Free Legal Music Player

If you are college student you can listen to all the free music legally on your computer.
The program is called Ruckus player. It is endorsed by Resnet and is very fast. Unlike many other methods it is legal. The only downside is it cannot be put on your Ipod or other portable device.

1. Go to www.ruckus.com
2. Download the player and register (use your calpoly.edu e-mail address)
3. Register and wait for the email to confirm the address
4. Install and open player
5. Open a web browser to ruckus.com
6. Search for the music you want (think Itunes Store)
7. Download and enjoy

- D

Put Your Videos onto your Ipod

You have videos you want on your Ipod, but have some trouble getting them onto the Ipod through Itunes. Never fear, i have found an easy and most importantly free way to get various video files onto your Ipod including videos from Youtube. Follow this:

1. Download Koyote Ipod Video Converter (http://www.koyotesoft.com/dlEn.php?titresoft=IPOD_Video_Converter_For_Free) *you dont have to fill out the form*
2. Install the program and restart you computer

3. Open the program (should be called Ipod Video Converter)

4. Window pops up (a black picture of an ipod on the left)

5. Click add video and select the videos you want

6. Convert by clicking the two-arrowed convert button

7. Wait/watch video convert

8. Open Itunes and import video into Itunes
(the new video file should be saved next to the old video file)
9. Put on Ipod and Enjoy

The other AWESOME thing about this program is it's ability to acess Youtube Videos

1. Follow regular steps through 4
2. Click the Youtube Icon at the top

3. Enter the URL (wed address) into the top box

4. Click the green check to the right

5. Under the lowest box labeled "Parameters" enter the file location you want

(i suggest putting it under your video folder for easy access. The little button next to the output path with 3 dots changes this)

6. Push "download now" in lower right

7. Wait till finished (it should automattically convert file too)

8. Continue as before (start at step 8 from above)

- D

Food For Thought

This was Cool,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

Wireless Router Problem with Torrents

Brian asked
--- "Can you help me out with my wireless router? for some reason, it won't download through p2p networks. I've checked the firewalls, and enabled port forwarding and port triggering. I can't figure out what's wrong."

He has a Netgear WGR614 on a School network, comcast is the isp

Comcast has decided to become the newest leader in crack down on P2P sharing. It has blocked numerous torrents and cut speeds of user who are seeding or uploading

Brian's problem is that his download speed can't seem to get past about 1 kb/sec.

There are a few different ways to fix this.


1. change to upload speed to under 10 kb/sec (this is about the right ratio to negotiate with other peers while not choking your download speed)

2. Limit Global connects to 200 (somehow this screws with the program)
look this up for each individual router
3. Encrypt you torrent traffic ( ISP's love to throttle down heavy torrent users)

4. Change your starting port to something over 1000 in your Torrent Program (again ISP's look for ports that most torrent users set on default)

IF NONE OF THESE HELP
try using bitlord it is able download more quickly from mulitple sources

- D

Copy songs from IPOD to Computer

After i got a new laptop for college, the dread of file transfer hit me. I am a music lover with about 30 gigs. The best way to get all your songs from your ipod to a computer is Music Rescue.

Download it for FREE here
http://www.kennettnet.co.uk/musicrescue/mr_download.php Mac or PC

It's a trial that requires you to click down that "pay for me" warning ever so often. Still it's free and works lightning fast comapred to other methods

1. download it
2. open it
3. plug in ipod
4. like itunes check with songs you wish to copy onto your hardrive
5. click copy now and wait for the files to copy
6. open itunes and import newly cpoied files into your library
(you can drag files or can do go File>add folder to library)
7. You now have all your music

*hint* you can put this application onto your ipod and use it on other computers
or
have friends with lots of great music on their ipods?

Do the same thing mentioned above and get there music for free (sharing is caring)

-D