Free TorrentLeech.org Invites

Well seeing as my Demonoid invite spree went incredibly well, i’ve decided to open up a post to give out free torrentleech.org invites.

As always, please do not leach and be sure to share with others, a private tracker requires sharing, let’s get this boat rocking. Comment on this thread and make sure to put your email in the email field and i’ll send it on through to you.

Have fun and thanks for reading my blog!

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Comic Books Bought To Life – Animated Comic Books

Hey Guys, Yes i understand it’s been a massive long time since i did my last post, so here it is.

Kerry Callen is one of my “must follow” bloggers! Recently one of her posts popped up in my RSS feed and i absolutely had to share it. What she’s done is basically animate various famous comic book covers. I myself am a massive nerd and have collection tons of comic books, which over time you get used to seeing in a non-moving state. Seeing these comics bought to life is pretty god damn nostalgic. Anyways, I’ll link to them below, enjoy!

Amazing Spider-Man #33…

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1…

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Free Demonoid Invite Codes!

Hey Guys,

Yes i’m aware it’s been ages since i’ve posted anything, and this is mostly due to the fact no one reads blogs anymore, it’s all about Facebook and Google+ these days.

Meh anyway i’ll end the rant there and get to the post. If you want a demonoid invite all you’ve got to do is post a comment and i’ll send one to your comment email.

Free, no strings attatched.. Don’t be a leech!

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Semi-working build of 2.3.5 on the HP TouchPad – DUMP / Instructions – TOUCHDROID

Well it appears fnj00 from the TouchDroid team has released all current progress via the TouchDroid website. As of now please be careful when flashing your device as we don’t know if this is a brickable build.

Thanks to the TouchDroid team for the work you’ve done so far, it’s just a shame things happened the way they did.

People posting in the original thread on the TouchDroid website have confirmed that this build does boot/flash.

craig0r » Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:50 pm
Got it booting nicely!Only problem is, there doesn’t seem to be a way to go “back” or “home.” I suppose this issue will remain until some tablet soft-buttons get added though. As for now, I’m stuck looking at the battery information until I reboot.

Get the system dump and android.uImage here – touch-droid.torrent
Mirror is here: http://randomshit.dreamhosters.com/TouchPad/

**Place these files in your novaterm installation folder as they will be referenced there later in this installation tutorial**

Steps on installing this onto your TouchPad -

0. Plug your HP Touchpad into your PC via USB and DONT MOUNT IT.

1. First you will need novaterm/novacom. Follow steps at the following URL to get both installed on your machine -

http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Portal:Accessing_Linux

2. Open a command prompt / terminal window and type the following:

Code:

novaterm


3. We will need to create partitions for android on the device. Run all commands in novaterm:

Resize /media first:

Code:

lvm.static lvresize -L -1706M /dev/store/media
lvm.static lvcreate -L 10M -n android-persist store
lvm.static lvcreate -L 32M -n android-etc store
lvm.static lvcreate -L 320M -n android-system store
lvm.static lvcreate -L 320M -n android-cache store
lvm.static lvcreate -L 1024M -n android-data store


Create partitions for android:

Code:

mkfs.ext3 /dev/store/android-cache
mkfs.ext3 /dev/store/android-data
mkfs.ext3 /dev/store/android-etc
mkfs.ext3 /dev/store/android-persist
mkfs.ext3 /dev/store/android-system


4. Mount the system partition on /tmp/system (in novaterm).

Code:

mkdir /tmp/system/
mount -o loop -t ext3 /dev/mapper/store-android--system /tmp/system/


5. Open a new command/terminal window and run the following:

**Do this in cmd/terminal not novaterm**

Code:

novacom put file://tmp/system/system.tar.bz < system.tar.bz


6. Unzip system.tar.bz and move files to /tmp/system/ (in novaterm):

Code:

cd /tmp/system/
tar -xvf system.tar.bz
cd system
mv * ../
cd ..
rm -rf system


7. Run the following to unmount /tmp/system:

Code:

cd /
umount /tmp/system


8. Now boot into bootie by running the following in novaterm:

Code:

tellbootie recover


9. Open a new command/terminal window and change to your novaterm folder and run the following:

Code:

novacom boot mem:// < android.uImage


10. Start pressing Volume UP on the TouchPad until you see a purple line on the right hand side.

11. If all steps were followed correctly you should boot right into Android 2.3.5 and have a working touchscreen.

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Anroid to the HP TouchPad port, if you do it.. You’re $1,500 richer!

This weekend’s TouchPad fire sale has more or less petered out, and thousands of HP’s little tablets that couldn’t have found new homes. Not everyone seems to love WebOS though, as a growing number of people who bought bargain-bin TouchPads are clamoring for a tablet experience that’s a bit more… shall we say, relevant.

Thanks to its open nature, Android is the OS of choice for a TouchPad port, and now the folks at a modding community called HackNMod are offering bounties to the devs that can make it happen.

The total amount of money up for grabs is $1500, but it’s broken down into several parts, so multiple devs will get a chance at a payout.

Whoever is first able to get a “basic Android port” up and running on the TouchPad nets $400. HackNMod doesn’t elaborate on what exactly constitutes a “basic port,” but presumably the device would have to boot into Android with a decent degree of stability. The sub-bounties run the gamut as far as payout: the team that gets WiFi to work nabs $350, the audio team gets $300, and the multitouch team gets $100.

