File-Sharing

SoundCloud is a new online application to collaborate, promote & distribute music, on the very basic level SoundCloud allow users to send and receive music tracks with ease, the service lets you upload any audio file format of any size, Once uploaded you can easily allow it for public sharing or mark it for private access to people on your SoundCloud contact list Or, send the track directly to email addresses.

The whole system is based around simple to use online track player, allowing you to preview, download and share tracks. You receive new tracks in your dashboard where you can quickly listen through, remove, comment or favorite them, before deciding if you want to download. The whole system is a must have for music professionals - Single log in, one place, no worry about the links, Think the dashboard as a dedicated music inbox, with a play button. SoundCloud allows all users to listen and download music as mp3 tracks marked for public sharing by the uploader, you can also download and use the tracks on your cellphones as ringtones.

Pilot episode of the upcoming FOX TV series "Fringe" got leaked on torrent portals months ago before the official release date in September 2008.

From J.J. Abrams the creator of "Lost", Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, the team behind "Star Trek," "Mission: Impossible III" and "Alias," the show pilot is definitely getting attention with more then 60000 downloads from a single torrent at mininova, unlike earlier leaks this one seems to be doing good for the show generating a lot of hype and discussion all over.

Netload.in is one of the top (Alexa site rank : 330) free file-hosting service provider offering decent download speeds, but is very annoying to use because of the popunders and waiting times, but here is an easy to use solution for the problem - simply install this Greasemonkey script (You will need Firefox with Greasemonkey installed) and get rid of those popups and wait times.

File-sharing service Rapidshare today unveiled there new logo and website design with new features, the new site is more appealing to the eyes and provides a much better experience in terms of usability, from now on "Rapidshare Premium Users" will be able to download 50 GB in five days instead of the earlier 25 GB limit, "Rapidshare Folders" is now "Rapidshare Link List" and has a new seprate administration for Free Users, "Rapidshare Direct Download" is now "TrafficShare", Rapidshare is also expectd to release new features in the upcoming days, a rapidshare search feature would be really helpful.

New Rapidshare Premium Zone

Ono is a simple plugin for popular Bittorrent client Azureus to accelerate speeds upto 207% on average, according to the project developer team at Northwestern University’s AquaLab group:

For most P2P applications, the decision regarding which peer to download from is generally arbitrary. When most peers offer good download performance, the random solution works well. However, if most peers are in a different part of the world from you, your downloads can really suffer.

The Ono plugin avoids this by proactively finding peers that are close to you (in a networking sense). These peers generally offer better response time, which can lead to significantly improved performance. We identify those peers that are near you by reusing network measurements from content distribution networks (CDNs), i.e. without performing extensive path measurement or probing.

So does this work? In a word, yes. Using results collected from our participating users (well over 100,000 of them!), we have found that our system locates peers along paths that have two orders of magnitude lower latency and 30% lower loss rates than those picked at random by BitTorrent, and that these high-quality paths can lead to significant improvements in transfer rates. In challenged settings where peers are overloaded in terms of available bandwidth, Ono provides a 31% average download-rate improvement; in environments with large available bandwidth, Ono increases download rates by 207% on average (and improves median rates by 883%).

Torrent2Exe is a free online service allowing users to create standalone executables from .torrent files for easy single click file downloads for not so computer savvy users. The service comes in handy when you want to make someone download something off the bittorrent network but he or she is not comfortable with the protocol, you simply upload the torrent to Torrent2Exe for them and create a executable which can be shared with anyone to download that particular file with ease.