Btaccel(cloud bitorrent client) and optimize firefox to get over 1gb speeds for your torrent downloads

8/7/09- Initial release

In this tutorial I will teach you how to use this great online bitorrent client called btaccel and how you can get your torrent download speeds up over 1gbs. Read ahead to learn how to never wait long again for the torrent you want…..

What is btaccel you say…

Btaccel is an online bitorrent client that downloads whatever torrent you want into their cloud servers much like a gmail account, which means that you can get a direct download once the torrent has been available. Getting a torrent this way is alot faster because you no longer have to worry about getting seeds for a connection, it just tells you when the download is available to you. Better yet btaccel will email you once your torrent is available for a direct download.

How do I sign up for btaccel?…

To use Btaccel all you need to do is register for an account(which is free) and login much like you would a normal email account. Go to www.btaccel.com and register for an account. Then after using the confirmation email you’ll be able to login. To learn more and register for a btaccel account click the link>

read more…

Using btaccel’s search/Url box…

Now there are a couple different ways to use the search box located at the top of the page on btaccel.com to find what your looking for, I’ll explain it below the 3 ways I would suggest.

1. You could search for a program or movie by name which will bring you to a typical google search for what you are looking for. This way is not the most effecient because using google to find a good torrent is like finding a needle in a haystack. I do not suggest doing it this way, below are my 2 favorite ways of finding what you want.

2. Search your favorite torrent sites for whatever torrent you are looking for. I like going to sites like demonoid and mininova cause you can read the comments and know exactly what your downloading and if it’s safe. Also once you find what your looking for you can simply copy the URL(web address) and paste it into the search box at btaccel and directly link to that site, bypassing the google search completely.

3. Using Vuze bittorent client’s built in search feature you can search multiple torrent sites at once without the hassle of going to a different torrent site. This is my favorite way of doing this, because with Vuze’s search you can add more sites by searching for templates. Also with vuze it display’s the torrent’s url up top after you select the one you want. Now this is the way I like doing it but if you don’t have vuze or use utorrent I would suggest option #2.

Now I have the URL what do I do…

Just paste the URL into the btaccel search box and it’ll give you a status on that particular torrent. Some torrents will be available right away while others will be qued into your browser and an email will be sent once the site has completed the torrent download. Once it’s out of que just click on the email link it gives you and select the torrent and begin downloading directly. Doing it like this you can get an average of 400kb’s -600kb’s for your download. But like I said before we can increase that speed by double. Read ahead and learn how…

How to optimize Firefox to increase your download speeds to over 1gbs…

Downthemall: This is the must have addon for anyone who uses firefox. Installing this will give you up to 4x download speeds! Now when you click on your torrent available in btaccel you’ll get a pop up box asking how you would like to download the file. Just click dta one click if it’s a single file or downthemall if it’s multiple files and hit save file. Doing this will increase the download speed to over 1gbs and put a smile on your face. The first time I used this I couldn’t believe how fast this simple little addon made my download’s. With the use of downthemall and btaccel no more looking at your speed go from 400kb’s down below 100kb’s ever again. That sounds to good to be true give me downthemall now. Ok, you want it you got it, click the link for downthemall addon>

These following addons are a must for anybody who download’s alot…

Skipscreen: This nifty little addon makes waiting at sites such as rapidshare or mediafire a thing of the past. What it does is exactly what the name suggests it skips the waiting screen for you, which is really great for rapidshare users cause it basically gives you a premium account of sorts. To get skipscreen click on the link >

Download Statusbar: View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar – without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing. This puts all your downloads at the bottom of your browser page for easier viewing. Get it here > <Download Statusbar>

FasterFox: Browse faster by speeding up common tasks – faster downloading, searching, visiting favorites, copy & paste, and more. Basically just speeds up your browser for doing everything a little bit faster. This addon is for older version of firefox but a beta for firefox 3.0 is available. Get fasterfox by clicking on the link>

Final thoughts….

I hope you have learned something useful in this tutorial. Using btaccel.com and firefox’s downthemall is incredibly simple and makes bitorrent clients like vuze or utorrent a thing of the past. With the recent implenentation of cloud computing into out daily lives expect to see alot more great tools like this. The future of computing will eventually all be done on the net. This is merely the beginning. Now that you’ve learned about btaccel and how to optimize firefox to download quickly and effieciently go out and start getting whatever you want with ease.

