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Illegal Downloaders Spend More On Music
5:35AM Adam Pash | According to a poll conducted in the UK, people who admit to illegally downloading music also spend more money on music every year than those who don’t. 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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Google Adds Shared Folders To Docs
10:45AM Adam Pash | Good news for people using Google Docs to share or collaborate on documents: Google today has added folder sharing and multiple document uploading to its popular suite of web-based document and spreadsheet apps. More »
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Google Removes Pirate Bay’s Front Page From Search Results
4:00AM Adam Pash | BitTorrent web site TorrentFreak reports that Google has removed the front page of popular BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay from their search results due to a DMCA takedown request, regardless of the fact that there are no torrents available to download on TPB’s front page.
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PeerBlock Protects Your Privacy With Less Annoyance
6:30AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Previously mentioned PeerBlock—a fork of the inactive but still popular Peer Guardian 2—has just released an update complete with various bug fixes and a signed driver that should eliminate some Windows 7 and Vista UAC annoyances. Other than that, it’s just an all-around more stable release than when we last posted about it. More »
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Bit.ly Short-Links And Shares Files, No Hosting Needed
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Bit.ly, the web’s most popular link shortening service (thanks in big part to Twitter’s semi-official endorsement), has added the ability to quickly short-link pictures and other files through a partnership with media-sharing site yfrog. 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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S4ve.as Makes File Sharing As Easy As Sharing A URL
3:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Need to share a file quickly and without the hassle of setting up a file server or other dedicated connection between you and the recipient? S4ve.as makes transferring a file as simple as pasting a URL. More »
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Streamfile Instantly Transfers 150MB Files Without Software
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Transferring files over instant messenger is usually more miss than hit, and email limits you to 25MB at most—if you’re both on Gmail. Streamfile facilitates streaming file transfers of up to 150MB, or 300MB with a free sign-up. More »
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