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Skype: you use it, you love it, but you’re too damn tight to pay for any of the extended services. Don’t sweat it son, ’cause now even you cheap bastages can have Skype voicemail via Orb Networks’ free V4S voicemail service. What’s more, V4S (that’s, Voicemail for Skype) makes those voicemails accessible from any device with a streaming audio player connected to the Net (without any additional software), can send you new message alerts via email or SMS, and allows you to easily rewind and fast-forward messages since they are played in your media player. The service does, however require that you run their beta software on your XP machine logged into Skype and connected to the Internet “all the time” since this is the device which serves up and hosts those .WMA stored voicemails. We can’t imagine that Skype will be too happy about Orb Networks cutting into their revenue stream so you’d better get to downloading your beta while the downloadin’s good.[Thanks, Dave] …

HOW-TO: Map a drive to your FTP server – Engadget – www.engadget.com
Transferring files to and from your blog%u2019s webserver can become a nuisance. Most of the pain is from having to use an FTP program to move your files instead of the file manager you are accustom to. Novell%u2019s NetDrive can make this file juggling almost transparent. NetDrive lets you map your FTP server just like a local drive. Manage your files exactly like you would your offline files and NetDrive will do the uploading and downloading almost transparently.

Licensing restrictions keep Novell from distributing netdrive.exe on their web site so you will need to find it on the web. We got our copy from Loyola.

Watch our step-by-step tutorial for setting up NetDrive.

AllofMP3.com safe … for now – Engadget – www.engadget.com
Thanks to rampant post-communist-societal corruption the proper upholding of fair use statutes abroad, it looks like the Moscow City Police Computer Crimes division or the IFPI will not be going after AllofMP3.com after all. So it turns out that (brace yourself, Americans) Russian law apparently has strict delineation in standards of the sale of physical goods and the sale of IP, making litigation against AllofMP3.com nigh impossible so long as they’re paying their dues, so to speak. However, the site is still left open to civil lawsuits made by labels and record companies if they can prove the site hasn%u2019t been making its required mandatory “payments” to music licensees. We have a feeling the paper trail%u2019s at least a mile long, though, so let the downloading, er, continue! Can’t you just see Mitch Bainwol screaming “Curse you!” into the thundery night from the RIAA skyscraper on high?

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Xbox 360 5 minute Ourcolony clip: teaser 2!