Stephen Fry...
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Stephen Fry in America, is one of the best programs on TV.
That is all.
Posted byPaul James at Sunday, October 26, 2008 0 comments Links to this post
Labels: BBC, Stephen Fry
Daddy or Chips? I-Phone or Smartphone?
Saturday, June 14, 2008
My T-Mobile contract is up for renewal, which currently costs be about £45- a month.
Should I get £10- off my current subscription or upgrade?
Or I could switch to o2 and get a sexy iPhone, or stick T-Mobile and get the T-Mobile Touch with Windows Mobile 6?
Comments Please
Posted byPaul James at Saturday, June 14, 2008 1 comments Links to this post
Labels: Apple, Handhelds, iPhone, Microsoft, Smartphones, T-Mobile, Windows Mobile
How to play .OGG Vorbis files in iTunes (Windows and OS X)
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Play .ogg files in iTunes by downloading and installing the free Xiph QuickTime Components.
Requirements:
- version 10.3.9 or 10.4 and later;
- QuickTime for Mac OS X - version 7 or later;
- QuickTime for Windows - version 7 or later.
Posted byPaul James at Sunday, March 30, 2008 0 comments Links to this post
Computer Problems
Sunday, February 17, 2008
I'm currently experiencing hardware issues with my computer, and i'll be out of action briefly.
Posted byPaul James at Sunday, February 17, 2008 0 comments Links to this post
Best P2P Software
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Among my group of friends, I often get asked what is the best P2P software.
Now I have used a variety of software from Kazaa, to Napster, however I now only have three installed on my computer, I am prepared to test other software, if anyone wants to recommend something for me to test, let me know in the comments and I will update the post.
I feel I should love this software, however I don't.
Azureus is a bit torrent download manager, that now comes packaged with content provided by vuse.
As I said, I feel I should love this software, its made by the community at large, is open source... However as I said, I don't like it.
Downloads are slow and sluggish with speeds not able to reach my bandwidth download limit, files often don't start, and I know this can be put down to the file being downloaded as it is a torrent, however I have tested the same torrent files in Limewire Pro, and Limewire always give the better results 35 files after nearly half an hour, .
My rating would be a low 2 out of 10.
I've always had a negative view of Limewire, I view it as a modern day Kazaa, full of dummy and fake files, however on a recommendation I gave it a try.
I installed Limewire Pro, which can manage magnet files, and torrent files.
I was very impressed with the download speeds on Limewire. It took total use of my bandwidth, overall very impressed. My only critism with this software, is that the included search is not brilliant, in fact most searches included a lot of spam files, or very low quality. There was also movies recorded in the cinema which I wasn't too impressed with. Further, there was not many results returned, for example I ran a search for Elton John which only resulted in 35 results.
Its hard to rate this software, if I rate the software without the search I would probably be giving it a 10/10, however the search results as so bad, I feel it is only deserving on 4/10.
Another concern I have with this software, is privacy. Your IP address is on view for all to see, you could possibly use a proxy, however I would be dubious of the quality of downloads using such a method, and it would mean ensuing your proxy servers are valid, and should anything happen to the proxy during a nights download, it could literally bring it to a standstill.
Good Old WinMX, most people I mention this little gem to, still believe it to be closed down.
However this is the network, that will not die, and I still think is the best!
WinMX was launched in 2000, and to look at the interface, nothing much has changed since then.
But WinMX worked well from the start, fair enough fake files were a problem, however there are methods for ensuring your not downloading a fake. Que's were also criticised on WinMX, however if you leave the software running, you soon get up them ques.
However, on September 13, 2005, FrontCode Technologies the company behind WinMX was the recipient of a cease and desist letter from the RIAA. The RIAA letter demanded that FrontCode immediately stop the encouragement of copyright infringement on its network. Several days later on September 21, 2005, shocked members, including myself, found ourselves unable to connect. FrontCode complied by taking the WinMX domain down, along with the critical host cache server that was in effect the end of WinMX.
However, as testament to the amazing cultural influence of this network, as well as the strength and ingenuity of its community, the network was resurrected two days later. Primitive host cache servers were established allowing the WinMX client to connect the restored network.
Going forward, the WinMX Group that restored the network, decided to stop work on the network, but the network persists... Its now back, with a new installer that makes it work on Vista, along with a network that protects your privacy infringement as no data is stored on any server, attempts to block fake files by having the IP address, of fake file hosts blocked, as well as a new network structure that aims to ensure WinMX is around, at least for the moment!
Obviously the software doesn't have a support team, however there are extensive forums on the WinMX World website to provide support.
WinMX can be downloaded freely, from patch.winmxconex.com.
If I get the chance, I will publish a guide on how to get the best from WinMX, as I admit it is confusing!
Overall Rating for WinMX has to be 10/10
Posted byPaul James at Sunday, January 13, 2008 0 comments Links to this post
Labels: Azureus, Download Tools, LimeWire, P2P, Review, WinMX