Btaccel(cloud bitorrent client) and optimize firefox to get over 1gb speeds for your torrent downloads

8/7/09- Initial release

In this tutorial I will teach you how to use this great online bitorrent client called btaccel and how you can get your torrent download speeds up over 1gbs. Read ahead to learn how to never wait long again for the torrent you want…..

What is btaccel you say…

Btaccel is an online bitorrent client that downloads whatever torrent you want into their cloud servers much like a gmail account, which means that you can get a direct download once the torrent has been available. Getting a torrent this way is alot faster because you no longer have to worry about getting seeds for a connection, it just tells you when the download is available to you. Better yet btaccel will email you once your torrent is available for a direct download.

How do I sign up for btaccel?…

To use Btaccel all you need to do is register for an account(which is free) and login much like you would a normal email account. Go to www.btaccel.com and register for an account. Then after using the confirmation email you’ll be able to login. To learn more and register for a btaccel account click the link>

read more…

Using btaccel’s search/Url box…

Now there are a couple different ways to use the search box located at the top of the page on btaccel.com to find what your looking for, I’ll explain it below the 3 ways I would suggest.

1. You could search for a program or movie by name which will bring you to a typical google search for what you are looking for. This way is not the most effecient because using google to find a good torrent is like finding a needle in a haystack. I do not suggest doing it this way, below are my 2 favorite ways of finding what you want.

2. Search your favorite torrent sites for whatever torrent you are looking for. I like going to sites like demonoid and mininova cause you can read the comments and know exactly what your downloading and if it’s safe. Also once you find what your looking for you can simply copy the URL(web address) and paste it into the search box at btaccel and directly link to that site, bypassing the google search completely.

3. Using Vuze bittorent client’s built in search feature you can search multiple torrent sites at once without the hassle of going to a different torrent site. This is my favorite way of doing this, because with Vuze’s search you can add more sites by searching for templates. Also with vuze it display’s the torrent’s url up top after you select the one you want. Now this is the way I like doing it but if you don’t have vuze or use utorrent I would suggest option #2.

Now I have the URL what do I do…

Just paste the URL into the btaccel search box and it’ll give you a status on that particular torrent. Some torrents will be available right away while others will be qued into your browser and an email will be sent once the site has completed the torrent download. Once it’s out of que just click on the email link it gives you and select the torrent and begin downloading directly. Doing it like this you can get an average of 400kb’s -600kb’s for your download. But like I said before we can increase that speed by double. Read ahead and learn how…

How to optimize Firefox to increase your download speeds to over 1gbs…

Downthemall: This is the must have addon for anyone who uses firefox. Installing this will give you up to 4x download speeds! Now when you click on your torrent available in btaccel you’ll get a pop up box asking how you would like to download the file. Just click dta one click if it’s a single file or downthemall if it’s multiple files and hit save file. Doing this will increase the download speed to over 1gbs and put a smile on your face. The first time I used this I couldn’t believe how fast this simple little addon made my download’s. With the use of downthemall and btaccel no more looking at your speed go from 400kb’s down below 100kb’s ever again. That sounds to good to be true give me downthemall now. Ok, you want it you got it, click the link for downthemall addon>

These following addons are a must for anybody who download’s alot…

Skipscreen: This nifty little addon makes waiting at sites such as rapidshare or mediafire a thing of the past. What it does is exactly what the name suggests it skips the waiting screen for you, which is really great for rapidshare users cause it basically gives you a premium account of sorts. To get skipscreen click on the link >

Download Statusbar: View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar – without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing. This puts all your downloads at the bottom of your browser page for easier viewing. Get it here > <Download Statusbar>

FasterFox: Browse faster by speeding up common tasks – faster downloading, searching, visiting favorites, copy & paste, and more. Basically just speeds up your browser for doing everything a little bit faster. This addon is for older version of firefox but a beta for firefox 3.0 is available. Get fasterfox by clicking on the link>

Final thoughts….

