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Twenty years of open access has allowed us to build the Internet into a powerful economic engine; a platform for the free exchange of information and ideas. Striking down protection of that open access is a major threat to innovation, free speech, and the Internet as we know it. A closed Internet is unproven. There is merit in being concerned. Because no matter how the DC Court of Appeals had ruled on Net Neutrality, the Internet is heading down the path of closure. It’s increasingly becoming a place where the precious few decide on our collective online future. Either way the case had gone, the outcome remains the same. Only those with pockets deep enough to fund government affairs, lobbyists, or submit the payola demanded by corporate gatekeepers will thrive. Tech has become a world of winner take all. Today’s decision only reinforces the trend. That said, for the ISPs, it’s a momentous decision. This ruling will consolidate their powerful role as arbiters of culture and speech. And we can expect this consolidation to escalate now that Big Content and Big Networks have been given an unambiguous green light. For everyone else, permission to play — the ability to even compete — will come at a cost. What is the impact on consumers? The vast majority of users on the Internet will succumb to the siren song of “free data” and “sponsored data”; never quite realizing the old adage about free lunch. Millions will never care or know to care about the free and open Internet that once was, and could have been. The impact may be subtle: favored applications that work better as competitors are relegated to the slow lane. Or, it may be more pronounced, with punitive traffic throttling or blocking for competitors. But to paraphrase Larry Lessig, code is law. Technology perhaps has a role to play yet. The Internet has seen challenges before, and many smart innovators hold its future dear to heart. There can be a way to counter the inevitable market distortions that are set to come about. Our implementation of uTP for network congestion control has proven that. And we may yet deliver on the original promise of the Internet as an open, social and democratic medium for all and not just the chosen few. For technologists, this is a call for innovation. We need a new series of protocols that — regulated or not — cannot be manipulated by carriers or other forces. This is a call for a true, open internet.

At BitTorrent, we’ve been a central figure in the defense of an open Internet from the earliest moments of the Net Neutrality debate. We’ve always taken a strong stance and firmly believe an open Internet is worth fighting for. We helped solve the issue for the ISPs during the first round of this argument with theimplementation of uTP, which relieved heavy bandwidth usage during peak hours. Most recently we were among the first to strongly state that leaving an open Internet unprotected would have dire consequences. With the FCC codifying the ability for ISPs to discriminate against Internet traffic and implement a pay-for-play Fast Lane, our worst fears may come true. That is why we have published an open letter to the FCC at internetbetter.com. The letter outlines our thoughts on the proposed changes to Net Neutrality. As we’ve stated in the past, these changes will harm innovation, free speech, and user-choice. To help paint a picture of what the new reality for the Internet might look like, we also created jointhefastlane.com which gives a satirical peek at a future without Net Neutrality. At least we hope it’s satirical; as many have commented in the past few weeks, the proposition is all too real. This is an important moment in the history of the Internet. Collectively, we are the ones who get to decide what the next 20 years of the Internet will look like. Take a close look at internetbetter.com and jointhefastlane.com and take this opportunity to make your voices heard. We also posted a copy of our letter below: The open Internet facilitated a rapid expansion of new innovations. For over two decades it fueled unprecedented economic and creative growth. It served as a platform for the free exchange of information and ideas. It allowed companies such as ourselves to challenge the status-quo and introduce new technologies directly to the world. It served as a democratic medium that did not discriminate. It was the final frontier that provided everyone with an equal opportunity for success. Today, we face a future in which the open Internet could be shut down. The FCC’s proposed changes to Net Neutrality would create a preferential fast lane for designated traffic. Those with the deep pockets to pay for this fast lane will have the ability to access and distribute content at higher speeds. Those who lack the purchasing power will be disadvantaged. This moves us towards an Internet of discrimination. In a world where we speak in shared photos and video streams, to bias traffic is to bar free speech. In a world where Internet access is fundamental to enterprise and invention, to bias traffic is to effectively end innovation. The stakes are this high. A fast lane marks the end of consumer choice. We will no longer be able to decide how we want to use the Internet. Instead the chasm between fast and slow content will continue to grow until we are are forced towards a curated internet that is devoid of diversity. An open Internet is worth protecting. We are at a crossroads, and the decisions made in the upcoming months will set a precedent for decades to come. We want to be on the right side of history. We want our children and our grandchildren to have the same opportunities we have been afforded. Now is the time to take action. This is the generation that will decide if tomorrow’s Internet will be a platform for freedom and opportunity, or a tool for control and monetization. Check out the resources below and make your voices heard. The FCC has asked us to weigh in on the proposed changes to Net Neutrality. Write a personal note and let them know we should fight to keep an open Internet. DearFCC.org helps walk you through the process. Contact the FCC Call or write your local Congress representative. Be polite. Tell them that the future of innovation requires an open Internet. Ask them to take a stand against any proposal that introduces a “fastlane”.

