Skidzopedia » torrents http://www.skidzopedia.com A blog focusing on Latest Applications, Gadgets, Tips and Tricks. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:07:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Easily Convert and Stream Torrent Videos with Vuze (aka Azureus) BitTorrent Client http://www.skidzopedia.com/2009/03/24/easily-convert-and-stream-torrent-videos-with-vuze-aka-azureus-bittorrent-client/ http://www.skidzopedia.com/2009/03/24/easily-convert-and-stream-torrent-videos-with-vuze-aka-azureus-bittorrent-client/#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:09:23 +0000 Musab Zain http://www.skidzopedia.com/?p=4567 vuze_logoIf you are a big fan of torrents and use it to download and share videos, music and files from the web, then you must have heard about Vuze, formally known as Azureus, being one of the most popular BitTorrent client, with hundreds and thousands of active users world wide.

Vuze not only allows you to download files from the internet, but you can also watch, publish and share high quality videos. Key features include, option to browse through channels and categories containing thousands of music videos, movies, video games, TV shows, and much much more.

A new version was recently released by Vuze, the Vuze 4.2, with a totally redesigned and smooth interface, taking user interaction to the next level. However, one of the most noticeable feature that have been added to the latest release is the ability to convert videos to formats required for the Apple TV, iPods, iPhone, PS3 and Xbox 360.

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The best part about this feature is that devices like PS3, Xbox and iTunes are now auto-detected by the program and displays the connected devices on to the left side of the redesigned sidebar. And if the user is interested in any type of video that he or she would like to transfer it to their connected devices, all they have to do is to drag and drop that specific song or video file onto the appropriate device. Vuze will take care the rest of the job, itself.

Vuze will automatically convert and transfer all the files to the iTune itself. However, for PS3 and Xbox 360 users they will need to connect their devices to allow conversion and streaming of the files between the two devices.

Despite all the convenience of automatic detection and conversion, the conversion and transferring process itself is very painstaking and time consuming. In the end it will depend on the user himself, whether he would compromise convenience over speed.

Vuze is available for Windows and Mac. For more details visit their blog. If you are having trouble using this program, take a look at these two resources, here and here which will definitely help you out.

Let us know, what you think and feel about the latest release.

Download Vuze 4.2

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]]> http://www.skidzopedia.com/2009/03/24/easily-convert-and-stream-torrent-videos-with-vuze-aka-azureus-bittorrent-client/feed/ 1 30 Kickass Torrent Search Engines for Hunting Torrents http://www.skidzopedia.com/2009/02/13/top-30-torrent-search-engines/ http://www.skidzopedia.com/2009/02/13/top-30-torrent-search-engines/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:00:27 +0000 Musab Zain http://www.skidzopedia.com/?p=3065 utorrent-logoWe all love Torrents. It’s one of the quickest way to transfer and share files from one system to another. In recent years we have seen a major boom in P2P (peer-to-peer) file sharing technology.

Although downloading torrents from thousands of sites is not a difficult task, still people are unaware of how to upload a torrent file on a site. As huge volume of torrents found over the Internet, searching the right torrent that suites you is not an easy task as such.

Many a times people ask – Which is the best torrent search engine on the web? I find it very difficult to answer, as people have different likings and dis-likings about search engines. Keeping this preference in mind, I have compiled a list of 30 Torrent search engines that would suit all sorts of people. Let me know, if you like it!

Top 30 Torrent Search Engines

1. Isohunt

2. Mininova

3. BTjunkie

4. Demonoid

5. The Pirate Bay

6. BiteNova

7. Torrentportal

8. TorrentReactor

9. Torrentscan

10. Torrentmatrix

11. Bitsoup

12. Torrentz

13. Torrents.to

14. YouTorrent

15. Torrentbox

16. Scrapetorrent

17. TorrentBytes

18. Torrentreactor.to

19. FullDLS

20. ShareTV.org

21. NowTorrents

22. Sumo Torrent

23. Torrentmoon

24. Fenopy

25. Usniff

26. Gpirate

27. Torrentfinder

28. Kickass Torrent

PizzaTorrent

29. ShareTV

30. TorrentLoop

31. ActiveDots by  Saboom

32. Torrentech by Raziel

33. LegalTorrents by Cristian

34. Toorgle by Eazy

35. SeekTorrents by Damien

36. TorrentZEN by Fred

37. coda.fm by denethor101 (Details)

38. IPtorrents by PVTSICK

What!? Your favorite Torrent Search engine is not in the list? Drop us a comment and we would love to add your favorite search engine to our list.

Related: 20 Excellent Rapidshare Search Engines

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]]> http://www.skidzopedia.com/2009/02/13/top-30-torrent-search-engines/feed/ 92 VerTor | How to Find and Avoid Fake Torrents? http://www.skidzopedia.com/2009/02/11/how-to-find-and-avoid-fake-torrents/ http://www.skidzopedia.com/2009/02/11/how-to-find-and-avoid-fake-torrents/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:01:49 +0000 Musab Zain http://www.skidzopedia.com/?p=3669 Torrents are a life line for sharing stuff over the internet. We use it each day to download free stuff. Regardless to our usage of torrents there are situations, where you do not know for certain that the torrent you are about to download is real or fake?

