How to install Vista Sidebar on Windows XP

What beautiful windows Vista Sidebar! Want it too ...On XP!

You can do it... and in many ways! See some:

-- The Google Sidebar (here is a page of explanation, link 'features')
-- Yahoo Widget
-- DesktopSidebar

Personally, I try all 3 and I must say that the most graphically appealing are the Yahoo widget, that is really similar to Mac OS, even if I found them not very practical.

The solution proposed by Google resembles more to the concept of Vista Sidebar and has several gadgets but the graphic are weak and decisively not beatuful.

DesktopSidebar (in my view) is the best compromise between quality and design, at the end I choose this one and held only 5 panels (weather, images slideshow, stock market quotes, news and Quick Launch menu) and uninstalled others.

You what?

UTorrent, light client to download the torrent

If you need a client to download songs, movies and whatever (obviously not protected by copyright,) among many take uTorrent which has the peculiarity of being the smallest.

In only 170Kbyte of software we are all features necessary to open the torrent who are on various sites such as www.mininova.org etc ...

Another interesting feature is that uTorrent does not require installation and can work well even from a USB flash drive.

It's easy to configure, just download it and then double-click on the executable file. You will be asked to your speed connection and uTorrent is ready to open the torrent around the network.

For any clarification on the operation of this mechanism, you do not have to ask...

How to use BitTorrent?

Sometime friends tired to use e-mule or just curious to use BitTirrent ask me how it work, they say it's a bit complicated.

Not at all, in fact the only difference compared to the mule is that the research phase is done through special sites (here found a portrait of the best, in my opinion, of course!) instead of directly from the client program. But let's go with order:

1. Get one of the many clients 4 torrent and install (I like uTorrent, download and run without installation! But Azureus and so on are ok)

2. Go to the site torrent that prefer (list)

3. Look what you want and download the file, automatically uTorrent will start to download and share.

Really Simple and really peer-to-peer!

PS: if you want a software that search in hundreds of torrent sites in just 1 click try BitChe!

The best sites to download Torrent

Now they are 2 years that I left e-mule (the fact I never really used it..) for BitTorrent.

Before the BitTorrent client, and then Azureus recently uTorrent that I feel better because it is light, will do everything i need and function well.

I wish hold on sites that make available torrent to download, after a long search, I found the 4 that I consider the best:

www.mininova.org where there are a lot of films, television series and cartoon series .

www.meganova.org virtually identical to mininova but there is more music.

www.btjunkie.org that i use especially for gaming.

www.tntvillage.org perhaps the best, is a community of ethical trade, which pursues the objectives indicated by ScambioEtico.org (but a lot of material are in italian...)

Of course, this selection is absolutely personal, based on my experience of use and therefore questionable. In addition torrent sites born every day, so they are very welcome other reports.

Good work!

Find torrent from multiple sites simultaneously

After a long absence for various reasons (not least a certain tiramjento ...) i go back to write something on the blog!

I wanted to report a very nice program that lets you search a lot of torrent sites (like mininova, mononova, mybittorrent, torrentspy and who has more will put more) with a single click, without even having to open the browser!

This wonder is called BitChe, when I started using it was completely free, now there are two versions, one with few restrictions and no.
However, the free version does everything that we needs without problems.

The Search is very simple, just enter the name of what you are interested in, and click "search" and then you can load the torrent directly with utorrent or another client.

PS: "Che" that appears in the name is in honor of Ernesto Che Guevara, a good reason to be used!

Hasta siempre comandante!