PayPal President David Marcus is leaving the payments company at the end of this month to lead mobile messaging efforts at Facebook. Marcus, who was president of PayPal for a little over two years, will join Facebook as vice president of messaging products, the company announced Monday. In the position, Marcus will be focused on "developing great new messaging experiences that better serve the Facebook community and reach even more people." Marcus expanded on his decision to leave eBay-owned PayPal in a message posted on LinkedIn. He said the company is in good shape thanks to a "strong" product pipeline, the acquisition mobile payments company Braintree, and because "talent is flowing into the company again." Marcus added that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's "vision" for mobile messaging is what finally convinced him to work for the social network. "At first, I didn't know whether another big company gig was a good thing for me," he wrote, "but Mark's enthusiasm, and the unparalleled reach and consumer engagement of the Facebook platform ultimately won me over." When Marcus leaves PayPal at the end of June, eBay CEO John Donahoe will lead day-to-day operations until a permanent successor can be appointed, said eBay spokesperson Amanda Miller. Facebook, the world's largest social network, announced plans in April to remove the chatting feature from its main Facebook app, prompting people to chat instead of use its standalone Messenger app. The move is part of Facebook's larger plan to develop more standalone mobile apps. The standalone Messenger app is used by more than 200 million people every month, Facebook said. Marcus joined PayPal in 2011 when his company Zong, a mobile payments provider for gaming and social-networking companies, was acquired by eBay. Facebook shares rose 38 cents Monday to close at $62.88. eBay shares fell 12 cents to close at $49.58.

First download Remote Torrent Adder Here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...ghcmenci?hl=en once you have it added to chrome, go to settings and go to the extensions page here you will see t Then click on options you will see Change Client to rutorrent you will then have more webui specific settings, you will need to change the following: change the ip to the ip of your own seedbox!! After Changing the settings it should look something like this: READ ME:!!! also the relative path will change depending on your seedbox and how you have it setup (Example) if you login to your seedbox and the address ishttp://192.168.1.1/rutorrent then you will use /rutorrent as the path but if your seedbox addess is http://192.168.1.1/home/torrent/rutorrent then your path will be /home/torrent/rutorrent remember no need to change labels or directory rutorrent should already put everything in the default directory and for most users you wont need to change port number to 443 unless your using ssl port 80 should work great. after all your hard work, go to your fav torrent site click download and it should automatically download to your seedbox not interaction necessary. you should see in the lower right corner and congrats your all done!! Enjoy

For our Linux users, the Sync team has released a new build (1.3.105) with some new updates and features. First, you’ll notice that we updated Sync with a new Web UI to give it a cleaner appearance. We also added an “Add Folder” dialog file picker that will default to /data path to only show a user’s shared folders. Another big update was that we’re allowing users to create new folders within the file picker. Have a look at the changes and if you have any questions and/or comments, we invite you to participate in our forums. Happy Syncing!

