What happened to avaxhome

What happened to avaxhome

Last Thursday was a busy day for the Bundeskriminalamt -Federal Criminal Police of Germany as they raided 4 servers of popular warez sites hosted within their nation. The Avax network Avaxhome/Avaxsphere, GfxWorld, & Macfile, were all taken down and seized. Suspicions were verified by E-Mail from the current host of gfxworld, keyweb.de. in saying that "the website was taken down per legal order by the German authorities and we cannot give out any other details. As of this time we may not allow further hosting of this site on our servers and there is no comment as to whether or not it will be back online".

The 4 sites in question were formerly affiliated with now defunct modestus.org, also forcibly shut down due to gfx sharing. This is the first push on non P2P sharing sites in Germany since 2007 and the reasons are speculated to be due to the regular release of fonts and the sites' new use of Feedburner RSS pushing them far higher on Google search than the actual creators..

Source:
http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=20080715001618AAeMXUh

Presently this site http://www.kpnemo2.ru/ is being used to post the contents which are used by authors to post at avaxhome.

Benefits of exercise without exercise

Benefits of exercise without exercise

Mice that took the drug for four weeks burned more calories and had less fat than untreated mice. And when tested on a treadmill, they could run about 44 percent farther and 23 percent longer than untreated mice.

The no-exercise drug is in advanced human testing to see if it can prevent a complication of heart bypass surgery.

Full text article.
Cell, Volume 134 Issue 2: July 25, 2008
http://download.cell.com/pdfs/0092-8674/PIIS0092867408007691.pdf

Access Blocked Websites

Access Blocked Websites

Certain websites are blocked at work places / schools or in countries. To access such sites there are many ways. Most popular way is by using proxy. Another method is send email to send@webtomail.co.cc with the URL of the desired web-page as subject. Within minutes you will get that page into your inbox.

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AutoUnbreak v1.01 Freeware

AutoUnbreak v1.01 Freeware

Size:229 KB

AutoUnbreak v1.01:AutoUnbreak removes line breaks from formatted (or plain) text input. This is useful if you want to reformat a text document, where lines have been cut short, e.g. when copying text from an Adobe PDF file to a word processor. Thus, the program removes any extraneous lines.



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Lockbox - Keep your files & folders password protected free

My Lockbox™ is a security software enabling you to password protect any folder on your computer.



The protected folder (lockbox) is hidden from any user and application of your system, including Administrator and System itself. It is impossible to access the lockbox not only from the local computer, but also from the net.

The program is extremely easy to use. You can set the lockbox location and the password during the setup procedure. After the setup is done, lockbox will be hidden and locked until you enter the valid password.

My Lockbox Control Panel allows you easily change basic lockbox parameters: lockbox location, protection status, password.

In addition, skinned user interface lets you choose from different skins to select the most comfortable look and feel of the software.

Features:

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* Almost any folder on your computer can be password protected
* Instant protection - no file scrambling or moving to another place
* Lockbox folder is inaccessible even by the system administrators
* Lockbox folder is inaccessible both locally and remotely.
* Lockbox folder can be protected in Windows safe mode
* Windows XP x64 support
* Hotkeys support - you can popup Control Panel with a simple keystroke.
* Skinned user interface
* Freeware

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Portable Start Menu 2.0

Portable Start Menu 2.0
1.1 MB

Organize your programs in a simple menu system and launch them via a tray icon. If you close Portable Start Menu on an USB-Stick, running applications can be closed automatically, too.

Main features:
- Organize and launch applications via a tray menu
-Closes running applications on USB-Sticks automatically
- Checks if an application has been changed before execution
- Quick Start functionality to start applications with a few keystrokes
- Runs on USB-Sticks without leaving any traces on a host PC
- Portable Start Menu is Freeware

Additional functions on USB sticks:
* Create an autorun file to automatically launch Portable Start Menu
* Close running applications when you exit Portable Start Menu
* Safely remove your USB-Stick

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Sweet fruit drinks found to lead to diabetes

Sweet fruit drinks found to lead to diabetes

Sweetened fruit drinks are often marketed as a healthier alternative to non-diet soft drinks but are just as likely to cause weight gain and increase the risk of diabetes, researchers said on Monday.

"The public should be made aware that these drinks are not a healthy alternative to soft drinks with regard to risk of type 2 diabetes," Julie Palmer and colleagues at Boston University wrote in their report, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease, is closely linked to obesity and has become more common worldwide.

The findings came from a look at nearly 44,000 black women in the United States who were checked from 1995 through 2005.

Those who said they drank two or more non-diet soft drinks a day had a 24 percent increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes than those in the study who drank fewer than one regular soft drink per month, the research team said.

Women who drank two or more sweetened fruit drinks per day had a 31 percent increased risk compared to those who drank fewer than one such fruit drink a month. Diet soft drinks, grapefruit juice and orange juice were not linked to a higher diabetes risk, the researchers said.

While pure orange and grapefruit juices also contain sugars naturally, they may have a different metabolic effect or may be more likely to be consumed as part of a meal, the investigators said.

Soft drinks and sweetened juices are often consumed between meals and may lead to snacking, they said.

