Firefox 3.1a2 and Hotmail

Well that's great. Firefox 3.0 was having problems displaying Hotmail's web pages, 3.01 resolved that. The new version 3.1a2 has broken it again! Why fix something that isn't broken... Well this comes under a gigantic software development blunder. Come on guys get it sorted.

Best download of September 2008

Okay, so what is the best download of September 2008... as this is the first of a monthly series of questions regarding the best download, I will actually leave this open to the one indispensible download.

I say VSO, this programme runs almost continually on one of my machines converting my downloaded videos to DVD. Sqeezing two films onto a single DVD in reasonable to brilliant quality. I just love this programme and could not do without it!

ShireToko AKA Firefox 3.1a2

Well I just updated Firefox and nearly all my add ons and my theme have been disabled because they are not compatible! It seems to me that surely the theme should not cause compatibility problems but alas it does. So I have to spend an hour or so searching for compatible plugins - if any exist to get my browser to work the way I want it to.

Just out of interest, which is the best browser, in your opinion and why?

How do I upload?

Well you have started downloading, now you want to be a real member of the P2P file sharing community and give something back. You have decided to upload something that you think people will want.

The first thing to do is select what you want to upload. This is not as easy as it may sound. You should check to see that no one else has already provided the file. It seems a waste of time uploading a file when it already exists, especially when there are lots of seeds. If......

Maxtor 500GB External HD

First off - stay clear if you can of external USB hard drives. I have had two and both of them have been problematic. The first one died after about 5 months, although it was not the hard drive itself that died but the enclosure and USB interface. Well I just stripped the Hard drive out and to my surprise it was a SATAII drive!They put a 3GB per second drive into an enclosure that only handles 480Mbp. I guess the old IDE interface would be slower transfering only 80MB per......

My Post needs Audited.

Well my 4th post in a series of 100 top questions asked about BitTorrent and its related activites has been sitting waiting to be audited for almost a week now.

How long does it take to get audited and is there something I need to do such as ask an admin to audit it?

Any Problems with TAGS?

It is very strange, of late I seem to be having problems with the Tags I create for my posts. I will say create a post on downloading torrents and create the tags "downloading, torrents, speed, peers, clients" and insert them, without the quotation marks into the Tags textbox.

Sometimes all is well and I get the individual tags working, only to find a day or two later that they no longer are individual tags, but all been merged into one long tag with......

New Toys for The Boys.

Well this has been a fun week. I got another 500GB hard drive so I guess I will not be needing the Terabyte drive I was going to buy in December until about February - Eeek... I use way too much storage space.

I also bought 4GB of decent speed memory and my machine is buzzing along quite nicely. So the new computer I was going to buy in February can wait until April.

And the biggest toy I bought was my new keyboard. Yes, I know I am such a sad sack. But......

Common Abbreviations

There are a number of file types and abbreviations that you will encounter, some you will be familiar with others you may not. Here is a list of most of the common ones that you will find used.

.AC3: Is an audio codec often used within .AVI files. If you have a video but no sound then you probably need to download this codec.

.AVI: This is a video file and most multimedia programs will allow you to access them. Although you may need an AVI Codec. Them......

How Do I Download?

 This question is very common. People often do not realise that BitComet is not where you get your torrents from, well not your primary source. BitComet can be thought of as a torrent download manager. Following is a step by step explanation of the whole download process, from begining to end.

First of all, someone needs to make a file available to the world to download. They do this by creating a special file which has the .torrent extension. Below is information......