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Popular Email Clients

2009-02-24T21:21:00.000+05:30

The era of ultimate digitization is upon us and it redefines our lives. Almost every day there are new inventions and innovations in the fields of IT, computing, and electronics. Technology is advancing in quantum leaps. For instance, it's been a while since we've sent traditional mail. Can you still remember the days when homing pigeons were trained to carry messages long distances? It was back around World War 2.

In this generation, sending mail to our friend located on the other side of the world takes less than a second. As soon as we send it, the destined user can read it. That's what I call innovation. Nowadays of course we call these e-mails, instead of traditional mail. The e stands for electronic.

Throughout this article, we are going to review some of the most popular email clients. First we will cover webmail and its characteristics, and then we can start reviewing. Reading this comprehensive article should inform you of the main features and functions that are possible and required for dedicated email clients. It is completely up to you to decide which one of them you will choose.

Email clients are also called Mail User Agents (MUA). In a nutshell, they connect to the Mail Transfer Agent (MTA), which is basically the remote mailbox, and ask to retrieve the stored messages. In our case, these are the email messages. This retrieval is possible in two flavors: POP and IMAP. The main difference between these is that the latter allows flagging of the mails as read, unread, or forwarded, and allows folder categorization such as sent items, drafts, and trash.

Mail is sent via the SMTP protocol and the basic methodology is the same. They arrive at the MTA from where the user is able to retrieve it later on. Basically the MTA is the host where all of the mail is stored for each user on that host. The sign "@" (at) separates the name of the user from the hosting agent. It comes from ARPANET and it was introduced in 1971. We could say that ARPANET is the father of Internet.

This being said, I think you are ready to begin reading our comprehensive review.

Webmail

Web-based email, or simply webmail, refers to an email service that is fully web-based. The user can access it via a web browser, and therefore eliminate the need for a dedicated stand-alone desktop application, such as an email client. Here we are going to analyze the major advantages and drawbacks of webmail.

First of all, the most outstanding benefit of webmail providers is that they allow users to access their email box from anywhere in the world as long as they have access to a computer or mobile terminal with Internet Access. This is especially useful if you are where application-based email wouldn't be possible.

However, this aforementioned advantage also brings a significant drawback: the unavailability of the service without Internet access, meaning that the user cannot compose new mail or read older mail while offline. This is a setback.

Another advantage that we can mention is hassle-free access, because taking care of a desktop email client that requires updates, security patches, and bug fixes isn't appealing at all. Next, we have the security of our messages, because our mail won't get stored locally. We don't have to make backup copies in lieu of losing our precious mail. Some webmail services also offer antivirus and anti-spam functions.

Drawbacks of webmail services include the limited options for formatting email and their all-around security vulnerability. In the latter, we include "phishing" attacks, which are basically spam mail that try to "trick" the user into giving out sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details. More often than not they masquerade as common trustworthy services such as eBay or Paypal.

A few years ago the available storage for spam was also an issue, but since the launch of Gmail the traditional email box sizes dramatically increased from 5-50MBs up to 1-5GBs. And some even went further, offering unlimited storage. Anyhow, in my opinion, currently it's rather inconsequential whether the provider offers 5GB+ or simply claims unlimited space. At this time, we could easily say that these are the same thing.

Furthermore, Gmail offers specific features that are really useful. For example, the service groups messages received and/or sent from/to the same people into "conversation blocks." This is only done visually but it does the trick; it's very helpful when following sequential mails. Additionally, the "search within mails" function is great to have.

Last but definitely not the least, thanks to the sudden growth of AJAX-powered techniques and the capabilities of this successful programming language (web development), online services have gradually become redefined by mimicking the look-and-feel of desktop clients. Lately, many of the providers have transitioned to AJAX.

Right now, the following three providers are occupying the top ranks for webmail services: Yahoo!, Hotmail (now called Windows Live Hotmail), and Gmail. The position of Google Mail is uncertain due to the lack of official statistics. But compared to the first two competitors they fall short on the number of user accounts as well. Nonetheless, Gmail was launched just "recently" (2004) compared to Hotmail and Yahoo! (1997).

All in all, webmail services are reaching a stage of maturity where I'd be tempted to claim that they are powerful enough to replace desktop clients, but that's just my opinion. There's a lot of headroom for improvement as well as other functions and fixes that must be incorporated, but we could be impressed. As far as security goes, please, do your best not to be fooled-never give out sensitive data! Be careful.

Mozilla Thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird is the email and news client developed by Mozilla Foundation. It is completely free, open source, and cross-platform. The guidelines under which it was designed are the following: superlative security, refined organization, and sophisticated customization thanks to their ability to enhance the client with extensions.

First let's talk about its security enhancements. We have top-notch SSL/TLS support for connections to IMAP and SMTP servers. Native support for S/MIME secure emails isn't neglected either. Because it renders HTML on a particularly developed system, this boosts its overall security.

This solid security is enhanced by a powerful Bayesian-based anti-spam system. Bayesian is a form of spam-filtering that is very capable of differentiating spam mail from legitimate mail. Therefore, its all-around accuracy increases over time because the user is able to make corrections each time a "misclassification" happens.

Additionally, we have a rather impressive anti-phishing filter. However, a lot of additional fixes and enhancements are required in this system. The reason for that is mostly because, unfortunately, phishing techniques are evolving almost on a day-to-day basis.

Now we are going to cover Thunderbird's supreme organizational functions as well as its customizable look-and-feel, due to its ability to import specific themes. You have search functions, message filtering and grouping, and additional labeling options. Multiple accounts are also supported. Themes are a nice thing to have especially for users that enjoy turning their computer experience into a pleasurable one. You can download these CSS packages with images from Thunderbird's Add-on site.

I'd like to point out a great extension. It's called Enigmail. It adds public key support for Thunderbird. Per-account based encryptions, inline-PGP and PGP/MIME, OpenPGP key management interface, encrypt/sign mail, and decrypt/authenticate mail upon receiving are all natively supported. I am certainly advocating its usage.

All in all, I am handing out a combined 9 out of 10 points for Thunderbird. Overall, I'm satisfied with its performance. However, just as with Firefox, particular extensions are pretty much required in order to turn Thunderbird into a very powerful, efficient, and solid email client. What would I improve? Its LDAP support and anti-phishing system.

Opera Mail (M2)

Opera Mail is incorporated into the freely distributable Opera Internet suite along with the web browser. It is both an email and news client supporting POP3, IMAP, Atom, and RSS feeds. It is a very discrete and lightweight client. Its interface is quite different compared to stand alone clients because it is totally incorporated into and acts as a part of Opera. You manage emails as you would with an internal feed manager.

The most required features aren't forgotten. It has an anti-spam system that works on both algorithms: automated and learnable (Bayesian). Opera Mail automatically sorts the mail into two independent groups: with or without attachments. You have different view options, such as to display only mailing lists, etc. Its search function works fine.

Moreover, you can label some of your mail (i.e. funny, valuable, important, to do, etc.), so you can find them easier later on. Some of its major drawbacks are that the user cannot format composed mail since only plain text is supported for creating new mail. As far as displaying mail, here HTML is also supported because it uses the Opera browser's engine to render HTML code.

It is a pretty lightweight and solid client that has nothing but the "most-needed" features. It is by no means an outstanding client, but since it's incorporated into and shipped with the browser suite, some people might not even want another client because it could easily satisfy their needs. Another con is the lack of enhanced security functions.

Summing these up, I'm giving it 6 out of 10 points. It does a great job though.

Outlook 2007

Outlook 2007 is known under its full name Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. It is part of the Microsoft Office 2007 suite and is more than an email client. It is a fully functional personal information manager showing off features, such as personal notes, journal, address books, task lists, calendar with significant dates (anniversaries, appointments, birthdays), reminders, email, fax, instant messaging, and news feeds.

Finally, we can say that Outlook 2007 is a classy application that is jam-packed with all of the functions that may or may not be required by users. Obviously, it is licensed under Microsoft's proprietary EULA and it costs a fair price. Compared to its 2003 counterpart, at least now it includes a full-featured RSS and Atom reader.

Office 2007 is by no means perfect software though. For example, the anti-spam and anti-phishing system works only on an automated signature-based basis and isn't able to learn on the Bayesian algorithm. Then there's no NNTP (network news transfer protocol) support. Some people were also disappointed by the fact that Outlook 2007 doesn't integrate fully with the Fluent interface (the name of the new GUI).

You can see its particular light bluish interface; it contains tabs, toolbars, ribbons, buttons, galleries, and other fancy stuff. Microsoft tends to call it an "intuitive user interface." Nevertheless, this kind of UI improves the user-friendliness of the application and it gives a yummy look-and-feel to Office 2007.

All in all, Outlook 2007 redefines Microsoft's approach toward Outlook and fulfills all kinds of user requirements. Personally I would prefer it if there were more attention placed on its security, such as enhanced encryption functions, instead of its intuitive UI that doesn't even integrate well enough. The system also struggles with support for multiple accounts; likewise theme support is almost totally neglected.

Summing these up, it deserves 9 points out of 10, mostly because it is a huge improvement compared to Outlook 2003. Its all-around security is higher (particularly HTML rendering). This time it wasn't quickly released, thus, it outperformed our expectations for a Microsoft email client. Notwithstanding, it comes in at US$109.95.

You've come to the end of this review. By now you should feel prepared to choose one of the clients presented here or maybe another alternative. Either way, I have given you a comprehensive review of a few of the most popular email clients. You can pick any other client, go by the same scheme of reviewing, and see for yourself how they work and what their offerings are.

Before we finish this article I am going to suggest a commercial email client. It is "The Bat!" developed by RITLabs. It is a very sophisticated and feature-laden stand-alone email client that has won numerous awards and prizes (52 to be exact - link).

It is much respected in the world of email clients, occupying a top position mostly thanks to the following characteristics: protection of privacy (support for authentication protocols and encryptions), an HTML rendering and displaying system that defends the user from malicious codes, a smart sorting function that also features auto-responding or confirmation mails, and it is jam-packed with lots of templates, too.

We could also mention the following features: fast address book and the powerful import wizard, multi-language interface, built-in backup systems to prevent accidental data loss, and even accidental deletion (message parking). Combine this with a text-editor that supports highlighting and anti-spam features (Bayesian).

All in all, it is a very solid client that, despite its huge list of features, has very low system requirements. It might be a great deal if you or your business wants an "out of box" product that is simply fantastic. It's free to try it, but acquiring a license costs $25, $35, and $45 for student, home, and pro editions, respectively.

If you prefer a freeware alternative to the ones presented in this review, then I'd advocate checking out the following: Pegasus Mail (unfortunately the project was discontinued in 2007 due to dwindling financial support and apparently it is expected to become a donationware).

Furthermore, we can't forget about Eudora (the light edition of v7 is freeware and starting from v8, the "Pegasus" is completely freeware), Koma-Mail (the approach is minimalist without sacrificing security and it's a client that doesn't require installation, thus, a handy utility for a removable USB stick), and Revolver Mail (the email client that's able to act as a centralized communication system, allowing users to share the same calendar, etc.; it lacks anti-spam functions, but it renders HTML very securely).

Improve Your DSL Connection

2009-02-24T21:18:00.000+05:30

Whether I am on chat or with friends, at least some of my friends will ask this question "SREE, Is there any way to Improve my DSL Connection?". As this is one of the common questions I experience, I thought to write an article about it. If you have any doubts please comment it.

As life seems to keep getting faster, we want our technology to keep up. This is especially true of our Internet connections. If you're looking for a way to squeeze more speed out of your web surfing and online research, keep reading. The information in this article won't help everyone, but even if it doesn't help you directly, you might find it useful.

Hardly anyone connects to the Internet using dial-up these days, or so it seems. Broadband connections cost considerably more than dial-up ever did, but many people are willing to pay the price for the extra speed. Are they getting a fair deal? Or, to put it more bluntly if you use a broadband connection: are you getting the throughput for which you're paying?

In this article we'll focus on how we can fix the problem if your answer is "no," and how we can notch up our Internet speed. To start with, we should get a few things straight. First, the main factor that influences your Internet speed is your contract with your Internet Service Provider (ISP). You will never have more bandwidth than you are offered by the company you're using.

The second point to remember is that some connections offer the maximum speed possible already; this is due to the technology used. Therefore, if you have anything other than a DSL connection (does optical fiber ring a bell?), preferably an ADSL connection, then I have bad news for you. This article won't cover/contain anything useful to you; maybe some basic knowledge of DSL at best. Still, being informed is always an advantage.

We'll start with a little basic information about DSL connections so you can easily understand the obstacles that lay between you and the maximum speed that you were told you could achieve when you signed the contract. As soon as we get through the theoretical part we are going to start looking into some real-life situations.

There are dozens of applications that promise major speed improvements. I will explain them to you shortly. Let's see what works and what doesn't! Which ones manage to match expectations and which fail to offer any benefits?

The Theory

DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) is a technology that provides digital data transmission over the wires of the local telephone network most of the time. This is achieved by dividing the transmitted frequencies into two major categories. The low frequencies assure the telephone's data stream while the higher ones are used for the DSL.

In this way DSL can offer a bandwidth in the 512kbit/s to 24,000kbit/s range depending upon the type of technology. That's why DSL can offer some very high speeds, satisfying the ambitions of most users. DSL can be divided into two types. There is ADSL, which stands for Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line, and SDSL, where the first S letter indicates, as you may think, Symmetric. With the first type, the upload/download bandwidth ratio is asymmetric (resulting in a higher download speed and a pretty low upload speed), while the second type offers the same speed for both of the data transfer actions.

ADSL is more popular, for both marketing and technical reasons. The technical reason is that the asymmetric arrangement offers more than double the bandwidth of SDSL. The marketing reason is that, with ADSL, higher speeds can be advertised, and also most users download more often than they upload.

ADSL and VDSL (Very high speed DSL) divide the "band" into two sections. The low "band" frequency (between 300 and 3400HZ) carries the voice and is named POTS (Plain Old Telephone Signal). The high "band" portion is reserved for DSL (between 10 and 100 KHz).