Every now and then it's being questioned why the Pirate Party chose the political route to safeguard privacy and other liberties, as well as reform those monopolies that stand in its way, such as the copyright monopoly. The answer is simple: activism isn't enough. It can be very educational to watch the behavior of career politicians. They frequently have opinions about individual activists and activist movements. You can hear them praising the efforts to change society and participate in the democratic process, in the media, in articles, and in person. And then they move ahead with a bill that does the exact opposite. To wit: In Sweden, in the week after the European Elections, a temporary and controversial wiretapping bill was made permanent. It may look like a coincidence. Then again, Peter Sunde, the spokesperson of the Pirate Bay, was arrested in the same week. That’s another coincidence, just as when the Appeals Court hearings for The Pirate Bay mock trial which were slated for the week right after an election. And there was another coincidence when the evaluation of the illegal Data Retention Directive was to be presented right after the elections, rather than facing the music and abolishing it once it was declared illegal. There are many more examples. And then those career politicians usher more warm words over the activists for liberty – people who are personally responsible for you and me having some of our liberties we wouldn’t have otherwise. Let’s name a few of them. Assange. Brown. Svartholm-Warg. Hammond. Sunde. Manning. All of these have provided exemplary transparency and resistance to power grabs by overreaching and shameless governments. Each and every one of us owes a significant amount of liberty to each of these individuals. They also have another thing in common: They are all confined to a small room, their freedom of movement gone, their liberty shackled. There are many more who find it impossible to return to their home country after such exemplary civic duty. Snowden. Appelbaum. Many anonymous people who have chosen to leave. The list just goes on. Activism just isn’t enough. The fate of our best and brightest activists can be seen right here. As an activity, on its own, it’s not producing the necessary results. Not on its own. It’s at this point that we need to look closer at the behavior of career politicians. It’s important to realize that the first problem that a career politician tries to solve is how to get elected. The second problem a career politician tries to solve is how to get re-elected. Whatever comes in third place is so far behind the first two that it’ll never really surface. In short, unless you threaten politicians’ jobs over their dismantling of liberty, they’ll not notice in the slightest but just smile at your proposals, praise you for engaging in civic society, kiss some babies, and then introduce more surveillance. That’s why activism for liberty remains extremely necessary. That’s also why activism remains not sufficient. We absolutely, positively need to put politicians’ jobs on the line over Orwelling the world we live in. That’s why the Pirate Party chose the political route, putting Orwellian politicians’ jobs on the line. But the party as a movement can’t function without tens of thousands of activists who also help in the common cause.

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​Not finding the extension you need on the Chrome Web Store? Despite Google's recent process change, third-party extensions can still be installed with just a few steps. Read on to learn how. The Chrome Web Store may not always have the extension you need. In the past, you could easily install an extension from a third-party website, and everything ran smoothly as though you were installing from the official channel. Unfortunately, this created a lot of opportunities for makers of malicious extensions to take advantage of unsuspecting users. As a result, Google decided to more thoroughly analyze extensions hosted in its Web Store and also change the process for installing third-party extensions. This new process puts the responsibility for risking data in your hands. If you're still willing to take the risk, there's an easy way to manually install extensions from third parties. Here's how: Before heading into the steps, make sure you are using the most recent version of Chrome. Click the three-line button in the top right-hand corner and choose Help. If you need to update, Chrome will do so automatically and then ask you to relaunch the browser. Chrome confirms that you want to download a specific file type.Screenshot by Nicole Cozma/CNET Step 1: Download the *.CRX (Chrome extension) file from the third-party website. A pop-up will appear along the bottom of Chrome asking you to Continue or Discard the download, click Continue. You will not be prompted to install it. Check off the Developer Mode box on the Extensions page.Screenshot by Nicole Cozma/CNETStep 2: Click the three-line button in the top right-hand corner and go to Tools > Extensions. Add a check to the box next to Developer mode at the top of the page. A sample of permissions for an extension that is being installed.Screenshot by Nicole Cozma/CNET Step 3: Locate the *.CRX file on your computer, then drag and drop it onto the Extensions page. A pop-up will appear showing you the permissions the extension will have, and asking you to confirm the install. Click Add to finish the installation. Now you will be able to install extensions that are not hosted in the Chrome Web Store. However, please do so at your own risk, and make sure to read permissions for each extension very carefully. If you need to remove an extension, you can do so by clicking the trash can icon next to it on the Extensions page.

