Hey,
So being a little bit of a tweaker or experimenter I've come across many helpful sites and utilites to make the tweaking and experimenting a lot easier then it was when I was doing it completely blind!
Here's some useful links:
The things I've done with my iPod Video 5G:
I've changed the theme and firmware COUNTLESS times, making it more fulfilling and better I also found a lot of cracked iPod Games and movies along with TV Shows, which was really nice because I had a 30GB and was only using about 5GB's of that and that was including the pre-loaded OS!
Things I plan on doing with my iPod Touch 2G:
I plan on jail-breaking it and downloading all the free applications I can find, not too mention load it with videos and music and get it set up with a IM Client so I can do my Messenger and internet from it rather then being glued to the computer for ever.
Anyways,
Check out the sites, browse around and good luck! If people take enough interest in my sites, I'll be taking requests for imformation posts and tutorials, tips and tricks.
Monday, December 22, 2008
My tool-kit of programs!
Hey,
So being the computer person I am, I like to have all my computers running on the same programs and such as possible, just to keep things simple. I do many things on the computer, so I've decided to post my tool-kit of programs and a description of what they do... Hope it helps some of you out a little bit!
iTunes - Music Player & iPod Touch Sync Program
Videora - iPod Touch Video Converter
DVD Decrypter - Rip DVD to hard-drive for convert to iPod format
iPod Wizard - Good for moding the firmware or theme of you're iPod
Avast! - Virus Protection
WinRAR - A multi format progam used to zip, unzip and view files
Firefox - Web browser
DXTBMP - Viewing .dds files
Photoshop CS3 & CS4 - Photo editing
Photoscape - Photo editing
Realplayer - Allows you to download any video from the internet ie Youtube
That's about it for now, I have to wait til I get back on my notebook and desktop to post more tools but I for sure will!
So being the computer person I am, I like to have all my computers running on the same programs and such as possible, just to keep things simple. I do many things on the computer, so I've decided to post my tool-kit of programs and a description of what they do... Hope it helps some of you out a little bit!
iTunes - Music Player & iPod Touch Sync Program
Videora - iPod Touch Video Converter
DVD Decrypter - Rip DVD to hard-drive for convert to iPod format
iPod Wizard - Good for moding the firmware or theme of you're iPod
Avast! - Virus Protection
WinRAR - A multi format progam used to zip, unzip and view files
Firefox - Web browser
DXTBMP - Viewing .dds files
Photoshop CS3 & CS4 - Photo editing
Photoscape - Photo editing
Realplayer - Allows you to download any video from the internet ie Youtube
That's about it for now, I have to wait til I get back on my notebook and desktop to post more tools but I for sure will!
Using torrents
Hey,
Here's a post for all you torrent users. Torrents are files you download from a torrent client; Limewire, Frostwire, Ares, Bearshare, BitTorrent, BitCommet etc, these files are downloaded illegally and you can be charged for downloading them and re-uploading them, yup, you can. You can spend jail-time and hefty fines. You can also throw you're computer down the shitter using torrents, anything you get for free online that you'd normally pay upwards of $20CA for in-store and legally you're going to have a huge chance of getting ripped off or a virus, both are very bad.
I personally don't do illegal downloads for the reason I don't have the money or the time to give-up for being charged, for you people that do here's a guide how to stay safe as possible with torrents:
- Download Avast! Free Edition (Full time protection covering you're whole computers including IM)
- Download torrent client of your choice, the most recent version
- Install the anti-virus first and then install you're torrent client
- After that, re-start you're computer
- Start downloading but don't download anything that doesn't fit file size, below are the average size for each file & make sure that you NEVER shut off your virus protection or leave the client open during the day when you're not using it.
Music: 3-5MB (3,500KB-5,500KB)
Vidoes: 100-700MB (1,000KB-7,000KB)
This should help you, there are files in the client systems that have some "inapropriate" content and ID3 Tags, ignore them, they ARE viruses!
After you're done your download, shut-off the client and run a scan.
Here's a post for all you torrent users. Torrents are files you download from a torrent client; Limewire, Frostwire, Ares, Bearshare, BitTorrent, BitCommet etc, these files are downloaded illegally and you can be charged for downloading them and re-uploading them, yup, you can. You can spend jail-time and hefty fines. You can also throw you're computer down the shitter using torrents, anything you get for free online that you'd normally pay upwards of $20CA for in-store and legally you're going to have a huge chance of getting ripped off or a virus, both are very bad.
I personally don't do illegal downloads for the reason I don't have the money or the time to give-up for being charged, for you people that do here's a guide how to stay safe as possible with torrents:
- Download Avast! Free Edition (Full time protection covering you're whole computers including IM)
- Download torrent client of your choice, the most recent version
- Install the anti-virus first and then install you're torrent client
- After that, re-start you're computer
- Start downloading but don't download anything that doesn't fit file size, below are the average size for each file & make sure that you NEVER shut off your virus protection or leave the client open during the day when you're not using it.
Music: 3-5MB (3,500KB-5,500KB)
Vidoes: 100-700MB (1,000KB-7,000KB)
This should help you, there are files in the client systems that have some "inapropriate" content and ID3 Tags, ignore them, they ARE viruses!