On its own, DSL segments its band further into 4312.5 Hz channels. The channel allocation can continue up to 1.1 MHz for ADSL, until the the channels on demand are unusable. The speed of your Internet directly depends on the number of channels. The image below shows how it's divided for ADSL. PSTN stands for public switched telephone network, and is reserved for the use of the telephone.

A filter is applied to the frequencies before they reach the telephone in a home with DSL, eliminating the DSL stream. This filter does not cause any interference or reduction in the quality of the phone signal received. Guided by this the idea you can easily see why you can speak on the phone and browse the Internet at the same time. The two have their own transfer "bands," and before they're used, filters eliminate the unnecessary data, processing only the streams addressed to them. It's filter power all the way.

The upper limit of the stream depends on the length and quality of the loop (the frequencies). Thus, you can see why the distance between where the data is streamed and the modem is so important. The higher frequencies travel a shorter distance. With the distance from the source (usually a DSLAM), some of the signal is wasted, and signal and speed are lost.

DSL uses copper wire for optimal transfer quality. If the wire has faults the frequencies "travel harder" and again, signal will be lost. In an optimal situation, older ADSL provides an 8Mbit/s transfer rate for a 2km (1.25 miles) distance for unshielded twisted pair copper wires. The new ADSL2+ can do, under the same conditions, 24Mbit/s speed. Above this distance, bandwidth drops quickly and dramatically. This problem can be solved by installing ADSL loop extenders.

ADSL supports two methods of data transfer. The first is fast channel, which is best for streaming multimedia, where occasional bit drops can be allowed but lag is forbidden. The other method is the interlaced channel, designed for file transfer. No corrupted bit is allowed, and to prevent corruption the same bits can be resent, even with the cost of higher latencies.

As for the potential hidden in DSL, you should know that in 2007 Dr. John Papandriopoulos (from the University of Melbourne) patented an algorithm that can boost DSL speed up to 205MBit/s. This said, we can conclude that we are talking about one of the most promising services.

In most countries, copper wire connections have already been developed for the wire phone, and even with the cost of the additional equipment, it's still cheaper than creating a new optical fiber network from scratch. In 2004 the US started to see Dry-loop DSL after Qwest started offering it. This is also known as "naked DSL," consisting only of the DSL band; the POTS line is eliminated. This type of service has increased in popularity with the spread of cell phones, since many customers decided that they no longer needed landlines.

More Factors to Consider

The time has come for us to see the factors that influence your bandwidth. You should know the difference between b and B. The first stands for bit and the second for Byte. A bit is equal to one-eighth of a byte; eight bits equals one byte. For some obvious marketing reason the bit is used more; psychologically, the higher the better. However, in the world of computers, the KB is more used.

Therefore, if you sign up for a contract with 1 Mbit/s then you should expect a bandwidth of 128 KB/S. That's the theory at least; in practice, it's more trouble for DSL. Communications equipment vendors use ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode), ignoring the content type of the data. ATM is a protocol for transferring data between two points. The Internet uses IP as the protocol for communicating, therefore, and in particular, TCP/IP.

This way the data is going over your DSL line via TCP/IP over ATM. TCP grants you overhead in transmission that can go down to three percent, while ATM overhead is even more, ten percent usually. So you may experience a speed penalty of about 13 percent compared to what you signed up for. Following the previous situation, a 1 Mbit/s connection in practice would result in a 1024/8 - (1024/8) * 13/(100) = 1024/8 * (87/100) = 111.36 KB/S sped limit under ideal conditions. Thus, 87 percent efficiency is the speed you should look for if you are under the 2 km distance from the server. If you are further away, you can expect a considerably higher speed drop.

Now that we've alluded to the speed that's offered by your ISP, we need to look at some further issues that can lead you into errors regarding your download speed. If you don't have a dedicated download manager, the integrated one in most browsers fails to indicate the correct speed upon the start of the download. Look at the start speed above.

This is due to the fact that data can buffer up before the timers are started. This causes exaggerated readings, especially when only the beginning segment of the file has been received. The speed you are really using is obviously the second one.

This problem with your download speed can be caused also by one or more viruses inhabiting your system, so scan your PC if you experience a download speed drop. If you experience some issues that can be caused by a faulty OS configuration, make sure you visit the DSLReports site. It is dedicated to these kinds of problems and you can make a test at the following link: http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks.

After finishing the tests the result will show you both the problem in your connection and how to resolve it by providing a very BIG database with many FAQs explaining the problems along with their solutions. Make sure you don't miss this site.

Solutions

By now we have localized the problem. The question remains: how we are going resolve it? You may observe that the Internet is full of software that is named as if it is a dream come true for our problem: "download accelerators." In most cases the name is only a marketing move. The marketing team pumps up interest around the product. But in essence the only way it could make a difference is by sending multiple requests to the server, which ask for the file you are downloading.

You see, most servers still suffer from the bandwidth problem. To solve this issue they incorporate some sort of bandwidth limit. So one computer has only a specific amount of bandwidth allocated, which the owners think should be enough to use the service (in the case of video streams, like the mms protocols), or a speed that will attract most visitors without scaring them away from the site.

If you found a server like this where your download speed is, let's say 100 KB/S, but you have at your command a much faster speed (like 200KB/S) from you ISP, then you can "cheat" the system by using a "download accelerator" of this type. It connects to the server several times and requests your file. For example, let's look at the FDM (Free Download Manager) and a local television station (namely Antena3.ro).

Should you still want more information about download managers, you can check out the article on this site titled "Popular Download Managers Reviewed " by Barzan 'Tony' Antal. It is a comprehensive review of the most popular download managers.

So back to our problem. The local channel offers a FLV (flash-based video) stream of their past television programs, so you can watch them if you missed the live broadcast. Now most of the time, or rather at peak hours, the download speed of the video if you start it in the browser is barely enough to watch the show; screen hang-ups are part and parcel of the experience.

With a little extra knowledge you can "cheat" the system. Let me show you how. The problem is that even if you set the Adobe Flash Player to download files of unlimited size to your hard drive you are limited by the server.

Start up the site. Find your video and just view the Page Source of the site. For Mozilla Firefox follow the View -> Page Source (or Ctrl+U) path, while for Opera Right Click -> Source (or Ctrl + F3). If you are viewing the source then you just need to get the link to the video. It helps if you know the extension, for example flv, and search for the extension. The link you find should be valid. Double check!

In my case it was: http://***.***.***.***:7575/video_show_10_14210.flv (the asterisks stand for the IP of the server). Now all you need to do is copy and paste the link into your download manager. Enter it at the Add Download (or Add URL) part and enjoy the high-speed download procedure. This way you may finish the download in just a few minutes, and after that you can enjoy every second of the show with a player.

In some happier situations the process described above may be skipped with a little help from your manager, as most of them offer video grab for the major sites (like Youtube, Metacafe, etc.). But with this we can say that the performance increase is caused by your download manager.

cFosSpeed

To investigate more ways we can improve our download speed, we pop over to an interesting product. It's called cFosSpeed. It's already at version 4.2, which suggests that it's more than a marketing gimmick. After you install it, your first impression will confirm this. For openers, you get a nice little user interface, with a jumping icon in the right corner of your skin. It has a pretty straight-to-business attitude. I'll try to display the same attitude in analyzing it, so let's start with the results.

I measured the impact of the application with the ultra-popular site www.speedtest.net. Check out the results; I've taken measurements on two servers to increase the overall accuracy of the results.

1. Before cFosSpeed without file transfer:

2. Before cFosSpeed during the file transfer:

3. AFTER cFosSpeed - Aimed at Bandwidth:

Without file transfer:

During the file transfer:

4. AFTER cFosSpeed - Aimed at Ping Times:

You might have noticed that I left out the "after" results during file transfer. I've done this because the results were almost completely the same as they were beforehand without file transfer, so to save space I decided not to include another screen shot.

Let me explain the results. If you are pursuing higher bandwidth, and here we're talking about raw KB/S, then this program won't solve your problem. It managed to get a few extra bits in but not enough to clearly improve our download speed. This could be mainly because my ISP does quite a good job and I'm close to the 87 percent efficiency of the technology.

I observed that the speed meter built into the program fails to deliver an accurate speed measurement. It shows constantly a speed around 330KB/S-320KB/s, while I had 320-310KB/s, measured with some trustworthy programs like DuMeter. This is the usual method used in some other so-called "download managers;" they show some higher speeds, but the actual speed is lower.

Some good results can be observed when we look at the ping speeds. My ping time instantly improved to around 10ms; during file transfer this could be double the speed without the program. This program is a must-have for any gamer that suffers from low ping times.

As a side note, here are the specifications of the test environment. Of course all unnecessary applications were closed during the tests. For the file transfer period I filled my download bandwidth by downloading AVG Antivirus 7.5 from software-downloads.

Operating System: Clean Install of Windows XP SP2 Build 2600
Browser Used: Mozilla Firefox
Net Type: ADSL 3 Mbit/s net provided by ARtelecom

The speed at which we connect to the Internet is quite fragile. There are so many factors to consider, and so much can go wrong. If you have a DSL connection, even if everything is operating well and according to the plan, you won't enjoy the speed advertised by your ISP. Of course the bandwidth you'll be promised is usually under a policy of delivering the Best Effort. So the company isn't responsible for offering the highest speed. It offers to you what it is able to in the specific situation.

That means you'll see some high ping times and some low speeds for the download and upload section. Furthermore if the network becomes agglomerated, these penalties go even higher due the fact that the DSLAM is overwhelmed.

In this situation the intelligent user searches for a way to improve his/her life and try to use the service for which s/he is paying each month to its full potential. Although the net is quite full of so-called "download accelerators," the reality is that the heyday of the dial-up connection is gone, and with it, the software that actually made a difference.

But all isn't lost. In some unique situations a download manager can make a difference; if you play some games and the lags are making you go crazy, give cFosSpeed a try. It may not improve the speed for a well-configured setup, but it could give you the edge you need for enjoying your in-game experience while you download data from the Internet.

But regardless of any software, the best method you can use for improving your download/upload speed is to contact your ISP and sign a contract for better speeds. The drawback is that you'll have to pay more.

Popular BitTorrent Clients

2009-02-24T21:15:00.000+05:30

Who would have guessed that Bram Cohen's peer-to-peer communication protocol could ever achieve this kind of success? Even the man himself probably couldn't have forecast its popularity when he designed the BitTorrent protocol in April 2001. However, the protocol as well as the client applications started to mature from early 2004.

"When I first started working on it, nobody knew whether it was possible to overcome all the logistical problems of handling a flash crowd. It was challenging, but not only did I get it to work at all, but got it to work extremely efficiently. More recently, I'm proud of being part of the team that has worked hard to convince content publishers and enterprise businesses that unlike other p2p architectures, BitTorrent is a legitimate and incredibly powerful tool for content delivery." -Bram Cohen

Simply put, the glory days of the BitTorrent (abbreviated BT) protocol started in 2004 and its veneration is still steadily growing on an exponential level. In terms of importance, the BitTorrent protocol virtually crushed and eliminated all of the other contemporary file-sharing solutions. P2P networks such as Direct Connect (DC++), eDonkey (eMule), FastTrack (Kazaa), and Gnutella are all things of the past.

It's rather impressive that according to some of the most recent statistics done by Evidenzia (an enterprise that specializes in collecting, analyzing, and archiving the traffic of P2P networks), the number of files that are released under the BitTorrent protocol have nearly tripled compared to last year. As a result, in Q3 2007, BitTorrent reached a peak milestone.

This being said, we think that it's a priority to dedicate an article to reviewing two of the most popular BitTorrent clients. At first, we're going to give you a brief overview of BitTorrent networks, how they work, what clients are for, and ultimately explain the most important terminology: seeds, peers, swarm, tracker, leech, etc. Once you're familiar with the tidbits of this P2P protocol, we can move on.

You can already anticipate reading a comprehensive comparison of the following standalone BitTorrent clients: Azureus and μTorrent. As a result, we guarantee that as soon as you finish reading this article you will be hooked up with the necessary knowledge and information to feel at home in the world of BT networks.

Now that you're prepared, let's begin with the brief introduction, general terminology, and then continue with the all-embracing and in-depth review of those aforementioned freeware clients.

BitTorrent by its very nature is a peer-to-peer protocol designed for transferring files. It works on the methodology of multiple users uploading and downloading small segments as parts of a file or files. The client is a software application that enables the user to take advantage of the BitTorrent protocol. It communicates through it.

The central server that manages the connections is called the tracker. Basically, it logs the seeds and peers that are in the swarm. It is really important to point out that the tracker does not have copies of the files; therefore, it cannot be involved directly in the data transfer. The tracker exchanges information with the clients. That is its job.

In BT terminology, a peer stands for an instance of a BitTorrent client that is connected to the Internet and is able to accept connections from other clients. By definition, a peer does not have the complete file yet, just parts of it. Nevertheless, if the client has the complete file and offers to upload it, then we call that a seeder.

Other terms that you should be familiar with are leech, lurker, share ratio, swarm, and snubbed. The swarm is the combined group of peers and seeders that share a specific file. Therefore, all of the clients that are involved in the data transfer are building up a swarm.

The leech is a person that downloads more than uploads. This is when the share ratio of a leech is called poor or negative (it's below 1). Share ratio is calculated as follows: total uploaded/total downloaded. That's why below one means that the leech downloaded more than uploaded and thereby has a negative effect on the swarm.

A lurker is a seeder that does not add new content. By no means should a lurker be confused with a leech because the lurker seeds all of the already downloaded files. Furthermore, the term snubbed is used to describe a client that does not upload any data for more than 60 seconds, for whatever reason. This is a flag that works based on the feedback given by downloading clients.

Last, but definitely not least, we need to introduce the torrent file. It's a file that contains the metadata (name, size, checksum) of the files that the particular file makes available to download. The metadata also contains the address of the tracker that organizes the connections between peers and seeders. In general, this file sports a .torrent extension.

Now that we've covered all of the required BT terminology, let's talk a bit about how the system works and why it's so effective. Sharing content directly via websites is a very challenging approach, even though umpteen mbps bandwidth services are dominating. Keeping up with the high number of downloads is a headache for network and system administrators. The sharing option is definitely not a cheap one.

