http://coretron.org/blog Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:05:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So there are a few things you have to do to download stuff off the newsgroups. It's a little more advanced than downloading torrents but once you get the hang of it its better. Newgroups can max out your download speeds, I get 2 MB/s so I can download blurays ... http://coretron.org/blog/?p=462 As our cellphones make the move to being our dashboard mounted GPS I had a thought. Why not have the phone record your drive and save the recording if asked to or if the accelerometer detects a crash. It would start and stop entirely on its own and the user ... http://coretron.org/blog/?p=458 uTorrent Chrome Firefox Gtalk 7-zip x64 or x86(32bit) (file extractor) Foxit (PDF reader) HandBrake (Rips DVDs to MPEG4) MS Office (.torrent) or OpenOffice Quicktime alternative Real Alternative Virtual CloneDrive (Used to mount iso files) Flash Shockwave Picasa (Google's photo viewer/manager/editor/backup/share) VLC media player (plays many codecs and is a good overall player) Free Download Manager (Useful to limit download speeds of large files as to not tie up network, ... http://coretron.org/blog/?p=455 Google has started accpeting requests for invites to Google Voice. Id post a link but I've already typed out the rest of this post and on the g1 if I leave the browser once I come back it refreshes the page and I lose evereything I've written. I've alredy informed ... http://coretron.org/blog/?p=454 I heard that there were supposed to be all these new features in the latest version of google maps for Anrdoid but couldn't find any of them. On a recent search of the marketplaces top applications I saw googe maps. The thing is I never even knew there was a ... http://coretron.org/blog/?p=453 It might get boring after 10 minutes but its awesome to watch a live stream of the men working in space.  http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html And while I'm at it you should follow NASA on twitter for live updates on the mission and future mission. Also, follow me, I'm coretron. http://coretron.org/blog/?p=449 I have no mp3s on my computer. I haven't for years. I get all my music from imeem.com. You can search an artist and instantly get a playlist of their songs. You can give it one song you have on your mind and from there it will take you on ... http://coretron.org/blog/?p=443 Get it now legally and free from Microsoft. It's good till July 2010, but you'll probably want to upgrade to a pirated version of the final version. It boots and installs in record times. It took about 30 min to install and about 30-40 sec to boot. I haven't done ... http://coretron.org/blog/?p=436 I was at a web page explaining how to install the wake on lan application for the g1 when I saw something claiming to be a QR link to the application. I googled it and found that the Barcode Scanner app can read QR codes. The g1 scanned the image ... http://coretron.org/blog/?p=423 Microphones and speakers are really the same thing, they are just a diaphragm  a magnet and a coil used to convert an analog electric signal into sound or vice versa. In a pinch you can plug your headphones into your mic jack and talk into your headphones. I wouldn't recommend trying to ... http://coretron.org/blog/?p=416