I hope you have learned something useful in this tutorial. Using btaccel.com and firefox’s downthemall is incredibly simple and makes bitorrent clients like vuze or utorrent a thing of the past. With the recent implenentation of cloud computing into out daily lives expect to see alot more great tools like this. The future of computing will eventually all be done on the net. This is merely the beginning. Now that you’ve learned about btaccel and how to optimize firefox to download quickly and effieciently go out and start getting whatever you want with ease.

LED Bombing

Random Cool: LED Bombing

Graff bombing and tagging may not be as popular today as it was in the heyday of the Hip Hop cultural movement but it still has enough of a dedicated following to warrant designers like Aïssa Logerot to invent graff inspired gadgets like the Halo LED spray can.

halo is a handy light specially dedicated to light-writting. Graffiti artists can conserve their own gesture they have with an aerosol spray. It is possible to change the color and the brightness of the led to change the graffiti’s styles. If the light doesn’t have enough battery, the user must shake it to have energy again.

That’s right, you gotta shake it to charge it, just like a real can. But unlike a real can, your tags will only last a few milliseconds in the darkness and that neat resonance effect depicted in the screens can only be preserved with a little trick photography.

plasma and andriod cell-Zii StemCell computing revisited

Some time back we have seen the mystery of the Zii StemCell computing being unravelled. After that many were wondering what Creative is up to with the chips. Now they have come back with Zii EGG Handheld StemCell Computer that Supports the Plaszma OS or Android™ OS . Good move !. Android hmmm!

The platform boasts multi-gesture touch display(cool!) , Text-to-speech Feature, Hardware GPS Receiver, Wifi, 32GB of internal memory and up to 32GB of external memory, Bluetooth, USB 2.0 and accelrometer.
They are heard of iPhone. No 3G? shame! Check dictionary for competence. Get USB 3.0 dudes.

Plazma OS, based on the linux 2.6 kernel is said to show some gimmicks like 3D grphics (’ in a battery powered small handheld’), advanced media and communication capabilities. But they say it is not a phone but a computer! in 108 gms. Hmmm! I wonder.

Also support a Zii optimized Android OS. Supposedly to harness the power of the StemCell computing technology of the ZMS-05 processor.

Added value – bulk prize of 199$ per piece price tag plus lot of development support and market ready design.

Gonna rock or bust?! Its all about the all-knowing crowd and the economy.

NEW LINUX MINT..!!

ATI problems Killed OpenSuSE. Well, I couldn’t stop at “Sorry Guise! Had a #Fail and not going to try out anything more until tomorrow!” I planned out what I was going to do, and set my sights for Linux Mint.

Linux Mint is a Ubuntu-Based linux distro, Ranking higher and higher in popularity online by Linux users. (It was even suggested to me as a reply to one of my last blog posts!) So, why not give it a go?

Linux Mint Impressed me. It’s not just the average Ubuntu distro. There were three main things about Mint that I believe tops Ubuntu.

The Theme:

I’m not a big fan of green. But Mint’s Black + Grayscale + Green look is great. It looks much better than Ubuntu’s human theme, and that makes it much more pleasant to use.

The Menu:

The menu is a Sort-Of Novell-ish start menu, but done much cleaner and easier to navigate. Set places and System down the left-hand side, Most used applications and presets down the right. Even better was the very impressive search filter, which in real-time searched for whatever you typed in, in an almost spotlight way.

I’m not usually a fan of all-in-one menus, but Mint’s does it in a way that makes it easy to use and easy to find what you want without any headaches.

mintInstall & mintUpdate:

mintInstall and mintUpdate are Linux Mint’s own spin on the Ubuntu updater and Ubuntu Installer. Although not much has changed in the installer; (Except some minor abilities and configurations, and better display of screenshots/caps of the program in work.), mintUpdate is a big improvement on Ubuntu’s Updater. Unlike Ubuntu, mintUpdate not only shows version updates; but the changelog, extra warnings, extra info and prioritizes the updates in groups of numbers for the most important to the least important.

If you’re a user of Ubuntu, and looking for something a little different, I suggest you go to the Linux Mint website and download a Live CD to test it out!

David.
-Blaynos.

virtual attacks on social networking sites alerts security experts

by Chris Luzader

Security analysts Thursday scrambled to find a motive behind the distributed denial-of-service attacks that brought down Twitter for several hours, and also hit Facebook, Google and LiveJournal.

