Torrent Download

The first thing that I want to inform you about Torrent download is that it’s not completely legal or completely secure to your computer. It is vulnerable to your computer’s security and privacy. But it has bright side to, which is so bright that it washes away the dark side. In India downloading from torrent sites is legal for private purposes while it’s completely illegal to download torrent files in the US only the content which is not protected by copyrights is legal to download. Open source media and files are legal to download (like Ubuntu, Centos. Torrent downloads provides Movies, games, applications, Ebooks, Audiobooks, Music albums and singles, Tv shows, Images etc. Some of the different categories have their individual websites for downloading, while some websites have integrated them all at one place. 

Utorrent and Bittorrent 

To download any content from the torrent websites you first need to download the program called Utorrent or Bittorrent from their websites (Both works the same, the choice is yours). Both are available for Windows and Mac os. Install them to your computer, during the installation make sure to unselect any kind to additional download or software (commonly known as spam).

Security issues

If you are using a Windows machine make sure that you have a proper antivirus installed on your machine. Keep the antivirus up to date, update its virus definition database (For Mac os just avoid downloading any zip file as you don’t know the real contents for the zip file). Create a separate “download” folder (To make it organized) anywhere in your local disks.

Downloading the files

To download any file using Utorrent or Bittorrent you need to visit the host website first. Then you need to search the content you need then open a search result. Now comes the important part if you want to download your file at a good speed then you need to check the number of seed(ers) and leech(ers). The number of seeds must be higher than the number of leech. Click on the download torrent icon and it will download a small file of 4-6kb. Now open the file using the Utorrent or Bittorrent application it will ask you a download location, select the download location according to your preference and then the download should begin.

Concept of seeders and leechers:

Seeders are people who have already downloaded the file and are uploading them. The more seeders the faster the download will go. 
Leechers are people who are sharing what they have and are downloading what you have.
When searching torrents, always get high seeded torrents. If there are no seeders, you will never finish the download, no matter how many leechers there are!

More leechers there is the slower the download, so try to find a file with many seeds low leeches .

Torrent downloads are awesome as compared with other downloading sites which provides media and software with spam and adware. Comparatively torrent downloads provides high quality content where as normal downloading sites never matches the quality and the proper organization of files. For Example you try to download a music album from an ordinary website with file hosting (Normal downloading site) you will never get the real ID3 tags (Tags which identifies Album artist, genre, year ,metadata etc) of that album instead you’ll get the custom ID3 tags edited by that host website (They do so to promote their website) which is very annoying especially when you have to manually edit them back but on the other hand in torrent downloads the ID3 tags are real made by the creator of the albums, so there’s no need to manually edit the ID3 tags to organize them. Torrent downloads are just ripped from their real version which are available on digital stores like Itunes, Amazon etc.

Additional tips

Before opening any file after the download just go the download folder where you have downloaded the file and scan that folder with the antivirus installed in your system (Works with windows, Mac is more secure so no need for this step). Check the results of the scan make sure there’s nothing unusual in the results (Antivirus doesn’t include Windows Defender as it’s very basic to detect high level of infections). Although the following step is only for those users who wants to assure their computer’s security. Torrent downloads are usually non malicious, thousands of users downloads content using torrent but it’s good to ensure security. It’s recommended to read the comment section of the torrent files before downloading anything.

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Android and office

OFFICE

Since the beginning of android it was possible to edit word documents and spreadsheets. But it was a total miniature version of the real office suite. In the early days of android only editing of docs was possible, you can’t create new documents within the applications. Many application supported the functionality of creating documents with in the application but they all came at high price or a subscription basis. But things have changed now you get all the featu

res for free without paying a single penny.

