All Posts Tagged With: "P2P Usenet"
I Hate Full RSS Feeds
They’re like Marmite - you either love them or hate them. Well, I definitely hate full RSS feeds as for me they defeat the whole point of RSS. I use a RSS reader primarily to help me track the large number of websites that I follow quickly. But the other reason [...]
21Oct2006 | Everton | 3 comments | Continued
FACT Recruits Full-Time Detective To Combat Movie Piracy
The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) in the UK has recruited a full-time detective to patrol cinemas to try and catch potential pirates in the act of recording movies, to be later made into DVDs or shared online.
The role has been created in recognition of the fact that movie copying is no longer confined to [...]
New WordPress 2.0 Theme - See What’s New
Update: I had to pull this theme as it was killing my server. Old one back in place for now.
I’ve only had this blog for three weeks and already I’m on my second theme, but I think this one is hear to stay as I think it is pretty unique and looks very clean. [...]
WordPress Plugin Overload!
I thought Akismet was a good WordPress plugin for fighting blog spam, but yesterday I installed one that is even better. Rather than catching spam and putting it in a spam folder, Bad Behavior is a set of PHP scripts which prevents spambots from even accessing your site by analyzing their actual HTTP requests and [...]
19Jun2006 | Everton | 8 comments | Continued
Giganews Undergoes Revamp And Retention Up To 70 Days
Just received the following in my inbox:
Giganews Subscriber,Giganews is proud to announce a new website with a sleek and modern
design. The main goal of the new website redesign is to improve
the overall experience for our customers.
The new website offers:
A fresh and exciting new look
A Control Panel to modify your account settings
Speed/traceroute tools to analyze [...]
Watch Free TV with your PC
gHacks have written an excellent guide on how to watch free TV over the internet, including sports broadcasts. Programming is streamed via P2P, so the quality is dependent on how many people are watching each stream.
I’ve used Pplive before but I’ve never come across Ppstream or Sopcast, so I’m going to give it them [...]
New Google Service - Google Porn aka Google Base
According to Quicksilverscreen, Google Base which was designed to allow people to easily tag and catalog their data, has of become a haven for porn.I don’t think it is a surprise that porn has been loaded onto Google Base. However, it does bring into question how Google intends to police the listings for illegal [...]
22Nov2005 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
Connected Guide: Newsgroups For Beginners Part III
In Parts I and II of this guide I explained what newsgroups were and gave some tips on selecting a news server provider. I’m now going to explain how to search, retrieve and download messages.
Stage I Choose a Newsreader
A news reader is a program that connects to a news server where all the messages [...]
Connected Guide: Newsgroups For Beginners Part II
In Part I of this guide on using newsgroups, I explained what newsgroups were, and how they are better than P2P services like Kazaa or eDonkey for downloading files. In Part II I’m going to explain how to setup newsgroups, how to find files and how to manage them.To the casual observer, navigating and [...]
20Nov2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
Connected Guide: Newsgroups For Beginners Part I
Over the last couple of months I’ve been emailing instructions on how to use newsgroups to friends and colleagues, which I’ve decided to tidy up and post on my blog.What are Newsgroups?
Newsgroups, are very similar to forums where users post text messages to discussion threads, or ‘binaries’ which are media files like mp3s, videos, pictures [...]
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