The underlying reason that supports the development of the BitTorrent protocol is that it popularizes the technique so that users are both uploaders and downloaders. The file is split into numerous segments and the redistribution approach is usually the "rarest first" or random. The more users are seeding the content, the higher the transfer speed gets and healthier the swarm becomes. The server acts just like a manager (tracker).

It really makes sense that organizing exchanges between users and hosting metadata files, which are very small in size, is very efficient and less resource-dependent than hosting the file as a whole and handling all of the work. As a result, file-sharing gets decentralized and the bandwidth of the central server is freed up.

Moreover, the second outstanding advantage of the BT protocol is that it offers much greater redundancy because it eliminates the not-so-negligible unfortunate possibility that the server will go offline for whatever reason. The transfer speed can also reach extreme peaks because of the dynamic bandwidth allocation on all of the clients.

Recently the BitTorrent protocol was enhanced with DHTs, which are Distributed Hash Tables. Thanks to its distributed systems nature, it allows users to connect and continue transferring data even with the absence of a dedicated tracker. It was a huge step toward decentralization, scalability, and fault tolerance. Lately, DHT has gained prestige.

Companies such as Blizzard (World of Warcraft) and Valve (Steam) adopted this protocol as their main distribution method in order to deliver updates, patches, and so forth. It isn't uncommon at all to find various Linux distributions downloadable via BT protocols.

Azureus

Azureus is a Java-based, cross-platform freeware BitTorrent client licensed under the GNU GPL. It is one of the oldest clients (2003) and according to the SourceForge statistics, also the most popular, having been downloaded 156,825,483 times at the time of writing this article. It's recognized as the most stable and feature-laden client.

The bundled feature list is really impressive. It allows multiple torrent downloads, upload and download speed limitation (globally or per torrent), configuring advanced seeding rules, and adjusting disk cache. It supports fast resume, can use proxies, its interface is highly customizable, and of course, we cannot forget about DHT support. It also uses only one port for all of the torrents, and includes an IRC plug-in to ask for help with ease.

The latest stable release of Azureus at the time of writing is 3.0.3.4. Starting from version 3, Azureus redefined the way they approach P2P file-sharing, launching a new platform called Vuze Platform. Vuze is a media sharing application that acts just like YouTube, but is limited only to high-definition video content. Vuze also sells DRM-protected content.

Moreover, since Azureus 3.0, the user has been required to accept a modified version of the GNU GPL license prior to using the application. That also includes the Vuze-license and prohibitions for people under the age of 18. This is because Vuze sports a graphic browser as a main interface, where mature content may be presented.

All in all, Azureus is a very stable BT client that's jam-packed with dozens of features. It sports unique functions, such as the Vuze platform, and incorporates its very own DHT support, which is incompatible with the original BitTorrent release. Due to its Java nature, it is very resource intensive and some people find that it "eats up" their RAM. You also need a fairly powerful CPU. If your rig is antique, forget about Azureus.

Azureus mostly benefits those avid BitTorrent users that are truly going to use some of its outstanding functions and are willing to spare enough system resources. For the casual user that does not want to be heavily involved in the "inner structures" of the BT protocol, then Azureus may be overkill. Critics say Azureus is trying to reinvent the wheel. Anyway, try it out and see for yourself.

Summing up, we hand Azureus 8 points out of 10. We subtracted one for its performance and resource clogging, but unfortunately that's what developers need to put up with when working with Java in specific cases. Likewise, another point is lost due to its high level of complexity. Its design is by no means intuitive.

uTorrent is a freeware, Windows-only proprietary BitTorrent client. It is also called microTorrent thanks to the Greek μ letter prefix. It is considered the most lightweight, compact, and efficient peer-to-peer BT client. At the time of writing, the latest stable version is 1.7.5, and its size is 214kB. It was totally coded in C++ using custom-coded libraries and then compressed with UPX (.exe packer) to reduce its size.

It was already gaining recognition from the first days of its launch. Some of the most obvious reasons for that are its reduced size and the fact that it doesn't require installation. Because of this, it's extremely portable and resource efficient. Isn't it impressive that the client is able to run on a Win95 system with 486 processor and 14MB RAM?

It was designed to showcase most of the functionalities offered by other standalone clients, such as Azureus and BitComet, while using minimal resources. It's been months since uTorrent received top ratings in all kinds of reviews, considering its performance, stability, built-in set of features, and support for antique hardware.

It sports de facto standard functions, like multiple simultaneous downloads, configurable bandwidth scheduler, speed limiting (global or per-torrent), quick resumes, mainline DHT (compatible with BitTorrent DHT; trackerless support), HTTPS tracker support, customizable GUI (skins, etc.), embedded tracker, supporting proxies, protocol encryption (PE), configurable disk cache, and RSS support.

Summing up, uTorrent satisfies the "feature-rich and graphically empowered" guideline considering its level of performance, stability, effectiveness, and features. It's also impressive that all of the modern and powerful features are presented in a very understandable way so that they don't create confusion for those people that aren't familiar with the BitTorrent protocol systematization.

On December 7, 2006 uTorrent was acquired by BitTorrent, Inc. This means that they have implemented most of uTorrent's code in their own BitTorrent client, which was basically the first client developed by CEO Bram Cohen himself. As a result, the latest version of BitTorrent is in fact a re-branded version of uTorrent.

All in all, uTorrent deserves a 10/10 rating. In short we highly recommend trying out uTorrent as a BitTorrent client for people from all walks of life. It offers satisfying performance and feature-laden-ness for everybody from Joes and Jeffs, up to die hard Torrent fR3aK f4NaT1Ks (over-enthusiasts).

Final Thoughts

In this article we reviewed two of the most popular BitTorrent clients. We started this article with a brief overview of the BitTorrent protocol. By now you should be familiar with the necessary terminology and feel able to join in.

Furthermore, we're sure that you have already decided which of the presented BitTorrent clients you are going to choose. Needless to say, there are dozens of other alternatives. Should you prefer a larger variety of software, then check out BitComet, the original BitTorrent client, Shareaza, and perhaps Rufus. Also, we shouldn't forget about the built-in torrent client for Opera browser. You may want to see how it works.

Now that you're well prepared, you might want to immerse yourself in the BitTorrent community. It's a community built up by more than 150 million users. You are going to be blown away by the amazing speed of transfers, because depending on the situation, you may very easily reach your bandwidth peaks.

Popular Firefox Extensions

2009-02-24T21:11:00.000+05:30

Mozilla Firefox is the world’s second-most popular web browser right after Microsoft Internet Explorer. One of the main reasons it has gained such a quick and steady rise in popularity is because it’s very secure, fast, and fully customizable. At the moment there are more than 2,000 extensions that can be used as add-ons. In this article we’re going to review the most popular ones that improve the way we surf the Web.

The purpose of this article is to open up a world of possibilities and expand your horizons, if by any chance you aren't familiar with some of these extensions. Firefox is an amazingly fast, secure, and neat browser, but right out of the box it might look quite plain and simple. That's the beauty of it. However, it has an amazing community that develops thousands of free add-ons as extensions.

Before we begin, I'd like to make one thing clear: as explained previously, there are hundreds of extensions so please understand that I'll do my best to pick extensions from different categories, the ones that I personally like and have found quite effective. You shouldn't limit yourself, however, because there are lots of others that are more obscure, perhaps undeservedly so.

Therefore, extensions from the following categories are going to be reviewed in this article: web development, download management, bookmarks, social & communication, themes & appearance, feeds, news, blogging, photos, music, videos, privacy, security, search tools, language support, and much more.

We're going to rate extensions considering their features, usability, effectiveness, and user interface. Our target is to find the "must-have," most popular extensions without which we shouldn't use our Firefox, because they can improve our overall productivity and help us gain peace of mind throughout our web surfing endeavors.

Tab Mix Plus is one of the most outstanding extensions in the category of themes and appearance. Simply put, it enhances the tab browser capabilities of Firefox big time. Surely, over the years many of its features were already built into the standard Firefox, but this little extensions still does more than we'd expect from it.

Everybody recommends this nifty add-on because of its high-quality session manager. Among others, it also sports productive functions such as duplicating tabs, undo closed tabs/windows, tab clicking options, control tab focus, etc. The bottom line is that every Firefox enthusiast should try out this extension.

Advertisements are one of the main profit sources for many web developers and companies, but under no circumstance should one webmaster ignore common sense and exploit the patience of visitors. However, every now and then we run into websites where there are more ads than content, and these ads take much longer to download than the rest of the entire web page. That's why Adblock Plus was invented.

This extension is really lightweight and truly effective. You can activate the context menu, right-click on the advertisement banner, and then pick "Adblock." With around 282,893 downloads right at the moment, we can consider this a vital part of the lives of many Firefox users. If you want to get rid of ads, Adblock Plus should be your choice. Apparently, it performs better than the older Adblock variation.

In one of my earlier articles I recommended FlashGot. I mention it on the sixth page of my "Popular Download Managers Reviewed" article published at Web Hosters. Be sure to check it out because I won't review it here as well. What it does can be explained in a sentence: it handles the integration of more than 40 download managers so that you can use your favorite application with Firefox too.

If you don't want have any stand-alone and independent download manager that you prefer, you should opt for the DownThemAll! extension. Unlike Flashgot, this does not rely on other applications; it refines the way your standard Firefox download manager works. You can consider it an enhancement. One of its key features allows the user to download all links and/or images from a web page. Moreover, this feature is expanded by the ability to verify MD5 checksum and even rename files.

It is beyond the scope of this article to explain what FTP stands for. However, if FTP makes any sense to you, then chances are you're going to need a cross-platform FTP client quite frequently. If you do, wouldn't it be amazing to have your FTP client right within Firefox? Yes, it is -- and yes, you can. Download and install FireFTP because that's what it's all about.

Other than being fast and efficient, this "extension"-based FTP client is also secure, since it supports SSL encryption. We should also name some of its other features: directory comparison, search/filtering, integrity checks, remote editing, drag & drop functions, file hashing, and even syncing directories while surfing others sites! It uses the same cache as Firefox so "cache-clearing freaks" should be aware of this.

Almost a decade ago in the late 90s IRC was really widespread; almost everybody was having conversations "via the IRC" thanks to the Internet. Running an independent application such as mIRC isn't an option when you want to chat within your browser, perhaps from your work (which you shouldn't, of course!). ChatZilla has quite a few features and most importantly, a pretty neat, customizable, and intuitive user interface.

This extension provides all of the functions that you would expect from a de facto standard IRC client: support for multiple servers (simultaneously), that stupendously long list of standard networks, logging options, DCC chat, file transferring capabilities, and you can customize the style of the user interface (colors, highlights, fonts, sizes, etc.) with CSS as well as add plug-ins written in JavaScript. Try it out!

Lately, everybody and their dog knows that the storage space of Google Mail is literally huge and still increasing. Even if we have long forgotten the notion of deleting mails from Gmail, I think that most of us are way below 50% of our total storage space. Having this in mind, Gspace is a highly effective and truly ingenious extension. After installation, it acts as an FTP host where your Gmail is the storage.

The interface is intuitive, as you can see from the attached screen shot above. Basically, your Gmail storage space becomes the virtual FTP host which you have the ability to use for file storage. It's advisable to use the tagging features because it dumps all of the files into your In box, and when you have tagged them you can also quickly reach them and do whatever you want (perhaps filter them out and whatnot).

Google Toolbar is also worth mentioning. It is one of the Internet's earlier toolbars and technically supports almost all kinds of web browsers. It is basically a toolbar with lots of features such as enhanced search capabilities, the ability to share web pages with friends, bookmarks, custom buttons, and so forth. Give it a try.

The next extension we're going to talk about here is called IE Tab. It was originally created for web developers because it basically incorporates IE's browsing engine as a built-in feature for which you can opt when you are opening a page in a new tab.

Web developers could find out quickly how their site would look in Microsoft Internet Explorer thanks to this plug-in. But since we can come across sites that are optimized for IE only, this is where all of us can benefit from using this extension. It's such a shame that some webmasters ignore browsers such as Firefox, Opera, and Safari, focusing just on IE - however, that's mostly their loss. We have the solution!

Now that we've mentioned web developers, I cannot afford to forget about the extensions called Web Developer. This adds a new menu jam-packed with various useful tools for web developers. Let's enumerate a few: it allows lots of functions to work with CSS, forms, images, cookies, has built-in validation tools and options that can gather dozens of information items from a site, lets you disable and/or specify scripts, edit HTML on-the-go, resize the current web page, display rulers and outline frames, etc.

I truly believe that this utility shouldn't be left out of the toolkit of any Firefox web developer. As a final note to web developers, but also experienced people in the field, I would recommend checking out Greasemonkey. It allows users to customize the way specific websites are displayed and some parts of them are executed. It works based on "user scripts," and hundreds of them can be freely downloaded.

Over the years as Greasemonkey was gaining prevalence, lots of developers were creating all kinds of user scripts. Many of them focused on Gmail-simply trying to add enhancements to the powerful Google Mail. Later on, one of the authors decided to compile a collection of Gmail-related Greasemonkey scripts and release an extension that does everything right out of the box. It's called Better Gmail.

If you are using Gmail's new graphical user interface then you are going to need the new Better Gmail 2. Some of the most outstanding things that turn Gmail into a better place are features such as different skins, attachment icons, and label colors, keyboard macros, saving recently used searches, filter assistant, conversation preview, attachment reminders, and much more. They call it Gmail on Steroids...

And lastly, let's also cover a multimedia extension: FoxyTunes. In short, FoxyTunes is a media player with a myriad of features that gets integrated into Firefox. You have the ability to configure the face of the player, specifying whether you want to have volume control on the toolbar, see the artist and title of the music that's currently playing, and more. It is very lightweight and works effectively.

The main features of FoxyTunes can be summed up as follows: integrate with your favorite player, see what's playing, action controls, volume control, seek, collapse panels, show and hide player, and lots of customizable skins. All in all, this is a cross-platform extension which integrates an effective player into Firefox.

