Archive for April, 2008

03 Apr

Filesharing with torrents

File sharing and torrents are the flavor of the moment. Why are they so popular? Let’s take a look at what drives them.
Torrents are not the files that are shared, they are the much smaller ’signature’ files that are available for download from any number of file sharing websites. These torrents contain metadata about the [...]

03 Apr

Simple filesharing with Ares Vista

When computers are working, they amaze me. The number of things you can do on them is just astounding. When they don’t work they surely rank amongst the most frustrating things ever invented. And so it was with massive frustration that I tried in vain to get my filesharing software to work properly with Windows [...]

02 Apr

Ares Ultimate surprisingly easy to use

I never thought I’d be writing praise about a filesharing application; but then I’d not found a perfect one until I started using Ares Ultimate. Well, perhaps it isn’t perfect, but if not then it’s damn near.
What struck me most about Ares Ultimate was the fact that it didn’t try to be anything that [...]

01 Apr

iPhone a break through in free music downloads

Apple is rumored to be finally launching the much sought after iPhone music downloads on the rise in Europe, and have completed talks in Germany, the UK and in France to choose the service provider that will be fortunate enough to take on the provision of services for the resident iPhone owners.
Elsewhere, in further Apple [...]

01 Apr

iPhone Download and its Baggage

Without software, your iPhone, iPod or other piece of swanky piece of electric magic would be largely useless. Music, games, movies, TV shoes, applications; all of the nice bits of your gadget owe a large debt of gratitude to the software that powers them, and the data that runs on this software.
So where do you [...]