YouTube releases the Google Video Quality Report, a tool that shows how your video-streaming quality compares to your neighbor's. The YouTube logo on display in the lobby of YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno, Calif.Seth Rosenblatt/CNETTo further YouTube's goal to get more people to watch its videos in high-definition, Google's video giant on Thursday released a new tool that analyzes your video stream quality. The Google Video Quality Report is available to people in the US and Canada, where it launched in January. It compares your streaming video quality to three standards: HD Verified, when your provider can deliver HD video consistently at a resolution of at least 720p without buffering or interruptions; Standard Definition, for consistent video streaming at 360p; and Lower Definition, for videos that regularly play at less than 360p or often are interrupted. YouTube said in a blog post announcing the tool's US availability that it is respectful of its users' privacy, and anonymize the data gathered. The ratings are "centered around networks, not users," no user data is stored, and samples are anonymized, the report says of its methodology. Google says it will expand the report's range to more countries in the coming months, although perhaps the real solution to buffering problems will be the expansion of gigabit Internet access in the coming years. For now, the report suggests seven tips for improving your streaming video quality, including some common sense measures such as making sure your roommates aren't hogging your bandwidth and moving closer to your Wi-Fi router. Comcast streaming video quality in San Francisco, according to Google's Video Quality Report.

The Chinese e-commerce giant will use its 10 percent stake to tap into the Singapore national postal service's regional infrastructure. SingPost/Alibaba Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce juggernaut that's part-owned by Yahoo, has made a S$312.5 million ($250 million, AU$270 million) investment in Singapore's national postal service, SingPost, the companies announced today. The deal, inked yesterday, will give Alibaba a 10 percent stake, and the two companies also signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for an upcoming joint venture regarding international e-commerce logistics. With e-commerce sales in the Asia Pacific region expected to hit $1 trillion by 2017, Alibaba hopes to tap into SingPost's regional infrastructure and international logistics capabilities for its Taobao site, perhaps as a first step to becoming a more global operation. While Taobao does have a Southeast Asia version that guides non-Mandarin speakers into ordering online, it's still aconvoluted process that will drive away users who are more used to websites such as Amazon.Taobao is famous for having great prices on everything under the sun, but notorious for being very hard to use if you live outside of China. Customers usually pay a shipping agent to order and ship the product out of the country. By tapping into SingPost's infracture, Taobao could potentially make it much easier for customers to order and ship products to the region, thereby increasing its market presence outside of China.

The man who was Geordi La Forge is committed as ever to teaching kids to read, and now he's Kickstarting funds to take "Reading Rainbow" global. "Reading Rainbow" is raising millions from crowdfunders.Video screenshot by Eric Mack / CNETLess than 24 hours prior to this writing, on Wednesday morning, the world's top geek in charge of early childhood literacy for much of the past three decades took to Kickstarter to ask for a million dollars. The crowdfunding pitch was to use the funds to bring the popular "Reading Rainbow" PBS series (which also launched an official tablet app in recent years) to the Web and into classrooms around the world. Turns out the world still loves LeVar Burton and "Reading Rainbow," because the campaign has already raised $1.7 million, including almost $20,000 since I started writing this post -- and it still has 34 days to go. Burton, well-known for his role as Geordi La Forge in "Star Trek: The Next Generation," posted the teary-eyed video below from the set of the TNT show "Perception" after the crowdfunding campaign met its goal on Wednesday night. "The first million raised will help us get onto the web and into 1,500+ classrooms...but now that we're there (!), we've got some big ideas for stretch goals. We'll be sharing our new goals in the next 1-2 days."An updated version of the Kickstarter campaign acknowledges the milestone and plans to add new bonus incentives: The Kickstarter campaign already offers a dizzying array of rewards for backers, from incentives meant for classrooms, "Reading Rainbow" fans, and even the opportunity to have your photo taken wearing Geordi La Forge's original visor after having a private dinner with LeVar. Holy cow, 12-year-old me is freaking out right now (OK, OK, so is 34-year-old me) -- is it possible to do a Kickstarter in order to raise money to back another Kickstarter?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlcWMRfgPXI

Reed Hastings says Netflix has no interest in making its own video-streaming device like Amazon's Fire TV, nor will it pour money into licensing live sports. Netflix CEO Reed HastingsScreenshot by Joan E. Solsman/CNETIf you're a Netflix superfan, Chief Executive Reed Hastings may have just burst a couple of your bubbles: dreams of a Netflix-made streaming-media box and live sports. In a Q&A session at the Recode technology conference in Palos Verdes, Calif., Hastings said Thursday his subscription-streaming-video company has no interest in making a device, and it doesn't have the time, energy or money to buy the rights to live sports content. Competitor Amazon launched a media-streaming device, Kindle Fire TV, earlier this year. The e-commerce giant competes with Netflix with its Prime Instant Video streaming service, which is part of its $99-a-year Prime membership program best known for free two-day shipping on qualifying Amazon purchases. However, Amazon has long been part of the consumer-electronics game, with its ubiquitous Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fire tablets. Netflix, as superfans may recall, once had a hand in developing a streaming box. Roku founder Anthony Wood once worked at Netflix as its vice president of Internet TV, helping on a project to deliver movies directly to subscribers' televisions over the Internet. But Netflix later jettisoned the project to Wood's own company Roku, which eventually released the streaming boxes many use today to watch Netflix in their living rooms. "We're working with over 1,000 devices now," he said. "There's no value-add for us to do a device." A more drastic departure for Netflix would be a foray into live sports. The company has focused entirely on libraries of legacy video content, first with DVDs, then with streaming movies and past-season television, and lately with fresh original television developed by Netflix itself like "House of Cards." Sports programming is a realm that traditional television has continued to keep in its grasp, as its live nature makes it difficult to deliver through a streaming service reliably en masse. And the most popular live sports typically fetch top-dollar advertising rates, which in turn makes the content some of the most expensive to license from rights holders like pro leagues. Netflix expanding its scope to include live sports would quickly turn the service into a much closer approximation of a pay-TV replacement -- but thus far Netflix has focused more on being more like an online TV channel than an online TV distributor along the lines of Comcast or DirecTV. According to Hastings, that's not likely to change. "Live in general isn't a big area for us," he said. "But it's just beginning." Hastings also discussed a high-profile quarrel with Comcast over interconnection -- a way content providers like Netflix can link up their systems to Internet service providers to ensure better reliability. He called it a matter of principle, and said the declining performance of Netflix to Comcast's customers meant Netflix "had to take a deal." "If they charge the Internet a little bit now, as they grow, they're going to charge more and more and more. It's getting ahead of that principle," he said. Similarly, consumers who use more broadband shouldn't have to pay more than anyone else, he said, just as people who listen to radio constantly don't have extra payments. Wednesday, Comcast Chief Executive Brian Roberts spoke at the Code conference as well, saying Netflix simply would like to pay nothing, but everyone has to pay something to get to the Internet. Netflix shares were recently up $12.90, or 3.2 percent, at $414.09. The stock has been climbing steadily through the day.

Quickly after Apple's deal to buy a music-streaming service, a report says Amazon will launch a similar offering but one lacking new releases. Amazon.com CEO Jeff BezosAmazonAmazon plans to launch a streaming-music service in June or July similar to the one Apple just agreed to purchase through its Beats deal, though the e-commerce company's catalog would be limited, according to a Buzzfeed report on Thursday. A message to Amazon seeking comment wasn't immediately returned. The article, citing unnamed people in the music industry familiar with the plans, said the offering wouldn't have new music releases -- songs would be about six months old at their freshest-- and it would be part of Amazon's existing $99-a-year Prime membership program, which includes free second-day shipping on some Amazon purchases and a Netflix-like streaming video service. By adding a music service to Prime that is fundamentally more restricted than its major rival, Amazon is unlikely to lure in totally new customers attracted solely to a streaming product. However, following Amazon's recent price increase to Prime from $79, the addition of streaming music will be a bonus for people who are already members, and it will turn Prime into a more well-rounded collection of services. The streaming-music category is still relatively unfamiliar to mainstream consumers but is growing rapidly -- and quickly becoming more competitive. Sweden-based Spotify as well as a host of smaller startups vie with similar offerings by tech giants like Google's Play Music All Access and soon-to-be Apple's Beats Music. Yet services like these often generate their greatest spikes in attention by brokering exclusives or early releases for their platforms. Beyonce, for example, released her latest album exclusively throughiTunes, dropping 14 tracks and 17 videos without any prerelease hype, leaks, or reviews -- and garnering a huge amount of press for her project and for Apple's music store in the process. Amazon will be at a disadvantage to competitors if the catalog restrictions on new content extend to such deals, but exclusive arrangements are typically negotiated in one-off pacts unrelated to broader licensing agreements. With subscription-music services growing rapidly and digital downloads showing their first sales decline last year, music labels have been accommodating to new services seeking to license content to stream. A deal that limits streaming access to older tracks -- thus insulating physical and digital sales when demand is highest -- was likely an easy pitch to make to labels. The article said that Amazon has reached license deals with Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group, two of the big three music labels, as well as several independent ones. The status of Universal Music Group, the world's biggest recorded-music company by revenue, wasn't confirmed.

