Entertainment book coupons and bittorrent

Just an email I sent out to my fellow residents, in case anyone else is looking for this info!

Hey Gang,

Amrita just asked me for the entertainment book coupons, so I thought I'd send it out to everybody - totally forgot about it earlier!


http://www.entertainment.com/saversguide/sbc/splash?nextUrl=%2Fsaversguide%2Fsbc



all you have to do is put in any email and password, then your address, and you get 4 free coupons a month. If you need more, just use another junk address - I'm almost certain this works (I had Chris test it before for me - it's set up automatically on my computer).

Enjoy and save - and if you're looking for more deals, the two best sites for hunting are:
www.pricenetwork.ca
www.redflagdeals.ca

both are essentially the same, and people gather deals and coupons to share.

BITTORRENT

Oh, and for those that were asking about downloading tv shows and bittorrent.

On windows, download a little program (less than 1 mb) called utorrent

www.utorrent.com

On Mac, the tiny program is called transmission:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/27916

once you've got that, there are tons of bittorrent sites. To see almost all at once, got to

www.torrentscan.com

I also find using www.thepiratebay.org for downloading divx movies - just go to top 100, and under video there's a tab called movies. Anything that's encoded by AXXO is always great quality. To actually watch them, you may need a codec from www.divx.com - it's a program that lets windows interpret these files properly.

For me, i get my tv shows from www.tvtorrents.com it's really well organized, it has a list of all the shows, and which episodes are up, etc. If you get hooked on bittorrent, and want an invite, let me know - I can give you some free "credits". Basically, you have to upload as much as you download so that you're sharing nicely.

On average, 30 min tv shows are 175 mb, hour shows are 350 mb, movies are 700 mb. there are no commercials, and most look great on all monitors, as they are usually taken from high definition broadcasts. Lately, with more space and speed, higher resolution shows can take double to triple the space, but do look nicer on bigger screens. You'll need a newer computer to run them properly.

Two last things. I always recommend getting an external hard drive, both to hold the shows and to back up your computers - I know most of you don't, but a word to the wise, how much time would it take to collect all your documents and get your computer working the way it is now if you lost it or if it broke down? On a mac, it's eaasy - I can give you a program called superduper!, you click a button, and you're backed up. On a PC most external harddrives have software that helps with that. The most reliable deal for an external harddrive is from Costco - the maxtor onetouch III 300 gb for about 185 before taxes - well worth the investment (I have two ;-)

OK, that's it for now. If you need more bittorrent detail, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent

Cheerio,

Nicholas

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