Need to download some music? Or perhaps get your hands on that new just released movie? Here’s a list of 20 BitTorrent resources, tips and tricks, useful for both newcomers and more advanced users.
How to: use BitTorrent for beginners, fight throttling ISPs and be anonymous. Speed up your BitTorrent downloads, use BitTorrent and RSS and also some uTorrent Tips and Tricks.
This past weekend Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage server went down causing Windows Vista users to seen by Microsoft as pirated copies when they went to update their computers. One disadvantage to Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage DRM program--which forces Windows users to verify their software as "not-stolen" in order to receive certain patches and updates, including Internet Explorer 7--is that Microsoft's WGA server is not as highly reliable as Microsoft likes to advertise.
"When Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage server--presumably also running Windows--goes down, as it did this weekend, users attempting to verify their copy of Windows are automatically treated as counterfeiters and their Windows software goes into a “reduced functionality mode.” For Windows Vista users, that means the new Aero window appearance--Microsoft’s copy of Mac OS X’s Quartz--is turned off, reverting Vista Ultimate into plain old Windows XP."
User-friendly icon sets are always nice to look at and useful to have ready to hand. Since effective designers guide their users’ attention using visuals, icons can (and probably should) be used in almost every project you are or will be working on. Whether for an illustration, sketch, site or weblog - used moderately, icons can point users’ attention to the key-aspects of an article or specific site sections and communicate the message of the site in a more effective way.
It's high noon, Apple and AT&T -- we really hate to break it to you, but the jig is up. Last night the impossible was made possible: right in front of our very eyes we witnessed a full SIM unlock of our iPhone with a small piece of software. It's all over, guys. This is indeed is the real thing.
This is a very cool way to listen to new music depending on how you feel at the moment by imputing the tempo of the music, your mood and among other options the year it came out.. Simply put It's amazing!!
A little while back I posted a story on "The College Student's Guide to File Sharing" and it was some helpful advice to file sharing using different methods. But it was a brief intro into the world of file sharing today. In this story Wired breaks down how to use the most popular of the choices out there today. BitTorrents. While a little hard to use, you can still find just about anything out there. BitTorrent is not a program, it is a protocol to connect to others to download what you need. Curious? Read more here.
Need to download some music? Or perhaps get your hands on that new just released movie? Here’s a list of 20 BitTorrent resources, tips and tricks, useful for both newcomers and more advanced users.
