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21 December 2010

How to download torrent in simple way

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Today I want to explain you how is possible to download with the torrents in simple and quick way without installing any program exploiting the free service offered by a site. In fact thanks to this site we can convert the files torrent and to download them on our computer without the need of any clients as uTorrent or BitTorrent. All we must do is to get the URL of the torrent or download the file torrent and insert one of the two in the form on the site in question. But let's see in the detail the small procedure to follow.

How to download file torrent
The site that lets us to convert the files torrent so that to be able to download them without installing any program calls Torrent2Exe.com, let's see how it shows to our:

file-torrent

There are two ways to insert the torrent that we want to convert and download:

19 December 2010

32 sets of icons in 3D for all tastes and demands

If you like collect icons, be happy, because today you will feel like a glutton that enters the factory of Willy Wonka.

icons sets

We are, in fact, to propose you a collection of 32 sets of 3D icons that they will not only help you to personalize your desktops in the way most elegant and original possible, but in some cases they will also allow you to enrich your commercial projects for free.

To download these icons to click on link below, decide your pack favourite and click on the image to download it.

Download 32 sets of 3D icons

17 December 2010

Tutorial: Create Web 2.0 buttons in Photoshop

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Here is a beautiful tutorial to create buttons in style web 2.0 with the application Adobe Photoshop.
This tutorial there might be also useful for other uses, besides the buttons as banner or header. In few footsteps you will be able to make some beautiful images like those ones that you see below, Let's start with the steps to follow:

Step 1

1-3

Run Adobe Photoshop and create a new image, any size. Usually larger than 450x300 may be fine. You select the Rounded Rectangle tool and draw a shape as that one above.

Step 2

2-3

Double click on the level of the form to open the window of Layer Style. Set the following parameters:

Drop shadow:

Opacity 31% Distance 1px, Choke 0%, Size 0 px

Bevel and Emboss:

Depth 100%, Size 0px, Soften 0px

Gradient Overlay:

Click on the gradient bar and set: in position 0% (the beginning of the bar) color #1378cd, in position 100% (the end of the bar) #4da5f0

Stroke:

Size 5px, Position inside, Color #54abf6

Step 3

3-1

Now insert your text. align it horizontally and vertically in the center. The character here used is a Lucida Sans Unicode; 55pt; rounded; Double click on the level and in Blending Options set:

Gradient Overlay: Position 0% color #9ec7eb, Position 100% color #ecf6ff

Step 4

4-1

It's the moment to insert to the left a small logo to improve the everything. To do it, selects the rounded rectangle tool with radius 5px. Draw it as above. Now, in the Blending Options , set the various parameters in this way:

Inner shadow
Opacity:45%
Distance:0px
Size:43px;

Bevel and Emboss
Depth:100%
Size:0px
Soften:0px
Opacity Highlight Mode:50%
Opacity Shadow Mode:100%

Gradient Overlay
Double click on the gradient bar and set:
Position:0% #0e2f4a
Position:47% #001a31
Position:48% #002545
Position:100% #0f4b7f

Stroke
Size:5px
Double click on the gradient bar and set:
Position:0% #1468af
Position:100% #50abf8

Step 5

5-2

To make everything more beautiful, give it an glass effect. To do this hold down the CTRL key and select the level of your shape. Once that is done, use the rectangular selection tool, Hold down Alt and capture the area as shown above.

Step 6

6-1

You fill the selection just captured in white and set Opacity 15%

14 December 2010

Save and View the Chronology of Facebook Chat

chat-facebook

Many users of the social network Facebook will surely have tried to recover the chronology of the chat to reread the messages exchanged with own contacts, thing however impossible until some time ago.

From now however thanks to the addon Facebook Chat History Manager 1.1.5 you can to save the chat of Facebook to memorize the chronology of the chat on the computer so that in the future the messages  we will be able to read the messages exchanged through the Facebook chat.

the extension is available only for the browser Mozilla Firefox and is simple to use and fast to install, will be enough to open the browser Firefox, unload the extension and allow the installation, then once the installation will be completed restart the browser and you will be ready to save all the chats of Facebook.

Once installed the addon and restarted the browser, entering the admin panel you can browse through the names users with which you had chatted in the days, weeks and months ago.

An extension really useful and much appreciated by members of Facebook, considering that it has already been downloaded from over 184.648 members.

Download Facebook Chat History

Windows 7: 9 Christmas themes to decorate the desktop

Windows-7-christmas-theme

It is on 14th December  and come into our houses the atmosphere of the Christmas 2010, a Christmas that everyone whish serene and happy. And as the best way to start a nice Christmas, if not "decorating" the desktop with some beautiful themes suitable for the occasion?

To rhetorical question we reply serving you a collection of 9 Christmas themes for Windows 7 that will help you to bring on your systems backgrounds, icons, and colors suitable for the occasion. It concerns mainly simple themes, which do not require additional software to be used, but there is also some visual style that to be applied need the presence of NiwradSoft UxTheme Patcher, UxStyle, Windows Themes Installer or other similar solutions.

Now, remain you only to give a look here under and to choose the themes for Windows 7 Christmas that more suit it to your tastes.

windows_7_christmas_theme

Christmas theme for Windows 7 - it includes 11 themed wallpapers, 5 icons and a set of Christmas cursors.

christmas_theme

Christmas Theme Pack - Includes four wallpapers of Christmas that every 10 seconds alternate it automatically.