Yes, that's right; you've just arrived to the end of this article. I'm sure that you've found it educational and informative. Surely, as you've already realized, there are literally thousands of Firefox extensions, so picking the most popular ones and reviewing them isn't an easy task; on the top of that, it is highly subjective.

Therefore, the extensions that I have chosen to review independently are just my personal picks for my personal needs. Each one of us has different needs and we do ourselves a favor if we are using extensions that we really need. Believe me, a friend of mine runs almost fifty Firefox extensions out of which he barely uses five, at most. That's not the point of extensions.

It makes sense to try out various extensions, even hundreds of them, but if you have found the ones that you like, you should keep those and get rid of the rest. Unnecessary extensions can cause memory leaks and even affect the overall security of Firefox. Keep in mind, a bad code or a defective user script can also spark lots of error messages, incorrect page renderings, and ultimately lots of headaches.

Fantastico De Luxe

2009-02-24T21:05:00.000+05:30

Installing new web applications can become a nightmare, especially if the server isn’t our own, and we can only access it remotely. Today’s hosting providers are almost without exception sporting cPanel as their web-hosting site configuration and administration control panel. Fantastico is a commercial script library that automates the installation of web applications, and fully integrates into cPanel. Best of all, due to its recent popularity surge, most providers feature it.

In this article I am going to present the aforementioned Fantastico De Luxe auto-installer for cPanel. This article presumes a general knowledge of cPanel's features, how it works, what it does, how we can access it, why we need cPanel, and similar questions.

Our target objective with this article is to give a brief overview of Fantastico de Luxe, finding out what it does and tackling its list of supported web applications. Ultimately, we will discover whether it's a feasible option and safe enough for us to rely upon. Therefore, you can expect some general opinions regarding its usefulness, efficiency, intuitiveness and security.

It is also worthwhile to point out that, since Fantastico is a commercial script library product, we won't consider the options of purchasing it ourselves. Thankfully, as I mentioned earlier, almost all web hosting providers have bought and included Fantastico in their portfolio because it is a worthwhile investment for them. But for private use, it's quite worthless, and you won't be able to benefit from its advantages.

Summing these up, if you are running your own server, it would be pretty much worthless investing in both cPanel and then Fantastico just to automate the installation processes for yourself. If you own a server, you have more than enough professional experience to read the "read me" guides and figure it out yourself, or if things go wrong, you know enough to ask for help in forums and so forth.

Nevertheless, if you own a web hosting company then you should think it through because, as we will find later on, it can be used quite well as a "client attractor." Moreover, if you are like most people, then chances are you have signed up for a plan at a web hosting company such as HostMonster, HostGator, BurstHost, 3ix, BlueHost, Webhostingpad, InMotion Hosting, and thousands of others. And then you can access your cPanel by logging in, looking inside, and being surprised that Fantastico is supported.

That being said, let's move on and find out together the capabilities of Fantastico.

Brief Overview

First of all, we should know that Fantastico's website claims that, with more than 10,000 installations, they are serving more than one million users all over the world. As you would have guessed, I don't have the necessary resources to verify this claim, let alone find out the exact number of Fantastico users, because this would require extensive research done by a professional organization or statistics firm.

Fantastico is an auto-installer. This means that it handles automatically and "automagically" the installation of numerous popular open source web applications without requiring any interaction on the user end (there are a few exceptions). On a technical level, Fantastico is a script library, meaning that it is a collection of "installation scripts" that manage installation automatically.

No doubt that this "looks good" in the eyes of people without any experience with web servers, such as installing additional applications on them, and so forth. That's why cPanel has gained so much success and become the world's most popular web server site administration control panel. Fantastico was designed based on cPanel's success. That's why full integration is given with cPanel.

As you could see from the above screen shot, Fantastico de Luxe appears just like any other cPanel component in your control panel (cPanel front-end), assuming that both are pre-installed and supported by your NOC [Network Operation Center] or web hosting provider.

Often you can check right before purchasing a plan whether cPanel and Fantastico are supported. They may not explicitly state "Fantastico," but saying something along the lines of "installation scripts" almost always point to the presence of Fantastico. But it's better to know for sure; ask the live support or phone the company.

Fantastico runs only on cPanel-based servers running on Linux or FreeBSD with a working back-end PHP installation. Of course, root access is also required. This is important only if you want to acquire Fantastico for your own web server (if you have lots of clients) for personal use, it's pretty much worthless. At the time of writing this article, Fantastico can be acquired for the following prices:

20 Fantastico De Luxe licenses = 480.00 US$

20 Fantastico De Luxe VPS licenses = 240.00 US$

50 Fantastico De Luxe VPS licenses = 550.00 US$

Now let's check some of the open source web applications that Fantastico supports:

Blogs:

· b2evolution (1.10.2) (website)

· Nucleus (3.32) (website)

· WordPress (2.5) (website)

Content Management:

· Drupal (6.1) (website)

· Geeklog (1.4.1) (website)

· Joomla 1.5 (1.5.2) (website)

· Joomla (1.0.15) (website)

· Mambo Open Source (4.6.3) (website)

· PHP-Nuke (7.9) (website)

· phpWCMS (1.1-RC4 Rev. A) (website)

· phpWebSite (0.10.2) (website)

· Post-Nuke (0.764) (visit site)

· Siteframe (3.2.3) (website)

· Typo3 (4.1.5) (website)

· Xoops (2.0.18.1) (website)

Customer Relationship Management:

· Crafty Syntax Live Help (2.14.6) (website)

· Help Center Live (2.1.4) (website)

· osTicket (1.3.1) (website)

· PerlDesk (4.012.2) (Commercial, needs license) (website)

· PHP Support Tickets (1.9) (website)

· Support Logic Helpdesk (1.2) (website)

· Support Services Manager (1.0b) (· OS Commerce (2.2 Release Candidate 2a + buySAFE) (website)

· Zen Cart (1.3.8a) (website)

F.A.Q.:

· FAQMasterFlex (1.51) (website)

Hosting Billing:

· AccountLab Plus (2.8 r14) (Commercial, needs license) (website)

· phpCOIN (1.4.1) (website)

Image Galleries:

· 4images Gallery (1.7.6) (website)

· Coppermine Photo Gallery (1.4.16) (website)

· Gallery (2.2.4) (website)

Mailing Lists:

· PHPlist (2.10.5) (website)

Polls and Surveys:

· Advanced Poll (2.03) (website)

· phpESP (1.8.2) (website)

· PHPSurveyor (1.0) (website)

Project Management:

· PHProjekt (5.2.2) (website)

· dotProject (2.1.1) (website)

Site Builders:

· Soholaunch Pro Edition (4.9.1 r10) (Commercial, needs license) (website)

· Templates Express (website)

Wiki:

· PhpWiki (1.2.11) (website)

· TikiWiki (1.9.10.1) (website)

Other Scripts:

· Dew-NewPHPLinks (2.0.1.0b SEF w/Thumbshots) (website)

· Moodle (1.9) (website)

· Noah's Classifieds (1.3 [Patched-1]) (website)

· Open-Realty (2.4.4) (website)

· phpAdsNew (2.0.11-pr1) (website)

· PHPauction (3.2) (website)

· phpFormGenerator (2.09c) (website)

· WebCalendar (1.0.5) (website)

The above list is quite extensive, right? Now all of those applications can be auto-installed without requiring user interaction. This means that you don't need to create a new database, set up new tables, configure the necessities, chmod the files to the required permissions, and who knows what else may be needed, depending upon the web application. An automatic installation process usually takes a few seconds.

Last but not the least, Fantastico also offers some of the following features: email notifications regarding installations and removals, display warnings in case of outdated versions or new security patches, and alerts for security issues and tech updates. You can also use the report/fix problem option within the Fantastico panel if one of your installed applications doesn't work properly. The removal process also works quickly and accurately.

General Thoughts

Throughout the earlier section we saw most of Fantastico's characteristics and learned its basics and working methodology. In general, Fantastico looks too good to be true, and in fact, quite "fantastic" as its name subtly suggests. In this section we'll go deeper a bit.

The open source community cannot legally prevent the creation of alternate third party installers such as Fantastico de Luxe. That's why many other "auto-installers" are also on the market, out of which Fantastico seems to be on the leading edge. However, usually the authors of the web applications that are supported by these install-script libraries stress that they do not recommending using them.

The main reason is quite intuitive: they have absolutely no control over the third party installation script and, thus, cannot guarantee that their product will work flawlessly to contribute the most to the end-user/client. I'm sure you have also noticed on the previous page that each supported web application was accompanied by a particular version number - heck, some were only RCs (Release Candidates).

Surely, Fantastico does a great job of keeping up-to-date copies of these applications, but another problem can be derived from this. Web hosting companies often acquire Fantastico licenses at some point and then hook up their servers with it, so every user/client/customer receives it preinstalled. That's great, but over time they neglect to update their currently existing versions.

That's why users need to understand that they are responsible for their own web space or dedicated web server. The provider does it job offering the "virtual space" and guaranteeing high up times, but as far as your web site is concerned, they won't bother to update your web applications, install security patches, and so forth.

As presented earlier, Fantastico has a feature related to notifying the administrator (user) about the latest security fixes, issues, and newer versions. This means that if you are aware of the fixes, you can take proper action, logging into your Fantastico and installing the patches, applying the fixes, or even reinstalling the application (backing up and/or maintaining the DB without deleting the tables with entries).

The situation becomes trickier when a particular provider keeps an outdated Fantastico version, combined with really old web application editions, such as years-old Wordpress, Drupal, 4gallery, and you name it. Then the new user registers and signs up for a new plan, logs into his/her cPanel, finds Fantastico, and installs lots of apps. Later on, if this person is lucky, s/he finds out the apps are outdated (if Fantastico notifies). However, those notifications can go unnoticed, or who knows, fail to arrive.

For example, Drupal-the leading and most popular open-source CMS-has a public disclaimer related to Fantastico de Luxe auto-installation scripts. You can read it here. Yes, that entry dates back to August 1, 2006; but the situation still exists and will always exist as long as network operators and hosting providers don't do their best to maintain their copies in order to satisfy their clients and to provide the best service.

Additionally, other issues can spark from the usage of auto-installation scripts. These install scripts always install the apps in the "default" configurations. This means that often overall security of the website and/or server can be hindered. It isn't uncommon for spammers to exploit these flaws, creating spider-bots that post automated messages on a message board, blog, guest book, CMS, and such, due to these scripts...

Furthermore, even if some users want to take matters into their own hands and configure the web applications themselves, as well as maintain their copies up-to-date by installing security patches, fixes, and version updates, this sometimes turns out to be easier said than done when the application was installed with Fantastico's installer rather than with the original script and doing the installation from scratch.

We've come to the end of this overview article. By now you should have learned what Fantastico is all about. Hopefully you can get the most out of it, knowing where and how you should use it, as well as considering the overall security points that we tackled in the earlier section.

At first, we approached Fantastico de Luxe from the perspective of an overview, laying out the basics of how it works and giving the definition of an auto-installer. After that, we examined the list of supported web applications, and explained some of the most popular ones which I do recommend if they met your requirements.

Next, we analyzed the way Fantastico works with a metaphorical magnifying glass, learning the potential issues that it can cause, such as security flaws or an inability to manage updates for specific web applications. We also presented some snippets from Drupal's disclaimer where they clearly point out the most important consequences when using Fantastico to install a copy of Drupal. As we saw, they cannot recommend it.

All in all, this article has presented a brief overview on Fantastico. Now you won't be surprised the next time when you notice Fantastico's icon in your cPanel. You will also know its advantages and drawbacks. And thankfully, knowing them you will be able to make the correct decisions without risking security, but still maintaining efficiency. Ultimately, it all comes down to what you need and, thus, I can only advise you to act wisely and accordingly.

What is Click Jacking?

2009-02-24T21:01:00.000+05:30

As a web savvy person of the modern era, you probably believe you are aware of all the potential security threats that you might come across when surfing the web. You know better than to trust that PayPal e-mail telling you to log in in 24 hours or your account will be closed, and you don't randomly download or open e-mail attachments, so you think you have the game locked up. Well, phishers have another way to get to you and your sensitive personal information. It's called click jacking, and this article will tell you what it is and how to protect yourself.

Internet scammers have been working very diligently on new and more interesting ways to separate you from your money or information. Sadly, it’s no longer just fools who are parted from their money. Now those with intelligent insight who are doing everything right can still find themselves hijacked, or more accurately, I should say that they might find themselves click jacked.

No doubt, you’re sitting in front of a screen perplexed. What is click jacking, anyway? Unless you spend a lot of time surfing sites devoted to Internet security, you’ve probably never heard the term before. That’s okay, we will start with a brief definition of click jacking, and then move on to where you might encounter it and what those evil scammers will be using it for. Don’t worry; by the end of this piece, the new security threat on the scene will no longer be a mystery to you.

Click jacking is essentially hijacking a click. This means that you, as the end-user, will think that you are clicking on one thing, when in reality you're clicking on another. This probably doesn’t sound like much of a big deal on the surface, until you consider that you might think you’re clicking “submit” on your bank’s website, and really you’ve just given your username and password to somebody who plans to drain your account in the next five minutes.

Do you think you understand the problem? The bad news is that you only understand a part of it. The real sticky widget in this situation is that you could be clicking a button that looks completely legitimate and is even on a completely legitimate site. You can actually be on your bank’s website and still get click jacked. To make matters worse, you won’t even see the button clicking. Don’t get me wrong; you’ll see a button, the button you always see every day when you click on the site -- and that button will even be completely intact!

Before you decide to read another article, thinking that I have completely lost my mind, give me a chance to explain. Click jacking works as if a second button, which is invisible, has been placed over the legitimate button. This means when you think you’re clicking the right button, you’re in fact clicking the button over it. Everything looks normal, but something is rotten in the state of Karnataka.

The Danger of the Invisible Button

Okay, so they got you to click their invisible button. It doesn’t exactly sound terrifying until you consider the fact that that click executes a whole range of things. That click could have just sent your banking data to Russia; it could execute a program in the background; it could turn on your camera and microphone so that you can be monitored; or it could just be downloading a virus on your system.

