Azureus 2.3.0.2
A new revision to the popular bittorrent client Azureus has just been released.ChangeLog | Homepage | Download
AZUREUS CHANGELOG———2005.05.25 | Azureus 2.3.0.2FEATURE: UI | Console UI now has update check, alerting and DHT stats [Parg]FEATURE: UI | SWT make torrent wizard remembers value for “add other hashes” [Parg]FEATURE: UI | Console UI logging config [Fatal]FEATURE: [...]
Automating Computer Maintenance
All computer users–especially those who use P2P applications–should take a few steps to keep their computers in good shape. In this article I will outline the steps I’ve taken to automate most of the process using the Scheduled Tasks functionality of Windows. I have observed that many users of Windows don’t know about, or at [...]
The next generation of link sites
eDonkey has just introduced an awesome new feature that replaces the need for link sites.
Now you can create web pages and publish them on the eDonkey network. This means they will be nearly impossible to take down as long as people are interested in them. They call the feature catalogs. Catalogs can be downloaded and [...]
Shareaza 2.1.1.0 Beta
“The long awaited first beta for the 2.2 release has finally arrived. We have fixed many problems and hope that this release is stable enough to be turned into a final soon.”
Changes: You can find a rough overview of the changes since the 2.1 release in this thread at the Shareaza forums.
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Sony PSP As Personal Media Player – Review
MP3 Newswire has a review of the Sony PSP not as a game portable, but as a portable media player (PMP). Basically, Sony has taken a page out of the iPod playbook and put their proprietary video and audio formats in the hands of millions of users in just several weeks. This gives them a [...]
Tor Torches Online Tracking
Privacy tools can sometimes create strange bedfellows. That’s what has happened with an anonymizer system that was originally developed and funded by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory to help government employees shield their identity online. It is now being co-funded and promoted by the civil liberties group Electronic Frontier Foundation.
The system, called Tor, allows users [...]
Bram Cohen to Release BitTorrent Search Engine
This was covered from Wired to Slashdot to Slyck:
Whiz kid inventor Bram Cohen and a small cadre of developers and entrepreneurs are in the final stage of launching an advertising-supported search engine dedicated to cataloging and indexing the thousands of movies, music tracks, software programs and other files for download over Cohen’s popular BitTorrent protocol.
The [...]
Cabos 0.3.8 – LimeWire based P2P
About
Cabos is Gnutella file sharing program based on LimeWire and Acquisition. It is free software, no spyware, no adware. It has simple interface, multi languages support, and iTunes / iPod integration.
Web Site:
http://cabos.sourceforge.jp
ChangeLog:
Changed quality character to black circle for English environment. (Windows/MacOS)
Sorting device now works property for two results.
Restore filter state correctly for bitrate.
Added Unlimited upload [...]
Lecturer censored in Spanish University (UPV) for defending P2P networks
A lecturer at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain was forced to resign after a talk about P2P networks. You can read his side of the story on his blog (link below).
“The day before the conference, the Dean (pressured by the Spanish Recording Industry Association “Promusicae” as I found out later, and he recognized himself [...]
Interview with Andrew Loewenstern of BT D.H.T
Bittorrent, a powerful piece of software to allow the downloading of large files has exploded of late and is one of the top P2P programs available on the net. Since its inception many have wanted to see BT released from it’s system of trackers for something a bit more low key.
Enter Azureus, a BT prog [...]
