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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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Flash in Firefox without Admin Privileges

May 20th, 2009 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in Apps, How Tos, Offline, Tech

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

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Send Large Files with Podmailing

December 7th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in How Tos, Online, Tech

Sure you can use my old solution “Transfer Files Easily with Bittorrent“, but the problem is, that solution isn’t really that simple.  Here’s a brand new solution that I really like: Podmailing.  It’s a reliable way to transfer files, and it’s super simple too.

Download Podmailing

Read the FAQs and soon you’ll be transferring tons of stuff. Podmailing uses P2P technology to send files.

You can even upload files to the Vipeers service, within the program, and that online service automatically generates multiple

The only downside with this service that I found was the fact that both clients need Podmailing, but it is so easy to install, so it’s not much of a problem. Another thing I found was that the program hung when you tried to connect to the servers the first time I ran the program, but after I restarted, it worked fine.

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Transfer Files Easily Using BitTorrent

April 29th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in Uncategorized
BitTorrent is a wonderful protocol that makes transfer of big files simple. Have you ever wanted to send a huge file to your friend (such as the ISO image of that wedding DVD you can’t mail to your friend)? Well, here’s the answer. Download a program called uTorrent at www.utorrent.com and install it. Now, open it (it will probably open by itself once you’re done installing it). Then click on the file menu, and click on Create New Torrent (or press “Ctrl + N”). A window will pop up. In “Select Source” click either on Select File (if it’s only one file you’re making the torrent of), or click on Add Directory to add a whole folder of files to the torrent you’re going to distribute. Once you’re done that, click on the “trackers” field and paste this in:

http://www.torrent-downloads.to:2710/announce

http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce

udp://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce

http://www.sumotracker.com/announce

These servers track the downloading and uploading from the peers.
Type in a comment for your downloaders in the “comment” section.

Check the “start seeding” checkbox but leave the “private torrent” box alone.

Click on “Create and Save As”. Save that file in “My Documents”, and send that file to any people who want to download the file. Then leave uTorrent open for a long long time, and when you are leaving it open, you are sending the file to the people who are going to recieve it. Tell them to leave uTorrent open for a long time too, so everybody gets a chance to get the file. If you want to publicly share your torrent, go to http://www.mininova.org/upload and upload it for the whole world to see!

Hope this will help!

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