Are you scared yet? You should be. On that list, the virus is the least of the possible evils. There is no terror quite like that of considering the possibility that you are constantly being monitored by your own computer. It kind of takes the concept of cyber-stalking to a whole new level -- one where you had better hope the computer is not on in your bedroom, or somebody might be watching you while you get dressed.

In a lot of ways click jacking is an end-run around traditional security measures because those measures are meant to protect things from happening remotely or automatically to your system, and systems have a hard time determining whether you intended to click that button, or if you’ve just been duped big time. Think about it; how may times do you have to click something online? You click the submit button for any form, open your e-mail, do your online banking, and a million other things during the average day. Your web browser has little in the way of a defense when it comes to telling which click belongs where, and which one of these things is not like the others.

So, the next question is, why is this so much harder to fix than other Internet Security problems? Well, that’s a good question, and I have two very good answers. First and foremost, scripts that create click jacking are hard to eliminate because they don’t use JavaScript or any other secondary coding language, which is a big order for CSS/DHTML, the very heart of how websites are made. That means that fixing these click jacks is a tricky business, because if it’s not done perfectly you run the risk of creating more bugs in the site. A fix the creates more problems isn’t practical enough to cut it in the real world, and no site admin in their right mind would intentionally put more bugs onto their site, not even to fix an attack.

The second problem that stands between us and an easy fix to click jacking is that checking relies heavily on frames, and those are so heavily relied upon that it is simply impractical to remove them from all of the web. Not to mention that the wide scale elimination of the use of frames technology would probably be fought by companies that sell online advertising, as it would hinder their business.

Reducing Your Click Jacking Risks

Now that you know where you might encounter click jacking, it is time we talked about the ways that you can reduce your risks of being the victim. You did not really think I’d leave you defenseless, did you? That is not to say that I believe these methods will provide you with 100% effective protection, but doing something is always better than doing nothing. Nowhere is that more true than with your personal data.

Step one, use Firefox and configure your browser for safety. Firefox by itself is not that much protection against click jacks. You need to know how to set it up in order to keep yourself safe.

The first thing you’re going to do is set your browser to restrict use of frames. In order to do this you are going to open your web browser and type in “about:config.” Now look for the search bar next to the word filters and put in the word “frame.” The top search result should be “browser.frames.enabled;” double-click on this, and under the “value” column you should see the word in that column change to “false.” Please note that playing with the default settings of your browser can be risky, so I don’t recommend making changes willy-nilly. Always know how you did what you did, in case you don’t like the results and want to go back.

Step two is much easier. Download “no script”( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722), a plug-in for Firefox. The plug-in is free and easily accessible. Even if you don’t have a great deal of technical knowledge, you should be able to do this.

Despite the name, the software does not block all scripts, just scripts that come from sites you’ve not put on the trusted list. So even with this installed, you should still be able to do your online banking, and normal web browsing.

Step three is the easiest one yet, but I’m still sure you’re not going to like it. Designate a separate web browser for your online banking; that way, even if your normal browser is compromised, your financial information will be safe and sound.

More on the topic of good practices, if you want to avoid being clicked jacked, do not leave yourself signed in to websites. This goes double for places such as your bank site, PayPal, Amazon, or anywhere else that might have your credit card information or other sensitive personal data.

Yes, I realize that it’s annoying to have to sign in and re-sign in every time you want to access your information. The hassle of having your identity stolen, however, is much greater.

In the end only time will give us the real solution to click jacking. This is true of every Internet Security problem on the planet, but by taking some solid steps to mitigate your personal risks, you can make the least your personal online world a safer place to be.

Good luck, and safe browsing!

Microsoft aims to rival App Store

2009-02-24T01:38:00.001+05:30

Microsoft Corp will announce service plans on Monday for easier applications loading onto smartphones with its own chain store plan revealed last week, the company said. The move is aiming to counter the rising popularity of Apple's mobile App Store, one of the surprise hits of the consumer technology world last year. Microsoft's chief executive Steve Ballmer is also set to announce a new user interface for devices running Microsoft’s software, including "touch" features to rival some of the functions of Apple's iPhone. Microsoft revealed plans to open several Microsoft branded retail outlets on Thursday and named David Porter, a 25-year veteran of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., as its corporate vice president of retail stores.

The move follows Apple Inc's successful foray into retailing, but comes at a time when consumer spending is under pressure due to the recession. The company did not say how many stores it was looking to open, or when, or which products would be available, which is to be decided by David Porter. However, with the Microsoft version of an App Store still some way from being launched, and a more complete overhaul of the Windows Mobile platform delayed until next year, the announcements will do little in the short term to counter Apple's early lead in the latest generation of mobile technology.

"Apple has raised the bar for other device makers and platforms," said Andrew Lacy, co-founder of Tapulous, maker of the popular Tap Tap Revenge game for Apple's iPhone. His comments were echoed by other developers who have flocked to the Apple platform in recent months. The App Store, launched on iTunes last summer, acts as a store front through which developers can either sell or give away their software, with Apple keeping 30 percent of any sales. Thanks to its unexpected early success, Apple now makes the App Store a centrepiece of its marketing for the iPhone and the iPod touch, which can also be used to access the store.

Google has responded with the launch of a rival store, known as Android Marketplace, while Research in Motion, maker of the BlackBerry, has said it will have one by this spring. Microsoft can count on wide support among developers, thanks to the ubiquity of the Windows operating system. But developers who have scored early success in App Store warn that Microsoft still has a long way to go to match the leap ahead that Apple has taken with the iPhone and the App Store. Also, with a growing number of mobile software platforms, Windows will have to fight for attention.

Internet domain names grow to 177 million

2009-02-24T01:37:00.001+05:30

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19 : Despite the economic downturn, Internet domain name registrations posted a significant 16-percent growth last year, a new report has found. The Internet added 24 million new domain names in 2008, bringing the total registrations across all top-level domains to 177 million, VeriSign, an Internet infrastructure services provider, said in a report released on Wednesday. However, the report did see signs of slower growth in the last quarter of 2008, when the global economic crisis deepened.

More than 10.1 million new Internet domain names were registered in the last three months of 2008, representing a decline of 12 percent from the third quarter last year and 17 percent from the same quarter in the previous year, the report noted. According to the report, in the last quarter of 2008, the five largest top-level domains in terms of base size were .com, .cn (China), .de (Germany), .net and .org.

A domain name is the address of a website that is intended to be easily identifiable and easy to remember and can help connect computers on the Internet. Top-level domain such as .com is the last part of an Internet domain name or the group of letters that follow the final dot of any domain name.

Google develops software to save energy

2009-02-24T01:36:00.001+05:30

Google said on Tuesday its engineers have developed a software tool that can help consumers save energy and cut electricity bills. Called PowerMeter, the tool enables consumers to receive their home electricity consumption information almost in real time right from their computers. Consumers could use the information to figure out how much energy is used by different appliances or household activities and optimize their energy use. The software is being tested by Google employees and not yet available to the public, "but we're building partnerships with utilities and independent device manufacturers to gradually roll this out in pilot programs," the Internet search giant announced on its official blog.

Citing studies, the company said access to home energy information may result in savings between 5 to 15 percent on monthly electricity bills. It noted that if half of America's households cut their energy demand by 10 percent, it would be the equivalent of taking eight million cars off the road. The announcement represents Google's latest move to search into smart grid -- a next-generation grid system that delivers electricity from suppliers to consumers using digital technology to save energy and cost.

Smart grid is part of U.S. President Barack Obama's economic stimulus package. A bill approved by U.S. Senate on Tuesday includes 4.5 billion U.S. dollars for building a smart grid, for which a House of Representatives version has allocated 11 billion U.S. dollars. Google is an advocate for building a smart grid in the U.S. and has been investing in smart grid companies.

Yahoo! considering complete restructure

2009-02-24T01:34:00.001+05:30

YAHOO! Inc Chief Executive Carol Bartz could announce a major management reorganization as early as this week, according to media reports. The Wall Street Journal-affiliated blog -- AllThingsD, citing several sources inside and outside the Internet company, said first that the revamp would likely come in two weeks or rolled out in pieces. Bartz sent a memo to company employees on Friday in which she said, "Get well-rested because next week's a biggie." Yahoo officials declined to comment but rumors of a reorganization have been swirling within the company. Yahoo, the leading provider of online display advertising, has been under pressure for nearly a year as it held fruitless merger or partnership talks with Microsoft Corp, Google Inc and Time Warner Inc's AOL. During that time Yahoo lost market share in search advertising while display ad sales have been badly hit.

It was not Atlantis

2009-02-24T01:30:00.004+05:30

Buried treasure? No, this time it's a lost city which has found its way into Google Earth. A UK-based aeronautical engineer Bernie Bamford has claimed to The Sun that he had seen on Google Earth a grid of lines undersea off the coast of West Africa, about 600 miles west of the Canary Islands, a location which experts believe where Atlantis had sunk. The exact coordinates on Google Earth - 31 15'15.53N, 24 15'30.53W - where he claims to have found the sunken city of Atlantis.

Atlantis a mythical island which Plato had described sinking into the ocean "in a single day and night of misfortune" around 9000 BC. But Google is officially denying the rumors saying that the lines represented sonar data collected from boats. According to a Google statement, "It's true that many amazing discoveries have been made in Google Earth including a pristine forest in Mozambique that is home to previously unknown species and the remains of an Ancient Roman villa." "In this case, however, what users are seeing is an artifact of the data collection process. Bathymetric (or sea floor terrain) data is often collected from boats using sonar to take measurements of the sea floor."

But debate rages on -- is it or is it not the Lost City of Atlantis?

Ghajini Movie Download : First on Net

2008-12-26T11:19:00.002+05:30

Starring: Aamir Khan, Asin, Jiah Khan, Pradeep Rawat, Khalid Siddiqui
Director: A.R. Murugadoss
Producer: Tagore Madhu, Madhu Mantena
Singers: Javed Ali, Sonu Nigam, Suzanne D'Mello, Benny Dayal, Shreya Ghosal, Karthik, Pravin Mani
Lyrics: Prasoon Joshi
Music Director: A R Rahman
Genre: Thriller

Synopsis

Imagine being one of the most successful businessmen in the country. Sanjay Singhania (Aamir) is a rich businessman who owns a cellular phone company. Kalpana (Asin) is a model who brags to her friends and peers that she is the love interest of Sanjay, though in reality she doesn?t even know the man.
When Sanjay comes to know about this anonymous admirer of his, he decides to dispel her delusions. But on his way he sees a beautiful woman helping the handicapped kids cross the road. Instantly, Sanjay falls for her. Later, he comes to know that she is Kalpana, the same model who boasted of being his girlfriend.
Sanjay gets introduced to Kalpana but doesn?t disclose his real identity. Love blossoms between the two.
While on a train ride, Kalpana saves a group of young girls from a rowdy bunch of eve-teasing goons. A few days later, the same group of eve teasers, led by their notorious head (Pradeep Rawat) close in on Kalpana. But Sanjay arrives and fights them. In the ensuing scuffle, Kalpana is killed and Sanjay is hit on his head with an iron rod.
Though Sanjay is able to survive the injury, he loses his memory. He gets only flashbacks of what really happened and his short memory makes it difficult to remember things he did just minutes back.
How this man, who can?t even remember the killers of his ladylove, goes about taking his revenge is what the remaining story is about. Jiah Khan plays a medical student who helps Sanjay find the killers.

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Yuvvraaj Movie songs

2008-12-02T15:45:00.004+05:30

Movie Name : Yuvvraaj
Year of Release : 2008
Release Date : 21 November 2008
Cast : Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Zayed Khan, Boman Irani
Music Director : A. R. Rahman
Genre : Musical
Banner : Mukta Arts Entertainment
Producer : Subhash Ghai
Director : Subhash Ghai
Lyrics : Gulzar

Click on links to download
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1. Main Hoon Yuvvraaj - Salman Khan with The Fifth of Beethoven
2. Tu Meri Dost Hain - Benny Dayal, Shreya Ghoshal , A R Rahman
3. Shano Shano - Sonu Nigam, Srinivas, Karthik, Timmy, Sunaina, Vivienne Pocha , Tina
4. Tu Muskura - Alka Yagnik , Javed Ali
5. Mastam Mastam - Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik, Naresh , Benny
6. Zindagi - Srinivas
7. Dil Ka Rishta - Sonu Nigam, Roop Kumar Rathod, A R Rahman, Clinton, Suzanne, Vivienne Pocha, Naresh, Benny , Blazze
8. Manmohini Morey - Vijay Prakash
9. Shano Feat Ember (Remix - Krishna Chetan)

DivX Pro v.6.8.4.7 XP/Vista Codec+Player+Converter+WebPlayer

2008-12-02T15:13:00.001+05:30

DivX Pro v.6.8.4.7 XP/Vista Codec+Player+Converter+WebPlayer
If you’re a regular PC user and haven’t heard of DivX yet, then you’ve probably had your head in the sand for the past couple of years. It’s basically a highly compressed film format that turns the size of an average DVD from something like 5GB to just 700MB.

DivX for Windows is the official release from the DivX company, and offers everything you need to watch such films. The pack includes the all-important DivX Codec plus DivX Player, DivX Web Player and the Stage6 Content Uploader Utility for those who plan to rip and upload DVDs or other videos to the net. It also includes a 15-day trial of the DivX Converter and the DivX Pro Codec. All these components are free and include no adware although during the installation

DivX Pro v.6.8.4.7 XP/Vista Codec+Player+Converter+WebPlayer

DivX Pro v.6.8.4.5 Final - Multilingual - Full

Portable Adobe Photoshop CS4

2008-12-02T15:11:00.000+05:30

Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 software accelerates your path from imagination to imagery. Ideal for

photographers, graphic designers, and web designers, the professional standard delivers new features such as

automatic layer alignment and blending that enable advanced compositing. Live filters boost the

comprehensive, nondestructive editing toolset for increased flexibility. And a streamlined interface and new

timesaving tools make your work flow faster.

