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3:00PM Angus Kidman | It’s hardly likely to be news to the hordes of Channel BT-loving Lifehacker readers, but even Australians without the benefit of strained download limits are watching less television than they used to. More »
Aussies Watching Less TV Than Ever
3:00PM Angus Kidman | It’s hardly likely to be news to the hordes of Channel BT-loving Lifehacker readers, but even Australians without the benefit of strained download limits are watching less television than they used to. More »
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Fix uTorrent (And Other Application) Quirks In Windows 7
6:30AM Whitson Gordon | If you’re having issues with the popular BitTorrent application uTorrent in Windows 7, such as memory overusage, downloads stopping at 99.9 per cent or false reports, weblog AddictiveTips offers some tips to get your downloads back on track. More »
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uTorrent Portable Puts BitTorrent On A USB Drive
1:00AM Kevin Purdy | Windows (Portable): You’ve always been able to grab uTorrent’s program folder and drop it onto a thumb drive for portable BitTorrent handling. Now the PortableApps.com suite has packaged our favourite torrent client and integrated it with their application menu. More »
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iTunes Finally Adds New Music Automatically
4:20AM Adam Pash | For years, one of the biggest complaints about iTunes has been its inability to automatically add new music to your library from a watched folder. As of yesterday’s iTunes 9 release, that’s no longer the case. More »
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Automatic Downloads New Torrents…Automatically
2:30AM Adam Pash | Mac OS X: Free preference pane Automatic lets you subscribe to virtually any content delivered via RSS, automatically downloading everything matching your preferences. That means podcasts, videocasts, and feeds of your favourite torrents—like for your favourite TV show. More »
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10:30AM Angus Kidman | Plans to include recorded-to-watch-later shows in Australian TV ratings are firming up, with electronic devices set to track whether a show gets watched for up to seven days after recording. More »
Time Shift TV Ratings Plans Firm Up
10:30AM Angus Kidman | Plans to include recorded-to-watch-later shows in Australian TV ratings are firming up, with electronic devices set to track whether a show gets watched for up to seven days after recording. More »
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9:00AM Angus Kidman | TV scheduling often seems designed to annoy viewers, and the situation of recording one show to catch later while watching another one live is hardly uncommon. So here’s a “better late than never” development: come December, TV ratings figures in Australia will finally be adjusted to incorporate delayed viewing (known as “time shift” in the trade). More »
Time Shift Viewing Will Finally Get Included In Ratings
9:00AM Angus Kidman | TV scheduling often seems designed to annoy viewers, and the situation of recording one show to catch later while watching another one live is hardly uncommon. So here’s a “better late than never” development: come December, TV ratings figures in Australia will finally be adjusted to incorporate delayed viewing (known as “time shift” in the trade). More »
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TweetMyMac Remote Controls Your Mac Via Twitter
2:00AM Adam Pash | Mac OS X only: Inspired by previously mentioned TweetMyPC, free application TweetMyMac remote controls your Mac from anywhere you can access Twitter, allowing you to restart and shutdown your computer, take a screenshot, open a torrent and more. More »
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ItsHidden Offers Free And Anonymous Torrenting
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you’re of the mindset that what you do with your BitTorrent client is your business and not that of people snooping, sniffing, and prying at your packets along the way, ItsHidden offers free VPN server to anonymise your activity. More »
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