You can’t be sure about it until and unless you download the whole file just to find that the torrent that took 5 hours or more of your downloading time was a fake! Similarly torrents, specially those containing softwares or .exe files e.g cracks etc may harm your computer.

So what necessary steps should be taken to save your system from such an incident? Surprisingly you don’t have to do any thing about it. VerTor that stands for ‘Verified Torrents‘ is a very useful web service providing you all the necessary help and information to download a particular torrent.

This web service constantly checks for recently added torrents from a lot of popular sites such as Demonoid, btjunkie, Piratebay to name a few. It takes all the new torrent files added to the above mentioned sites and checks them against new viruses, malware, spywares that may put your computer at risk.

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The best part about this is that it takes out all the information, including screen shots so that when you are about to download it, you are 100% satisfied that downloading this file or video in particular will result in the actual video. In case you find no screen shot, this means that the torrent is not real and is immediately removed from the data base.

The only downside to this is that it takes plenty of  time, especially for new torrents that might take a day or two to appear. The service has a lot of potential because many users are not aware about how to spot the fake stuff.

If you are a regular user of torrents then you should try this service out! Let us know what you think about this service in the comment section below.

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]]> http://www.skidzopedia.com/2009/02/11/how-to-find-and-avoid-fake-torrents/feed/ 0 Coda.FM – A Fresh New Torrent Site For Music Albums http://www.skidzopedia.com/2009/02/10/codafm-a-fresh-new-torrent-site-for-music-albums/ http://www.skidzopedia.com/2009/02/10/codafm-a-fresh-new-torrent-site-for-music-albums/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:12:27 +0000 Musab Zain http://www.skidzopedia.com/?p=3622 codafmlogoIf you are a music lover and want to get your hands on free music albums then you should try coda.fm; a web service where you can find, share and comments on music albums that have been uploaded by millions of users from around the world.

Coda.fm gives you the leverage to browse music either by entering there album names or by artists names and the option to browse through different genres is also provided.  The best part is that you can download this music via bitTorrent client.

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Although registering to Coda.fm is not necessary, but if you do you will be able to interact with the community and they could easily be able to trace out your profile and the torrents that you have uploaded. To make sure that the site remains free from spam, every uploaded torrent has to be approved by one of the moderators.

Give coda.fm a try and let us know!

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]]> http://www.skidzopedia.com/2009/02/10/codafm-a-fresh-new-torrent-site-for-music-albums/feed/ 0 Create and Upload torrent files | How To http://www.skidzopedia.com/2009/01/27/how-to-create-and-upload-torrent-files/ http://www.skidzopedia.com/2009/01/27/how-to-create-and-upload-torrent-files/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:01:37 +0000 Musab Zain http://www.skidzopedia.com/?p=3050 utorrent-logoTorrents are among the most popular way of sharing files from the web. With the number of torrents increasing at a rapid pace, they are considered among the fastest and the easiest way to share and upload files.

Although downloading a torrent from a popular Torrent site like btjunkie and/or demonoid, etc seems a piece of cake for some, but there are millions of users who don’t even know how to create and upload a torrent file. In this tutorial we will teach you how easy is it to upload a torrent file on popular torrent websites.

What is a Torrent anyway?

Basically, Torrent is a small sized file having .torrent file extension and contains information about the tracker and where the file is located. In order to download a torrent file you need a Torrent client namely bitTorrent, bitlord, utorrent to name a few.

How to create a torrent file

Before we start you need to consider two points:

  1. Torrent builder : In this tutorial we will assume that you are using utorrent.
  2. Torrent tracker: You can get the tracker address from the website for which you are creating torrent.

1. Open utorrent, Goto Files -> Create New Torrent. Or use the hotkey CTRL+N,

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2. You will be prompted, whether you want to create a file or a directory,

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3. Click on directory and open the website that you wish to upload your files to,

Once that site is opened, look for tracker address, in most of the sites you will find this at the bottom of their homepage. In case you find difficulty searching the tracker address you can take help of help forums.

Below are some of the tracker mentioned to help your way out:

http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce

http://www.torrent-downloads.to:2710/announce

http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce

udp://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce

http://www.sumotracker.com/announce

4. Place them inside the tracker box and then click upon ‘Create and Save as…‘ option.

5. By this time, your tracker address has been added. Do NOT tick the private torrent box (unless you’re using a private tracker). The reason is that private torrent websites uses there own torrent trackers, while public torrent trackers allow you to use their own trackers or some generic ones (as mentioned above).

Optional: Open your favorite torrent website and search for the ‘Upload Torrent’ option, fill it with necessary details about your torrent. Hit the ‘Upload’ button. You can even ask your friends to download the torrent that you have created and once they have downloaded it, tell them to seed it so that others can enjoy downloading the files provided in the torrent.

Note: As already stated, this method works best for uTorrent client. If you have any other bitTorrent clients you can take a look at this article.

Was this method too hard? Perhaps not. Happy sharing!

Source: Torrentfreak

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