I really dig the Azureus BitTorrent client. It’s an awesome little Java application that’s got a ton of great features – including plugins. Now I haven’t played around with too many of the plugins, but the Swing Web Interface (aka WebUI) has to be about the greatest!
With this plugin I’m able to upload .torrent files to my Azureus client at home from anywhere – well, anywhere with Internet access that is. If I’m at the office and something happens to catch my eye, I can quickly start downloading from my client at home! (Don’t want to use up the office bandwidth now, do I?) Or just post a URL to a torrent and off you go! Oh yeah, it supports SSL and basic authentication for security and UPnP for port forwarding if your router supports it – I just have port forwards configured on the router. Also you can run at as a stand alone app too! Sweet!
Forget mp3 streams that take up 128kbps of your bandwidth! aacPlus is here! I don’t know how all this works, but it sounds great to me!
I first heard of aacPlus on woxy.com while checking out their streams. I quickly downloaded the latest winamp to get aacPlus support and was really impressed when I connected! Very nice quality even at 24kbps! And great at 48kbps!
So download winamp (Windows) and check out the streams! Also, VLC (Win/Mac/Linux) works great too – and plays just about anything, audio or video.
My favorite aacPlus stations:
- woxy.com (The Best Ever!)
- woxy.com vintage (Oldies but goodies)
- soma fm (Groove Salad and Secret Agent are sweet!)
- wksu (classical, npr – WKSU 3, The Classical Channel is great!)
Wanna stream aacPlus yourself, I guess you need this.
(side note: Google Video’s player plugin is based on VLC.)
UPDATE: A few more aacPlus links…
tuner2 – aacPlus stream directory
kplu – Jazz
stream guys – Wanna stream?
This isn’t a new thing, but just thought it’d be cool to try out. The developer version of OS X Tiger for Intel got leaked (of course!) and so the geeks wanted to run OS X on thier PCs now, and so they did!
When I heard you could do it in VMWare, I figured I didn’t have anything to lose!
This is running in VMWare 5 on my Dell Inspiron 9100. I gave 512M of the 1GB RAM to OS X. It’s still slow and seems that networking in VMWare isn’t working yet.
To speed up things I found this post: “Want to speed up the performace under vmware? 1) Use ‘Linux, Other Linux’ as the Guest OS type, not Other or FreeBSD. 2) From inside the VM’s BIOS, disable the floppy controller and the two serial ports.” That did help speed up the system.
Can’t do too much as a serious system, but cool to play around with!
If you want more info check out the OSx86 Project.
Oh, and if you happen to get “tiger-x86.tar.bz2″, be sure to use a good decompressor. At first I couldn’t get the 6GB tiger-x86-flat.img file to expand past 2GB – IZArc didn’t give any errors, just only 2GB file. I tried WinRAR 3.5 and that did the trick!