Server Emule, new list of the fastest and secure ones updated to December 2010

eMule-logo

eMule is undoubtedly the program of file sharing more used to the world, and it founds him as well you know on the networks eDonkey and Kad.
A few months ago suffered a serious it of arrest for the closing of some of the most important servers eMule, and then today us of InformaticPractice we want to furnish you a list of the eMule servers safer and faster (updated to December 2010):

To add the eMule servers the procedure is always the same, once opened emule:

  • Go to the Server tab in the panel of eMule.
  • Delete all the servers in the list.
  • Insert to the right in the field "Update server.met from URL" the address and click on "Update".
  • Restart eMule

Following the lists that propose the servers safer and fast eMule, update to December 2010:

  • http://peerates.net/servers.php
  • http://www.gruk.org/server.met
  • http://www.server-met.de/dl.php?load=gz&trace=33357819.4167
  • http://ed2kmet.x24hr.com/pl/slist.pl?download/server-good.met
  • http://ed2kmet.x24hr.com/pl/slist.pl?download/server-best.met

Despite these lists are updated daily, it is however possible to incur in spy or fake server, the best thing it would be to manually add the servers considered, by eMule server users, fast and safe, here are:

  • !! Saugstube !! IP:193.138.221.214 porta:4242
  • # eMule Serverlist Nr.1 # IP:193.138.221.213 porta:4242
  • # eMule Serverlist Nr.1 # IP:193.138.221.210 porta:4242
  • eDonkeyServer No1 IP:77.247.178.244 porta:4242
  • Razorback 3.0 IP:85.17.52.92 porta:5000
  • Razorback 3.1 IP:193.138.205.25 porta:5000
  • Razorback 3.2 IP:85.17.52.124 porta:5000
  • United Europe 1 IP:85.17.208.77 porta:8899
  • United Europe 2 IP:85.17.145.2 porta:8899
  • United Europe 3 IP:85.17.154.36 porta:8899
  • www.UseNeXT.to IP:80.252.110.146 porta:4661

New Server Emule for Fastweb updated to December 2010 (for users of the version assembly there is no need of it):

  • Quakenet Indirizzo ip: 1.105.182.66 porta: 2002
  • Quakenet 2 Indirizzo ip: 1.105.182.69 porta: 2002
  • Fastwebspeed Indirizzo ip: 1.244.67.127 porta: 2002
  • http://update.adunanza.net/servers.met
  • http://met.syltonline.de/server.met

Other sure servers are available to the address:
http://www.emule-mods.de/?servermet=show 
To insert them inside your list server, go to the screen server of emule and enter the data above brought in the window New Server, or create a link Ed2k following the syntax ed2k://|server|IP|door|/

We have mentioned  before to the servers spy and fake, but what exactly are?
The first ones are server maintained by the companies anti-p2p on the net edonkey 2000, and lately they have known a rapids diffusion.
The main purpose of these companies is to use the servers spy for monitor what the users share and spread file garbage in the attempt to produce discouragement and uneasiness to users.
As it regards the servers fake, Peerates furnishes us this description:

  • They don't normally react to the requests P2P.
  • The total number of consumers and shared file it is counterfeit.
  • Don't show valid results for the greatest part of the searches.
  • Don't furnish any valid source for the files to download.

Always have under I check the servers emule, can consult the list that furnishes us the official forum of eMule or P2P Forums and eventually to insert the various addresses IP inside the PeerGuardian so that to turn offshore always from server spy emule or server emule fake!

To have Always under check the emule servers, you can consult the list that furnishes us the official forum of eMule or P2P Forums and eventually to insert the various addresses IP inside the PeerGuardian so that to stay always away from spy or fake emule server !

13 December 2010

Template for Channels Youtube Gratis

themes-youtube

Do you have a YouTube channel or you’re thinking to create one? Well, as you will know it is possible to personalize the graphic theme of the channel Youtube to really liking, even if the operation is not so easy for the less experts.
Just for this today I recommend you some sites where possible to  find some already templates ready to Youtube and indeed interesting to make your own original channel with a new look

The first site that we recommend you is FreeYoutubeLayouts.com, that offers more than 233 models for Youtube all free. To apply a template is enough to select it, to download it and to apply the background color settings in the YouTube channel.

Other site is MyTubeDesign.com, where you will find other themes for YouTube very beautiful and free.

You won't have anymore excuses starting today of to have a Youtube channel so boring, and surely your visitors will be happy of it.

To create a Comic strip Online with the Heroes Marvel

Surely among you readers of the blog there will be different impassioned of comic strips and among the more beds and famous in the world there are without doubt those of the Marvel heroes, but perhaps not everybody you know that there is a online service that allows you to create your own personalized comic strip using the characters of the Marvel series.

create own comic

To create a comic strip personalized Marvel cannot be easier, in fact the editor is very simple and intuitive to be used: it first of all needs to choose before if it is desired to create a strip or a whole page, then the structure and you are ready to insert backgrounds, characters, dialogues and others useful things to create the comic strip with so much of options to regulate the dimensions, the orientation....

At the end of the job, when the comic strip is completed, it is possible to download it in PDF format or print it directly on paper.

If you have always desired to create a comic strip but you have never done it because you are unable to draw this is the right solution!.

Link: Tool Online Marvel Comics