06 Feb 2012
P2P News
Viewpoint: Morals of illegal downloads
As the world rapidly advances, the music business is slowly unraveling and being driven to oblivion.
06 Feb 2012 5:54am GMT
A Useful BitTorrent Analogy
BitTorrent has been around for over a decade now. And yet, when mentioned in the media, it's pretty much universally associated with piracy and illegal file sharing.
06 Feb 2012 1:49am GMT
05 Feb 2012
P2P News
Muscle 5.67
MUSCLE has been developed, used, and refined as the networking component of BeShare, CueConsole, CueStation, and various other audio control applications at Level Control Systems for over six years.
05 Feb 2012 9:01am GMT
04 Feb 2012
P2P News
SoulseekQT Build 2/1/2012
SoulseekQT is a Qt desktop client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer file sharing network.
04 Feb 2012 8:12pm GMT
Ares 2.1.8
Ares is a free open source file sharing program that enables users to share any digital file including images, audio, video, software, documents, etc.
04 Feb 2012 4:12pm GMT
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Fight Back: Speak Out Against ACTA, Sign the Petition

Learn more about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement and sign the petition against it. If you don't know what the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is please see this: [embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoW26CwhcR8[/embed] ACTA can be more dangerous than SOPA and PIPA and can potentially create new legal standards of intellectual property enforcement, meaning that Internet distribution and information technology would be highly monitored and constantly reported to law enforcement agencies. We must not let this bill pass, we must continue to preserve the freedoms granted to us by the Constitution. Please sign the below petitions and speak out against this bill, stand up and protest while we still have that freedom. Learn how to act against ACTA. Petitions -
- U.S. anti-ACTA White House Petition: sign it
- Canada - Petition: sign it
- Canada - Take 1 minute to send a letter contesting Bill C-11: here
- Ireland - anti-SOPAIreland Petition: sign it
- Poland - ACTA Referendum: here
- Global anti-ACTA Petition: sign it
Attend a local Protest -
- Pan-European Map of anti-ACTA protests: here
- Denmark
- Netherlands (Amsterdam)
- Czech Republic (Prague)
- England (London)
- England (Nottingham)
- Ireland
- France
- Scotland (Glasgow)
- Germany (Berlin)
- Germany (Bremerhaven)
- Germany (Hanover)
- Germany (Hamburg)
- Germany (Mainz)
- Germany (Minden)
- Germany (Munich)
- Germany (Trier)
- Germany (Regensburg)
- Germany (Stuttgart)
- Sweden (Stockholm)
- Sweden (Helsingborg)
- Sweden (Goteborg)
- Poland (Gdansk)
- Poland (Wroclaw)
- Poland (Katowice)
- Poland (Krakow)
- Poland (Bialystok)
- Poland (Szczecin)
- Poland (Lodz)
- Poland (Bydgoszcz)
- Italy (Porto Vecchio)
- Portugal (online)
- Malta (Valletta)
- Slovenia (Ljubljana)
- Bulgaria (Sofia)
- Romania (Bucharest)
- Romania (Bucharest)
- Romania (Cluj)
- Romania (Timisoara)
- Latvia (Riga)
- Austria
Stand up, Speak out. Learn more about ACTA here. Jon@zeropaid.com | @jkaykin
04 Feb 2012 3:21pm GMT
Operation Black March: An Anonymous Movement

Hacktivist group Anonymous has called for Operation Black March, a movement against the media industry. Unfortunately, it might not be as successful as others think. As you may know, SOPA and PIPA have been postponed and have lost much support but the fight isn't over. Thankfully, many groups are still fighting against the music, film and media industry, the most important group being; Anonymous. Anonymous has been very vocal in letting the public know their plans for what they will do next and meanwhile, they have been diligently working; taking down many sites and issuing statements on Youtube (see this and this). On Friday, Anonymous released a set of leaks and hacks ( including the shutdown of the Greek government's Ministry of Justice website and a leak of a conversation between the FBI and Scotland Yard) that were publicized on their Twitter feed using #FFF. This was a large effort and received a lot of support from the public. But for Anonymous this was just scraping surface. Recently, they announced something they call: "Operation Black March." This operation is a boycott of the music, film and media industry, with the hopes that during March, people will not go see films, buy CD's, download songs, buy magazines, purchase video games -- do anything that will support the aforementioned industries: [embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWzRHnVbw5I[/embed] As the video states, "We will not tolerate the Media Industries' lobbying for legislation which will censor the Internet," and Anonymous is asking for our support. Although the cause is great and there is much support for this type of action, I don't know how successful this will be considering how massive the media industry is. The problem is that many people can not live one day, let alone a month without supporting big time media conglomerates. Think about it; you can't download apps to your favorite devices, you can't download new music (legally or illegally) as Anonymous states, you can't even see a movie. The idea is right and the support for this movement is necessary but with media ruling everyday of our lives, I just don't see how feasible of a task this is. It's quite intriguing what Anonymous has done and what they continue to do. With words such as, "[i]f you didn't dig it then then you better dig it now. We are calling upon all allied battleships to rise up and make some mayhem. NDAA/PIPA/SOPA for real? The internet is ours for the taking, and we will destroy every corporation and government that attempts to stand in our way," it will be interesting to see where and/or what Anonymous attacks next. If Anonymous can get the support of many, which they already have, then anything is possible. We will just have to wait and see... You can follow Anonymous on Twitter and on their blog. Keep your eyes peeled and let us know if you discover any new Anonymous attacks. Jon@zeropaid.com | @jkaykin
04 Feb 2012 3:19pm GMT
P2P News
The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and...
