Sometimes, when you are chatting with friends or colleagues you will highlight the fact that you saw an awesome film on DVD the other day or heard a really cool album that you downloaded via iTunes, only for them to reply: “Yeah, well I heard/saw that ages ago, I downloaded it the day it came out”. The conversation then turns to how they did this and how can you do the same but your request is met with a reply that simply implies it’s too difficult for you to fathom and might include the suggestion to look into something called Bittorrent.
Bittorrent, put simply is a way of downloading large collections of files without the need for complicated software packages, it uses one protocol that can be accessed many different ways. Many people are used to peer-to-peer programs such as Limewire, Gnutella and Napster and associate this with the downloading of Bittorrent files.
So, completely forget about firing up a software program and searching away for the file of your choice. Bittorrent is much a much simpler but altogether different way of downloading files but today we want to explain the basics so you can harness the power of Bittorrent without any of the confusing jargon and related technical rubbish.
Let’s get one thing straight, it is illegal to download copyrighted works via the internet, WillINeedIt doesn’t condone any sharing of this nature. Bittorrent can be used to serve legal data also, with this article serving as a guide to using the protocol so users can decide what they wish to download, from wherever they wish.
A few days ago, I was lucky enough to have one of my articles features on one of the best Tech blogs out there; The 2.0 Life run by a friend of mine, David Pierce. This article focused on how to install extensions inside your Google Chrome browser and also which ones would be the best to install.
One thing that I hadn’t thought about until recently was how would I uninstall these extensions once I had tested them and even if it was possible to do so. Luckily, after a little bit of research, there is a very easy way to do this.
If you own your own blog and publish regularly, you will probably be quite well acquainted with FeedBurner and it’s associated services. If you aren’t, Feedburner is a Google owned service that allows you to track and analyse your RSS subscribers, showing you how your visitors interact with your content.
When you sign up for a Feedburner URL, you are assigned with a very generic feed address resembling something like this: http://feedproxy.google.com/willineedit. You may want to use your own URL for purposes such as branding or even SEO. This article will show you how to set up your own Feedburner URL for use on your blog or website.
On 08.03.09, In iPhone/Android, by Matt Brian
For the longest time, I would curse and rant about how I always had to enter my login details for sites I visited on my iPhone. Until recently, I had completely missed the fact there was even an “Autofill” button on the keyboard when I was typing in my credentials.
It’s a simple tip but this article will show you how to save your usernames and passwords on your iPhone.
If you were one of the people who used the WillINeedIt article we posted a while back to grab a copy of the Windows 7 Beta a while back, you may have been wondering if there was an update or if you had the update, how you went about installing it.
Being quite the media-less tech guy, I needed a way to upgrade my Windows 7 Beta to the new Release Candidate without having to burn a DVD. After a bit of research, I came across the perfect way to do so.
A few days back we showed you how to upload videos from your iPhone 3G, today we are going to show you to how to enable the percentage battery indicator that is present on the new iPhone 3GS.
This tutorial will require you to have previously jailbroken your device. If this is something you aren’t willing to do then you will not be able to make the changes suggested by this article.
The tutorial for the battery indicator can be found after the jump.
The Apple iPhone has changed the face of mobile computing and the mobile phone industry as a whole. With the ability to scale the device to perform (nearly) every task you can throw at it, the unit has sold out the world over when it has launched it’s newest incarnation.
The latest release, the iPhone 3GS (the “S” being for speed), was billed to be at least four times as quick as it’s 3G counterpart, render webpages quicker and also boasted a few technological advances, most namely; Video and a Compass. This video functionality brought with it the ability to edit and upload videos directly to YouTube, causing a boom in user submitted video content on the service.
The downside of the new release was that early adopters were not really catered for when it came to upgrading, meaning many would have to wait to enjoy the new features. If you are familiar with the term “Jailbreaking”, I have some good news for you, it’s is very easy to mimic the 3GS functionality without spending a single penny.
Google’s services are everywhere and encompass all. I have been making use of Google’s instant messaging platform more and more lately, but have never actually gotten around to installing the application itself. A lot of my duties both at home and at work require a lot of browser use, so what better way of using the GTalk service from within your Firefox browser?
This trick takes advantage of the Google Talk Gadget, a flash based browser iteration that mimics almost exactly, the features of it’s desktop counterpart.
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