Wednesday, December 24, 2008

FeedMyTorrents Offers TV Torrent Feeds without Duplicates [BitTorrent]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/84pGWFSf01k/feedmytorrents-offers-tv-torrent-feeds-without-duplicates

Web site FeedMyTorrents publishes RSS feeds of torrents for popular TV shows. Just subscribe to your favorite show and let your BitTorrent client automatically download new episodes as soon as they're available.

FeedMyTorrents isn't the only web site of this kind—perhaps the most notable alternative being tvRSS—but it's a good deal more simple to understand and use than tvRSS. Where tvRSS has an undeniably larger collection of shows, FeedMyTorrents is strict about a duplication-free feed, meaning you don't have to tweak the feed or weed out downloads you don't want. Just pick the show you want to subscribe to, set it up in your BitTorrent client of choice, and you'll always have the latest and greatest episodes of your favorite shows as soon as they're available. Thanks Jason!



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FeedFlix Gets Your Money's Worth from Netflix [NetFlix]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/FCMZytSi1-I/feedflix-gets-your-moneys-worth-from-netflix

Netflix's subscription rental service makes it easy to get nearly any DVD delivered to your doorstep, but have you ever wondered how much you're actually paying per movie or whether you're getting your money's worth?


Web site FeedFlix aims to answer that question. It does so by tapping into Netflix's API and analyzing your usage habits. Once it does so, you can see how much each rental costs you and keep track of the average time you keep your DVDs. If you don't like what you see, FeedFlix can create alerts that will send reminder emails when you've kept a movie for too long. FeedFlix even takes Watch Instantly movies into account to give you a more accurate picture of your viewing habits.

FeedFlix is a great tool to help determine if your Netflix subscription is worth the money you're paying. If it's not, you can save the cash by canceling your account or let FeedFlix help you stay on top of your rentals so you're making the most of your account.



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Fennec, a.k.a. Mobile Firefox, Hits Alpha 2 with Speed Improvements [Featured Early Adopter Download]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/ExTobBp7_us/fennec-aka-mobile-firefox-hits-alpha-2-with-speed-improvements

Mozilla's Firefox-like browser for mobile devices, Fennec (which we toured in screenshots on release) is out with a second alpha release you can try on your desktop.

This alpha mostly improves upon the speed, smoothness, and usability of Fennec's existing features, but the newest thing to try out are two recommended extensions that can be installed. URL Fixer attempts to auto-fix common misspellings entered by fat thumbs into the address bar (like Gogle.com, perhaps?), while AutoAuth simply adds password memory for sites that require authentication.

Hit the link below for free, no-install try-outs of Fennec Alpha 2 on Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. If you happen to have a Nokia N815 tablet, you can install the alpha natively.



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Download Free Computer-Generated Christmas MP3s [Featured Download]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/Jz7sUGiKLYg/download-free-computer+generated-christmas-mp3s

Load up your iTunes playlist with some holiday cheer but save a few bucks in the process with almost 20 classic holiday recordings that are available as a free download from the Garritan music community.

The Garritan Community Christmas album includes tunes from O Holy Night to Auld Lang Syne. What's most interesting is how they were recorded:

A community of musicians from all over the world met on the Garritan community forum and agreed to submit their own recordings of holiday music, to be freely distributed. Each of these orchestral recordings were made not with large live orchestras in vast recording studios at huge expense, but rather were created by a single person working on their own desktop or laptop computer. What they have in common is the use of Garritan libraries representing software musical instruments based on samples of real instruments.

Preview the tunes on-site before you download, then grab the entire album (with art) to add to your collection for free.



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Auto Bailout Won't Mean More Ad Buys

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AdvertisingAge/LatestNews/~3/Tc95ZMc4DFc/article.php


DETROIT (AdAge.com) -- General Motors Corp. may finally be getting its loan from the federal government, but that doesn't mean it's going to resume its former marketing-spending levels.

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