After you're done your download, shut-off the client and run a scan.
Updates, updates & more updates!
Hey,
So a common place where people go wrong in their computers and other electronic devices are updates! They figure "Hey, it works fine without the update and the download is upwards of half a GB, I'll just keep it the way it is" or "Too much time involved, I'll download it later". The importance of updates are not understood properly, updates NEED to be downloaded otherwise the company that made your product like; Toshiba, Acer, HP, Compaq, Lenovo, Asus, Apple etc, would not have made that update and hosted it for free download, would they? Nope, so, that's why you're SUPPOSED to download all the updates- Minor or big.
Here's my suggestion for all you people experiencing a slow, laggy, over-filled, un-updated computer:
- Create or locate you're recovery discs or original install discs
- Back-up important files; Music, movies, photos and any other document you need
- Put the recovery or OS install disc in you're DVD/CD drive
- Turn off you're computer and if you're running notebook plug-in AC Adapter
- Turn you're computer back-on and boot from you're CD/DVD Drive
- Run you're recovery to do a "Out of box state" recovery
- After recovery, connect online and download & install all updates and service packs
- After updates and service packs are installed, pop in you're back-up discs of files
- Transfer the back-up files to you're hard-drive
- Re-install you're needed programs, apps, games etc
Now, this should improve the over-all speed and reliability of you're computer. Always keep you're computer up-to-date and before doing any updating or installations make a restore point, just in-case something goes wrong.
Make sure you have 2 sets of you're recovery media be it a recovery disc from your manufacturer or a original OS Install Disc, sometimes you're discs may fail and that can prevent recovery over-all even if you can't boot, warranty's don't last forever and the company's charge top dollar to ship out a new set of discs.
So a common place where people go wrong in their computers and other electronic devices are updates! They figure "Hey, it works fine without the update and the download is upwards of half a GB, I'll just keep it the way it is" or "Too much time involved, I'll download it later". The importance of updates are not understood properly, updates NEED to be downloaded otherwise the company that made your product like; Toshiba, Acer, HP, Compaq, Lenovo, Asus, Apple etc, would not have made that update and hosted it for free download, would they? Nope, so, that's why you're SUPPOSED to download all the updates- Minor or big.
Here's my suggestion for all you people experiencing a slow, laggy, over-filled, un-updated computer:
- Create or locate you're recovery discs or original install discs
- Back-up important files; Music, movies, photos and any other document you need
- Put the recovery or OS install disc in you're DVD/CD drive
- Turn off you're computer and if you're running notebook plug-in AC Adapter
- Turn you're computer back-on and boot from you're CD/DVD Drive
- Run you're recovery to do a "Out of box state" recovery
- After recovery, connect online and download & install all updates and service packs
- After updates and service packs are installed, pop in you're back-up discs of files
- Transfer the back-up files to you're hard-drive
- Re-install you're needed programs, apps, games etc
Now, this should improve the over-all speed and reliability of you're computer. Always keep you're computer up-to-date and before doing any updating or installations make a restore point, just in-case something goes wrong.
Make sure you have 2 sets of you're recovery media be it a recovery disc from your manufacturer or a original OS Install Disc, sometimes you're discs may fail and that can prevent recovery over-all even if you can't boot, warranty's don't last forever and the company's charge top dollar to ship out a new set of discs.
Grand opening!
Hey,
My name is Presario. The name is familiar to many people from many different forum sites, sites that my name is and can be found on:
iPod Touch Fans Forums
iPod Wizard Forums
Truckpol Forums
Animalpak Forums
The Vista Forums
MaximumPC Forums
The list goes further, no need to keep you here any longer though. This blog will be updated weekly with news relating to any of the sites mentioned above, as in, I'll be posting news on trucking simulation games, body building, technology in general, moves, music, TV and much, much more!
I'll also be posting up tutorials covering many different subjects, whether it's connecting your XBOX to LIVE using dial-up and a notebook computer or it's routing you're wireless to your XBOX from you're notebook computer.
I hope you enjoy the site, the tutorials and more may or may not include video tutorials or screen shots as I'm not a very screen-shot friendly computer at the moment, for now it'll be text or video.
Thanks,
Presario
My name is Presario. The name is familiar to many people from many different forum sites, sites that my name is and can be found on:
iPod Touch Fans Forums
iPod Wizard Forums
Truckpol Forums
Animalpak Forums
The Vista Forums
MaximumPC Forums
The list goes further, no need to keep you here any longer though. This blog will be updated weekly with news relating to any of the sites mentioned above, as in, I'll be posting news on trucking simulation games, body building, technology in general, moves, music, TV and much, much more!
I'll also be posting up tutorials covering many different subjects, whether it's connecting your XBOX to LIVE using dial-up and a notebook computer or it's routing you're wireless to your XBOX from you're notebook computer.
I hope you enjoy the site, the tutorials and more may or may not include video tutorials or screen shots as I'm not a very screen-shot friendly computer at the moment, for now it'll be text or video.
Thanks,
Presario
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