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Filesharing on a home network part 1

February 14th 2007 01:55

I am sorry that I haven't been posting at all lately, but I have been in-between many things. I am hoping to post a bit more once everything starts falling into place. Anyway, a quick post (and many many people already know about this but hey, it doesn't hurt to post it here!) to recommend a good filesharing program if you have a few computers at come and don't want to use windows fileshare (which by the way I reckon is quite dodgey).

DC (Direct connect) is a really good software which lets you share files on a network which you can control and customize as you wish. One of the best things about it is that it is freeware. I would like to post a walkthrough to set up a direct connect hub but at this point in time I am swamped with a bunch of other stuff. Anyway, as far as the software is concerned it is very user-friendly and easy to use. Here's some print screens which should give you an idea about the GUI.

This is the mainchat screen. On the right are all the users and on the left there's a utility to put textchat to communicate with users.

That should give the reader a basic overview!

I will soon post a bit more about this because at the moment I am restricted by limited availability of internet and time. Apologies about being so irregular at the moment

***any respective copyrighted material mentioned in this post is a property of their owners. This post is basically intended for information sharing and reviewing purposes.

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The new Internet Explorer (IE 7)

December 1st 2006 07:52

Ok, so I know I haven't posted anything in a while. I was just caught up with other things - summer's almost here so need to find a job and other such things.

Having just installed the new Internet explorer from microsoft - IE7 I figured what better way to post another entry and at the same time study some of the new features IE has to offer in this version. Having a quick look at this, I cannot help but mention the fact that it has quite a few security features - but at the same time is quite quick to load (almost the same amount of load time as IE6) - also it isn't too hard on the eyes! Here! have a look at it with your own eyes!

IE now has a cool new look!

Here's a few awesome features of the new IE:

1) Tabbed browsing: Ok, so firefox first came up with this idea I guess. What this means is that a multiple instances of IE can be started in the same window. Efficient and doesn't crowd the task bar very much. Plus, additional tabs do not take time to load up - well, not as much as a new window would. And they look cool!

Anyway, IE has a new feature which makes tabbed browsing cooler. The quick tabs button! Its awesome actually. Here's what the feature offers:

If you end up opening a lot of multiple tabs, simply click the quick tabs option (it a button with four blue rectangles on it) and it will show you all the tabs that are open so nagivation should be easier. Awesome eh?

2) Embedd your favourite search engine: Now you can add your favorite search engine to your browser. So, no more toolbars required!

at first start up IE can customise itself to embedd your favourite search engine onto itself!

mine's obviously google

3) Phishing protection: This is an awesome feature especially for people who do not use the internet too much.

Whats phishing you might ask? Hmm, sometimes there are bad people. Who get on the internet. And do bad things...

I will give the explaining a better shot. Sometimes, you might receive messages in your inbox that might appear from websites like ebay or myspace asking you to change your password or logon to your account. They have the right email layout and they appear so flawless. Then you click their evil link and logon and suddenly someone randomly starts pasting myspace bulletins with your account. Yes, your account has been hacked now and you might wanna change your password. Know what I mean? Worse if it is ebay and you *logon* and enter your bank details!

But fret not for IE7 has a phishing filter! Cool eh?

To read more about phising: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing

This is all I got for now. There's a few other options which are an upgrade from IE6 like providing a favourites center, checking feeds etc but I am kinda happy about the ones I have mentioned before. I'd give IE7 an 8.5 / 10 overall.

****All copywrighted materials and titles mentioned in this post are a property of their owners. This blog is just meant for reviewing purposes (and curing boredom

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Also, everyone who reads this post should know that the new Incubus album (Light grenades) is absolutely top notch! Give it a listen!!!!!!

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passionate about music?

November 1st 2006 01:52

Here's what a last.fm memberpage looks like:

Passionate about music? I am certain you will love this article!
www.last.fm is a website which collects stats of music you listen to a provides you with a lot of features which you just might find very promising. All you need to do is register with last.fm – membership is free although there is a subscription option which provides additional features. Once registered you need to download the last.fm software from:

http://www.last.fm/tools/downloads/

Once downloaded just follow onscreen instructions to install the software and then all you need is an internet connection!

There are plugins you might need to download depending on the music player you use to listen to your music – the last.fm software will automatically notify you about this.

Once up and running last.fm tracks all the music you listen to song by song and uses a function they uniquely call “scrobbling” which sends song information to the last.fm website. Once you are a regular user you get the following advantages:

1) Last.fm provides fora / discussion boards that are music related. These play a very important part if you are a music enthusiast because discussion boards generally mean answered questions

2) It provides you with a journal function – got a new album by your favourite artist? Wanna write a review about it? Journal it up baby!
3) You can add other members as friends, or invite your very own friends to join last.fm and the software allows you to recommend them music!
4) Whilst collecting music you can tag it – this means providing a genre classification to the song you are listening to – which helps other last.fm users to recognise what sort of music they wanna listen to depending on this classification. For example – if you tag incubus (my favourite band

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as an ‘alternative rock’ band enough times other people will see this tag when they are listening to incubus and runing the last.fm software!
5) Last.fm tracks the genre of music you listen to and provides you song recommendations you might like! How awesome is that?
6) When you listen to a certain artist, last.fm provides you information regarding the artist / band which of course is member edited. So if you have a low profile band which you really like you can probably edit their wiki information on last.fm so other like minded people can listen to them!
7) Last.fm calculates neighbours for you – people who listen to music similar to you!

There are various other features which of course you will only know when you use last.fm. I am currently a newbie (only registered this month) but I am still learning so if you have any questions that need to be answered please leave a comment and I will try and help ya out. I am putting up a few print screens for the reader to get a ‘feel’ of last.fm too!