There are a lot of myths about online identity theft. The most common myth is the hackers are able to crack in servers and fetch the usernames & passwords of any user. The modern servers are secure enough and can not be hacked by any hacker that easily. It is possible to be safe from identity theft by taking precautions. To bust all myths, following are the 6 most common ways to hack an online identity and tips to be safe from the hackers.

Buying Christmas gifts is hard – you spend hours if not days browsing Amazon and a considerable amount of life in stores looking for the perfect gifts.

Men always complain how hard it is to get the right gifts for the ladies in their lives. But let me tell you something – it’s super hard to find the right gift for a man, especially if he loves all things tech and knows a lot more about technology than you do. So, ladies, here are some tech gift ideas for the men in your life.

Bittorrent is amazing, the most common protocol for sharing large files roughly accounts for 27–55% of traffic on the internet as of Feb 2009 (source).

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It allows large files to be distributed while sharing the bandwidth cost between many people. You just need a torrent file to start. Here are 68 carefully chosen free top sites to search torrents. Enjoy:

Mozilla has just released Firefox 4 beta 5 for download. It comes with Graphics acceleration feature along with some other features. Firefox 4 Beta is based on the Gecko 2.0 Web platform.

The obvious difference that you will notice, when compared with Beta 4, is the redesign of the reduced menu. It seems similar to Chrome and is not using graphical elements for copy, cut, and paste, this is apparently made to simplify the use of the browser on touch screens (keeping in mind the growing trend of Tablets).

In the last MIX, Microsoft demoed the possibilities of Windows Azure that included the support for PHP and MySQL.

The CheezeBurgerNetwork (icanhascheezburger.com) was the first one to officially appear in MIX and announce the shift to Windows Azure for hosting their WordPress blogs.

Music is life, I never found anyone who’s life isn’t influenced by Music. Why the best things in life like Music are not free? Actually, there is more legally available for free Music than you think.

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Here is a list of 100 sites that let you stream or download music for free legally! This super list has sites where you can find most of your favorite songs and other awesome music that you will enjoy listening to. Check them out, share and have fun.

BlackBerry recently announced their latest touch screen phone the BlackBerry Touch 9800. Guys at crackberry have made this video comparing the browser speed of BlackBerry Tourch 9800 webkit with iPhone 4 Safari and Samsung Captivate Android 2.1. No spoilers, check out yourself who wins. [image & video via crackberry]

WordPress has announced that they will drop support for PHP 4 and MySQL 4 in WordPress 3.2 that is expected to be released in the first half of 2011. The new minimum required version will be PHP 5.2 and MySQL 5.0.15.

Since 1997, Intel Developer Forum (IDF) gathers technology specialist from around the world to to discuss Intel products. This year’s 2nd IDF is going to be held at San Francisco on 13-15 September in which Intel will present some of its leading and futuristic technologies.

CEO and President of Intel will start the IDF opening day with his keynote and later the executive vice president and general manager of Intel will talk about the expansion of Intel® Atom™  processor ecosystem. The day 2 keynote will be delivered by Doug Davis, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Embedded and Communications Group; and Renee James, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Software and Solutions Group. On day 3, the future of computing will be discussed mainly by Justin Rattner, vice president and director of Intel Labs, Intel’s chief technology officer.

Super Mario is an all time classic. It has many fans who create very creative stuff inspired by it. I just stumbled upon this video that is apparently put up by STRIKEGENTLY in which a violin player is adding some really awesome music to Super Mario game play: