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Sync Your Files with Dropbox

May 25th, 2009 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in Apps, Online, Tech

Secure backup, sync, sharing made easy

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.

Join Dropbox (referral link)

Join Dropbox (without my referral link)

Thanks to Alexander Momchilov for the inital referal to this service :D .
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Windows 7 Requirements

March 24th, 2009 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in Uncategorized

Thanks to consolespot.net!

Apparently, the specs were ‘leaked’ recently.  Currently, the expected release date is January 2010.  Unfortunately, Microsoft closed the Windows 7 beta downloads last month (February), but you can still get a key if one of your friends, or you managed to download it while it was available.

For the Basic Windows 7:

* 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
* 512 MB of system memory
* 20 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space
* Support for DirectX 9 graphics and 32 MB of graphics memory
* DVD-ROM drive
* Audio Output
* Internet access (fees may apply)

For the Premium Windows 7:

* 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
* 1 GB of system memory
* 40 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space
* Support for DirectX 9 graphics with:
o WDDM Driver
o 128 MB of graphics memory (minimum)
o Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware
o 32 bits per pixel
* DVD-ROM drive
* Audio Output
* Internet access (fees may apply)

Actual requirements and product functionality may vary based on your system configuration. Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor can help you determine which features and edition of Windows Vista will run on your computer.

While all editions of Windows Vista can support multiple core CPUs, only Windows Vista Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise can support dual processors.

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How to use old interface in Vuze

November 23rd, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in How Tos, Offline, Tech

Are you sick of the new interface in Vuze as many people are?  Here’s how to use the familiar old interface that Azureus had.

 

  1. Open Vuze
    (Right now it will still be in the Vuze interface as shown)
  2. Go to the Tools menu
  3. Click on Options
  4. A new window will appear
  5. Look in the item list on the left for “Interface” and click on the plus arrow beside it
  6. Click on “Start” in the list that appeared
  7. Click on the “Show” button beside “Display Vuze UI Chooser”
     
  8. The window that will come up has the option for “Classic Interface”, so just click on that and click OK.
  9. Click on restart, and you’re all set!
     
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How to download torrents (for ABSOLUTE beginners!)

November 11th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in Tech

If you really like music and you just don’t want to buy it, in Canada you can download it for free (note that this can be illegal in some places).  To download music using BitTorrent, you need a “torrent client”, and a good one is uTorrent available at http://www.utorrent.com/, and it is probably the most secure one available. Download it and install it. Once you have it, you can download torrent files such as the ones available at my favourite torrent website, http://www.isohunt.com/. When you search on the website, it comes up with results like the ones displayed at this link: http://isohunt.com/torrents/?ihq=klezmer.
In the picture above, you can see three things circled from the search – Size column, S (seeds), and L (Leechers/Peers).
Size is how big the file is – you don’t want to download something too big because that might fill up all your space. S or seeds, is definitely the most important column. It tells you how fast your download will be. If there are more seeds than leechers (or L in this picture), then your download will be a lot faster. The circled download would probably be a good choice out of all the results. Still, don’t be scared to download something with only 4 or 5 seeds because it could be a good download too – just keep this a standard rule of thumb to pick the best one.

When you’ve picked one, click on its title. This page will come up:

In the above picture, you can see the download .torrent button. Just click on that, and internet explorer or firefox will want to download the file – press “open” instead of “save”, and if it prompts you for what program top open with with, open the file you download with uTorrent. Then choose some or all of the files you want to download and a spot to save them to and then press ok.

While it’s downloading (it can take overnight or longer sometimes), you can minimize utorrent and it will disappear to the lower right section of your screen the “system tray” where the clock is. The icon is a U and you can click it any time (double click) and it will bring it back up (to check your download’s progress).

Wait a while until it’s done and “seeding”, and when it starts seeding that means the download’s done, so you can right click it and click “stop”. To stop it from seeding (I highly recommend you do that) Right click the torrent in the main window and click “Open Containing Folder”, and then it will bring up the folder with all your files in it.

As another final note, Mininova is an excellent site for your purposes if you really just want to download music and may even be better than Isohunt. http://www.mininova.org/cat/. For music, just click the music category.

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