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Boxing torrents and more - your 7 alternatives
Posted on January 26, 2010 - Filed Under Downloads | Leave a Comment
Boxing torrents can be hard to come by, especially now. I’m sure fight fans are among those disappointed by Mininova’s demise, but fret not. There are other sites out there that can pick up the slack, as well as provide you with other interesting finds.
1. Isohunt.com
One of the more popular torrent sites, it was only [...]
Hard drive gig - what you need to know
Posted on January 20, 2010 - Filed Under Computers | Leave a Comment
In 1980, a 26MB drive would cost you $5,000, equivalent to $193,000 per hard drive gig (1GB=1000MB). Now, 30 years later, a 1TB drive can be yours for less than $100, which puts the cost per hard drive gig down to under $0.10 (1TB=1000GB). Of course, back in the 80’s, the thought of selling GBs [...]
HD Designs: 720p MKV on an Atom netbook
Posted on December 7, 2009 - Filed Under News | 4 Comments
HD DESIGNS
If you’re a netbook owner, you learn to be generally forgiving. After all, these machines were designed to handle low-power tasks, not gaming or video editing. Sometimes, though, you can’t help but try to squeeze the most out of these little computers. For example, how about playing 720p HD content without lags? Most files [...]
Into Convert: Youtube videos to MP3 with 2CONV.com
Posted on December 4, 2009 - Filed Under Reviews, software | Leave a Comment
There are some really good videos on the Web that make you wish you could play them over and over. A few tools are already available to download these on your PC, but what if you just want to extract the audio and enjoy it as an MP3 file? Getting the original FLV file then [...]
Free ebooks on Philippine history
Posted on February 23, 2009 - Filed Under Freebies | 3 Comments
In my last entry, I outlined some steps to turn your netbook/laptop into an ebook reader. After writing that post, I did a bit of searching around Project Gutenberg, and I’m happy to say that I found lots of interesting ebooks for budding scholars and curious bookworms alike (in short, nerds like me). I didn’t [...]
How to turn your netbook into an ebook reader
Posted on February 19, 2009 - Filed Under Netbooks | 1 Comment
Amazon has just released the Kindle 2 - a sleeker, better version of their original ebook reader. At $359 (PhP18K), however, it still feels impractical for a dedicated reading device. For the same amount of money, one can buy a decent netbook which can act as a fully-functional PC, and is sufficiently light to carry [...]
Philippine anti-piracy drive to go after downloaders next
Posted on February 17, 2009 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment
After all the raids on Quiapo and Greenhills shops, and even corporate offices in Makati, the anti-piracy suits are aiming squarely at end-users. The Inquirer has reported that the Pilipinas Anti-Piracy Team (PAPT) will be going after those individuals downloading music, movies and software over the Internet, even if they do so for personal use. [...]
64GB SSD drive now available in CD-R King
Posted on February 15, 2009 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment
Early this morning, I saw this picture on the front page of CD-R King’s website: a re-branded external 64GB SDD drive, with SATA and USB 2.0 interfaces. It looks like they’re experimenting on putting out affordable solid state disk drives, which is a move I welcome. I haven’t even seen SSDs being offered on [...]
Sun Cellular now offering unlimited 3G for as low as P799 per month
Posted on February 10, 2009 - Filed Under News | 1 Comment
Sun is known for their budget-friendy mobile services, and with their entry into the 3G business, things were bound to get interesting. They have recently upgraded their wireless broadband network to reach speeds of up to 2Mbps, putting them on par with Smart and Globe. Better yet, they are now offering different unlimited 3G plans [...]
Dutch study says that file sharing is good for the economy - no argument here
Posted on February 6, 2009 - Filed Under News | 2 Comments
Torrent users should find this research interesting. The Netherlands government commissioned a study of the social and economic effects of peer-to-peer downloading. The results were published in Ars Technica.
These are some of their findings:
- downloaders buy as much paid content as nondownloaders; for games, downloaders shell out even more
- for music, unpaid downloads can [...]
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