May 30, 2009
Ever wanted to send large files over across the world, but found yourself limited by email attachment sizes? Well, nowadays there are so many different number of ways to send large files to your family and friends: you can host them online, set up Dropbox shares, use Yousendit or drop.io and other numerous ways. In [...]
April 21, 2009
Torrents are one of the most used file sharing networks at the moment, and becoming more and more popular by the day. As all of you probably know, torrents make every user into an uploader as well as a downloader, sharing the load amongst peers instead of burdening one server. Most people only know torrents [...]
January 26, 2009
Do you love the fact that some organizations try to track your downloading behavior? Well, I personally like my privacy, and I’m sure that most people around the Internet like their privacy as well. There are several articles on MakeUseOf about increasing your browsing privacy like this one on Chrome, and this one on Firefox. Only [...]
November 25, 2008
P2P file sharing involves downloading files from other users computers (as opposed to a central server) and then giving away a little bit of your bandwidth to other people who may be wanting the file you just downloaded or some other file being shared by you. I am sure you are well versed with the [...]
August 23, 2008
I have been a avid user of BitSoup and The Pirate Bay for years. But occasionally I find myself staring at a Google search box….torrent + file. This works OK but if you want to see all your results, you have to keep clicking back and forth to multiple torrent tracker sites. This is where [...]
July 4, 2008
Transmission is a free and open source bit torrent client that runs natively on multiple operating systems and is available in many languages worldwide. Transmission is very lightweight and probably one of the best bit torrent clients around. Transmission was first released on September 15th 2005 and has came quite a long way since its [...]
June 22, 2008
Torrents are great, I think no one disagrees with me there. There are plenty of ways you can make use of torrents. But they have restrictions. As with all P2P downloads, you must use additional software and although they’re very simple to use, torrents will never be on the same level of ‘easy’ as direct [...]
May 17, 2008
I’m sure we’ve all come across the same problem time and time again. You need to send someone a huge file and your email service won’t accept it as an attachment. Gmail limits attachments to 10MB and most other email services are the same. So what are you to do? Up until recently, I was [...]