Cubase Studio v4.1.1 portable

2008-12-02T15:07:00.000+05:30

Cubase Studio v4.1.1 portable
* Audio + MIDI Recording/Editing/Mixing
* New VST3 virtual instruments and effects
* SoundFrame™ - unique new Sound Management System
* Fantastic-sounding 32-bit Audio Engine
* Full scoring features
* Streamlined feature set tailored for project studios, musicians and composers
* Outstanding value for money, extraordinary price/performance ratio
* Cross platform: Windows and Mac OS X Universal Binary (compatible with PPC- and Intel-based

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended Portable

2008-12-02T14:56:00.000+05:30

Description:

Adobe® Photoshop® software, the professional image-editing standard and leader of the Photoshop digital imaging line, delivers more of what you crave. Groundbreaking creative tools help you achieve extraordinary results. Unprecedented adaptability lets you custom-fit Photoshop to the way you work. And with more efficient editing, processing, and file handling, there's no slowing you down.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 is the next version of Adobe Photoshop software, the professional standard in digital imaging, to be released in spring 2007. The Photoshop CS3 is an unfinished version of the application that we are making available to you now, to enable you to work natively on the latest hardware and operating system platforms prior to our ultimate release of the final product. The FINAL is available as a Universal Binary for the Macintosh platform as well for Microsoft® Windows® XP and Windows Vista computers, with the final shipping release of Adobe Photoshop CS3 planned for spring 2007.

Rocky collection All 6 Parts

2008-12-02T14:46:00.000+05:30

This Series Contain all the parts of rocky..........Especially for stallone fans........

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Film summaries

Rocky

Main article: Rocky

Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) is a small-time boxer who seems to be going nowhere in life. Ignored by his trainer, Mickey Goldmill (Burgess Meredith) Rocky fights in sleazy clubs and works as a collector for a local loan shark. At the same time, Rocky unsuccessfully courts Adrian Pennino (Talia Shire), a painfully shy girl, with her alcoholic brother, Paulie (Burt Young). But when the heavyweight champion of the world, Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), chooses Rocky at random as his opponent in an upcoming title fight, Rocky realizes he now has the chance to prove he is not worthless. With Adrian at his side and Mickey as his new manager, Rocky fights for the title and more importantly, for his own self-respect.

Rocky II

Main article: Rocky II

After proving himself, even with a loss to Apollo Creed, Rocky expects the good life to follow. He marries Adrian and begins spending the money he earned from the match. But soon after the money is gone, Rocky realizes the only way he can survive is to begin boxing again. Creed, on the other hand, faces criticism from fans over the outcome of the fight. As a result, he offers Rocky another fight. Rocky trains once again with Mickey, this time for the biggest rematch of the century. Rocky beats Apollo, becoming the champ.

Rocky III

Main article: Rocky III

After winning the heavyweight title, Rocky takes advantage of his newfound wealth and fame, appearing in multiple advertisements & television programs, and relishing his new celebrity. After defending the title multiple times, he is prepared to retire, but the #1 contender, Clubber Lang (Mr. T), challenges Rocky publicly. Rocky, after dealing with Mickey's heart attack prior to the fight, is overpowered by the stronger, hungrier Lang and is knocked out in the second round. Mickey passes away after the fight, and old rival Apollo Creed steps in, training Rocky to fight more in Creed's old style (and in his old Los Angeles gym) and use more guile and skill. In the rematch, Rocky outboxes Lang, tiring the stronger fighter out and eventually knocking him out in the third round. After the fight, Rocky owes Apollo a "favor", which is a one-on-one match between the two of them with no cameras, no media, just man vs. man in the gym. It is not known who wins the match.

Rocky IV

Main article: Rocky IV

Right after winning back the title from Clubber Lang, Rocky decides to spend some time with his family. But a new superfighter from the USSR, Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) has emerged, and Rocky fights Apollo Creed in an exhibition match. Rocky watches in horror as Drago brutally mauls Apollo to death. Now determined to challenge Drago himself, he starts training in the icy snow of Siberia and prepares for the ultimate challenge: to not only avenge Apollo's death, but show the real strength, courage, and faith that his country believes in.

Rocky V

Main article: Rocky V

After the fight with Drago, Rocky Balboa suffers brain damage and is forced to retire from the ring. As if that isn't bad enough, the Balboa fortune is all gone due to an unscrupulous accountant. Rocky's family returns back to their old neighborhood and resumes life like before. Rocky then reopens Mickey's old gym, just to rekindle the spirit of his beloved trainer and his boxing career as a trainer. Rocky takes in and starts training Tommy Gunn (Tommy Morrison), one of the boxers who was a fan to Balboa, and who Rocky believes he could make into a winner, to become the new heavyweight champion. But soon after publicity nicknames Tommy as Balboa's clone or robot, Tommy betrays Rocky and challenges him to a final fight to determine who's the real champ. (Tommy was working for his evil boss, George W. Duke, and Duke is Rocky's archrival.)

Rocky Balboa

Main article: Rocky Balboa (film)

In Rocky Balboa, sixteen years have passed since his final fight with his former protege, Tommy Gunn. Long retired Rocky Balboa still staggers around an ever changing world; his son is grown and distant, Paulie is working back at the meat plant, and his wife Adrian has died. Rocky has opened a restaurant, named after his wife, which he stocks with mementos of his prime as he tells his old fight stories to the customers. But when a computer simulated fight on ESPN depicting a bout between a young Rocky Balboa and the current champion, Mason Dixon (Antonio Tarver) reignites interest in the faded boxer, Rocky discovers he has not lost his fighting spirit and considers an opportunity to prove himself in the ring one last time.

Size: 7.83 GB

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Light Of Day (1987 Michael J Fox - Joan Jett)

2008-12-02T14:43:00.000+05:30

Hard to find movie. quality is average but watchable

Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : 0 warppoint
Format settings, Matrix : Default
Muxing mode : Packet Bitstream
Codec ID : DX50
Codec ID/Hint : DivX 5
Duration : 1h 46mn
Bit rate : 738 Kbps
Width : 320 pixels
Height : 236 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4/3
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Resolution : 8 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Writing library : DivX503b1031p

Audio
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Little
Format settings, Sign : Unsigned
Codec ID : 1
Codec ID/Hint : Microsoft
Duration : 1h 46mn
Bit rate mode : CBR
Bit rate : 256 Kbps
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Sampling rate : 16.0 KHz

Size: 797.25 MB

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Bermuda Triangle - The True Story

2008-12-02T14:36:00.000+05:30

Bermuda Triangle - The True Story

Lenght ....... : 45 min 06 sec
Size ......... : 349 MB

Video INFO

Resolution ... : 640 x 368
FPS .......... : 25.00 fps
Codec ........ : XViD
BitRATE ...... : 963 kbps
Size ......... : 310 MB (88.81%)

Audio INFO

Codec ........ : MPEG-1 Layer 3
BitRATE ...... : 109 kb/s
SampleRATE ... : 48000Hz
Channels ..... : Joint Stereo LAME3.97b
Size ......... : 35.0 MB (10.01%)

PLOT:
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Since the 15th century , an area of the Atlantic Ocean between Bermuda,
Puerto Rico and Fort Lauderdale has mysteriously claimed an untold number
of ships , planes and lives. Even today, the region remains a serious danger
to travellers there were three reported incidents in 2004 alone. Perhaps the
most famous case was that of Flight 19 a group of American bombers that went
missing in December 1945 , while training over the Atlantic . The bombers
encountered unusual phenomena and irregular compass readings, despite the
clemency of the weather and the experience of the pilots . When the five
planes failed to return , the Navys official report could not explain the
incident, attributing the disappearance to causes or reasons unknown.
Also known as the Devils Triangle, the area has been the subject of conspiracy
theories and paranormal speculation for over half a century . Some of the more
bizarre theories have suggested the involvement of giant sea creatures, UFOs
and portals to different dimensions. A more scientific explanation, meanwhile,
has pointed towards the existence of huge fields of methane hydrates on the
continental shelves which alter the density of the surrounding water and air.
No theory, however, has been proven.
Using the latest scientific knowledge and investigative techniques , the
programme examines this enduring riddle and sheds light on the mystery
surrounding its reputation . Through high-tech computer graphics , lavish
recreations and underwater footage , the documentary brings the most famous
accidents to life while investigating the possible causes and offering new
explanations . On-camera interviews with both sceptics and believers help lay
out the facts and myths of the cases. Can the latest scientific techniques
finally lay to rest the mysteries of the Triangle?

Size: 349.99 MB

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Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy

2008-12-02T14:30:00.000+05:30

Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy (2006) (TV)

Border Collie alert! If you like Border Collie sheepdogs and herding stories, this is a movie for you. See those white tail tipped wonders take to the screen, herd and have fun.

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0939636/

User Rating: 6.5/10 26 votes
Director: Richard Overall
Writers: J Blakeson (co-writer)
Richard Overall (writer)

Release Date: 25 December 2006 (UK)
Genre: Family
Tagline: Based on the story and characters by David Kennard

Cast
(Credited cast)
Brian Blessed ... Sir Gregory
Rosalind Blessed ... Josie Duck / Lost Lamb
Vanessa Clarke ... Jessica Duck / Vanessa the Lady Ewe
Karyn Claydon ... Drift / Janet Duck / Forgetful Ewe
Sandra Dickinson ... Gail / Joyce Duck
Mel Giedroyc ... Mist
Gillian Hanna ... Swift

Derek Jacobi ... Narrator
David Kennard ... The Boss
Paul Litchfield ... Jake
David McNeill ... Ernie / Storm / MacVicar
Clive Russell ... MacPherson
Una Stubbs ... Fern

Country: UK
Language: English

Company: Borough Valley

Spin off "Mist: Sheepdog Tales" (2007) more
Soundtrack: Mist On Windcutter Down

13 out of 14 people found the following comment useful:-
So cute and lovable!, 2 June 2007 9/10
Author: Mightyzebra from Scotland

Genre: Non-animated family film set on a farm with sheepdogs.

Why I like it: This is one of my new TOP TEN favourite films! It is SO good for a modern film, I prefer it to a lot of the stuff that comes up in the cinemas nowadays. It should have an overall rating on this site!

What it ALL adds up to: Absolute cuteness+a CREEPY baddie+a good storyline + the fact that the sheepdogs' mouths don't move when they talk + lovely characters + good music + Good English accents/voices = this lovely and enjoyable motion picture!

I recommend it to all Sheepdog fans, English-film fans, people who are frustrated by CGI mouths and people who like funny films! ENJOY!

What happens: From the moment she sees the woolly creatures, Mist wants to become a real sheepdog. However, THAT will mean putting up with Fern and being trained by Sir Gregory...

P.S I'm the first person to review this. That has NEVER happened before...

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Info:

Size: 698MB (732937680 bytes)
Video: XVID 576x336 29.97fps [Stream 00]
Audio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 48000Hz stereo 114Kbps [Stream 01]

Disk from Hobnose, a Border Collie and Boomer The Dog

Size: 699.01 MB

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Kasparov Chessmate PC version + keygen

2008-12-02T14:25:00.000+05:30

Upon request an old classic !

Size: 9.66 MB

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Grand Theft Auto San Andreas Xtreme

2008-12-02T14:21:00.000+05:30

Cars:
ZR-350 - Mazda RX-7 VeilSide (With Neon)
Intruder - BMW 760Li
Buffalo - Dodge Challanger (Tunable)
Banshee - BMW M6 Cabrio
Stretch - Hummer H2 Limo
Police Ranger - Hummer H2 Police
Police VG - Lamborghini Gallardo Police
Police SF - Pontiac GTO Police
Huntley - Chevrolet Suburgan DUB
Roadtrain - Scania 164L 580 V8
Super GT - Lamborghini Murcielago
Hustler - Ford 5 Window (Hot Rod)
Jester - Audi R8
Caddy - Vespa Ape
Cheetah - Koenigsegg CCX
Quad - Yamaha YFZ 450
Mower - Tuned Mower
Sabre - Holden Efijy (Paintjobs)
Voodoo - Tuned Aston Martin DB9
Uranus - Nissan Silvia Tuned
Feltzer - Mercedes 500K
Elegant - Mercedes CLS500
Monster - Humster (Hummer Monstertruck)
Dozer - Caterpillar T530
Bullet - Bugatti Veyron
Vincent - Bentley Arnage
Rhino - Tiger Tank (WW II)
Merit - Jaguar XJ8
HotringRacer A - Shelby Mustang GT500
Dumper - Truck where you can load cars on
Bravura - Volkswagen Golf V (Tuned)
Alpha - Vauxhall (Opel) Monaro (Tuned)
Bobcat - Bobcat Dragster
Bandito - Other Bandito
Phoenix - Porsche Carrera GT (NFSC Edition)
Greenwood - Mercedes E500
Sunrise - BMW M3
Infernus - Mercedes SLR McLaren
Patriot - Hummer H1
Elegy - Nissan Skyline R34
Manana - Mini Cooper S
Taxi - Chevrolet Caprice Taxi
Camper - Volkswagen T2
Oceanic - Dodge Charger
Flash - VW Golf R32
Bloodring Banger - X43 Landspeeder (Don't Add Hydrolics)
Stallion - Alfa Romeo 8C
Euros - Ferrari Enzo
Primo - Fiat Panda
Club - Honda Integra (Tuned)
Previon - Mercedes CL65
Hotknife - Mini Cooper (Old Version Tuned)
Majestic - Porsche GT3 (Gang Car)
Blista Compact - Toyota Supra VeilSide
Comet - Ford Mustang GT
Rumpo - Mercedes Sprinter (By ELalexandro)
Slamvan - UAZIK
Utility Van - Gipsy Car
Utility Trailer - Big Caravan (Able to get in)
Broadway - Cadillac Deville (Paintjobs)
Perennial - Chrysler T&C
Coach - Old Bus
Remero - Cadillac Fleetwood
Linerunner - Linerunner Van
Landstalker - Volvo XC90
Turismo - Maserati MC12 Grace
Hermes - Volkswagen Beetle (Paintjobs)
Packer - Peterbilt Packer
Pony - Volkswagen Transporter
Remington - Chevrolet Caprice Classic Lowrider
Ambulance - Hummer H2 Ambumlance
Sultan - BMW M5
Buccaneer - Cadillac
Towtruck - Porsche Cayenne Towtruck
Mesa - Rock Crawler Mesa
Firetruck - IFA L60 Fire Truck
FBI Rancher - Chevrolet Suburban FBI
Admiral - Admiral Cabrio
Premier - Mercedes S600
Burrito - Toyota Town Ace
Trash - Mack R 600 Trashmaster
Cabbie - Chevrolet Bel Air
Sandking - Suburban Offroad
Esperanto - Maserati Spyder
Walton - Isuzu
Picador - Chevrolet El Camino (Tuned)
DFT-30 - Design-X2-DD 360N (Bus)
Rancher - Ford Bronco Concept
Journey - Chevrolet Camper
Yosmite - Ford F-150
Kart - Other Kart
Tractor - Tunable Tractor
Stafford - Rolls Royce Phantom
Tug - Tunable Tug
Fortune - Toyota Supra
Combine - New Holland TX 34

