A compilation of 10 alternative top torrent sites and search engines to use now that BtJunkie has decided to voluntarily shut down for good. In the wake of the seizure of MegaUplaod a number of operators of similar cyberlocker sites along with BitTorrent tracker sites grew nervous about what could happen to them, and either changed how their site operated or shut down for good.
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TiltShift Generator: Free Desktop App for Adding TiltShift Effects to Your Photos
TiltShift is an Adobe Air app for Mac, Windows and Linux that gives offers a simple set of controls for quickly adding cool and amazing TiltShift effects to your photographs.
The Future of the Smartphone: How Things Will Change in 5 Years
5 features that will revolutionize your smartphone in the next 5 years. Stop for a moment. Reach into your pocket and pull out your phone. Take a long hard look at it.
Tribler: BitTorrent Client that Doesn’t Need Tracker Sites, Can’t Be Shut Down
Tribler is, as the developers claim, “designed to keep BitTorrent alive, even when all torrent search engines, indexes and trackers are pulled offline,” and can only be shut down if you “take down the Internet” itself.
iSnooze Uses iTunes to Turn Your PC Into an Alarm Clock
Program lets you schedule times for iTunes to wake you from your slumber, complete with spacebar-activated snooze function.
PSA: The Computer Maintenance Department Scam Calls
Have you been getting those calls from people working in a call center from what sounds like India? You know, those people who claim to be from either the “Computer Maintenance Department” or the “Windows Technical Team” who then instruct you to go to your computer? Tell th
Guides & How To's
10 Alternatives to BTJunkie
A compilation of 10 alternative top torrent sites and search engines to use now that BtJunkie has decided to voluntarily shut down for good.
How to Master Email Encryption
Keep your personal data safe by taking the time to encrypt your emails. With the government threatening to do all kinds of things to the internet, and stories about email and phone hacking surfacing all over the world, there’s never been a better time to start protecting your online privacy.
How to Connect Your Android Phone or Tablet to a PPTP VPN
Quick and easy guide to configuring your Android phone or tablet to connect to a PPTP-type VPN connection. The Internet always has and always will be plagued by challenges to content access and data security, and one of the of the easiest solutions around is a VPN connection.
VPN Setup Guide: VPNHQ
Guide to setting up a VPN account with VPNHQ, and protecting your data and Internet traffic from identity thieves, overzealous copyright holders, and govt filtering regimes for $7 dollars a month. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) has never been more important it seems.
A Beginner’s guide to downloading with uTorrent
Easy step-by-step guide that will help you start downloading movies, music, TV shows, and more in no time at all with uTorrent. For most people getting started with the whole “BitTorrent downloading thing” can be pretty intimidating.
Apps & Mobile
5 Free iPad Entertainment Apps
A list of free iPad entertainment apps covering TV shows, movies, books and music. Smaller than a laptop and bigger than a cell phone, the iPad is a perfectly-sized portable entertainment device. It might not play Flash files, but plenty of apps will keep you entertained in or away from the home.
TiltShift Generator: Free Desktop App for Adding TiltShift Effects to Your Photos
TiltShift is an Adobe Air app for Mac, Windows and Linux that gives offers a simple set of controls for quickly adding cool and amazing TiltShift effects to your photographs.
Tribler: BitTorrent Client that Doesn’t Need Tracker Sites, Can’t Be Shut Down
Tribler is, as the developers claim, “designed to keep BitTorrent alive, even when all torrent search engines, indexes and trackers are pulled offline,” and can only be shut down if you “take down the Internet” itself.
iSnooze Uses iTunes to Turn Your PC Into an Alarm Clock
Program lets you schedule times for iTunes to wake you from your slumber, complete with spacebar-activated snooze function.
The Best Free Social iPad Apps
A round-up of the best free social iPad apps that will keep your digital life thriving. Is there anything the iPad can’t do? This list of free social iPad apps will help you stay in touch with friends and family, without having to spend a dime.
BitTorrent
uTorrent Tiny Client: Chrome Extension to Remotely Control Your Downloads
Google Chrome extension adds the uTorrent Web UI to your browser, giving you virtually complete control of your downloads on the go – even streaming playback! As an avid BitTorrent user there’s nothing more important than being able to control my downloads on the go.
Share: BitTorrent App Simplifies Personal File-Sharing
Standalone personal media sharing app makes it easy to share movies, pictures, music and other content with family and friends. Never one to rest on its laurels, BitTorrent Inc. is once again trying to reshape P2P file-sharing with the release of Share, a unlimited personal media sharing app.
uTorrent Remote Optimized for the iPad
New interface designed for a “great touch experience” on the iPad; gives users the same functionality already available on the PC-based uTorrent remote. BitTorrent Inc. is definitely taking the influx of Apple products seriously.
uTorrent, BitTorrent Mainline for Mac Get Stable Versions
Mac users finally get to enjoy the some of the same functions and features that their PC counterparts have for years. A stable uTorrent for Mac BitTorrent client has been more than three years making.
Porn Industry Sues the Blind
He’s one of thousands in the lawsuit campaign against file-sharers, but he seems to be an unlikely candidate. He’s legally blind and too busy with his personal life to secure his WiFi connection.
Gadgets & Technology
The Future of the Smartphone: How Things Will Change in 5 Years
5 features that will revolutionize your smartphone in the next 5 years. Stop for a moment. Reach into your pocket and pull out your phone. Take a long hard look at it.
Mark Zuckerberg: Of Rejection, And The $100 Billion Last Laugh
How Social Ineptitude And Rejection Brought Mark Zuckerberg To Where He Is Today “Mark, I’m not speaking in code,” says an exasperated Erica (Rooney Mara) to a pre-Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, just prior to dumping him.
100% Apple: How the Tech Giant is Both the 99% and the 1%
Despite a wave of populist anger at corporate profits and income inequality, Apple has managed massive success without angering the masses. This week Apple announced its 1Q12 earnings, which can best be described as staggering. The Cupertino giant hauled in an unprecedented $13.
RIP Steve Jobs 1955-2011
Today I was in my living room playing with my son when on the TV news they announced Steve Jobs had passed away. I was shocked, I mean I knew he was ill, problems in the past with cancer. Didn’t he just step down as CEO yesterday? This can’t be true.
Bypass Google Censors with “Gee! No evil!” Add-On
Firefox add-on restores words filtered from Google’s Autocomplete. There’s a new Firefox add-on called “Gee! No evil!” that circumvents Google’s Autocomplete search filtering regime.
Music
Pandora for Chrome: Control Pandora Music Stream in Browser Toolbar
Pandora for Chrome browser extension allows users to rate, pause, change tracks in their Pandora stream without having to open Pandora.com.
Music2pc: Find, Download Millions of Songs Online for Free – Even at Work!
Free program with no ads, spyware, or malware of any kind allows users to search among more than 100 million MP3s online and download them to a computer or USB drive for free; program can also run from a USB drive, making it safe to use at work.
Last.fm Free Music Player: Chrome Extension for Playing Music On-Demand
Last.fm Free Music Player lets you stream songs by your favorite artists on-demand right from within your Chrome browser. Want an easy way to play music by your favorite artist on-demand without having to listen to poor quality YouTube videos? Then the Last.
Splash.FM : The Social Network for Discovering New Music
New site uses the power of social networking to help discover and share good music with family, friends and others.
Spotify Launches in the US
Reports are surfacing that Spotify, a popular legal streaming service offered in Europe, has traveled across the pond to set up shop in the United States. There’s an interesting report on CNet that says that Spotify is now being offered in the US.
