Posted: February 11th, 2008 | Filed under: How To | 3 Comments »
I bought my iPhone back in October and it was out of the box 1.0.2 and I had no trouble unlocking it. Then came the new firmwares and everyone wanted to upgrade but I didn’t think of it. There wasn’t anything special or different for me to want to upgrade. But ever since I saw Steve Job’s Macworld keynote in January I was obsessed with the little jiggly icons that you can move around! I wanted some jiggle action! I got it, and I’m sharing it below. I wrote it to be as easy to follow as possible. I hope it works out without any trouble!
A Guide For MAC OS X [pdf]
Proceed at your own risk. I will not be responsible for any problems that may arise. However, I will be happy to answer any questions or help remedy any mistakes as best I can.
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Posted: July 16th, 2007 | Filed under: How To | 12 Comments »
Us Mac people (me and my brother, at least) have had a really hard time trying to find a program that would simply convert Real Player audio and video files into mp3 or whatever. No succes. I even found programs that claim to convert every kind of format that you haven’t even heard of yet but still say that rm, ram and a couple of other formats are not supported.
Finally, I found a solution. It’s not a specific program. It’s just playing moving around some files that are already on the computer (assuming you already have Real Player and ffmpegX). It’s completely simple, “even a caveman can do it.”
Ta Daaaaa!
Posted: June 22nd, 2007 | Filed under: Cool, How To | No Comments »
‘Selective downloading’ is a new feature in torrent clients. For example if you have a huge torrent of a whole season of a TV show but you already have half of it, you don’t have to wait until the whole thing downloads. Just download the episodes you don’t have. It’s really useful.
But for Macs it was only available on Azureus, which was an incredibly heavy program that sucked up almost all the disk usage and made actually using the computer while downloading a complete nightmare. But, it was still popular because it was the only client that did that.
An SVN version of Transmission was released recently. I don’t exactly know what SVN is but I think it basically is a version where users-developers edit and add to the program. It isn’t supported by the main site but support is given through the site’s forums. The official program is found here but that doesn’t have the ’selective downloading feature.’ You can find the SVN version here. Notice the long list of disk images, these are updated versions. Install the latest one, at the very bottom of the list.
The program is incredible. So light and simple. Looks good too and not overly flashy with unnecessary stuff. Enjoy.
Posted: April 3rd, 2007 | Filed under: Asides, How To, TV/Movies | 14 Comments »
Update at the bottom..
This is a guide for downloading “torrents.” I won’t bother to define what torrent is because I literally don’t. All I can say is that a torrent is virtually a ticket that allows you to download TV shows and movies.
ONE. You must download a torrent client. This is the program that does the actual downloading. For my Mac, I use Azureus Transmission because it allows me to select which files I want to download in a torrent. With basic clients, you download the whole file/folder as it is. Transmission is light and easy to use, but if you don’t like Transmission there are other good clients you can go with. Such as BitTorrent, BitComet or BitTornado for now. BitTorrent is the classic beginner’s client.
TWO. I’m a little OCD with my files and folders on my computer so everything has to be organized. But it is up to you if you want to do the same. Create a new folder somewhere on your computer and give it a distinct name so that it wouldn’t be confused. “Torrent Downloads.” That folder will be where all your torrent related stuff will be stored.
THREE. You installed your torrent client and have a spanking new empty folder. Now you are ready to start downloading. Torrent search engines are very abundant but there are just about a handfull of good ones. The ones I use are btjunkie, torrentspy and The Pirate Bay. When I can’t find what I’m looking for in those three, my last resort is TORRENTScan. It searches all the popular search engines for you.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2007 | Filed under: How To | 3 Comments »
It’s really simple! Don’t get scared by the long-ass post!
What you will need:
1. A file/folder that you are planning to share.
2. A torrent downloading client. (I use Bittorrent and this post is based on that client.)
3. A tracker. (Explained below.)
OK this might sound complicated but it really is very simple. I will assume you already know what a torrent file is and also how to download it. I will also assume that on your computer, you have a folder where you have torrents you are currently downloading and that the files you are downloading are in that same folder. For now, lets call that folder “Download Files.”
Find the file or folder you want to share and copy it (it’s your choice if you want to use the original) to “Download Files.” Name it accordingly. I usually put the title and my alias so that people would know that I authored the torrent. But you can do whatever you want.
Next, you will need a tracker. A tracker is what makes the connection between downloaders (leechers) and uploaders (seeders). I don’t know all the technical detail about it but that’s basically what it is. The Beehive Tracker List has a long list of trackers to use.
Let’s fastforward to the future and pretend that you already created your torrent file and are ready to share it. You will want to submit it to various sites like TorrentSpy, BTjunkie, etc. so that other people can find and use it. Some of these search engines provide a tracker for you to use and some of them don’t. I generally use TorrentSpy for my torrents but unfortunately, they don’t provide a tracker. The next best thing I could find was The Pirate Bay.
Register an account at The Pirate Bay. Click on Upload Torrent. You will then see a form for you to fill out. At the very top of the form you will see an “Announce URL.” That is you tracker. Don’t fill out anything just yet. Copy that annouce URL and keep the browser window open for later.
Now lets go back. You just named you file/folder and are ready to create the torrent. Launch the Bittorent software. I use Mac OS X but it should generally be the same. Go to File > Generate. Drag you file or folder to the Generate window. In the “Tracker URL” field, paste the announce URL that you had copied earlier. Keep the KiB pieces at the default setting (I don’t really know what it’s for). Click Generate and let it save to “Download Files.”
After it’s done, you will have a torrent file and the file/folder with the exact same name. Do not rename eith file. If you decide you want to change the name, you will need to generate a new torrent file. Now double click on the torrent file you generated. This allows you to “seed” that file in Bittorrent or any other torrent downloading client you choose. You must seed you file for a loooooong time because so far, you are the only one that has it! So don’t rename or delete the torrent file or the actual file or folder you are sharing.
Now you are ready to share your torrent file. Since you’re using their tracker, it’s only fair to upload the torrent to The Pirate Bay. Go back to the upload form and fill out what you need to fill out in the form. I usually keep the torrent title the same. Since I mostly use TorrentSpy, I submit my torrents to them as well.
That’s it! Now people can download your torrent. Remember to not rename anything and to keep seeding until you decide it has become popular enough.
It’s pretty simple. I think I actually talked too much. Please let me know if you need any more clarification.
Posted: November 13th, 2006 | Filed under: Blog Stuff, How To, Music | 5 Comments »
This post is another response to MacaholiQ8’s request. 
<embed src="http://www.yoursite.com/song.mp3" autoplay="false"></embed>
Note: when copying and pasting that code, be sure to retype the ” signs yourself becasue for some reason, they are copied in italics. And I can’t see why it does that.
Listen to this kick-ass song by Nawal. Tebarra (jalsa) [7.9 MB]
Posted: November 9th, 2006 | Filed under: Blog Stuff, How To | 4 Comments »
This post is a response to MacaholiQ8’s request.
<div align=center>
<p><embed src=”http://www.your-site.com/video_file.mov” width=”320″ height=”256″ autoplay=”false” controller=”true” loop=”false” ></embed><br />
Write whatever you want here. Or, a <a href=”http://www.link.com/”>link</a> too!</p>
</div>
- The height of the video is +16 than the true height so that the controller for the video player would show.
- Autoplay is if you want the video to um.. automatically play! Change to true if you want that option.
- Loop is for when you want the video to play over and over after it is first viewed. Again, if you want that option change it to true.
