Vertor logoHow frustrating can it be to wait for hours/days eagerly for your torrent download to complete, only to find out that the file you have downloaded is exactly NOT the one you are expecting? It just difficult to judge the content of a file by its name and size, since they can be faked easily.

Enter Vertor, a young torrent search engine that promise to check for downloadability, viruses, DRM and passwords for every torrent file listed. Besides, Vertor will also provide screenshots for movies and previews for songs to ensure that you are downloading the right media file.

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Spotted earlier by Amit, Google fails to get the right description for itself, when you Google for Google. Ironically, its counterpart, Yahoo! and Live Search, got the right description for Google instead.

Google for Google

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Amazon is offering 3 (+1) full version games free for download, namely Build-a-lot, Jewel Quest 2, The Scruffs and Big Kahuna Reef. This offer this valid until February 10, 2009.

Big Kahuna Reef, Jewel Quest 2, Build-a-lot, The Scruffs

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YouTube glass logoBy default, YouTube offers 9 color schemes to colorize its video player for embedding. Although color customization of YouTube player is very flexible, since it can be manipulated using hex color codes, YouTube is not providing any easy way to do so for whatever reason.

There is no way else to get more creative with colors, unless you edit the hex color code in the embed code, or use a third party tool.

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I’m pretty sure you have encountered a situation whereby, you know a word, but just couldn’t remember it at that very time. You briefly know how it sounds, little idea on how to spell it out and the meaning of the word. How annoying is that?

More than words by J.Salmoral
Photo by J.Salmoral

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I’m unsure if Google is having a glitch, but Google is claiming that every single website is having malware. Even when I Google for Google, Google itself claims that Google.com may harm my computer. Ridiculous.

Google Search Results

And when I click on it, it shows:

Or you can continue to Google.com at your own risk
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Is it just me or everyone else?

Update: It was due to human error.