How To Use Your Iphone to Download Torrents Remotely
Jan 21, 2010 Information, Services, Software
Utorrent is great for downloading torrents. It has this wonderful web interface that allows you to paste in urls to torrents and have them download. You can use your browser to do this or even your iphone.
This is convenient if your work forbids you from downloading torrents. I was once with some friends having dinner and one asks have I seen The Uninvited. I says no. Then I thought hey I can download that right now before I forget, so I broke out my iphone, opened safari, went to the bookmark I had set for thepiratebay.org, looked for the movie, copied the link, then opened a new page in safari and clicked on the bookmark I had set for my utorrent on my personal machine at home, then logged into it, pasted the url to the torrent in there and clicked go. It began to download. Everyone was amazed. About 25 minutes later as we were getting in the car, my phone churped and it was an email notifying me that the download was complete and ready to watch ( I still have not watched it yet).
Now I am going to show you how you can do exactly the same thing.
First we need to setup a http://www.dyndns.com/ account to turn your ip address into a name.
Your ip address is a number that your internet service provider or ISP for short assigns you to allow you internet access. Sometimes this number changes and it would be hard to remember so we need to turn this number into a name.
Here is a how to article from their website.
https://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/dyndns/howto.html
Register for a free account at http://www.dyndns.com/. Agree to the site’s terms, and use a legitimate email address to complete registration. Once in awhile, DynDNS will email you at that address asking you to confirm that it continue your service.
Log into your new account. Go to the “My Services” area on the left side. Under “Host Services” click “Add New HostName.” There, fill in the name you want to use. DynDNS will autofill your IP address (if you’re doing this from your home computer). Choose a domain and type in a custom subdomain, which can be anything from lifehacker.kicks-ass.org or john.is-a-geek.com or something, like below:
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Why You Need Skype
Oct 2, 2008 Gadgets, Services, Telephony
Skype is a piece of software that you can download to call other people on Skype over the internet for free and make and cheap calls to any other phones and mobiles worldwide.
I absolutely love Skype and here is why…
Think about this for a second. The unfortunate part about checking our mailboxes is BILLS!
So I get a water bill and a light bill and (used to be) a phone bill.
What happens if I don’t use any water for the month? Water bill shows $0.00.
What happens if I don’t use any electricity for the month? Last I checked $0.00
What happens if I don’t use the phone for an entire month? That’s right, I still get charged like $60.00 or so for fees and the privilege of having a land line phone. At the very least you might be able to get it down to $26.00. This is ridiculous! Read the rest of this entry »
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