QuickTime is one of the most used video formats in modern day. As you probably already know, the official player for QuickTime files is ‘Apple QuickTime Player’. Personally, I do not like QuickTimer Player at all – it takes a hell of a time to load, adds startup entries, rapes the registry and consumes a lot of system resources. How cool would it be if you could play QuickTime files in your favorite media player, such as in Media Player Classic? With ‘QuickTime Alternative’, this (and more) is possible. If you consider Apple’s Quicktime Player a piece of bloatware, you might find this post useful.

QuickTime Alternative is basically a free codec package that allows decoding of QuickTime formats. It even includes a browser plugin and the ability to play special QuickTime formats as well. On a side note, here is an interesting user comment I came across on FileForum about this codec pack:

God's Gift to those who require Apple codecs but refuse to pollute their machines with Apple filth.

Anyways here is a list of features and supported formats for QuickTime Alternative:

Some advantages compared to QuickTime player :

• Quick and easy install
• It's easy to make an unattended installation
• No background processes
• Use a player of your own choice
• Low on resources
• Smaller size

Features of QuickTime Alternative 2.9.0 :

• -Media Player Classic [version 6.4.9.1 rev 100]: this is a full-featured player which has internal decoding support for DVD, MPEG-2, MP3, MP2, AAC, AC3 and DTS. It also has internal support for opening Matroska and Ogg containers. Media Player Classic is also capable of playing QuickTime and RealMedia content if those codecs are installed.
• QuickTime Codecs [version 7.62.14.0]: required for playing QuickTime content.
• QuickTime DirectShow filter: allows you to play QuickTime content in all DirectShow enabled players. Without this filter QuickTime content can only be played in Media Player Classic.
• QuickTime plugin for Internet Explorer: allows you to view QuickTime content that is embedded in a webpage. It is installed together with the QuickTime codecs.
• QuickTime plugin for Opera/Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape/Google Chrome: allows you to view QuickTime content that is embedded in a webpage.
• Extra plugins for QuickTime: plugins for viewing some special formats that are sometimes used on webpages.
• CoreAVC: is an external filter for Media Player classic
• CoreAAC: is an AAC DirectShow filter decoder based on FAAD2.

There is also a Lite version of the codecc pack which does not come with Media Player Classic.

Download

[Click Here] to download latest version of QuickTime Alternative from Free-Codecs

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Something we’ve learned from our recent posts about private trackers is that you can never have enough HD trackers. No matter how many specialized HD sites we post about, such articles always seem to get a lot of hits than others. Guess we have a lot of High-Def fans among us. Anyway this article is about another new and promising HD tracker – Ace-HD. Ace-HD is the sister site of popular General/0Day torrent tracker AceTorrents (Signups Open). Movies, TV shows and even documentaries in high definition formats can be found on this site.

Launched on the 5th of June, Ace-HD is only a few days old. The following welcome message is posted on the site:

Welcome to Ace-HD, a brand new torrent site, dedicated to high definition downloads.
Our uploaders so far have kindly provided a starting base of around 100 torrents, but we are currently looking for new uploaders that can provide both scene and non scene high definition content. If you think this is you and you have a high speed connection in which you can seed from, please contact a member of staff. Unfortunately we are only accepting applications from people who have 5Mbit upload speed minimum as most content is fairly large and we want to offer the best speeds possible.
We hope you enjoy the site and feel free to use our forums - you can also provide us with some feedback via the forums.
Last but not least, please let your friends know about us and help our site grow into one of the best HD sites out there .
Site is Freeleech

In fact there are now over 200 HD torrents indexed on Ace-HD. Membership count has also surpassed 450 members. These are pretty good statistics for a one week old private tracker (no doubt they had a lot of help from the big brother AceTorrents).

Speaking about the content on Ace-HD, there are movies, TV shows, music videos, documentaries and even adult content online - both scene and non scene releases. All of these are in high definition formats (720p and 1080p - x264 encodes mostly). There are individual torrents as well as several exclusive packs. Separate categories for both movie and TV packs possibly means that we could expect a lot of unique torrent collections from Ace-HD in the near future.

As you can probably see from the above screenshot, Ace-HD’s interface is pretty decent. Category icons are beautiful, the layout is clean and very much navigable and of course, there are about 7 color schemes to choose from.

Registrations for Ace-HD is currently open. All new members get 5GB free upload credit and don’t forget that the entire site is on free leech right now.

Site Name: Ace-HD (http://www.ace-hd.net)
Signup URL: http://www.ace-hd.net/signup.php
Categories:

• BDRips
• Bluray
• Docu
• Miscellaneous
• Music-Vids
• TV-720p
• TV-1080p
• TV-Packs
• x264-720p
• x264-1080p
• x264-packs

Also, don’t forget that Ace-HD’s sister site AceTorrents is also open for signup as of now:

Site Name: Ace Torrents (http://www.acetorrents.net)
Signup URL: http://www.acetorrents.net/signup.php
Stats: 20100+ users and 6700+ torrents

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One of the best things about the warez scene is it’s adherence to a tight set of rules & regulations. These ‘scene rules’ ensures the quality of releases & helps keep the scene more organized. When a release is not in accordance with rules, it can be made invalid. This is calling ‘nuking’. A nuke based on non existent rules or made up reasons can be undone – this is called and un-nuke. If the same release is getting nuked and un-nuked multiple times, it’s referred to as a Nukewar. When a release is nuked or un nuked, reason for the action is usually mentioned along with the nuke announcement. This post captures some of the funniest nuke reasons associated with scene releases over the past couple of years.

Nuke reasons are highlighted in bold.