The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System From Napster to Total Information Awareness to flash mobs, the debates over who gets to control information and technology has revolved around a single question: How closely do we want the virtual world to resemble the real ... (more)
04 Feb 2012 12:13pm GMT
Dickerson Run man charged with disseminating child pornography
Mark Hofmann is a Daily Courier staff writer and can be reached at 724-626-3539 or via e-mail. Charges were filed at District Judge Dwight Shaner's office Friday against John Joseph Minnick, 64, of 224 Water St.
04 Feb 2012 7:53am GMT
East Greenwich man to serve 20 years on child porn charge
An East Greenwich man who pleaded guilty to advertising and offering to share child pornography was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison.
04 Feb 2012 12:39am GMT
03 Feb 2012
P2P News
Northborough Man Charged With Spreading Child Porn
NORTHBOROUGH, Mass. - A Northborough man was arraigned on child pornography charges today in Westborough District Court after an investigation by State Police Detectives and Northborough Police.
03 Feb 2012 8:19pm GMT
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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. Public Wi-Fi connections are fertile ground for identity thieves and criminals. Copyright holders constantly monitor BitTorrent swarms for the IP addresses of infringers. Govts around the globe, the US in particular, have proposed legislation to filter the Internet. A VPN eliminates all of these worries. A VPN is a virtual private network with "virtual" encrypted connections routed through the Internet to remote servers. The data traveling between you and those servers is encrypted, and the IP address that will appear while surfing or downloading content from the Internet will be that of the server and not your own.
In the past I've mentioned free VPN services and Giganews' popular VyprVPN, and now I'd like to add VPNHQ to the mix. For the cost of a couple of Starbuck's lattes - a mere $7 bucks per month - you can have peace of mind that your data and traffic is protected and unimpeded. You have a choice of serves that include: Amsterdam, London, Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Chicago, and Tokyo. The basic package ($7 p/mo) offers PPTP, and L2TP. You also get unlimited connection speed and data transfers.
So how do you set it up? It's not as quick and easy as VyprVPN is (install and connect), but it's still pretty easy. Before you get started you'll need to create an account for each server you want to connect to, replete with a unique username and password. Once that's done do as follows.
Creating a VPN Connection
1. Start > Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network and Sharing Center 2. Select "Set Up a New Connection or Network"
3. Select "Connect to a Workplace"
4. Select "Use my Internet Connection (VPN)"
5. Enter the IP Address of the Server You Want to Connect To
6. Enter Your Username and Password
7. Press "Connect"
8. Now here we have two paths: for L2TP press "Skip"; for PPTP you're done.
Configuring L2TP
1. Network and Sharing Center > Change Adapter Settings 2. "Right-Click" the VPN Connection and Select "Properties" 3. Click "Security" Tab 4. Change "Type of VPN" to "L2TP"
5. Click "Advanced" Enter the preshared key you were given when you created the account for the given server you're trying to connect to.
