Category | Cool Stuff

You hear a lot of whining these days about BitTorrent and the “illegal” downloading of music, movies, and software. I’m not hear to pass judgment or act sanctimonious about downloading allegedly copyrighted material. I don’t care about any of that, I just want to show you the best ways to find torrents. These are the top 10 torrent search engines according to me. When using this combination of search engines there’s scarcely a torrent I cannot find. Whether it’s music, movies, software, or “other” materials you seek --- these search tools will find it. 1. Torrentz 2. Speckly...

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The much talked about and much anticipated Google Chrome operating system is almost upon us. Lifehacker has a blow by blow of all the particulars, but you can check out the promo video from Google below. It really does sound like a great idea in theory, but I’m going to have to use it before I’m sold. That said, if it works as advertised I can see it becoming the industry standard on netbooks at least. This is something Microsoft is no doubt concerned about. ...

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YouTube is set to roll out 1080p HD videos next week. The video sharing site will begin streaming very high resolution 1080p in large, wide-screen, TV friendly format....

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Justin Parks has an absolutely amazing collection of social network buttons, icons, and badges you can add to your website. If you can’t find here --- you should just stop looking.

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I took a leap of faith last week and ordered some Amazon.com brand DVD+R discs instead of a usual brand name. To my surprise, they work really well. So good in fact --- I even made a dumb video about it.

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