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Friday, December 17, 2010

5 Best Torrent Search Engines

There are many sites which host torrent on Internet but most of them are spam sites or porn sites. So finding a torrent is hard and Google is not just enough to do this job. So here comes the list of search engines specially meant for searching torrents!

Torrentz: This is my favorite. Simple and fast. Key feature is same torrent from different sources is not duplicated while showing results. So you get comprehensive search results. After selecting a torrent from results you can see user comments, various trackers, mirror links, related torrents & most important authenticity of that torrent.
It also have a dedicated movies & TV shows section. All torrent in these sections are verified. Additionally you can limit your searches to these sections. There is RSS feed option for these sections sections as well as for all search queries. So feed addicts will find torrentz most interesting!


ScrapeTorent: This also search across various torrent indexes. Key features are option to limit searches to particular category, option to filter dead-torrents & duplicates from results. They also have a forum if you need help. I come to know about this recently by google search.


PizzaTorrent: I use this when torrentz fails. It shows real-time results from 15 best torrent hosts. It doesn’t club similar torrents in a single group so you may notice much higher number of results. But it does grouping by categories which saves you from downloading wrong torrent! However it produces too many useless results for multiword queries.


YouTorrent: It also shows real-time torrent results. By default it gathers results from 10 different torrent hosts. You can add/remove various torrent hosts for fine grained results. in left sidebar it shows related searches as well as top searches. This also produces few extra result which user may find useless. I think by default it looks search keywords in torrent description. This may be useful sometime but most of the time user is interested in torrent names only to get accurate search results.

PinkTorrent: NOTE: This is for adults only. So skip this if you are minor according to laws in your county.

This is best for searching free porn torrents. I do not have more details about this but its best according to many reliable sources. Use at your own risk! Only thing about safety I can say never share your personal information with porn sites specially your credit card info!


Google: Yep Google can be used smartly to search anything on the Web! Just add filetype:torrent as it is to your search query and you will get results restricted to torrents. I use this only when all above fails. Unfortunately due to high amount of spam in torrent world you will be disappointed most of the times!

Following torrent search engines are also growing faster.

BTJunkie – They have database of 1.5 million torrents which they claimed to be largest. Better search options and ability to browse torrent is plus point.

Toorgle – Power of Google Search used across 250+ torrent websites. Have index of more than 7 million torrents. A nice example of Googles custom search!


Torrent-Finder – Optionwise this beats all other torrent search site. Really huge database, with fine-grain control over what you want to include in search! Results can be browse in tabs.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Experience 3D with New Google Earth 6

Its new, its fresh and its Google Earth 6, a complete new 3D experience right on your desktop. With Google Earth 6, browse the entire world and feel real with its completely integrated Street view, 3D Trees and 3D Buildings. You can now use Historical imagery in a much easy fashion than Google Earth 5.



New Additions to Google Earth 6 :

* 3D Street viewing: You can now move across streets as if you are moving through in real. The Pegman view makes it possible to move through the streets right from your desktop. However, the feature is available only for selected places only.


* 3D Trees: Google in its yet innovative approach found time to enable over a dozen of trees to be viewed in the 3D mode, supporting the Green movement officially.


Source: Official website

* Historical Imagery: Now its easier to view the historical images of a place through Google Earth 6. Right when you move over a place, the status bar shows the date of the last imagery and clicking over gets you what you are looking for.

You can find the other videos about it here. If you noticed any other feature then do let me know through your comments below.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Watch Free Online TV with 650 channels on PC

I was watching NDTV India, a 24/7 Hindi news channel, when suddenly my friend called me up and asked me what am I doing. He was pretty surprised to hear not because I was watching the news channel, but since I was watching it online, that too on my browser.

Through this post, I would like to share with you a portal “FreeTubeTV.net” which lists over 650 (665 as of today) Free TV channels worldwide under various categories:




•News•Business
•Educational
•Entertainment
•Religious
•Music
•Sports
•Lifestyle
•Webcams
•Movies
•Adult

Using the Family Friendly version of FreeTube TV shall remove all inappropriate content. Help and Tutorial sections are also available on the website, where as there is a Widget available which you can even put on your own website.

I have watched NDTV and other news channel without much trouble on a 35kbps connection speed, so I do hope this would work nicely for you all.

Link: FREE TUBETV

Search for images on Twitter with Hashalbum

We all have our own sources for those unique photos
. We don’t want the same old Google Image Search image results because we beg to differ. For those looking for a new source of images, Hashalbum would make you tick. This is a photo search tool which looks for relevant images within Twitter.



Mostly we assign the hash symbol (#) to a word on Twitter to actually reach out beyond the scope of just our followers. So obviously someone adding a hash is looking to share images with the world.

It’s quite simple in terms of functionality. When a Twitter user uploads an album on third-party sites such as Twitpic, yfrog, etc - and tweets it with the standard name format using a hashtag (#) – lets say ‘Check out pics of my cute #doberman’, Hashalbum will popup these photographs the next time someone looks for pictures of ‘dobermans’ at Hashalbum search panel (my dog is a doberman, therefore the special mention).



The application was created by a team of four from a company named Londonberry. I think it is a very useful tool permitting users to search for specific images on Twitter. It replaces the need of going to other sites for image search if one is already comfortable with Twitter.

I quite like the idea behind Hashalbum which makes image search on Twitter easy and quick.


Link:HASH ALBUM

Monday, December 6, 2010

Top 5 websites for converting YouTube videos to MP3

The following websites provide the free service of converting your favorite non-copyrighted videos into mp3s directly. You can choose what quality to convert into, with respect to the bit rate, and also select the hosting website in some cases.



This site provides mp3 conversion from youtube and also asks its visitors to donate through PayPal , although that is optional. Although it did take more time to provide search results to a particular video or a search term.
Youtube-mp3

The simplest of the lot , it does your job without any hassles, although this works only for youtube videos.
Video2mp3

This website offers conversion from yotube and dailymotion. They also provide mozilla firefox and google chrome add-ons. There are standard and high quality options one can choose from, while downloading the required mp3s.
YoutubetoMP3

Easy-to-use interface for quick conversion. Videos from Youtube, Google, Yahoo and Flickr can be converted into mp3.
Getaudiofromvideo

Another cool website which can convert video files from youtube to multiple formats such as mp3, mp4, 3gp, avi, flv etc. This website alos gives you the option of converting your own personal video that you may have recorded on your own, into an mp3.