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How to download movies, music and other things with bittorrent?

TorrentBar Admin — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:32:05 GMT

If you want to know what bittorrent is, please click here to know much about it. If you only want to know how to download files with it, just follow this guide.

1. You need to install a bittorrent client to start your download, just like you need to install a icq client before talking with your friends with icq. There are many bittorrent clients, we recommend you use utorrent and bitcomet. You need only to choose one of them.
click here to download utorrent click here to the utorrent official site

click here to download bitcomet click here to the utorrent official site

2. You need a .torrent file to tell the client the info of files you want to download. I.e. if you want to download a linux system install file, you might open http://www.hellotorrent.com/ and seach "linux" in site, click one of the results and enter the detail page, click download button to download the torrent file which might be called linux.torrent.

3. Please note that, you haven't got the linux install file untill now, you only get a torrent file. You must open this torrent file with a bittorrent client by double clicking this file. And then the client will know where to get the linux install system for you. What you need is only waiting until the download task finished.

How to add a flash game to your blogs such as myspace and wordpress?

TorrentBar Admin — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:38:44 GMT

I think if I add some flash games into my blog, people will like to come more often. So I tried to add the game to my blog and wrote the tips down. I hope it could be helpful to you.

1. Find a url directly to the .swf file of the game, such as "http://www.example.com/flashgame.swf".

2. Edit your blogs in "Code" Mode.

    Example of switching to code mode in myspace



    Example of switching to code mode in wordpress.



3. Add the html codes to play flash file. The following texts in gray background are the codes to embed a .swf file into the html file.

<object classid='clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000' id='flash' codebase='http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0' width='604' height='500'><param name='movie' value='http://www.example.com/flashgame.swf' /><param name='quality' value='high' /><embed src='http://www.example.com/flashgame.swf' quality='high' pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' width='604' height='500'></embed></object>

The yellow fonts show the URL of your flash game. Replace it with your URL. The white fonts "604" show the width of the window used to play the game and the white fonts "500" are for the width. Modify them as you like to make the size of the window to fit your blog temlet.

If you are familiar with html syntax, you can also edit the style of the embedded codes.

Sometimes, a flash game site might give you the codes of games on the pages. You can copy them and paste them into your blog directly in "code" mode. I got the codes of a flash game from a game site and paste it here. The texts in gray background are got from the site.

<div style='width:500px;'><center><table width='500' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='1'><tr style='height:20px;'><td width='30%' style='text-align:center;'>Game Name:Flash-Driver</td><td width='70%' style='text-align:center;'><a href='http://www.hitfreegames.com/flash-games/full-1922/Flash-Driver.html' target=_blank>play Flash-Driver game on full screen</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan='2' style='text-align:center;'><object classid='clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000' id='flash' codebase='http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0' width='604' height='500'><param name='movie' value='http://play.hitfreegames.com/flash/20071225/1922.swf' /><param name='quality' value='high' /><embed src='http://play.hitfreegames.com/flash/20071225/1922.swf' quality='high' pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' width='604' height='500'></embed></object></td></tr><tr style='height:17px;'><td colspan='2' style='text-align:center;'><a href='http://www.hitfreegames.com'>more flash game codes for blogs</a></td></tr></table></center></div>

Game Name:Tetris	play Tetris game on full screen

more flash game codes for blogs

How to play flash videos on your computer?

TorrentBar Admin — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:39:52 GMT

Your computer can not play a flash video by itself. You need install a flv player to play the flv. There are dozens of such applications. We tested several and found one free, easy to use software called “Free-FLV-Player”. You can download it here from the following link in Download.com:

http://www.download.com/Free-FLV-Player/3000-13632_4-10666532.html?tag=lst-3.

Install the application after you download it. You can drag the flv file into the player window to play it or just double-click the flv file to play

How to download flash videos (flv)?

TorrentBar Admin — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:33:40 GMT

Move your mouse onto the download link such as “Download flv file of xxxx from remote server 1”; right click on the link; click “Save Target As…” in the menu like the following piture.

Select your destination; rename the file and click save to download the flv.

What is bittorrent?

TorrentBar Admin — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:18:38 GMT

What is bittorrent ?

BitTorrent is a protocol designed for transferring files. It is peer-to-peer in nature, as users connect to each other directly to send and receive portions of the file. However, there is a central server (called a tracker) which coordinates the action of all such peers. The tracker only manages connections, it does not have any knowledge of the contents of the files being distributed, and therefore a large number of users can be supported with relatively limited tracker bandwidth. The key philosophy of BitTorrent is that users should upload (transmit outbound) at the same time they are downloading (receiving inbound.) In this manner, network bandwidth is utilized as efficiently as possible. BitTorrent is designed to work better as the number of people interested in a certain file increases, in contrast to other file transfer protocols.

One analogy to describe this process might be to visualize a group of people sitting at a table. Each person at the table can both talk and listen to any other person at the table. These people are each trying to get a complete copy of a book. Person A announces that he has pages 1-10, 23, 42-50, and 75. Persons C, D, and E are each missing some of those pages that A has, and so they coordinate such that A gives them each copies of the pages he has that they are missing. Person B then announces that she has pages 11-22, 31-37, and 63-70. Persons A, D, and E tell B they would like some of her pages, so she gives them copies of the pages that she has. The process continues around the table until everyone has announced what they have (and hence what they are missing.) The people at the table coordinate to swap parts of this book until everyone has everything. There is also another person at the table, who we'll call 'S'. This person has a complete copy of the book, and so doesn't need anything sent to him. He responds with pages that no one else in the group has. At first, when everyone has just arrived, they all must talk to him to get their first set of pages. However, the people are smart enough to not all get the same pages from him. After a short while they all have most of the book amongst themselves, even if no one person has the whole thing. In this manner, this one person can share a book that he has with many other people, without having to give a full copy to everyone that's interested. He can instead give out different parts to different people, and they will be able to share it amongst themselves. This person who we've referred to as 'S' is called a seed in the terminology of BitTorrent.