An earlier study involving thousands of white women also linked diabetes to both soft drinks and sweetened juices, the report said.

Another study in the same journal found that eating fruits and vegetables seems to ward off type 2 diabetes, perhaps by preventing obesity or providing protective nutrients, including antioxidants.

A third study found that a low-fat diet does not seem to change the risk of diabetes.

"The common denominator that appears clear is that calories trump everything," Dr. Mark Feinglos of the Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina wrote in a commentary in the same issue. "And certain nutrients, like high fructose corn syrup, make it easier to overeat," he added.

"If you keep the calories low, you can probably eat almost anything, which is what the low-carb diets show us. Specific metabolic issues aside, an important reason that low carb works is because you don't eat a lot of calories."
Via Yahoo news

Indian doctors - made in China

Indian doctors - made in China

The Indian embassy estimates that there are approximately 6,000 Indian students studying medicine in China. China as a cheaper option to the U.S and due to the limited availability of seats in medical universities in India. With the medium of instruction in English, the deal is a win-win situation. Many students also say that the quality of medical educaton in China is ahead of India. Besides the privilege of living abroad, the students enjoy learning Chinese. A majority of the students goto medical universities in Tianjin or Hangzhou.

Chinese universities charge Indian students US$3,300 a year as tuition fee on an average. Another US$1,000 is needed for board and lodging. This amount is affortable by many middle class Indian families.

India Developing Laptop for at price of US $10

India Developing Laptop for at price of US $10

India is said to be developing a US $10 Laptop. The laptop is targeted at higher education applications. A research for the new lost-cost laptop is being carried out in Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai. Although no specifications were shared in the press conference today there are some indications that the Government shall be providing a subsidy. In the press conference it was also declared that the Indian Government plans to provide free bandwidth for education purposes to every Indian.

Exercise to lose weight

Exercise to lose weight

The latest research, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine journal, confirms that plenty of exercise is a key ingredient of success. "Thirty minutes a day is good for general health, but if you want to lose weight, you need to be doing more, and if you want to sustain weight loss, you need to be doing even more than that.

Between an hour and 90 minutes of exercise a day is the recommended level for maintaining weight loss.

Force old extensions / addons to work in Firefox 3

Force old extensions / addons to work in Firefox 3

Type about:config into the address bar.

Double click to change the following to change both to false

extensions.checkCompatibility

extensions.checkUpdateSecurity

or use this extension

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Scientists claim 100 times faster Internet speed

Scientists claim 100 times faster Internet speed

Scientists at the University of Sydney claim increased Internet speeds 100 times greater than current networks. Researchers at the University of Sydney have developed technology that could boost the throughput of existing networks by 100-fold without costing the consumer any more, and its all thanks to photonic integrated circuit.

This circuit uses the scratch as a guide or a switching path for information - like when trains are switched from one track to another - except this switch takes only one picosecond to change tracks. This means that in one second the switch is turning on and off about one trillion times. We are talking about photonic technology that has terabit per second capacity. Research is based on collaboration between teams at the University of Sydney, the Australian National University, and the Technical University of Denmark.

KallOut - Search web from any windows application

KallOut - Search web from any windows application

KallOut is the first application to bring "selection-based search" to any web page, email, presentation, document, spreadsheet or PDF.

All you have to do is select some text in any windows applications such as word, excel, outlook, notepad or pdf and wait moment and an icon appears on your screen, then select from multiple search systems, including Google, Wikipedia, Amazon, and various other commerce sites, databases, and news sources. Search results are displayed in an on-screen window.

This is very useful to search rather than copying it and pasting in the browser it into a browser whenever you want more information.

Download it free from http://www.kallout.com/

Temporary email account

Temporary email account

Very useful when you are foreced to register in some forums / websites etc. MintEmail.com gives you a four hour temporary email address. When you open the site a new temporary email address has been already generated to you. Simply press submit button and the email ID will be automatically copied to clip board.

or

You can create a custom email and use it. And the replies you receive can be choosed to forward your real email account for a time period ranging 12 hours to 3 months.

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Time saving firerfox shortcuts

Firefox shortcuts:

/ = Find As You Type Text
‘ = Find As You Type Link
Alt+F4 = Close Window
Backspace = Back
Ctrl+- = Shrink text
Ctrl++ = Zoon text
Ctrl+B = Bookmarks
Ctrl+C = Copy
Ctrl+D = Add bookmark
Ctrl+Enter = Add www at start and.com at end in address bar
Ctrl+F = Find in This Page
Ctrl+F4 = Close Tab
Ctrl+G = Find Again
Ctrl+I = Bookmarks
Ctrl+J = Downloads
Ctrl+Shift+W = Close Window
Ctrl+Shift-Enter = Add .org to address bar
Ctrl+Shift-I = DOM Inspector
Ctrl+W = Close Tab
Ctrl+X = Cut
Ctrl-Shift-G = Find Previous
Delete = Delete
F3 = Find Again
F7 = Caret Browsing
Shift+Delete = Delete Individual Form AutoComplete Entry
Shift+Enter = Add www at start and.net at end in address bar
Shift+F3 = Find Previous