Turkey's Constitutional Court puts the kibosh on a YouTube ban, saying the prohibition ran afoul of the country's free speech laws. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan waves the four-finger sign of rabia during a political rally. Erdogan has called for bans on Twitter and Facebook, both of which have been overturned by Turkey's courts.Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's attempts to restrict social media and Internet usage have been struck down for a second time by the country's highest court. Turkey's Constitutional Court struck down a ban on video-sharing site YouTube in the country on Thursday, less than two months after the court ruled that Erdogan's Twitter ban was also against the law. The May 29 ruling strikes down the blockade, which was imposed on March 27. The next step is for the Transportation and Communication Ministry and the Telecommunications Directorate (TIB) to implement the court's order. The ban had been appealed by YouTube, Turkish scholar Kerem Altıparmak, and President Metin Feyzioğlu of the Union of Turkey's Bar Associations. The YouTube ban has contributed to large-scale demonstrations and protests about the government's increasingly restrictive policies. YouTube declined to comment for this story. However, the TIB has said that it won't unblock YouTube because the site hosts "criminal content," reported the Turkish news site Hurriyet Daily News, referring to a leaked recording of a Turkish government security meeting on Syria . The TIB already has ignored an April 9 lower court ruling against the ban. The high court cited Article 26 of the Turkish constitution when striking down the ban: "Everyone has the right to express and disseminate his or her thoughts and opinion by speech, in writing, pictures or through other media, individually or collectively," it reads.