In the early smartphone days it was widely believed that mobile phones have insufficient power to process docs and spreadsheets. But today you can even create high quality presentations with android devices. You don’t need a full size computer to create docs, spreadsheet or presentations all you need is a decent phone with good hardware support. In the early days of android there were many competitors for office suite software with similar functionality. Thinkfree office, WPS office, office suite by mobi systems, Polaris but today the competition is very limited. Today only google office suite and Microsoft office suite are the biggest rivals in android.  We all know Microsoft’s office suite is the king of office suites in pc. Even they came with their suite for android late but they instantly dominated the Google playstore. Microsoft has three separate applications: Word, Excel, power point meant for word processing, spreadsheet management, managing presentations (respectively). All of them looks and perform magnificently well in android devices. Microsoft’s office suite looks best with android tablets with high range of functions which almost feels like the desktop version. All though the application size after installation is huge which might be a problem for entry level devices with low memory. But Midrange devices and High end devices works like breeze with Microsoft’s office suite. Microsoft released their office suite late into android, because they wanted to make their office suite a selling feature for the windows phones but all their efforts on windows phone have failed miserably. The factor which made windows phone unique is no more a unique factor now it’s general to all the people. The ironic fact is that the android version of the office suite has more features than the windows phone version.

Google on the other hand also put their effort to make a functional office suite for android. Their office suite first came as a single application but recently they divided it into three major standalone apps (Google Docs, Google sheets, Google slides). They all feel native to android with Google’s material design and app integration. The Google’s initiative towards mobile office suite is also very effective although most of the feature of their apps are based on a working internet connection thus they are also very lightweight on the android devices. The user experience of their office suite is very clean and basic, highly recommended for new users or armatures. On the other hand Microsoft’s office suite feels more professional and complex so it’s totally up to the user’s personal preference. Both are well equipped with cloud technologies, Google works with its Google drive and Microsoft works with their own One drive (formerly skydrive). Any other application than these two is a complete ripe off. It is highly recommended to use from these two only. Any other subscription based office suite will be a complete waste of precious money. 

That’s all folks

Music and Mobiles

Since the inception of the original iphone and android portable music players have seen a massive sales drop. Apple’s ipod and Sony’s Walkman have limited their sales and started to more immersive mobile market. Smartphones are more versatile and more productive than portable media players in any segment. Music formats have a wide variety starting from WMA, AAC, flac but MPEG-3 (also known as MP3) stands out as widest used format among the users. It’s famous because of its high compression rate and higher quality overall. The MPEG 3 also comes in various bitrates 64,128,256,320 Kbps which promises increasing quality respectively. In the Old golden days people had to buy the Music CDs and side load them manually but in today’s digital age the users can digitally download the tracks (with or without payment options) and side load them into their devices. For digital purchases ios is considered as the best of them all, simply because it comes with built in software (itunes) which enables the users to automatically sync their music across different devices instead of any manual effort to sync them. But you have more user control over the android devices as you directly can browse the files without any need of extra software which makes it possible to sync illegal tracks to. Although itunes every other music player for mobiles unfortunately it’s only available for ios. Whereas the default music player in android devices literally sucks but thankfully android has so many alternative music players to choose. Playstore is full of alternative music players but beware only download the player which has over 500,000 downloads to avoid spam and buggy music player. Also if you own an android device then you can also download additional equalizer which increases quality and enables you to fine tune the audio settings in your device (use headphones for best experience). 

Video format and android

Android with video playback and support. 

If Pc and Mac are considered as the king of video format support then android is the prince. Open source makes it more compatible with almost all the video format than other mobile operating systems. Even if a particular android device doesn't supports a video format then also the user can download additional codecs from the Google play store. Codecs are available for all chip-sets. Additionally video players are also available for better taste and preferences. 

But among them only one stands out to compete even with a low end pc. That is the legendary Mx player. It is the best feature rich proper video player like Vlc media player on PC and Mac. Unfortunately the android version of Vlc media player literally sucks because of lack of codecs and limited hardware support. whereas Mx player is player which supports every kind of chipsets (ARM,x86 etc) even low end broadcom chipsets are supported as well.

 The major improvement of video format support in android came after the release of Android Ice-cream sandwich (4.0) which enabled hardware as well software acceleration in video encoding in android. I have used all blackberry, Windows phone (which sucks), Iphone, Symbian devices none of them have that much video format support which android consists. Mp4, AVI, MKV, WMA, FLV, Xvid, H.264 all works blazing fast on android. In addition side-loading of  videos is too simple as drag and drop (or copy and paste).  Although earlier when mobile phones were on their rise we had to manually convert the videos to the supported format of the devices but today it's very convenient and easy.
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