March 1, 2007
So what does all that McGuffin linked on the side mean?……
The hit counters for this place are going through the roof and it seems there are currently between 200 to 300 visitors a day and around 6500 since I set up mid Jan - I only know this due to the info given to me by the expression engine program that runs this place - not many folk leave comments so I don’t know who is reading - but I suppose this is due to the awkward nature of the comment system which you get to via clicking comments at the end of each post - with the email address/word verification thing it’s not as instinctive as something like haloscan which I might be able to sort at a later date - however folk saying hello via email or the comments is always welcome (Hint! Anna, Cassie, Helen, Rona etc etc )
Anyways, it was brought to my attention by a few folk that many of the visitors are not too savvy with blogging and don’t take for granted what everyone else doing this type of thing reads as gospel - for example the headers you see up top there, “posts of past” & “recently” will bring drop down menus that allow you surf back to particular months / posts - this front page only displays the last 10 written so if you want to find something older from the last two years or so, you need to use the links.
Also each post has categories they fit into - clicking on one of these should bring up all the posts under that heading - furthermore, over on the left side-bar there, scroll down a bit and you can find the full list of categories available - eg: pictures.
If you want larger versions of some of the pictures shown you should click on the buzznet or flickr badges further down the left side bar - I’m also working on a way to allow this to work from the front page here - html coding that means I can upload photo’s to flickr and then link to the posted picture on the site before you so you get the automatic link by clicking on the photo in question - currently I use photobucket and that doesn’t do that automatically, it just provides hosting for the picture at the size you see here. The thing is that in a country with faster connection speeds or broadband uploading photo’s to websites is no prob, but here it takes a while to put pics up at speed rates of 52kbps and photobucket is quicker than flickr.
The links directly to the left are for ojeni I use on a regular basis and also what’s needed for accessing torrents and watching TV / movies online (if you got the speeds for it).
For example, when in the lands of the West I use u torrent for all my downloads - torrents being links to files that folk are sharing on the net and can be anything from anti-virus software with code packs, to the latest hollywood releases - you have to download and install the utorrent program and also tweak the settings using advice from reading the same sites FAQ and also using google to search for better tips on the programs performance.
Once utorrent is installed, any torrent link you click on will be opened and downloaded to your machine using this program - the question now is which torrents are the most reliable and trustworthy and how do you find them - for this I use either hypoh.com which basically reviews and links the latest quality movie torrent releases - or I use isohunt.com and look at the zietgiest to judge what’s fresh out there and popular - (tip: seeds are folk holding the whole file and leechers are those that are accessing it at that time - more of either of those = popular and therefore worth the download, possibly) - in general there’s a lot of ojeni to learn about torrents and googling such things will bring you more - this is just a quick overview to get you started with the basics - what I do advise is that anything you click on from Hypoh.com will always be the real deal and should move pretty quick in terms of download speeds.
Using ISOhunt.com’s search facility you can find pretty much anything you want due to the fact that the site searches all the other torrent sites out there - so if you want a certain film or album/artist use that.
Now then torrent downloads aren’t exactly how the industries envisaged how people would access their work - indeed if there’s a band I love then I buy the album (eg: new Bloc Party album weekend in the city) - but my I-pod didn’t get to 25GB of music (about 6500 songs/18 days of play) by exchanging hard earned moola for such ojeni. In order to keep relative anonymity online then I’d recommend using downloading P2P guardian and also hiding your IPaddress - as you never know who is watching.
Once you’ve got the files you want then I’d say you should use a program called Nero to transfer to DVD/VCD - if you use ISOhunt you should be able to find a torrent to install it for free that will come with a code generator so you don’t actually have to pay for it. There’s also the VLC player which you can install for free and will play any file type you ask it to on your computer - more useful than things such as windows media player and Quicktime etc. If you need DVD covers for the disc’s you’re burning then there’s a pretty simple search and set up site here. You can now say goodbye to paying for cinema tickets and the latest album releases.
Now for TV and movies online the best site is AddictiveJunk.com as these types of sites usually get shut down and moved around a lot, but this link always lets you know where they’ve moved on to - and there’s also allucTV and MahTV as well. Obviously you can use youtube and daily motion as well - but getting the videos on to your computer is a different matter - for this you can use this for youtube and this for everything else.
I think the rest of the links are fairly self explanatory - I move around a lot so it’s a way for me to carry the links with me where ever I log on - including those of for fellow freinds and writers like Eric and Raspberry which you can find via the ports of call at the top right.
Right - lesson over - I’m now going to go fetch Lauren and head over to the planters club in Mulanje where the tea folk go drinking every Thursday - then bright and sparky at around 8am (well depending if there’s a hangover involved or not) we’re driving into the loooonnnnnngggg wknd at the lake - Friday through to Monday at Gecko - I’ll try not to drown and keep the bar tab the right side of reasonable..... but it is four days so.....
Spo | March 1, 2007
Comments on So what does all that McGuffin linked on the side mean?……
when i get a faster speed than dial-up, i’ll look into more of that.
one thing i noticed is your reference to nero. when you sent me that damien rice CD, some of the songs used what i guess is the Mac version of a sound file.
i couldn’t get nero to burn that to a disc using my portable dvd/cd burner. why is that, you think?
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