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Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Now Playing plugin for Winamp

(also works with Yahoo! Messenger 8.1 or older)

Features:::.... - new: - works with Yahoo! Messenger 9.0! This is most probably the first Winamp plugin that supports this latest version! (also works with Yahoo! Messenger 8.1 or older)

Features:::....

- new: - works with Yahoo! Messenger 9.0! This is most probably the first Winamp plugin that supports this latest version! (also works with Yahoo! Messenger 8.1 or older)

- new: maximum 'Album' text increased to 50 characters

- fixed small bug - status was not changed for users who never changed their YM status

- new: supports changing the status when you are logged in with a non-default Yahoo! profile

- new: this homepage created!
- added 6 more placeholders: Album, Genre, Track No, Year, Volume, Channels - that makes a total of 14 !!
- status will NOT be changed if it is currently Invisible
- bug fix - winamp.exe still running as a process after closing (very sorry about that :|)
- default refresh interval is now one second; removed obsolete option to ask user if he is running YM 8

- does not require you to leave YM remember your user and password

- you can format the status with eight media details (most of the same details available in HyperIM's plugin, but with shorter names, and ofcourse not recursive)

- multiple lines in the status
- optional headphones in the status
- up to 255 characters in the status
- optional Busy or Idle icons, together or not with the headphones
- no advertising in the status, not at any time, like many other plugins do.

Installation and Help:::...

1. If you are upgrading from a previous version, close Winamp if it is currently running
2. Download the installer (see the head of this page), which is a ZIP file
3. The installer is inside the archive. Most probably you will be able to double click the file directly from the archive viewer to run the installer
4. If not, extract the file somewhere and run it from there.
5. After the installer is done, open Winamp, go to Preferences, click General purpose list item in lower left panel, and double click Yahoo! Messenger Now Playing to configure the plugin as you like it.

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Here is some info on how to download from RS.com as if you had a premium account
1. Download Firefox latest Edition then install it
2. Download Grease Monkey Extension
Here

Restart firefox then download this:
Here

unrar and drop the 9116.user.js in firefox
When you go to rapidshare.com you can use a download manager

TOYMAKER Apple has decided that Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage is so wonderful that it is trying to patent something similar.

Apple have been doing wonderful things this year to really miff its loyal fan base and it seems it wanted to close the year by nicking the thing that annoys even the most loyal Microsoft user.

The outfit has updated the patent application it calls "Run-time Code Injection to Perform Checks".

This patent tells the story of how Apple boffins invented the idea of a digital rights management system that could restrict use of an application to specific hardware platforms.

Apparently, the software phones home for an authenticity check.

If the software is pirated then Jobs Mob shall deem the software unworthy in its sight and make it unusable.

Currently, Apple does not dabble in the area of DRM-style security and would be well advised to stay away from it. After all WGA is one of the main reasons that people have stayed away from Vista.

It seems that Apple has been concentrating on its Iphone and Ipod gadgets so much that it has failed to notice that Microsoft got prior art on DRM that stuffs up the operating system and annoys the user.

The Tory party has put forward a rescue plan for the NHS IT system in the wake of the latest government data losses, which were revealed over the weekend. Nine English NHS trusts have owned up to large scale losses of personal data, and although in most cases the nature of this data has yet to be revealed, City & Hackney Primary Care Trust reportedly mislaid the names and addresses of 160,000 children.

Speaking on Radio 4's Today programme, Tory Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said that the losses illustrated the dangers of holding all NHS records on a single database that could be accessed by 300,000 individuals. The system need not however, he stressed, be entirely abandoned. Instead, data should be held on smaller, interoperable local databases.
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Records could then be shared when needed, with an audit trail held of individual accesses. The Department of Health argued, somewhat unconvincingly under the circumstances, that the central database would protect personal database because of the strength of its security systems. The Tory plan, however, appears to have merit in that it provides a viable, but more secure, way forward using the infrastructure that's being put in place under the government NHS plans. Effectively, this kind of approach could provide the government with an escape hatch, should it wish to use it.

The latest breaches, a total of ten across nine trusts, have emerged as part of the government's post-HMRC data security review. The City & Hackney loss occurred when a disc containing the data failed to arrive at an East London hospital, while other losses are though to have been of data stored on laptops and transferred on flash drives. It's worth noting that as this indicates poor handling practices for bulk data (precisely the problem that has been horribly exposed in government systems recently), neither the centralised system nor the Tory alternative is of itself a fix.

The Department of Health claimed that there is no evidence that the data might have fallen into the wrong hands, but said that the breaches were being dealt with locally by the individual trusts. Initially it said it did not have details of how many patients have been affected, but this morning it estimated a total of 168,000. It is, one might observe, a puzzle that the DoH seems unable to furnish details of the problem, but is able to say that there probably isn't one - how does that work?

It's also worth noting that, were it not for the HMRC blunder and the consequent security review being carried out by Cabinet Secretary Gus O'Donnell, all of the data losses now being reported would still have taken place, but few if any would have been revealed. So far the government has published one interim report on the HMRC incident and a progress report on the broader O'Donnell review. Full reports on both are due "in the spring." ®

The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion project to build the world's largest computer database of biometrics to give the government more ways to identify people at home and abroad, the Washington Post reported on Friday. The FBI has already started compiling digital images of faces, fingerprints, and palm patterns in its systems, the paper said.

In January, the agency--which focuses on violations of federal law, espionage by foreigners, and terrorist activities--expects to award a 10-year contract to expand the amount and kinds of biometric information it receives, it said.

At an employer's request, the FBI will also retain the fingerprints of employees who have undergone criminal background checks, the paper said.

If successful, the system, called Next Generation Identification, will collect the biometric information in one place for identification and forensic purposes,

FRANKLIN, N.H.—A New Hampshire business says a hacker rang up a $8,700 phone bill for one call to Saudia Arabia.
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Michael Bednaz, owner of Hexa Interactive Communications, says the caller talked for 808 minutes and insists it wasn't one of his employees.

AT&T is suing him for not paying a $14,600 phone bill -- which includes the call to Saudia Arabia and several other overseas calls Bednaz says aren't his responsibility.

Bednaz says he doesn't use AT&T for long distance. The calls were made late at night when the business isn't open. Bednaz hasn't had any luck persuading AT&T the calls aren't his. The company sued him earlier this month.

Apple rumour website Think Secret is closing down as part of a legal settlement with the computer company.

Apple launched a lawsuit against the site in January 2005 after it published details of the Mac Mini two weeks before its official announcement.

Nick Ciarelli, the publisher of Think Secret, had refused to divulge his sources, prompting Apple to take legal action.

A court in California ruled in March 2005 that bloggers from Powerpage, Apple Insider and Think Secret had to reveal their sources, but Ciarelli refused.

Ciarelli insisted that the agreement was a "positive solution for both sides ".

"As part of the confidential settlement, no sources were revealed and Think Secret will no longer be published," an official statement said.

Ciarelli added that he would now concentrate on other journalistic opportunities. "I am pleased to have reached this amicable settlement, and will now be able to move forward with my college studies and broader journalistic pursuits," he said.