Some of the most innovative sites are the result of a single person with a good idea and the drive to see it through (plus a little help from their friends). The Pinboard bookmarking site charges a one-time fee that increases as more people sign up.Screenshot by Dennis O'Reilly/CNETThere are many very good reasons why you and millions of others turn to CNET for reliable, useful, and timely tech information. In fact, there are hundreds of good reasons: all the people behind the pages (and the videos, and the apps). The talented individuals that comprise CNET -- the writers, editors, designers, developers, managers -- are among the best in the business across the board. I'm honored and humbled to share this space with them. At the same time, there are some sites that are driven by one person with a good idea, and the drive to make it happen. That's the case with these five sites from Internet wizards. A new model for archiving your Internet past How much would you pay for a private archive of your personal web history? The going rate is currently $10.39, but it is likely to go up. Maciej Ceglowski's Pinboard bookmarking service is priced to remain a one-person operation. When the service launched in 2009 it cost $3. As more new users sign up, the price goes up to match the increased work, or something like that. At least that's how Ceglowski explained it in a 2011 interview with Matthew Guay on AppStorm. In addition to coming up with innovative business models (he actually credits Joshua Schachter with the concept), Ceglowski has some important ideas about the state of the Internet. His talk at Beyond Tellerrand in Dusseldorf, Germany, on May 20 explains the threat posed by Big Data more clearly than anything I've ever read. Ceglowski made news in early 2013 for his Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud, which awarded $37 in venture capital to six different startups. Ryan Tate of Wired News reported that Ceglowski intended to show that startups don't always need a lot of money. A cool place for tool fans Kevin Kelly is probably best known as the founding executive editor of Wired Magazine. But as hisWikipedia biography indicates, Kelly is a guy with a lot of big ideas. One of his best, in my opinion, isCool Tools, a site that's like getting lost in the world's largest hardware store, complete with demonstrations and descriptions from people who have actually used the tool. The Cool Tools site is a gadget lover's favorite waste of time on the Web.Screenshot by Dennis O'Reilly/CNETCool Tools defines a tool as "anything that can be useful." Maybe you'll start by learning how to prevent a wheelbarrow from tipping, and then you'll scroll to a personal, hands-on review of a $15 portable spotlight. The user reviews on the Cool Tools site give you a personal impression of the product.Screenshot by Dennis O'Reilly/CNETThe topics range from the best work boots to the Footbike bike/scooter hybrid to the best Wi-Fi access point. As the site's archive explains, Cool Tools started as email messages to a handful of Kelly's friends that included reviews of various products. Since 2008, the site has featured user-written reviews, now edited with care by Mark Frauenfelder. A submission form is provided if you'd like to add your unique perspective about one of your favorite gadgets or gizmos. An independent analysis of everything wireless If you spend much time on Dailywireless.org, you get the impression Sam Churchill knows more about the wireless industry than any 100 people wearing a press badge at the last CTIA conference. (No, I wasn't there -- it's hyperbole.) For example, Churchill's image-rich story about self-driving cars points out the benefits of shared driverless vehicles and the trend away from car ownership and toward mass transit. Churchill follows that up with an honest appraisal of the benefits of using rooftops in urban areas to house small-cell base stations. Sam Churchill's Dailywireless.org goes in depth on the latest wireless technologies.Screenshot by Dennis O'Reilly/CNETDailywireless.org's archives include thousands of articles on such topics as GPS, space and satellites, and grassroots wireless. The archive is also searchable by month back to 2002, and Churchill provides links to dozens of tech sites. The best of the worst of the Internet? If you've ever asked yourself, "What's the point?" you'll probably get Distractify, a site that seems more pointless the more time you spend on it, yet the more pointless it becomes, the more time you spend on it. Hu also claims to know about virality, and I tend to agree with him about that. I mean, there's eye candy, and then there's eye superglue.Creator Quinn Hu started on YouTube as a teenager and now claims to have more than one million followers. (If I had a million followers, I think I'd call a cop. Wait a minute -- I do have a million followers: they're called "websites.") I'm certainly not going to make much of an attempt to describe Distractify. I know you never thought about what your favorite movies would look like if they had been made decades earlier, but once you take a look (maybe against your better judgment), you won't be able to shake the concept out of your noggin. I was about to write a caption, but something caught my attention.Screenshot by Dennis O'Reilly/CNETAnd yes, there are animals, and more animals, and more animals. And yes, they're too cute. If I didn't know any better, I'd say that's art There are people who live for comics. I'm not one of them. Oh, I read the funny pages in the daily newspaper (Remember daily newspapers?), but generally I prefer live action and plain text -- sometimes at the same time. Even a lukewarm comic fan such as myself appreciates the odd beauty and unsentimental humor of Benjamin Dewey's Tragedy Series. This is yet another site that is beyond my meager powers of description, and I don't mind saying it. Benjamin Dewey's Tragedy Series is that rare thing on the Internet: Unique.Screenshot by Dennis O'Reilly/CNETNot long after I discovered Dewey's site, I learned that the Tragedy Series is scheduled to end with the publication of the 500th tragedy this summer, as Josh Rosman reports on the Oregon Public Broadcasting site. OPB also features a video interview with Dewey. The series has a Victorian look but a thoroughly modern irony. It's dark, but not in a particularly threatening way. It's also hysterical, in an understated way. Darkly ironic, hysterically understated -- that's all I got.

The petition sought emergency stay pending the resolution of an appeal concerning the case's class status. A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected Apple's latest bid to postpone an antitrust lawsuit seeking damages from the tech giant for allegedly conspiring with book publishers to fix e-book prices. In a brief order, the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals denied Apple's petition for an emergency stay of district court proceedings pending resolution of an appeal concerning the case's class status. The three-judge panel determined that an immediate appeal was "unwarranted," clearing the way for the attorneys general in 33 states to pursue hundreds of millions of dollars in damages from Apple. The Justice Department sued Apple along with five of the six largest book publishers in the US in April 2012, accusing them of conspiring to set e-book prices and working together to break Amazon's hold on the market with its Kindle e-book reader. After a non-jury trial, US District Court Judge Deniseconcluded that Apple orchestrated a scheme with publishers to fix the prices of e-books. Apple is appealing that ruling. The case was granted class action status in March by Cote, whodenied another Apple motion last month to stay the damages trial, saying that the trial had already been subjected to delay and should proceed as scheduled.The states had pursued liability alongside the Justice Department, but as the case proceeded into the damages phase, Apple sought dismissal contending that the states lacked standing to seek damages. In April, Cote rejected that argument as contradictory. State attorneys general had sought $280 million in damages but asked in January that the amount be tripled because the US had already "conclusively proven" that Apple had orchestrated the conspiracy. The damages portion of the trial is scheduled to begin July 14.