone. It can unlock original iPhones as well, but not iPhone 3Gs yet. Just to make this absolutely clear: Pwnage 2.0 can jailbreak an iPhone 3G running iPhone OS 2.0, but not unlock it yet.

A few users are reporting random problems, and the iphone-dev team has listed a solution for what is apparently a common error some jailbreakers are running into.

Unlocking the iPhone 3G is obviously on the must do list  but I am waiting if someone could gift me one to Test.

Some visitors to the Sony PlayStation site may have been prompted to download an antivirus scanner.

Pages promoting the PlayStation games SingStar Pop and God of War contained SQL-injected code. Visitors to those specific game pages would see a fake antivirus scan , then a message that their computer was infected with different viruses and Trojan horses. Warned, the user would then be asked to purchase the scanner to remove the bogus malware.

The injected code linking to the scanner has since been removed. And the website is safe now.

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X-bit labs reported “Abit May Stop Producing Motherboards“. But later Abit Denies this.

Read along to understand what exactly happened.

X-bit Labs’s new stated “Due to decreasing sales of mainboards, well-known motherboard maker Abit may quit this market in order to focus on other components of personal computers. The actual decision has not been made yet, but the parent company of Abit, Universal Scientific Industrial, may proceed with the restructuring plan if the mainboard supplier fails to demo sales increase with Intel P45-based mainboards.”

I was totally shocked reading this cause as statistics read, Abit shipped from two to three million of mainboards last year. This was all reported but, this wasn’t the situation.

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