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5. ISPs Who throttle BitTorrent Traffic

Some Internet providers try to slow you down when you use torrents. The Azureus wiki has list of ISPs who throttle BitTorrent traffic. It also suggests what encryption levels you should use.

6. How To Encrypt BitTorrent Traffic

More and more ISP’s are limiting and throttling BitTorrent traffic on their networks. By throttling BitTorrent traffic the speed of BitTorrent downloads decreases, and high speed downloads are out of the question. We show you some techniques that should help you evade some of these measures.

7. How To Tunnel BitTorrent over SSH

Sometimes it is impossible to use BitTorrent, if you’re at work, school, Comcast! or connected to a public hotspot for example. But there is an easy solution to overcome this problem. If you use a secure connection (SSH), you will be able to bypass almost every firewall.

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Optimization And Tweaking Tools

Image and photo manipulation And Viewing software

Burning, Ripping And Encoding Tools

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Royalty-free describes material (icons) that may be used for profit, without paying royalties. Royalty-free media is usually acquired for a ‘one time only’ fee, although public domain imagery and many works created under a copyleft license are also usable without paying royalties or an initial fee.

Today Opera announced the stabil released of Opera 9.2 ,it is not only an important update with bug fixes and the new Speed Dial functionality, it’s also a milestone in spreading Opera to new users around the world: Opera 9.2 for Windows ships with 31 languages.

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This WinXP Manager utility lets you optimize, tweak, tune up, and clean up your Windows XP. It bundles more than 30 different utilities in one. Get access to hundreds of hidden options to improve system’s performance and security, clean registry, junk files and defrag Registry, optimize network to speed connection, uninstall program smartly, and manage startup items.

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However if your already using Vista don’t worry you can tweak that too – Vista Manager

The post from Torrent Freak was ‘dugg” so i guess this list of 20 won’t be ‘lesser known’ now…

Find the full list here

The Top 10 Steps:

Changing Administrator Passwords and Usernames

Upgrading your Wifi Encryption

Changing the Default System ID

MAC Address Filtering

Stop Publicly Broadcasting your Network

Auto-Connect to Open Wifi Networks?

You’ve got a built-in firewall, so use it

Positioning of the Router or Access Point

When to Turn Off the Network

Putting your Improvements to the Test

Read the Full article here.

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Here’s what’s new:

* The aforementioned security fixes.
* HTML quicktags now work in Safari browsers.
* Comments are filtered to prevent them from messing up your blog layout.
* Compatibility with PHP/FastCGI setups.

It’s time to upgrade your WordPress powered sites with 2.0.6, you can download here

You can follow the developing news at TailRank.

The crackdown has begun and according to sources the guilty party will have to forked out $1000 per picture!.

Getty is said to have employed the services of Israel based company – Picscout to track down sites that contain unauthorized images from Getty.

There’s a current discussion of this matter over at Sitepoint Forums.

It was just a matter of time before something like DivShare popped up and here it is.

DivShare is a free file hosting service for everyone with no registration required at all and it does have some pretty nice features:

* Upload unlimited files
* Serve unlimited downloads
* Files stay online forever! NEW!
* No pop-up ads or spam
* Incredibly fast, reliable servers

More great stuff:

* Add a link and logo to your download pages
* Easy image galleries and thumbnails
* Nearly every file extension supported

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Corel® plans to change all of that by introducing the Corel® Snapfireâ„¢, Snapfire puts the fun in photo sharing, with it you can organize, edit & share your digital photos and videos and it’s quite simple to use, did i also mentioned that it’s absolutely FREE?

Organize photos and videos effortlessly

# Watch a full-screen slide show of photos & videos as soon as they are downloaded to your computer.

# Rate your photos and add captions.

Enhance photos with a few clicks

* Focus on what’s important in your photos. Crop to 4×6 so viewers notice the subject of your photo and not any distracting background.

* The Photo Doctor will let you know when a photo can be improved just by clicking Quick Fix.

Share all the photo fun

* Send stunning Snapfire Shows to friends and family.

* Let people see your photos instantly by embedding photos right into the body of your e-mail or e-mail larger photos as attachments.

This are just some of the features of this fantastic free software by Corel.

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The site that is for sale is Invisible KeyLogger, a superior stealth surveillance application that is completely undetectable.

