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Rising from the ashes

From the ashes of so many great bittorrent sites which have ceased to operate, newer ones spring up. Here are a few. And if you happen to know more, feel free to hare by replying to this thread:

New sites
Suprnova.org successor: http://torrents.us.to and http://bi-torrent.com
Tvtorrents.net successor: http://www.tv-swarm.com
CentralDownload/Centraltracker successor: http://bit-ance.net

Old sites that still function:
http://www.filesoup.com
http://www.lokitorrent.com
http://filelist.org
http://www.mvgroup.org
http://www.potuk.com
http://pianosheets.org
http://trackerwww.prq.to
http://www.sharethefiles.org
http://rlcmedia.org:6969
http://murfy.dyndns.tv
http://www.ktrao.com
http://www.bubbas-world.net
http://crazymazey.kicks-ass.org

Temporal File Storage up to a gig

I've got a movie file of 1 GB and I want to send it to multiple friends. Instead of having to spilt it up into 100 chunks of 10 MB files and hoping that all of them have Gmails, I could instead just upload the file to YouSendIt servers and just sending the link to my 20 friends. The only caveat: files only remain on their servers for 7 days. But it's not bad a deal at all.

BOYCOTT

The threats of legal action against lokitorrent.com, a bittorrent (BT) site, by the MPAA (the Motion Picture Association of America) has caused a number of other BT sites to close (most closed due to high maintance fees that they weren't able to meet; the MPAA's recent declaration of war against BT sites was only the last straw). The solution I am proposing: BOYCOTT.

Emma of Sweden (a notable admin of several BT sites in including filesoup.com, of which I am a VIP) has set up P2P Unite, a rallying call to all p2p users to unite by boycotting all films and music during boycott week, the last week of April 2005.

My suggestion is to take it a step further: Not only boycott all films and music, but also use Bittorrent to download all the movies/ music you were thinking about going to see or buy during the boycott week.

If you are new to BT, here's a quick tutorial (a more detailed one can be found here)

Step 1. Download a BT client. I use bitcomet.
Step 2. Get the torrents you want by searching or from a friend. Great sites include:
Filesoup.com
bi-torrent.com
http://lokitorrent.com/

Step 3. Support these sites by donating whatever amount seems fit. After all, hosting sites never is free.
Step 4. Enjoy.
Step 5. Show them you mean business by posting an entry at p2p unite's guestbook.

Happy Torrenting!

Tsunami Footage

A couple of clips about the terrible tradegy that struck the Indian Ocean nations.
Link: http://www.maxconsulting.us/videos/tsunamiVids.zip

Search and Recover 2

It's about time I found a good recovery program! Being a fan of 'Shift-Delete' (I find just pressing the 'Delete' key too troublesome cos that means I've also got to empty the recycle bin), I have had extremely nasty experiences- the worst one being accidentally deleting a whole photo album 2 years ago. I've used many other terrible ones before until I stumbled unto this app recommended in this week's PCMagazine. Hope it lives up to its 4.5 outa 5 star rating.