That's it, now you should be able to connect to it under your "Network Connections." I'll continue to cover more VPN services in the future so stay tuned. jared@zeropaid.com | @jaredmoya
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03 Feb 2012 8:08pm GMT
P2P News
Rogers to cease 'throttling' Internet traffic
Rogers Communications Inc. is getting out of the business of deliberately slowing down Internet traffic, the company announced Friday.
03 Feb 2012 7:19pm GMT
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Facebook Classic: Chrome Extension for Getting the Old Facebook Back

A simple extension for turning back the clock on many of the more obtrusive Facebook updates like the Ticker and "Top Stories" Newsfeed.
Late last Summer Facebook rolled out a massive new layout redesign, and ever since then a number of people have been clamoring to restore it to the Facebook of old. A Chrome extension called Facebook Classic does just that. Facebook Classic restores the Newsfeed to chronological order rather than Top or Highlighted Stories, and also removes the annoying News Ticker Panel that many have derided as a "Facebook within a Facebook."
"You can toggle the Ticker on or off with a new link near 'Create an Event' on the right side of the Newsfeed," notes the developer.
I've mentioned 3 other options in the past for cleaning up the new Facebook, Unannoying Facebook, Adblock, and Better Facebook, but Facebook Classic is nice barebones option for those looking for minor tweaks to the new layout. If you're addicted to Chrome as much as we are, take a look at Fast eBay Search, an eBay Extension for the Chrome browser. Stay tuned. jared@zeropaid.com | @jaredmoya
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03 Feb 2012 6:30pm GMT
P2P News
Drug Addiction and Your Computer
Would you give a known drug user your personal information? Would you open a checking or credit card account for an admitted con artist? Would you put your full name, date of birth, home address, and social security number online for anyone to use as they wished? Hopefully, not knowingly.
03 Feb 2012 3:10pm GMT
Peer-to-Peer Filesharing: Cold War Tactics Revisited
In 2010, Berlin-based media artist Aram Bertholl began another big chapter in file sharing.
03 Feb 2012 11:05am GMT
The Eigentrust algorithm for reputation management in P2P networks
Peer-to-peer file-sharing networks are currently receiving much attention as a means of sharing and distributing information.
03 Feb 2012 6:51am GMT
To Fileshare or Not To Fileshare, That...
The implications of P2P technology, or file sharing, are nothing short of profound.
03 Feb 2012 3:47am GMT
02 Feb 2012
P2P News
Child porn case puts online filesharing program on trial
A Prince George man stood trial Wednesday for allegedly downloading child pornography onto a friend's computer while visiting her home.
02 Feb 2012 11:42pm GMT
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Never go Hungry Again: 5 Top Restaurant Apps for the iPhone

From the initial idea to paying the bill, this list has your meal out covered.
It's the end of a long working week. You come home, and there's nothing in the fridge, nor do you feel like doing anything that requires effort - like cooking. Going out seems to be the only option, but where to go? What to eat? These restaurant apps answer all those difficult questions. Urbanspoon Urbanspoon is the ultimate restaurant-finding app. Using their slot machine-style set up, simply shake your iPhone to get restaurant suggestions. You search for nearby establishments using GPS and filter your results by neighborhood, cuisine or price. When you find a restaurant that looks interesting, check out other users' reviews and ratings, then use the app to book a table. The app keeps data on your dining history, so if you can't remember that awesome place in Brooklyn you went to, Urbanspoon will help you out. Price: FREE LocalEats LocalEats is similar to Urbanspoon, but with one major difference: it only displays independent local cafes and restaurants. If you want to avoid the big chains and believe in supporting smaller, local-run businesses, this is the app for you. Search by city or state and let LocalEats be your guide with its "Top 100" lists. It will even book you a taxi at the end of a night out. Price: $0.99 OpenTable Want to make a reservation, but don't want to deal with phone queues, stressed staff or the clanging of pots and pans in the background? Try using OpenTable to search for and book restaurant reservations without even picking up the phone. As well as a top search function that allows you to select a restaurant by name, price, location or food, you can book tables for parties of all shapes and sizes within a few taps. Use the app for long enough and you can earn Dining Points, which are redeemable as Dining Cheques at selected OpenTable restaurants. Price: FREE Restaurant Nutrition Once you've arrived at the restaurant, sat down, and have menu in hand, you're going to want to know what you're actually eating. The Restaurant Nutrition app is useful for anyone with dietary restrictions - medical or self-imposed - and gives you a breakdown of the ingredients and nutritional value of what you're eating. As well as filtering food by allergens and using the app's gluten-free menu feature, you can set calories limits and track how much of each food group you're eating per meal. You can also post what you ate to Facebook - if that's your kind of thing. Price: FREE Coupon Sherpa It's time for the bill, and suddenly the financial implications of your indulgence set in. Luckily, Coupon Sherpa might come to the rescue. This app offers vouchers and discounts for all kinds of stores, including restaurants. It contains vouchers that are exclusive to Coupon Sherpa, as well as vouchers from the internet. Search for vouchers by store or, if you're really strapped, find the nearest restaurant offering a discount using the app's GPS function. Price: FREE hannah@zeropaid.com
02 Feb 2012 8:35pm GMT
P2P News
Porn Companies File Mass Piracy Lawsuits: Are You At Risk?