The KeDevil is a Hardware Keylogger capable of memorizing over 260,000 keystrokes including website addresses, passwords, or anything typed on your computer. The KeyDevil is in fact a small electronic device plugged in between a standard PS/2 keyboard and a Personal Computer. It’s main function is to log all keys pressed on the keyboard to internal non-volatile memory. Stored data can be later recalled and analyzed at anytime.

Now that’s a cool thing ain’t it? well not that cool if you value your privacy

As of the time of this post not a single soul has matched the minimum bid although according to the owner the site makes a cool $12,000 per month, if that were true than the new owner would make his money back in no time with the help of some advertising.

Check out the site’s auction here.

This 3MB piece of program is a no brainer to use, just download it, install , just paste the URL of the YouTube webpage you want to rip into YouRipper and the video, in Flash Movie flv format is downloaded onto your PC.

The only one downside as far as i’m concerned is that it only works for Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP..bummer

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But thankfully Skype has released version 2.5 a few days ago so now all Mac users will enjoy the added benefit of making video conference calls.Mac Skype 2.5 now contains SMS support. There’s also support for multi-user conference chats, so you can chat with more than one person.

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MegaUpload today announced their new and improved premium account service and the introduction of their own version of a download manager, the Mega Manager.

Mega Manager is a standalone Windows client application for Megaupload and a generic download accelerator that we provide to our users free of charge.
You don’t have to buy a premium account or even be a registered user to use it!

Some of the Mega Manager Features:

Powerful uploading (up to 6 times faster than through a web browser)
- Upload at line speed
- Unattended batch uploads
- Resume broken uploads

Powerful downloading
- Resume broken downloads
- Unlimited unattended batch downloads (premium only)

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- Download at line speed (premium only)

FastStone Image Viewer for Windows boasts a nice design already, but you can customize it to your liking with several skins. Clicking a thumbnail puts a larger view of the shot in the lower-left pane, and you zoom in simply by dragging the mouse around. Though its image-editing tools can’t compete with those offered by a full-featured suite, there’s still enough here to make a decent amount of tweaks to your shots. You can resize, crop, remove red-eye, and adjust color, brightness, and contrast.As usual it supports all the major image types – BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA.

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Have fun finding and downloading music with Google at g2p

g2p is a product of i-hacked

I’ve been using eBay since 2004 and i normally tend to buy things with the ‘Buy It Now’ tag on it as i really hate bidding, plus the difference in timing (I’m GMT +8) means that at most times i’ll lose anyway to a last minute bidder or also known as a “snipper”.

I guess if you ever bidded on eBay before you would have experienced the same thing, snippers bidding at the very last moment just when you thought you were going to win it.

That’s where the Auction Sentry and Auction Sentry Deluxe software comes in to help you.The Auction Sentry is an online auction tool can streamline and automate the transactions you make through eBay auctions.

Auction Sentry automates bidding by placing your bid as close to the end of the auction as possible.The intuitive interface displays your auctions in a color-coded grid, indicating which auctions you are winning, which you have been out-bid on, and which you have set up a snipe bid for.Auction Sentry will place instant bids for you or it can set up time delayed bids (sniping!) to be placed just before the auction ends to make sure that YOU always get the last bid in. which of course increases your chance of coming out tops in the auction.

The software is not free and it costs $14.95 for the Standard Edition and $24.95 for the deluxe edition, you can however download a FREE 10 day trial of the software here.

Visit Auction Sentry for more details and purchase options.

In a twist of events popular P2P software Limewire is now suing the RIAA for Antitrust And Consumer Fraud.

It all began when the RIAA sued Limewire after Limewire wouldn’t agree to simply roll over and pretend the RIAA’s interpretation of the Supreme Court decision in the Grokster case was actually what the Supreme Court said.

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The court actually said that services could be found liable, if they were shown to actively induce infringement. The RIAA and the MPAA pretended this meant that any file sharing network that had unauthorized content was flat-out illegal. Of course, that’s a bit of a stretch.

The outcome of this lawsuit is what i am anticipating, i’ve always been a user of Limewire and believe it or not have never downloaded any other P2P software, Limewire is just what the doctor ordered, i’ve got myself the Pro version which is even better!.

Let’s wait and see what happens to this particular lawsuit..go Limewire!

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The Napster MP3 player is a 512MB version of the SanDisk Sansa m230 portable music player, which in addition to providing space for 512MB of WMA or MP3 files has an FM tuner, built-in microphone for voice recording and a backlit LCD display.

