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[MakeUseOf] Three Ways to Find Open Registration on Private Torrent SitesToday

Invites to private torrent sites are all but non-existent unless you know someone that knows someone. Yeah, they hold open registrations every once in a while, but it is usually only open for a couple of hours or a day if you’re lucky.

Usually, you find out about the open registration once it’s over, and that does nothing but make you mad.  Today, I’m going to let you in on three different ways to find your way to one of those golden registration codes.

Tracker Checker 2

Tracker Checker 2 is a desktop application that lets you check up the registration status of all those private torrent tracker sites.

As you can see, Tracker Checker 2 comes with a lot of sites preloaded. Many of them are great torrent sites, so if you weren’t sure where to look in the first place, this list is more than good enough. However, you might want to add a few of your own favorites. Tracker Checker makes it easy to add other torrent sites.

Just type in the

[TUAW] First Look: Amazon.com app for iPhone/iPod touchToday

Filed under: Retail, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch

Today, the online retailer Amazon.com launched its first iPhone/iPod touch application. Previously, Amazon offered a version of its site that was optimized for MobileSafari. Amazon has added some pretty nifty features in the iPhone application that could make shopping online a lot easier.

When you first launch the application, you are presented with your wish list, and the phrase "Get Yourself a Little Something." From this home tab, you can also see your signed-in username. When you tap the search tab, you are able to type in a search string just as you can on the Amazon.com homepage. Search results are featured in a descending list, ordered by relevance. You can see the categories for the search results by tapping the "By Category" button in the top-right.

Once you're on a product page, you are able to see the same information that you would see on the Amazon.com page, except compacted a little

[DownloadSquad] AIM Blast: finally, you can IM multiple buddies at onceToday

Filed under: Web services, Social Software, AOL

AIM Blast is a new AOL Instant Messenger feature that makes me feel old, because I just realized that it's been a decade since I first wondered why there was no way to IM multiple buddies without opening a chatroom. Well, it's finally here, and it works pretty well. You can't make a Blast Group from within AIM, but if you go to blast.aim.com, you can set up and edit a group from there. Blast seems to work with third-party AIM clients, although AOL says that Meebo may have some problems with it.

The Blast Group will then show up on your buddy list, and any IM you send to it will go to everyone in the group. The group acts like a normal AIM account, it just puts people's individual screennames in front of their messages, so you know who's talking. When you invite people (using your group admin page), they'll get a message in AIM asking them to accept or decline. Once they're in, they can IM the gr

[Lifehacker] Watch YouTube Videos While Working Other Tasks [YouTube]Today

YouTube is full of videos that don't require singled-minded attention, but trying to keep a YouTube page visible in the background for passive watching isn't easy. Digital Inspiration's Amit Agarwal suggests two methods, though, that work great for browsing other sites or doing actual, you know, work, while keeping a video cornered and always on top. The first requires re-working a video link to its full-screen version and bookmarking it to load in Firefox's sidebar—something we've covered before with many other apps. The other method creates a mini-browser window that always stays on top using an AutoHotKey-coded app. Hit the link below for details on each idea, which should make burning through your favorite webisodes easier while still plucking away on your busy work.

How to Watch YouTube Videos While Working on other Tasks [Digital Ins

[MakeUseOf] How To Use Multiple Keyboards and Mice On One ComputerToday

I had a unusual request today from our editorial department. They were having a meeting and needed to allow “Collaborative Input” their words not mine. So after poking around and pulling some teeth I found out what they really needed. They wanted to be able to use two or more keyboards and mice on one shared screen.

We have a projector hooked up to one of our production machines and they wanted to have a “Meeting of the minds”. Allowing anyone to add to whatever they were doing. They wanted to have multiple exercises, one being a word document and another being Mspaint - think Brainstorming 2.0.

After the idea was fully explained to me I thought it was pretty cool. I hit Google and I hit Google hard. It didn’t hit back but I did find a bunch of solutions.

Of course as usual they all wanted my money! Still they were all geared towards people connecting from multiple computers to one session - like WebEx. This is not what I needed - it would work but, it would definitely be overkill.

I needed a very specific tool and I found it. It is called TeamPlayer availble from here. You load up this small application and install it. A moment later you will see this:

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