Bikes:
Freeway - Nice Chopper
Police Bike - Harley Davidson Police
F*ggio - Mini Bike
Pizzaboy - Mini Dirt Bike
BF400 - Buell Lightning 1200
FRC 900 - FRC 1200
BMX - Lowrider BMX
Sanchez - Honda CR 125R
PCJ600 - Ducati Monster
NRG-500 - Susuki GSX-R 1000

Helicopters + Airplanes:
Cargo Bob - Big Bob
Police Heli - UFO
Rustler - P38 Lightning
AT400 - Boeing 747 Quantas
Hydra - F-15 Jet
Leviathan - Sea king
Nevada - DC3
Skimmer - De Havilland Beaver DHC 2
Beagle - Piper J3 Cub
Seasparrow - Roflcopter
Maverick - Bell 206B JetRanger II
News Chopper - Robinson R44 Raven II
Andromada - Antonov An-225
Shamal - B2 Spirit Stealth

Boats:
Marquis - Ferry Boat
Coastguard - Big Ferry Boat
Speeder - Houseboat
Tropic - Aircraft Carrier

Weapons:
Brass Knuckles - Golden Brass Knuckles
Katana - Golden Katana
Grenade - Pokeball
Satchel charge - C4
Cold 45 - Revolver
Combat shotgun - Franchi Spas 12
Double Wierd Weapon Mod (Double M4, MP5, UZI, AK47, 9MM, Desert Eagle)
Sniper - New Sniper
Chainsaw - Blood Chainsaw
Tec9 - Nailgun

Buildings:
Glass Pyramid - Stone Pyramid

Others:
Jetpack - Girl Jetpack
Back Tattoo - Steve-o Tattoo
Billboards with sexy girls
Realistic Radar
Realistic car names

Size: 6.40 GB

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Call of Duty: World at War Digital Distribution

2008-12-02T14:17:00.000+05:30

This file is a Digital Distribution. Call of Duty World at War.

I provide no cracks. No Serials.
Just the straight file. Scanned by AVG.

my First torrent.

I was having problems with a legit key and Reloaded's image, so I'm offering an alternative. Reloaded's Images are kickass and I live by them.

But the least you can do is try it.

Im sorry if slow upload, maxed at 150k at the moment.... (Down with american bandwidth caps.)

Thanks Again

Size: 5.82 GB

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Sacred 2 - Fallen Angel Crack v2.31

2008-12-02T14:15:00.000+05:30

Sacred2 V2.31.0 Crack V2.0

- Skilling fixed
- No XP Bug
- simply no other bugs from copyprotection

Installation:
1) Unpack rar in x:\Sacred 2 - Fallen Angel directory. Overwriting files
2) Execute 1x per day DeleteSecuromReg.exe
3) Start game with sacred2_Loader.exe (loader)

@64Bit systems: DeleteSecuromReg.exe will not work. Use V2.12.0 crack by reloaded

Thanks to the whoever made this crack.

Size: 8.07 MB

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Steel Fury Kharkov 1942 PC DVD

2008-12-02T14:10:00.000+05:30

Steel Fury Kharkov 1942 PC DVD

Game information:

Steel Fury: Kharkov 1942 is based on real-life events that took place from
May 12 to 28, 1942, which engaged the Red Army in the fight of their lives.

During a vicious German counterattack that began on May 17, 1942, three
Soviet Armies were surrounded and were forced to fighting in what has become
known as the meat grinder." Through the monstrous roar of tanks and
military vehicles, and the blaring sounds of war, players will experience
bitterness at the loss of their comrades during battle and elation when they
are victorious.

Size: 1.93 GB

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LEFT 4 DEAD -- Non-Steam Fully Working

2008-12-02T14:07:00.000+05:30

----Left 4 Dead Non Steam----

Fully working single player and multiplayer.

Use hamachi for play over the web with people.

* Check http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srte st to see if you can run the game well!

Enjoy!

(This version was originally upped by crackit, but when it was removed there were many people who didn't finish. This is by far one of the beset non-steam version of Left 4 Dead)

Size: 2.28 GB

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Battle Realms (Installer)

2008-12-02T14:03:00.000+05:30

Description

In Battle Realms the player leads a clan of devoted peasants, training them each to become unique warriors with a thirst for battle. Once trained, warriors face a dynamic environment where elevation, weather and other whims of nature affect strategy.Samurai masters and deadly kabuki warriors face off against warlocks and necromancers in a world that draws its inspiration from both history and fantasy. Armed with a rich story and a robust 3D engine, "Battle Realms" combines a unique, living resource system and a detailed combat model to put the strategy back into real-time strategy. Framed for his father's murder, young Kenji disappears and studies the ancient ways of his ancestors. "Battle Realms" begins as he returns to his homeland, leading a new uprising of either the Dragon Clan or Serpent Clan. Competing against the Lotus Clan's dark magic and the Wolf Clan's brute and cunning, Kenji leads his clan in the ancient ways of the Samurai. Balancing living resources in an epic battle of Yin versus Yang, the warriors in "Battle Realms" clash to preserve a way of life and avenge the injustices of the past.

Hardware Requirements

400 MHz Celeron or equivalent Windows 98/2K/ME/XP 64 MB RAM DirectX 7 compliant 16MB VRAM 3D AGP accelerated video card DirectX 7 compliant sound card DirectX 7 or higher 4X CD ROM Drive 600 MBs free hard drive space Keyboard and Mouse . Recommended Requirements: PIII 750 MHz or equivalent Windows 98/00/ME/XP 128 MB RAM DirectX 8 compliant 32MB VRAM 3D AGP accelerated video card DirectX 8 compliant sound card DirectX 8 or higher 4X CD ROM Drive 600 MBs free hard drive space Keyboard and Mouse

Size: 619.43 MB

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Sonic the Hedgehog: Ipod game FULL

2008-12-02T14:01:00.000+05:30

Works for both WINDOWS and MACINTOSH

Works on Ipod nano (3rd generation), Ipod classic, and ipod (5th generation)

Contained file:
Sonic the hedgehog.ipg file

(tested)
Double click the ipg file and it will load it into itunes.
Make sure your ipod is a version 1.2.1 clarified from my version of the ipod, it works like a charm.

And as always SEED PLZZ .
I paid for this game so repay me back with some seeding.
Be Happy!

Comment if you guys have any problems.

Size: 62.91 MB

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RTL Biathlon 2009 Crack

2008-12-02T13:57:00.000+05:30

Size: 672.42 KB

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Blackhawk Striker 2 (Ready to play for PC)

2008-12-02T13:56:00.001+05:30

Blast away a variety of enemy aircraft, tanks, and anti-aircraft installations as you venture ever-deeper into enemy territory with your high-powered helicopter. Features spectacular, flowing 3D terrain. Encounter new enemy military hardware and upgrade your ship with powerful weapons and armor. The full version will enable you to encounter 13 new enemies, and explore many new levels

please seed..

Size: 8.79 MB

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Transporter 3 TS XVID

2008-12-01T10:00:00.006+05:30

Movie:Transporter 3 TS XVID
Release Date: November 26, 2008
Studio: Lionsgate
Director: Olivier Megaton
Screenwriter: Luc Besson,
Robert Mark Kamen
Starring: Jason Statham,
Francois Berleand, Natalya Rudakova,
Robert Knepper, Jeroen Krabbe,
Alex Kobold, David Atrakchi, Yann Sundberg,
Eriq Ebouaney, David Kammenos, Silvio Simac
Genre: Action

MPAA Rating: PG-13
(for sequences of intense action
and violence, some sexual content
and drug material)

Plot Summary:
Frank Martin has been pressured into
transporting Valentina, the kidnapped daughter
of Leonid Vasilev, the head of the Environmental
Protection Agency for the Ukraine, from Marseilles
through Stuttgart and Budapest until he ends up
in Odessa on the Black Sea. Along the way, with
the help of Inspector Tarconi, Frank has to contend
with the people who strong armed him to take the job,
agents sent by Vasilev to intercept him, and the
general non-cooperation of his passenger. Despite
Valentina's cynical disposition and his resistance
to get involved, Frank and Valentina fall for
each other, while escaping from one
life-threatening situation after another.

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that broadcasts our members favourite songs, albums and mixes daily for your enjoyment.
And a team of DJ's that are ready to take your requests. A signature of the week contest,
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see. And last but not least, an arcade with lots of games to help pass by those boring days.

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Alot of perks and privilages come with this position. Sound interesting?
Then head over to www.Assasin-Torrents.co.uk. We look forward to hearing from you.

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Size: 717.02 MB

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Form Maker Pro v4.3

2008-12-01T09:48:00.003+05:30

Looking for an application to easily make web forms? Give a look at Form Maker Pro, a powerful yet affordable web form generator with formmail (form processor). Form Maker Pro is a standalone application which has to be installed to your server once, and then you can start creating various web forms with a visual tool. In addition, all forms will be automatically processed with a formmail script included in Form Maker Pro. Owing to its user-friendly graphical front-end, Form Maker Pro is easy-to-use even for a beginner internet user. Using Form Maker Pro means no more programming needed to create and adjust web forms. Form Builder Pro, which is an online service, Form Maker Pro is a standalone application running on your server. Form Maker Pro will process all web forms on your site, sending information from web forms to specified email accounts. It is an excellent formmail solution (based on Form Processor Pro) with unrestricted power of form builder. Use it for drawing feedback and inquiry forms; contact forms, order forms, both simple and complicated forms. Secure and spam-proof, featured with auto responder, preview and thank you page, it supports user attachments and MySQL database storing; calculations; html emails sending; and many more features. Form Maker Pro finely works with complex shopping cart forms, with multi pages form, online polls, dependency forms and checkout features.

Demo: http://www.form-maker.com/online_demo.html

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File Factory : http://www.filefactory.com/file/e50b9c

Nintendo DS Roms 2501 - 2600 Complete[English Only]

2008-11-20T13:38:00.000+05:30

All Roms from 2501 - 2600 English only

Please seed important for at least 24hrs or until someone replaces you, keep it alive for all

Enjoy

NOTE**** My Upload speed isn't what it used to be so Don't compliant please

List of games

2501 - Imagine Girl Band (E).zip 32.9 MB
2502 - The Woodleys Summer Sports (E).zip 21.1 MB
2504 - New International Track & Field (U).zip 37.9 MB
2505 - The Mummy - Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (U).zip 47.8 MB
2511 - Wall E (E).zip 20.0 MB
2513 - Tsumiki The Infernal Tower (E).zip 29.4 MB
2520 - Go, Diego, Go! Safari Rescue (E).zip 8.4 MB
2521 - Mystery Mansion (E).zip 5.1 MB
2526 - Mr. Slime Jr. (E).zip 9.9 MB
2527 - Red Bull BC One (E).zip 12.3 MB
2545 - Puzzler Collection (U).zip 4.3 MB
2546 - Mahjong 2 (E).zip 5.2 MB
2550 - My pet hotel 2 (E).zip 19.7 MB
2552 - Quick yoga Training (U).zip 14.3 MB
2553 - Rock Blast (U).zip 2.2 MB
2554 - Little League World Series Baseball 2008 (U).zip 11.7 MB
2565 - GRID (U).zip 40.5 MB
2569 - Madden NFL 09 (U).zip 24.4 MB
2573 - Bangai-O Spirits (U).zip 3.1 MB
2575 - Imagine Teacher (U).zip 6.8 MB
2576 - Professor Brainium's Games (U).zip 3.5 MB
2593 - MLB Power Pros 2008 (U).zip 40.8 MB
2595 - N Plus (U).zip 4.5 MB
2596 - Digimon World Championship (U).zip 17.3 MB
2597 - My Chinese Coach (U).zip 41.3 MB
2598 - The Sims 2 - Apartment Pets (U).zip 13.9 MB

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Peers: 1 seeders, 0 leechers, 1 total
Size: 468.24 MB

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Ghajini Song Download

2008-11-19T13:10:00.001+05:30

FIRST ON INTERNET
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Ghajini Aamir's New Movie Song Guzarish Full Song No Radio Rip First On SouthMirchi.com

Official Music Release : Nov 22,2008
SouthMirchi Release : Nov 14, 2008

High Quality (Direct Links)

Guzarish - Javed Ali, Sonu Nigam

Aye Bachchu - Suzzane

Kaise Mujhe - Benny Dayal, Shreya Ghosal

Behka - Karthik

Latoo - Shreya Ghosal

Kaise Mujhe (Instrumental)

First Look

Thoo Meri Adoori Pyaas Pyaas...

Behka... Mein Behka... woh behki...