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UnBox will allow user to watch movies on their PC in DVD quality and users will have the choice of purchasing the movie/series or renting it.

Content can be downloaded to two different computers and can be stored on up to two portable media players that support Microsoft’s “PlaysForSure” technology. All purchases are stored in the customer’s Unbox account, and they can be re-downloaded on multiple computers.The good thing about it is that downloaded videos can be watched during downloading. According to the company, the “typical” broadband user should be able to start watching within five minutes of ordering a movie.

The bummer though is that at the moment it only works with Windows based PC’s.

When i visited the site it was pretty fast loading and the previews did look in good quality, i’m still hesistant to get an account but if you have one and have actually downloaded a movie than please do share your experience!

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Open source games are computer games assembled out of open-source software and open content.

Wikipedia has assembled quite a cool list of open source games and they have arranged it alphabetically (aww,how sweet..).

Start downloading some free games by clicking here.

Samsung plans to complement their store with their renage of MP3 players much like what Apple does with iTunes.

Samsung has tapped MusicNet to provide the library of songs for the store, which will likely offer both a monthly subscription and individual downloads. MusicNet currently powers Yahoo! Music Unlimited and MTV Networks’ URGE, which was developed with Microsoft and will be the primary service in Windows Media Player 11.

Do we really need another music store? what are they gonna offer that others haven’t?
Quiet a dumb idea if you ask me.

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This gadget will have more appeal to the older generation…or maybe this would be a perfect gift for your dad!

Introducing the USB Turntable.

The USB Turntable can be used for two things, First it can convert all those LP’s of your that have been lying around into the popular digital format -MP3 via USB, simply plug this chic little turntable into the nearest USB port, fire up the idiot-proof Audacity software and start converting your collection.

Secondly:

featuring adjustable gain, anti-skating control and high-speed vinyl recording function, the belt-driven USB Turntable can also be connected to any home stereo with CD or auxiliary inputs. This means you can spin your records through your regular system when you’re not converting them.

This gadget will suck £119.95 off your wallet/card.

For the full review and purchase options – click here

LARGE files

Yes…ever experienced sending a 4GB file through e-mail? how was your experience with that?!
most probably if was frustrating and time consuming, even made worst if you experienced “time out” as i did

What if you could split that big piece of a file into 4 smaller components so that each component will now be 1GB….that would be fantastic ain’t it?, or maybe split it even more so that each component is just 500MB?

Thank goodness for Partridge Software that has created a really cool software – the FileSplit 2.34.

FileSplit is a utility that splits large files into smaller files so that they can be easily copied to floppy disks or transferred via e-mail. Files can be split directly from Explorer by right clicking on any file and selecting Split File. FileSplit has an easy to use interface that makes splitting files fast and painless.

However this is NOT a free software (though you can try it for 30 days FREE), it is infact in my opinion fairly priced at $10.

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One of the cool thing about Firefox is it’s ever growing list of ‘plugins’ or extensions, whereby you will be able to futher enhanced your web surfing experience.

The Video Downloader extension is one of those essential extension needed especially if your a download freak!.

With one click on a small button in the bottom-right corner, you can download Flash videos from sites like YouTube and Google Video. Be sure to rename your file with a FLV extension to watch it. This extension also allows you to download other embedded media from Web pages.

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At the time of this post movies such as “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle” and “Scent of a Woman” were available for download and costs $10 per download.

You will receive every benefits that you would expect with a retail copy plus you can store it on your computer and on a burned DVD disc that can be played on any standard DVD player.

For the moment the DVD downloads only work for the residents of U.S.A.

Check it out now – CinemaNow

WinRAR is a 32-bit Windows version of RAR Archiver, an archiver and archive manager.

RAR files can usually compress content by 8 percent to 15 percent more than ZIP files can. WinRAR’s main features include strong general and multimedia compression, the ability to process non-RAR archive formats, ZIP compression and decompression, support for long filenames, programmable self-extracting archives (SFX), repair of damaged archives, authenticity verification, embedded file comments, and encryption. Unicode is supported in archive filenames, allowing non-English filenames to be handled painlessly. You can manipulate the parameters of many archives at once and view a volume sequence as a single archive.

WinRAR can convert other archive formats to RAR and search for specified text and files in archives.

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