Since the Recording Industry Association of America announced in 2008 that it would stop suing individual users for illegally downloading music, the high-profile piracy lawsuit has essentially disappeared.
02 Feb 2012 7:32pm GMT
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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. It's a priceless line from Mara's million-dollar opening-scene performance in David Fincher's Social Network. And that is precisely the problem. Fincher's Zuckerberg played by Jesse Eisenberg, perhaps a bit exaggerated for box office panache, suffers from a machine-like affect, with traces of Asperger's and a dysfunctional human interface. Had she been speaking in code, he might have better filtered and organized what she was trying to communicate, namely that the two of them don't compute. As the scene ends we see a stone-faced emotionally ill-equipped Zuckerberg dynamically scaling up his mental server space to accommodate and process the endless variables and consequences of rejection. The central theme of Social Network is that Zuckerburg is driven by his social ineptitude, by a drive to crack the social code one bit at a time, and never again fall victim to rejection. As Facebook plans to announce its IPO and $100 billion valuation - instantly making it one of the biggest ever - it's important to take a moment and look back at the most significant rejection of Zuckerberg's life. Realizing that social networking might become the next big thing - possibly even the next AOL - News Corp. announced in July 2005 that it was buying MySpace for $580 million in cash. In October of that year, MySpace had 24.2 million unique users, was growing aggressively, and was the 4th largest website after Yahoo, AOL/Time Warner, and MSN. Meanwhile, Facebook had a relatively paltry 5 million users and nowhere near the traffic. The following year, Yahoo tried to buy Facebook for $1 billion - a remarkable sum given that by now MySpace had 100 million users to Facebook's 9 million. GigaOm's Malik Om had criticized Facebook for passing on an earlier offer of $750 million, saying "it would become yet another social network, which would get spanked by MySpace." But Zuckerberg saw something that others didn't. Perhaps because he was newly endowed with the power to do so, perhaps because he wanted to know what it felt like to wield said power; this time it was he who did the rejecting. Facebook turned down Yahoo's advance. Had Yahoo offered $1.1 billion - $100 million more - Facebook's board planned on forcing Zuckerberg to accept. Yahoo didn't offer. We all know how history turned out. MySpace eventually did become the next AOL, but for all the wrong reasons. It bled numbers like a lacerated Morpheus (some geek out there will get it). After years of losses News Corp. finally sold it off in June 2011 for just $35 million. By that point, it had not only ceded social networking, but it was actually using Facebook's Connect features to move its content. Yahoo didn't fare much better. After passing on an offer from Google to buy Page and Brin's innovative search engine tech for only $1 million in 2000 (1/189,000 of it's current value), and not picking up Facebook for just over a billion, Yahoo also spurned Microsoft's 2008 buyout offer of $45 billion. As of today, Yahoo has a $19.3 billion cap, and no legs. Do you Yahoo? I certainly don't. Analysts speculate that newly appointed CEO Scott Thomson is only there to facilitate a piece-by-piece sell-off of the company. And what of those who rejected Zuckerberg? The jocks, the Harvard Final Clubs, the cool kids, hot girls, and just about everybody else? In a poetic Count of Monte Cristo way, by some type of psychological/digital transference, these people now use Facebook to shape their social lives, to stew in feelings of inadequacy and rejection, to define themselves according to the book of Mark. Fincher's depiction of Zuckerberg was unflattering at best. It was partly intended as karmic payback. Five-hundred million people had been exposed using this new medium. Zuckerberg would be exposed using an old one. Zuckerberg would learn first-hand the pains of no control over his life's privacy settings. The whole world would see and understand Mark Zuckerberg through David Fincher's narrative. The film comes full-circle in the final scene, reiterating the theme of rejection. As the camera is leaving Zuckerberg in an hollow board room, we see him open Erica's Facebook page on his laptop, still bearing his burden despite major success. But less than a year-and-a-half after its release, the film is becoming less and less relevant, like an old episode of Behind The Music predating a comeback or drug relapse. Since Social Network came out, Zuckerberg has done everything (maybe not everything) right to retroactively make the film incomplete. He's since made another 300 million friends, he's become a revolutionary freedom fighter in the Arab world, and he's just days away from running a $100 billion company, because according to Fincher, he learned first-hand the power of rejection. Even Steve Jobs praised Zuckerberg for his rejection of Yahoo, saying just prior to his death, "I admire him for not selling out, for wanting to make a company". So the moral of the story is, it takes a social reject to form the way was shape our social lives, just as it takes a Zen Buddhist to hone our love for material possessions. I guess the secret to success is finding something you're terrible at and teaching the world about it. Funny how things work out. liviu@zeropaid.com | @LivOprescu
02 Feb 2012 1:37am GMT
01 Feb 2012
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Facebook Messenger for Windows: Chat, Live News Feed on Your Desktop

Facebook Messenger for Windows app lets you interact with your Facebook friends from your desktop.
Let's face it: Facebook has become part of our lives. It used to be that the morning newspaper was the first thing you opened in the morning with your cup of coffee or tea in hand. Now it's Facebook. We check in to see how our friends and family are doing. Our daily news is amalgamation of whatever stories, pictures, and other tidbits our Facebook friends have posted. Thus, it's important we stay up to date, and the Facebook Messenger for Windows app will help you do just that. Facebook Messenger takes nearly all of the features and functions you normally use on the Facebook site, and puts them on your desktop in a handy sidebar for convenient access and viewing. Now you can monitor your news feed while performing other tasks or chat with a friend. [gallery link="file" columns="4" orderby="title"] The chat bar looks similar to the one you see on the Facebook.com site, and you can either permanently dock it on your desktop, or keep minimized in your icon tray for quick access. The only things it doesn't allow you to do are accept friend requests, update your status, or reply to messages. For those tasks you'll need to visit Facebook.com. Facebook Messenger has long been available for Android, Blackberry, and iPhone, and Facebook finally decided to push it to Windows as well. Stay tuned. jared@zeroapid.com | @jaredmoya
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01 Feb 2012 4:22pm GMT
DVD Flick: Freeware Program for Creating, Burning DVDs

Easy-to-use program allows users to burn nearly any video file to DVD with a few clicks; supports over 45 video file formats, and contains no adware, spyware, or limitations of any kind.
If you've ever tried to burn a video file to DVD you know it can oftentimes be pretty frustrating, especially if you're trying to use Windows stock DVD Maker program or another free alternative. It usually comes down to you get what you pay for, but in the case of DVD Flick you get a pretty excellent DVD Authoring tool for free. Yes, free. DVD Flick can take nearly any video file stored on your computer and turn it into a playable DVD. With DVD Flick you can even add custom audio tracks, subtitles, as well as a menu for ease of navigation. [gallery link="file" columns="4" orderby="title"] DVD Flick supports over 45 file formats, 60 video codecs, 40 audio codecs, and contains no adware, spyware or limitations of any kind. If you're looking for a free, quality DVD authoring tool then DVD Flick is the program you're looking for. Stay tuned. jared@zeropaid.com | @jaredmoya
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01 Feb 2012 3:20pm GMT
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. Sure maybe some of you had practice with Napster or KaZaA back in the day, but times have changed. Now it's "trackers" and "clients," and the list of new terminology goes on and on. So exactly how and where to begin can be a daunting and intimidating proposition. So for those of you looking for an easy way to find the path to downloading enlightenment, I present to you an easy step-by-step guide to get you up and downloading in no time at all. The first thing we need to do is download a BitTorrent client. This is the program that will do the actual downloading for you. There are many to choose from and each has their own positives and negatives, so it's up to you decide which best suits your needs and PC capabilities. Currently, the most popular client server program is uTorrent because it's relatively simple, effective, and most importantly lightweight. It's small memory footprint consumes only 6MB of memory. Now the guide below will take you through the uTorrent setup process and beyond.
INSTALLATION & SETUP
To begin, download and install uTorrent.
Now we need to configure it to work properly and at a maximized setting based on your PCs internet connection speed. 1. Select "Speed Guide" from the Options Menu as shown below.
2. Run a "Speed Test" and note your upload connection speed.
3. Select your the connection speed determined above in the drop down menu as shown.
4. Choose a port number between 49512 and 65535(the recommended range). Also, the selected port must be forwarded if operating behind a router. As you can see in the picture, I went ahead and used port 49789 and then TESTED it.
....this is the message you should then see in your browser
5. Lastly, it asks if you want to "Enable Encryption." The reason for this is that many ISPs block or throttle BitTorrent connection speeds and this setting helps mask it. To test if your ISP throttles BitTorrent traffic CLICK HERE.
6. Click "Use Selected Settings"
PREFERENCES
There's a number of different features and options, but the only we'll concern ourselves with is where you want your downloads to go. You'd be surprised at how many people have trouble locating where their downloads are at. 1. Select "Preferences" from the Options Menu.
2. Here simply enter the folder location for where you want your downloads to be put in.
That's it. You're finished. Congratulations.
So Where Do I Find Stuff to Download?
Check out our extensive list of BitTorrent tracker sites for the latest and greatest in download sites. Also, I suggest reading our story on Private versus Public Tracker Sites to get an idea of what to expect from each.
How Do I Download It?
First you need to find what's called a BitTorrent tracker site, it's a site which has the actual torrent files that allow users to connect with one another and share data (CLICK HERE FOR TERMINOLOGY). In the picture below I use the LegalTorrents site since I show actual downloading and wish to of course comply with copyright laws. As shown I selected the download arrow in order to download the torrent file and thus the corresponding content.
The files should then appear in uTorrent and begin downloading.
For a more honest representation, here's how it would look if you wanted to download content from The Pirate Bay, the world's largest BitTorrent tracker site. Using "Star Wars" as the search query, I selected a Star Wars e-Book to download.
Then simply select the file and then DOWNLOAD THIS TORRENT.
jared@zeropaid.com
01 Feb 2012 8:00am GMT
31 Jan 2012
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Discover Great Apps With Appsfire

Appsfire provides many tools for you to discover and share the greatest apps out there. With 500,000 apps in the app store and 300,000 in the Android Market , it can get kind of crowded. Everyday new apps are released but it's impossible for anyone to keep up. So how do you discover and share the best apps? Say hello to Appsfire, a community driven app discovery network. Appsfire provides tools and streams for users to be able to discover those gems. On their website they feature VIP's; these are people, as they call them, who are "the most influential and expert iPhone users around." Another feature on the site is something they call AppMixes, which is basically aggregated combinations of apps that have a common topic or functionality, for example: 11 Vital Mobile Apps for Entrepreneurs (source). Out of all the features, my favorite is AppTrends. This tool allows users to see the most trending apps according to Facebook (measured by the likes, comments and shares) or Twitter (measured by the amount of tweets). Using social media to discover app trends is brilliant. These aforementioned features are great for app discovery but in order to get the most out of what Appsfire has to offer, I recommend downloading the app. Here are the ways you can discover and share the best apps with Appsfire: FRIENDS Want to know what your friends use on their iPhone? Super easy with Appsfire: find out what your friends are using or loving or even removing. DEALS Save Money! Be the first to know when great apps go on sale, or even go free. LOCAL Check out the apps that are useful in your city or country. If you're traveling, discover apps to help you navigate your surroundings. VIP'S Come and check the app that tech celebrities, bloggers and other app experts recommend HOT APPS Discover the apps that are being talked about on Twitter & Facebook, or soaring through the App Store rankings. APP MIXES We're constantly scanning the web to find the best apps by topics created by the best publications. Looking for the best apps for photography, music, or cooking app? We've got that. SEARCH We enhance the search experience by including app mixes, so you can browse through apps which real people have identified as being high-quality. APPS FOR YOU Appsfire delivers you recommendations based on your personal tastes by analyzing the apps you have on your iPhone.* As you can see, Appsfire has figured out a great way to help users discover the best apps. With a nice design, clean functionality and a price tag of FREE, I recommend downloading it for iPhone/ iPad or Android. What are your opinions on Appsfire? Jon@zeropaid.com | @jkaykin
31 Jan 2012 12:43am GMT