Max Payne (2008) [R5] [Xvid]

2008-11-18T13:30:00.000+05:30

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* MAX PAYNE (2008) *
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General Information |
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Type : Movie
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 706Mb
Duration : 1h 35mn
Language : English
Source : Dvd PAL (Russian R5-Dvd9)
Subtitles : None
Genre : Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
IMDB Link : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0467197/
Rating : 5.9/10
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Video
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Bit rate : 909 Kbps
Width : 672 pixels
Height : 272 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.199
Stream size : 621 MiB (88%)
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Audio
Format : MPEG Audio
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Bit rate mode : Variable- (Filtered & Amplified)
Bit rate : 111 Kbps- (Filtered & Amplified)
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Stream size : 76.0 MiB (11%)
Writing library : LAME3.82
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Description
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The movie starts with Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg) struggling to
surface in a frosted river while also narrating. The film then
cuts to one week earlier, showing Max working as a clerk in
the cold-case unit and his obsession with finding the fleeing
killer who brutally murdered his wife, Michelle, and newborn
daughter. Max then attends a party run by his snitch, Trevor
Duncan, where he meets Natasha Sax (Olga Kurylenko) and her
sister, Mona (Mila Kunis). Natasha and Max go back to his
place where she demonstrates her desire to have sex and even
offers to act as Max's deceased wife. An upset Max asks
Natasha to leave and while she is walking in a alleyway
and talking to her drug dealer on the phone, she is hunted,
attacked and killed by a mysterious flying entity"
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Be aware People are starting to use my tag to create fake files
Make sure its a real genuine release from me, I have never and
will never do Cams,Telesyncs,Telecine or RAR files.Try to check
1337x.org to see if the file exist.

Fuck the fakers and enjoy my release.
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Peers: 1410 seeders, 1521 leechers, 2931 total
Size: 709.28 MB

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Football Manager 2009 (Game + Patch + Crack)

2008-11-17T13:35:00.000+05:30

INSTRUCTIONS

1.Install
2.Patch
3.Apply crack
4.Play

Crack only: http://vip-file.com/download/87f9529...e.com.rar.html

* OS: Windows XP or Vista
* Processor: XP: 1.4GHz or Faster / Vista: 2.0GHz or Faster
* Supported Processors: Intel Pentium 4, Intel Core, AMD Athlon
* Memory: XP: 512MB RAM / Vista: 1.0GB RAM
* Hard Drive Space: 2GB
* DVD-Drive: 4x Speed
* Video Card: 128MB *Supported Chipsets (see below)
* Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
* Directx: Version 9.0c (included)
* LAN: TCP/IP compliant
* Input: Keyboard, Mouse

*Supported Chipsets – Nvidia FX 5900 Ultra or greater; ATI Radeon 9800 or
greater; Intel 82915G/82910GL or greater.
Earlier cards may only display 2D Match Viewer Mode and are not supported.
Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported.

INFO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_Manager_2009
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/sim/footb...result;title;0

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Peers: 58 seeders, 8586 leechers, 8644 total
Size: 2.29 GB

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The.Dark.Knight[2008]DvDrip

2008-11-17T13:28:00.000+05:30

> F i L E i N F O
>
> TiTLE......[ The Dark Knight
> AKA........[ Batman Begins 2
> YEAR.......[ 2008
> GENRE......[ Action | Adventure | Crime | Fantasy | Mystery
> RUNTiME....[ 02:25:57
> STORE DATE.[ 2008
> iMDB RATE..[ 9.1/10 297,288 votes
> iMDB URL...[ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/
>
> AUDiO......[ MP3 48000Hz 112 kb/s CBR (2 chnls)
> LANGUAGE...[ English
> ViDEO......[ 649 kbps XviD 25.000 FPS
> Q. FRAME...[ 0.163 bits*pixel
> RESOLUTiON.[ 628 x 254
> DAR........[ 2.472 (47:19)
> SUBS.......[ None
> FiLES......[ 1
> SiZE.......[ 801 MB
> SOURCE.....[ DVD
>
> N O T E S
>
> Why So Serious?
>
> COUNTRY: USA
> DIRECTOR: Christopher Nolan
> SCREENWRITER: Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer, Jonathan Nolan
> ORIGINAL MUSIC: James Newton Howard, Hans Zimmer
> CINEMATOGRAPHER: Wally Pfister
> CAST: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine,
> Gary Oldman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Morgan Freeman, Eric Roberts ...
> STUDIO/PRODUCER: Warner Home Video
>
> Batman, Gordon and Harvey Dent are forced to deal with the chaos
> unleashed by an anarchist mastermind known only as the Joker, as
> it drives each of them to their limits
>
> All stand-alone DivX Players compatible
>
> BE AWARE OF BOGUS SITES AND LAMERS
>
> DOWNLOAD YOUR aXXo FILES FROM aXXo ACCOUNTS
>
> REMEMBER TO VISIT http://www.darksiderg.com
>
> ENJOY!
>
> OFFICIAL MOVIE SITE : http://thedarkknight.warnerbros.com/

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Peers: 22145 seeders, 23313 leechers, 45458 total
Size: 801.44 MB

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James Bond - Quantum of Solace - French Edition

2008-11-08T13:32:00.000+05:30

Date de sortie : 31 Octobre 2008
Réalisé par Marc Forster
Avec Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric..
Film britannique, américain.
Genre : Action, Espionnage
Durée : 1h 47min.
Anné de production : 2008
Distribué par Sony Pictures Releasing France

Même s'il lutte pour ne pas faire de sa dernière mission une affaire personnelle, James Bond est décidé à traquer ceux qui ont forcé Vesper à le trahir. En interrogeant Mr White, 007 et M apprennent que l'organisation à laquelle il appartient est bien plus complexe et dangereuse que tout ce qu'ils avaient imaginé...Bond croise alors la route de la belle et pugnace Camille, qui cherche à se venger elle aussi. Elle le conduit sur la piste de Dominic Greene, un homme d'affaires impitoyable et un des piliers de la mystérieuse organisation. Au cours d'une mission qui l'entraîne en Autriche, en Italie et en Amérique du Sud, Bond découvre que Greene manoeuvre pour prendre le contrôle de l'une des ressources naturelles les plus importantes au monde en utilisant la puissance de l'organisation et en manipulant la CIA et le gouvernement britannique...Pris dans un labyrinthe de traîtrises et de meurtres, alors qu'il s'approche du vrai responsable de la trahison de Vesper, 007 doit absolument garder de l'avance sur la CIA, les terroristeset même sur M, afin de déjouer le sinistre plan de Greene et stopper l'organisation...

Taille : 1 CD, 698.3MB
Qualité : 608x208 - 1035kbits || MP3 CBR 128kbits 48mhz
Durée : 107min
manque 15 minute parce que les salles sont super surveillé bonne qualiter en general et super film .

Sample :- Click here
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Peers: 1813 seeders, 1727 leechers, 3540 total
Size: 698.32 MB

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Sangama - Starring Ganesh (Kannada Mp3 SoundTrack - 128 kbps)

2008-11-08T13:25:00.001+05:30

Sangama - Mp3 Sound Tracks:

Dil Manga More

Hey Mr.Balu

Kodu Kodu varavanu

Madhumasa

Mudu Mudu

Sangama

To be frank I really liked the title track, rest of the songs were like not so good. But it's nice..

So download it and enjoy !!
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Peers: 2 seeders, 0 leechers, 2 total
Size: 24.45 MB

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Sakkarakatti - A.R.Rahman - Tamil Songs

2008-11-07T13:22:00.001+05:30

Sound Tracks from the A.R.Rahman's latest movie - Sakkarakatti

All tracks are in MP3 format ripped in CBR128Kbps

Enjoy!!

Pls Seed after download!!

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Peers: 1 seeders, 0 leechers, 1 total
Size: 31.66 MB

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Mobster/Mafia MMORPG PHP Script, Midnight Mobster 1.0

2008-10-27T13:39:00.001+05:30

Hello,

I haven't posted anything in a while, so here's something special.

I have edited and rewrote most of the script... even so, the bellend at www.mypimpscript.com has had my host shutdown my website where I was 'trying' to sell the script...
AS rightly I should for rewriting it... but anyways... If he wants to do that, then I'll do this... Release the script free of charge, open source, with all addons... so the prick loses out.

I have other scripts to sell, he doesn't... so the jokes on him!

ADMIN FEATURES:

+ Setting - Adjust the game name, paypal email, etc, via these options.
+ User Tracking - Keep to terms and follow your members.
+ Manage Users - Alter users status and abilities.
+ Game Profits - View your profits made from your members purchasing credits!
+ Ban IP - Ban a player through there IP to avoid seeing them again.
+ Mass Mail - Send an Email to all of your members at once.
+ Hand Out - Hand out credits to your members.
+ EDIT - This feature allows you to edit such things as TERMS, Rules, Guide... etc.
+ Manage News - Post and edit uptodate news on your website.
+ Adverts - Decide whether or not to display adverts on your website... bottom or/and top.
+ Manage Rounds - Install and manage game rounds.
+ Forum Admin - Control your ingame forums.
+ Cheaters Check - With cheaters check, you can check for dupe IP's and dupe passwords.
+ Live Message - Send a live message to all of the members who are playing at the time you send it.
+ Referrals Store - Manage the referral store, changing the prices and amount of days.
+ Credits Store - Alter the prices of the credits for your members to purchase them.
+ Contracts Manager - Manage the contracts, enable/disable them and alter the prices.

INGAME FEATURES:

+ Attack - Attack other mobsters to gain supremecy. There are 11 attacks in total. Attack Opps, invasion, carbomb, steal planes, steal hoes, steal thugs, steal weapons, jack rides, rob drugs and drive by's.
+ Hire - Hire operatives to help you on your quest to the ultimate mobster. Thugs, Hitmen, Hoe's, Bootleggers, bodyguards, dealers, hustlers and punks.
+ Produce - Produce your own drugs and cash! Such as; cocaine, dope, cash and alcohol.
+ Collect - Collect your routine cash from your working staff. You can choose to collect from your whores, dealers, punks and hustlers.
+ Travel - Travel around the cities.
+ MOB Shop - Purchase your needed items at the MOB Shop... Weapons, Vehicles, drugs.
+ Bank - Store your hrad earned cash in a private bank safe.
+ StockMarket - Run the odds on a localised stockmarket.
+ Blackmarket - Trade weapons, thugs, drugs... with other online mobsters.
+ Pornstudio - Have some fun whilst making videos and cash at the pornstudio.
+ Casino - Throw some dice... pull some levers... win some cash!
+ Prison - Dont pick up the soap!...
+ StripClub - Have a private lap dance in return for some hefty cash.
+ Trafficking - Import/Export illegal merchandise.

There are also some unlisted features such as; Creating/Joining Families, Mobster Ranks, Prizes, See whos Online, get the latest news on the website, view/edit your profile... etc.

Download

A Demo of the game is on facebook, i added it as an application.
You'll have to add the application I think to see the game, but please do:

Demo Here

Enjoy!!!

Welcome to SouthMirchi Blog

2008-10-27T12:45:00.001+05:30

Welcome to SouthMirchi Blog

Jombackup daily mysql backup bot

2008-10-13T13:47:00.000+05:30

Plugin

Jombackup, for performing daily mysql backups and emailing them to the address of your choice.

The default settings should be enough to get you up and running, but there are plenty of configuration options available to you, including modifying the text of the email sent to you, changing the default email address and the actual type of mysql data backed up. Literally you should be able to fire and forget.
This mambot is designed to allow those people who do not have access to, or are unwilling to use, Cron, to enable daily backups of their Joomla mysql data. It runs every time Joomla is run. Most of the time, all it will do is check for the existance of a checkfile with today's date. If the file exists it will not do anything else, however if the file doesn't exist (IE the local server's time has passed the midnight hour and this is the first time today the site has been visited) then the plugin will perform a backup of the system's mysql data and email it to either the system default email address, or another that you may have specified in the config.

Very important: Pay attention to the Notes regarding the Testing option. I kid you not when I say that you could bring a server down if you abuse this.
Installation: Administrator->Installers->Mambots. Upload and install the plugin, make sure you visit Mambots->site mambots and click on the link to JomBackup system plugin to edit & publish it.
How long does it take to perform a backup?
The answer as always, is "How long is a piece of string?"
I can only tell you how long it takes to perform a backup on jomres.net. The backup file, uncompressed is appx 33mb, compressed it's about 2mb. It takes jomres.net roughly 20 seconds to perform the backup and email it away.
Please note that this script needs write access to the media directory by default. If you are using safe-mode then you may find that you receive empty emails or that backups are simply not happening.

LazyBackup

2008-10-13T13:45:00.000+05:30

Plugin

Send a daily backup of the database in a zipped file to one or multiple emails. The most easy backup method 4 joomla.

This plugin will save you LOTS of time, when it backs you whole database up, once a day. And its easy to restore via PhpMyadmin.

Version 1.1.2
Made minor changes and deleted test option.

Remember - Sent to as many emails you want

JoomlaPack - AJAX powered backup and restore

2008-10-13T13:42:00.001+05:30

Component

Latest Stable Release: 1.2.1 Stable
Latest Release: 1.2.2 Beta 2

1.2.2 Beta 2 Note: This version includes critical updates for the Kickstart, UnJPA and UnZIP utilities. You are required to upgrade if you use any or all of these utilities. See project homepage for more info.

JoomlaPack is an open-source backup component for the Joomla! CMS, quite a bit different than its competition. Its mission is simple: create a site backup that can be restored on any Joomla!-capable server. It creates a full backup of your site in a single ZIP archive. The archive contains all the files, a database snapshot and an installer derived from the standard Joomla! installer. The backup and restore process is AJAX powered to avoid server timeouts, even with huge sites. Alternatively, you can make a backup of only your database. If you want a reliable, easy to use, open source backup solution for your Joomla! site, try it out.

JoomlaPack is compatible with Joomla! 1.0.X and Joomla! 1.5.X (native/legacy).

Features:
-AJAX powered backup (site and database or database only)
--able to exclude specific folders
--able to exclude specific database tables
-AJAX powered restore
-"KickStart" restore: restore without unpacking backup
and more!

Note: Download for alpha, beta, and release candidate builds are under the JoomlaPack [Test] category. Stable builds are under the JoomlaPack [Stable] category.

IMPORTANT Note: Alpha, beta, and release candidate builds are considered developmental builds and are not intended for production sites. For the most part though, test releases undergo basic stability testing before being released for further testing.

The latest version listed here is the latest Release Candidate or Stable build. Alpha and beta builds will not be listed.

Please do not post support questions here. Instead, post it on the support forums. Comments here are not actively monitored and you will receive better support at our support forum. Thank you.

JoomlaPack - AJAX powered backup and restore

2008-10-13T13:42:00.000+05:30

Component