With little information to go on, researchers ended up speculating on who launched the attacks and why, although several agreed that Twitter’s infrastructure needed immediate strengthening.

“If you monitor the hacking forums, it’s clear they’re pissed at Twitter,” said Richard Stiennon, founder of IT-Harvest, a security research firm. “Twitter came out of nowhere. Hackers hated that. They’d been using forums and IRC to communicate, and all of a sudden, the rest of the world has their own thing in Twitter.”

To Stiennon’s thinking, the rise of Twitter — and the backlash against it — resembles the situation in the 1990s, when AOL rose to prominence, but tech-savvy users denigrated it as little more than a glorified BBS (bulletin board system).

“It’s the same thing now,” Stiennon said. “They look at Twitter and think, ‘there goes the neighborhood.’ So they wanted to demonstrate that they could take it down and generate news at the same time.”

Roger Thompson, chief research officer at AVG Technologies, has a different idea.

“I think it was a vigilante,” he said, “who wants to call attention to the danger of botnets.”

Thompson’s theory posits that the vigilante — perhaps a security professional — assembled a small botnet, then aimed it at Twitter and Facebook, which was also attacked Thursday. He based his idea on several similarities to the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that hammered U.S. government and South Korean commercial sites in early July.

Those attacks, at one point thought to originate from North Korea, were unfocused, had no noticeable political agenda and most important, ended with the botnet controller ordering the machines to self-destruct by wiping their hard drives.

“Who builds a botnet, then destroys it?” Thompson asked. “That’s just crazy.”

In fact, Thompson said he believed the Twitter hacker was the same person who ran the U.S./South Korea DDoS almost exactly a month ago. “No one profits from DDoS-ing Twitter,” he said. “The only possible explanation is that someone wanted to make people think about something, and I think that something is botnets.

“Botnets are a very big problem, but no one does anything about them,” he added.

Both Stiennon and Thompson used the word “easy” to describe the kind of DDoS attack required to successfully attack Twitter and other Web sites. “It wouldn’t take a real big botnet,” said Thompson. One with 20,000 to 30,000 bots could have spoiled Twitter’s day.”

A different motivation surfaced late Thursday, when a Facebook executive told CNET News that his company believed the attacks were directed against one individual, a pro-Georgian blogger identified only as “Cyxymu,” who had accounts on Facebook, Twitter, LiveJournal and Google Inc.’s Blogger and YouTube.

“It was a simultaneous attack across a number of properties targeting him to keep his voice from being heard,” Max Kelly, Facebook’s chief security officer, said.

One thing security researchers seemed to agree on was that Twitter needed to bolster its Web infrastructure, or it will invite further attacks. “If Twitter is following the usual commercial site approach to plan for a 100% traffic increase, it would be easy for a DDoS to take it down,” Stiennon said.

“Twitter has to [re-examine] their infrastructure,” Stiennon recommended. “It wouldn’t take much more than $10 million to double the transaction capacity from what they have had. I’d double that or even quadruple that right away.”

Barrett Lyon, the former chief technology officer and co-founder of BitGravity, and a noted expert on DDoS attacks, concurred. He and Stiennon collaborated yesterday in an attempt to dig up information about the Twitter attack; Lyon pegged the attack a DDoS before Twitter acknowledged it later Thursday morning.

“It’s pretty clear [Twitter is] ready for a redesign,” Lyon said in an entry to his personal blog. “They need their own autonomous network, bring in bandwidth from many different providers, and have several layers of security. Building a strong ACL border and a nice mitigation layer would make a lot of sense for a company that is enabling communication.”

According to Lyon, Twitter relies on just one vendor to provide its link to the Internet backbone: NTT Communications, a subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, based in Tokyo.

“I would guess something in their load balancing farm was not configured to deal with the attack or this would have just been absorbed without much notice,” said Lyon, who noted that Facebook, which has a much more robust infrastructure, largely escaped harm.

Thompson, meanwhile, said if his premise is correct, Twitter may not have much time to get its act together. Noting the monthlong gap between the July DDoS attacks against U.S. and South Korean sites and Thursday’s assault on Twitter and others, he said the vigilante might strike again using the same timeline.

“If I was a betting man, I’d be betting on another one in early September,” Thompson said.