I saw a movie on Netflix the other day and I remember it was one of the first ones Id watched online a few years back before Netflix started streaming here in Australia. I can’t remember where I watched it online, but I remember thinking at the time how wondrous and complicated I thought streaming would be. Fast forwarded a… Read more →
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What are Network Shares
With every new Operating System becoming easier and easier to do things, network sharing is becoming increasingly more popular. You may have heard the term before and not really understood what it is, and if you have and media devices around your house, you might already be using it and not know it. In its essence network shares are files… Read more →
Where can I download Music safely
I get asked the one a lot. Probably because people have tried the usual routes like P2P networking or torrents. Torrents are great and not only used for downloading digital files illegally. Lots of people and company’s use torrents to legally distribute files over the internet. The good thing about torrents are they are not stored and centralised in one place, but… Read more →
How torrents work
Bittorrents are among the most popular ways to transfer files peer-to-peer (p2p) over the internet. Torrents have got a bad reputation over the years for people sharing and transferring files such as music and movies illegally. And although illegal sharing always gets the headlines, torrent sharing is used by more people legitimately than illegally. If you want to be able to… Read more →
The difference between CD, DVD and Blu-ray discs
For the most part your optical drive bay, where you put your cd into the computer, is used for the delivery of information to your computer. A lot of the time you can get data (music, movies, information) onto your computer via USB thumb drive or downloaded form the internet. However, for larger amounts of data such as High Definition Video and… Read more →
Plex Media Server
Plex media server is a software package you can download from the internet and setup on one of your computers to host, save and stream your media files, music, video and pictures to other devices on your network or over the internet. Download Plex Plex can be run from a Windows, Mac or lInux computer and NAS devices and can… Read more →