As students, we frequently have to upload large course work files and make them available to professors and classmates. The closure of Megaupload and the feature reductions of FileSonic we have to look for alternatives to our go to online utilities. Alternative Sites Rapid Share – This is probably one of the oldest filelockers on the net. Uploading: there is unlimited file upload size for free accounts and it’s accesible for 30 days from the public URL. Downloading:There is a 45 second wait time to download files and only 1gb…

So SOPA is on the verge of being pushed through. One of it’s main features is that it allows copyright holders to request a black list of certain domains on a service provider’s DNS record. Websites will still be available through their ip adresses so in the event that any site is blocked you can either copy the associated ip into your browser url bar or edit your etc hosts file to point the blocked domain to it’s ip. If you are an American Citizen please sign this electronic petition…

Google’s search algorithm is one of the most complicated on the interent, factoring in a multitude of data about both the keyword you’re searching for as well as you the searcher. If you’re logged into your google account (gmail, youtube, ect.) then Google search will be able to read their own cookies to try to better personalize your search results. Even if you’re not signed into your Google account, Google search will still be able to gather search optimizing data from you based on what sites you’ve navigated to from…

Don’t worry, your Library isn’t gone, it’s just hidden. It’s the exact same format as the Library folders in the previous versions of OS X, only with a hidden flag attached similar to an htaccess file on the server. Anyways there are a couple ways to get rid of that flag and show the library, or just its contents in Lion. Show Library You can remove the hide flag to reveal the folder permanently using the command line easily. Simply copy this command, paste it into the command line window…

This new XBMC icefilms addon by Batch is similar to the existing Icefilms.info plugin from anarchintosh in that it uses the icefilms database to play movies from external hosting sites on you tv through the XBMC. The big difference though, is that IceLibrary will actually import these links of movies and TV shows to you XMBC library. It works pretty well but each time a user updates their video library with these linked files, Icefilms could have it’s entire site scraped – which very heavy on Icefilms.info’s server resources. The…

By default the Mac Terminal Shortcuts: Page Down, Page Up, Home and End keys do not work as you would expect them to. There is a very simple fix for this explained below:   Open up the terminal Go to Preferences Go to the Settings Tab Go to the Keyboard Section Select the end key Click the Edit button Choose ‘send string to shell’ from the Action drop down menu Paste in this value: \033[4~ Here are the values for the commonly used shortcuts in the Mac terminal: Key Action Home…

When Icefilms Goes Down As you probably already know, Icefilms is having a bit of trouble migrating from their Go-Daddy hosting account to their sexy new dedicated servers. This is causing some service disruption for both computer and ATV2 users. Thankfully, the Icefilms admin often keep a backup server running a couple days behind in link updates. To access the backup server database you just have to replace the default.py file in the plugin.video.icefilms directory. The backup file can be found here. It is pretty much the exact same as…

Latest news: There will be more hp touchpads! Despite announcing an end to manufacturing webOS hardware, we have decided to produce one last run of TouchPads to meet unfulfilled demand. We don’t know exactly when these units will be available or how many we’ll get, and we can’t promise we’ll have enough for everyone. We do know that it will be at least a few weeks before you can purchase.  See more information in the updated FAQs below. More touchpads on the way! Currently the only places that have the…

This week it seems that the Gevey sim has stopped working on the iPhone 4. Whenever we try to dial 122 we get the message “Call Failed” right away. Normally you need to maintain the call for at least 2 seconds before moving onto the next step in the Gevey unlocking process. We’re not sure if this has something to do with Rogers (or Canada?) blocking calls to 122. If you are experiencing the same thing, please let us know in the comments.

This simple guide demonstrates adding a new user to mysql and giving that user full access rights to a particular db within MySQL. This is really useful when you want to create a new database user for a new wordpress isntall. You can do this from the command line of your server if you login with: mysql -u root -p Or you can do it from within phpmyadmin (phpmyadmin is probably the best option if you are using a web hosting account) Before you create the new user, you will…

Nokia has made it incredibly easy for anyone who is connected to the internet to create their own application with the Ovi App Wizard. It basically captures the RSS feed from your blog and prints it to a neat looking, customizable, application frame that you can put on the Ovi store either for free or for a price not exceeding 5 Euros. You can also turn you Facebook, Blogger, Tmblr, Youtube, Picasa, and Flickr feeds into sections of your Ovi app, or give them their own independent applications. Up to…

This guide explains how to change the default port of jboss 5.x (which is 8080) to whatever port you want Open the server.xml file that corresponds to your deployment server i.e. vi <jboss-home>/server/default/deploy/jbossweb.sar/server.xml Find the line: <Connector protocol=”HTTP/1.1″ port=”8080″ address=”${jboss.bind.address}” Change port 8080 to whatever port you would like to use Restart jBoss