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Fast Dial displays a list of thumbnails of your favorite sites in new tabs. It is a sleek, easy way to access you favorite sites with each new tab you open. Opera, an excellent browser, first pioneered this feature, along with it’s famous sidebar. Opera’s Speed Dial looks a bit different from Fast dial, but Fast Dial still gets the job done. Fast Dial also has a little search box at the top of the page, which is a nice added touch.
Tags: addons, firefox, helpful, opera, speed dial
Dropbox is an easy way to both backup files and share them at the same time, with any computers you have Dropbox installed onto. It doesn’t matter where those computers are, they all get a copy of that file.
As it states on the home page, it syncs your files online and with other computers. It’s like a central sharing folder.
There are free and paid options available for dropbox. Should you choose to get dropbox for free, you get 2 GB of space to store your stuff.
For $9.99 per month or $99.00 per year, you can get 50 GB of secure storage.
Pay $9.99 per month or $99.00 per year to get a roomy 100 GB of storage.
There is also an amazing bonus most people don’t know about: they have a referral system where, you as well as the other person you are referring will get 250 MB extra space for each person you are referring, for example: if I refer you we each get 250 mb more space. You can do this until you have a total of 5 GB total space – more than enough to store and transfer decently sized files.
Please use my referral link and when you sign up initially you will get 250 MB extra space.
.If you’re trying to either install Adobe Flash into a Firefox install on a computer you don’t have admin rights on, or install it into Portable Firefox, then you’re probably having trouble. The solution is relatively simple considering Adobe Flash runs off of only just two files! Just copy those files and you’re set.
Download the flash installer, then use a program such as WinRAR or PeaZip to “extract the .EXE file”.
Then find the files flashplayer.xpt and NPSWF32.dll which you already extracted, and copy those to the folder Moziilla Firefox/plugins.
Restart Firefox, and it’s really as simple as that!
Another option if for some reason this doesn’t work though it should, is to download this extension and install it inside firefox: http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/xpi/current/flashplayer-win.xpi
Tags: admin, adobe, files, firefox, flash, install, packages, rights
Many people wonder whether file sharing can actually increase revenue for music labels and artists because it helps both newer and older artists to be discovered or rediscovered. This question is frequently asked by fans and artists alike. I believe that BitTorrent is an excellent system and model for marketing and distributing media, such as music and movies, and should not be opposed the way it currently is by organizations such as the IFPI and the MPAA – it may even be making up a large figure of their sales!
Peer to peer technologies have been proven to be an effective marketing / promotion tools, For instance, in 2007, Radiohead made an interesting move in which their fans could make whatever payment that they wanted, including nothing; the site only advised, “it’s up to you” or free, or “Choose what you pay”, so that the fans could pay the amount they wanted for the album.
Of course, the band did not actually release their sales figures, yet the album became famous as the first one released in this method, and generated much publicity. New websites are now also following Radiohead’s model, as in “Choose what you pay”, such as the new public music tracker, Coda.FM.
BitTorrent is more effective as a marketing tool for artists that are not already established, yet for those already established as an artists, it may hinder them more than help, because since they are already popular, the viral nature of BitTorrent is not as useful, and many people will “leech” the music instead of buying it.
A report from the BI Norwegian School of Management has found that those who download music illegally are also 10 times more likely to pay for songs than those who don’t. This is because those who download music are generally music enthusiasts that agree that you should have the right to see exactly what you are buying before you buy it, and if it’s no good, then they won’t buy it. These enthusiasts see this as completely fair, yet the IFPI disagrees. Many people also say “I’d never buy it anyways!”, which is generally true, yet, they are obtaining the Intellectual Property for free – and thus comes the question – is IP even worth anything?
There is no doubt that the downloading of music for free will continue nevertheless, yet the question will remain in our minds, are we helping the artist (as in “increasing their revenue” or increasing exposure), or costing them? I believe that in the future, music will be either free, cost very little, or the consumer will choose the price – either way, the actual worth of something that can be copied, distributed, and reproduced countless times, all for free, will forever be disputed.
Tags: artists, audio, file sharing, media, Music, Piracy, uTorrent
