File-Sharing

There is an online service for almost everything these days, and new one of it's kind service Check My Torrent IP plugs a gap which nobody else addressed which is to let users check there publicly exposed IP information while downloading torrents - this can come handy if you are using online anonymity service like TorrentPrivacy or VPN and wants to check whether it is working as expected or not.

There are tons of free and paid anonymous VPN services but majority of them don't allow P2P traffic thus blocking torrent downloading, if you are concerned about your privacy while downloading torrents you have no option but to opt for a specialized high-speed, secure and anonymous paid torrent downloading service like TorrentPrivacy which offers a fully anonymous and secure encrypted SSH tunnel for downloading making your browsing invisible to anybody in between, including your ISP.

The best thing about TorrentPrivacy is its fool-proof setup - all you need to do is to launch the software and choose your nearest location, TorrentPrivacy will now launch its secure custom version of uTorrent allowing high-speed secure torrent downloads, the good news is that we have been provided five free exclusive one-month accounts for out blog readers.

We have reviewed many free VPN service's and most of them require installing and configuring VPN software for getting connected, new VPN service HideIP VPN takes the pain out of using anonymous VPN services by offering PPTP protocol based USA and UK VPN servers - allowing users to enjoy anonymity from PC, MAC, Linux or mobile-devices like iPhone without the need to install or use any third party utility.

It took me just five-minutes to create two separate HideIP VPN PPTP connections for USA and UK servers on my Windows 7 system, now to get connected all I need to do is to click the connection icon of desired country and enjoy fast, anonymous and unrestricted access to region specific content.

Apart from their premium VPN service HideIP VPN offers an limited number of free VPN accounts monthly which gets grabbed pretty quickly, the good news is that we have 75 free EXCLUSIVE invites to giveaway to our regular blog readers.

WinX DVD Ripper Platinum is an easy to use professional utility offering DVD ripping and conversion to popular video formats compatible with various devices like Apple iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, PDA, Zune, Sony PSP and mobile phones - the utility allows fast and efficient direct video conversion from DVDs, CSS protected DVDs and region 1-6 DVDs to popular formats like AVI, FLV, WMV, MPEG, MP4, RMVB, MP3 and 3GP etc.

Apart from the regular video conversion process WinX DVD Ripper Platinum also features automatic detection and connection to portable devices and comes with support of advanced features like options to clip video, adjust subtitles and selection of output video quality, normally WinX DVD Ripper Platinum is available for purchasing at a price of $24.95 for a lifetime license but under a special EXCLUSIVE giveaway for MegaLeecher users you can grab a fully licensed free copy of this utility, their is no limit to the amount of giveaway license and you and your friends are free to benefit from the promotion between 15 Sep 2009 and 15 Oct 2009.

Finally, links to download iPod Touch and iPhone OS 3.1 are live and users can download them right now either automatically via iTunes or direct links provided at end of the post, the update is free for all iPhone users and iPod Touch users having firmware version 3.0 - it seems iPod touch users having older firmware version needs to pay $4.95 for getting iPod Touch OS 3.1.

The software upgrade fixes quite some issues and bugs and introduces new features as follows.

To add more value to the existing Rapidshare reward point system leading online file-hoster Rapidshare.Com is introducing the new RapidShare points system 2.0 - with introduction of the new system users earn a Premium-RapidPoint when Premium users download a total of 100 MB traffic volume generated by any of their files bigger than 5 MB, these Premium-RapidPoints will now be counted separately from the classical (Free-)RapidPoints, users can exchange Premium-RapidPoints for Free-RapidPoints and ReferrerPoints.

The good news is to compensation for the waiting time until the new points system kicks in, Rapidshare.Com is offering summer special discount allowing users to create a 30-days Premium Account for only 1998 Free-RapidPoints instead of 10000 points earlier.

Increasing TCP/IP maximum half open connection limit is known to boost P2P applications and accelerate torrent downloading, IObit has now came up with an P2P optimizer named P2PTurbo which allows you to tweak and optimize other TCP/IP and internet settings as well with ease.

P2PTurbo scans your computer, network settings and P2P network environment for accurate detection and optimization of bottlenecks slowing down your P2P connections, the utility supports most P2P Clients like BitTorrent, Limwire, Imesh, Morpheus, Ares Galaxy, Bitcomet, WarezP2P, DC++, eDonkey, eMule, BearShare, Kazaa, WinMX and Shareaza.

There are quite a few decent automated downloaders supporting simultaneous downloads from various file-sharing services like RDesc and Tucan, but all new Java based multi-platform FreeRapid Downloader would be one of the best multi-service downloader we have ever came across, supporting fully automated downloads from 87 file-sharing services like Rapidshare, Megaupload, Mediafire and Hotfile to name a few.

The utility supports plugin based architecture allowing easy expansion of supported file-hosters and comes equipped with features like support for proxy lists, download history, smart clipboard monitoring, simple CAPTCHA recognition, automated plugin updates, multi-language support and interface skins.

Anonymous torrent downloading is one such feature that many paid and free VPN services like AceVPN often block, specialized free anonymous torrent downloading services like BitBlinder are not very fast and premium services like IPREDATOR requires paid subscription, however with new free anonymous torrent downloading VPN service "ItsHidden" everyone can enjoy secure private torrent downloads without paying anything.

The best part is that unlike other VPN services ItsHidden does not require any additional software and works by configuring your Operating system to connect via the secure encrypted VPN tunnel, the service is currently open to free signups and is under beta testing phase.

A favorite of free anti-virus users avast! antivirus is all set to leap into next major version with beta versions of upcoming avast! antivirus 5 being made available for downloads in couple of weeks, the all new avast! version 5 will come in three flavors - Free, Professional and Security Center Edition, the free version will retain all the functionality as existing Home Edition with new extras, the paid professional version will now include a new virtualization module and the Security suite edition adds an Firewall coupled with an anti-spam module to offer complete security.

Apart from the completely redesigned easier to use interface the new version incorporates various performance optimizations which reduces boot-up and scanning time considerably with the new engine detecting more viruses consuming less resources.