As with all things, there is a bit of a catch: while the $450 for the Android port itself comes out of HackNMod’s pockets, the rest are being left up to sponsors. In a way, it’s the perfect system for a project like this: the features with the highest demand are (hopefully) the ones that will be funded. Interested parties can also throw in money for other features they want to see working, leading to more sub-bounties for eager devs to jump on.

Itching to throw your hat in the ring? Be sure to post your code on GitHub and provide photo & video evidence. Ready, go!

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Share to Facebook and other social networks via Google+

Recently i’ve been doing a lot of Google+ orientated postings. The reason why i’m doing this is because it’s a pretty damn new network, and the developments which are being pushed out are incredibly interesting. It’s more or less the thrill of watching this new network, recently hatched growing to be the next web 2.0 phoenix.

Facebook the monopolizer managed to push out all other social networks aiming at the same type of structure / theme. For now Google+ is loved due to the fact it’s got zero ads, no games, no Zynga crap and anything else which pretty much weighed Facebook down like an obese unwanted child.

Anyways, i was about to segway into a whole rant on how Google owns mass amounts of stock within Zynga and the fact that Google+ games will eventually feature the crap pushed out via these companies. Google Adsense will eventually be integrated, the ads displayed will be relevant to the content you are currently browsing etc, not that this isn’t somthing Facebook isn’t already doing… Oh wow.. i was meant to have cut that rant short…..

SHARE TO FACEBOOK AND OTHER NETWORKS FROM GOOGLE PLUS!

Google+ does not have a quick way sharing your posts to Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, this extension will add a link “Share on …” to each post. Once clicked, it will bring up an internal bubble asking you where to share your post.

Future additions to this project will allow you to auto share with a single click instead of going through the hassle of clicking multiple times, for a better overall experience.

So without further wordings i present to you the installation location, click here to download Extended Share for Google+.

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Get Your Own Google+ Vanity URL

Unlike Facebook and Twitter, Google+ doesn’t offer vanity URLs for user profiles, making it more difficult to share your Google+ Profile with your friends. Instead, Google uses a long string of numbers to denote users (e.g. 117691391504351341685).

The reason Google+ doesn’t use vanity URLs is because those could lead to spammers figuring out the email addresses of millions of Google+ users (since many Google Accounts are linked to Gmail accounts).

Of course, this leads to a problem: you don’t want to be telling people to type in a long string of numbers to find your Google+ Profile. That’s where Gplus.to comes in. This simple little app lets you create a short URL for your Google+ page, making it easy to share with your friends. Mine, for example, is Gplus.to/EliteTek, which is much easier to remember than a random strong of numbers.

Gplus.to fills a gap that Google+ doesn’t currently address. Should Google give users the ability to create vanity URLs, or is it too much of a privacy concern because of its connection to Gmail? Feel free to let us know in the comments.

Go here for the source of this write up.

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$1.99 Namecheap Coupon – Valid for .net, .org and .com domains!

Namecheap recently ran a compaign on their Facebook asking users to Like the page. If they were to reach their expected 5,000+ users they would then release a coupon code valid for one $1.99 domain registration. I myself have too many domains and would waste it by buying some crappy name with it.

But you guys may actually have a use for it, the promotion ends in a few days and i’ve got a few coupons that i want to throw your way.

All you really need to do is comment on this post, and click the facebook like button at the top of this post, once you’ve done that i’ll swing you through your coupon via your email used to post said comment.

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How to transfer your Facebook friends to Google+

Sign up for Yahoo. Go into Yahoo mail, Contacts tab, import contacts. Click Facebook logo, OK to share contacts.

Select all your contacts, export all, export as a Yahoo CSV file. Go to gmail, contacts tab, and create a “Facebook” group for your new contacts to land into. Then “more actions” “import” then import the Yahoo CSV file.

Go to Google+ and Circles tab, then “Add and Invite” and they’re all there! It’s like magic that you performed yourself!

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iPeep – Artist controls iMacs remotely – People staring at screens

25-year old artist Kyle MacDonald installed some rogue software on 100 computers in two Manhattan Apple stores. The software allowed the computers’webcams to take a picture every minute, and upload the picture to Kyle’s server if there was a face detected. He then started a Tumblr blog with some of the choicer pictures. Unfortunately, nobody was picking boogies.

Over the course of the project, McDonald set up roughly 100 Apple store computers to call his servers every minute. That’s a lot of network traffic, and he learned that Apple monitors traffic in its stores when he received a photo from a Cupertino computer of what appeared to be an Apple technician. The technician had apparently traced the traffic to the site McDonald used to upload the program to Apple Store computers — and installed it himself.
McDonald figured that Apple had decided the program wasn’t a big deal. That was until four Secret Service men in suits woke him up on Thursday morning with a search warrant for computer fraud. They confiscated two computers, an iPod and two flash drives, and told McDonald that Apple would contact him separately.

Whether you side with Apple/the government (which are practically the same!) or Kyle, you have to admit it’s a shame more people don’t flash their tits at random computers. Haha! *moons laptop forgetting I have a Skype window minimized*

People Staring At Computers Tumblr
and
Apple Store Sets Secret Service on Spy Camera Artist [mashable]

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