Monthly Archives: August 2009

Now Download . Com – Yes folks searching for this. It is a SCAM!

Yes. NowDownload is a scam. That is why it’s disappeared off the Internet. The registrar for the domain name is GoDaddy. The owner is a Pablo Soto. The address listed for him – if real – is:
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Yahoo And Download Sites – Looks Like A Pogrom – But Is It? Micro ISV's Beware.

magine my delight today when I see the search term from Yahoo for "free live sound mixing software" and got the following result, page after page, for the download sites:
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Windows 7 – RTM 6th Of August 2009

Today - for those in the Northern Hemisphere (yesterday almost for the rest of us) Microsoft is releasing Windows 7 officially to RTM (Release To Manufacturing). Which means, the Microsoft MSDN server gods willing, I'll be able to download my own release licenses sometime in the small hours after midnight (my time). Of course if indeed I can get a connection, given the amount of traffic they are likely to get, it'll probably take a while to download.
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