NukeWar 01

[ NUKE ] - [ Ose Seras SP 2006 MXS ] - [ cd.is.fuked.up.no.sound ]
[ UNNUKE ] - [ Ose Seras SP 2006 MXS ] - [ sorry.cd.is.fine.i.had. speakers.on.mute ]

NukeWar 02

The Dead Girl LIMITED DVDSCR XViD mVs
NUKE stolen.video audio.from.MrNiCeGuY_without.permission
The Dead Girl LIMITED DVDSCR XViD mVs
UNNUKE stolen.from.hollywood.without.permission

NukeWar 03

[ NUKE ] Ass.Worship.9.DiSC2.XviD-SPiCE [ mislabeled.xxx ]
[ UNNUKE ] Ass.Worship.9.DiSC2.XviD-SPiCE [ you.think.its.a.romantic.comedy? ]

NukeWar 04

[ NUKE ] - Art.Vandalay.Inc.-Art.Soft - [ tell.your.mom.to.stop.changing.lipsticks.my.dicks. starting.to.look.like.a.fuc*ing.rainbow ]

NukeWar 05

[NUKE]--[The.Astronaut.Farmer.CAM.XviD-FuZe]--[torrentfile.reports.hash.errors_unable.to.download.and.seed]

NukeWar 06

[ NUKE ] - [ Marcus 2006 DVDRip XviD VoMiT ] - [ pre.with.a.sample ]
[ UNNUKE ] - [ Marcus 2006 DVDRip XviD VoMiT ] - [ it.did_watching.it_get.better.sites ]
[ NUKE ] - [ Marcus 2006 DVDRip XviD VoMiT ] - [ 11+.sites.no.sample.stfu ]
[ UNNUKE ] - [ Marcus 2006 DVDRip XviD VoMiT ] - [ blame.racers.not.grp ]
[ NUKE ] - [ Marcus 2006 DVDRip XviD VoMiT ] - [ coincidence._dont.think.so ]
[ UNNUKE ] - [ Marcus 2006 DVDRip XviD VoMiT ] - [ fine ]
[ NUKE ] - [ Marcus 2006 DVDRip XviD VoMiT ] - [ not ]
[ UNNUKE ] - [ Marcus 2006 DVDRip XviD VoMiT ] - [ your.curries.are.lame ]
[ NUKE ] - [ Marcus 2006 DVDRip XviD VoMiT ] - [ ur.being.lame.final.nuke ]
[ UNNUKE ] - [ Marcus 2006 DVDRip XviD VoMiT ] - [ fine ]
[ NUKE ] - [ Marcus 2006 DVDRip XviD VoMiT ] - [ NUKE ]
[ UNNUKE ] - [ Marcus 2006 DVDRip XviD VoMiT ] - [ fine.GET.PROPER.SITES.newbi ]

NukeWar 07

NUKE -> Hotter.Than.Hell.1.XviD-NYMPHO (missing.sfv.cd1)
UNNUKE -> Hotter.Than.Hell.1.XviD-NYMPHO (get.better.sites.plz)
NUKE -> Hotter.Than.Hell.1.XviD-NYMPHO (lol.u.pre.on.my.site!)

NukeWar 08 

(PRE)-(TV)-(Crossing.Jordan.S06E07.HDTV.XviD-XOR)- (XOR)-(700)
(PRE)-(TV)-(Crossing.Jordan.S06E07.HDTV.XviD-NoTV) -(NoTV)-(430)
(NUKE)-(Crossing.Jordan.S06E07.HDTV.XviD-NoTV)-(lost.race.to.XOR)
(UNNUKE)-(Crossing.Jordan.S06E07.HDTV.XviD-NoTV)-( fine)
(NUKE)-(Crossing.Jordan.S06E07.HDTV.XviD-XOR)-(lost.race.to.NoTV)
(NUKE)-(Crossing.Jordan.S06E07.HDTV.XviD-NoTV)-(lost.race.to.XOR)
(NUKE)-(Crossing.Jordan.S06E07.HDTV.XviD-NoTV)-(dupe.XOR.03-07-2007)
(UNNUKE)-(Crossing.Jordan.S06E07.HDTV.XviD-NoTV)-( fix)
(UNNUKE)-(Crossing.Jordan.S06E07.HDTV.XviD-XOR)-(we.won.the.race.by.seconds.so.wtfu)
(NUKE)-(Crossing.Jordan.S06E07.HDTV.XviD-NoTV)-(dupe.XOR.2007-03-07)
(NUKE)-(Crossing.Jordan.S06E07.HDTV.XviD-NoTV)-(dupe.XOR.2007-03-07)
(UNNUKE)-(Crossing.Jordan.S06E07.HDTV.XviD-NoTV)-( NoTV.pred.first)
(NUKE)-(Crossing.Jordan.S06E07.HDTV.XviD-XOR)-(dupe.NoTV.2007-03-0)
(NUKE)-(Crossing.Jordan.S06E07.HDTV.XviD-XOR)-(dupe.NoTV.sameday)
(UNNUKE)-(Crossing.Jordan.S06E07.HDTV.XviD-XOR)-(clear.winner.by.4seconds)
(NUKE)-(Crossing.Jordan.S06E07.HDTV.XviD-XOR)-(lost.race.by.6seconds.to.NoTV)
(NUKE)-(Crossing.Jordan.S06E07.HDTV.XviD-NoTV)-(dupe.XOR.2007-03-0 )
(NUKE)-(Crossing.Jordan.S06E07.HDTV.XviD-XOR)-(lost.race.by.6seconds.to.NoTV)
(UNNUKE)-(Crossing.Jordan.S06E07.HDTV.XviD-NoTV)-( fine.won.race)

While some of the above actually came from within the scene, some (such as NukeWar 05) may have come from p2p oriented pre databases/sources. Anyways the above list goes on to show how much e-drama can sometimes be associated with a pirated release.

Credits: Note that I found all of the above on a thread on SCL (well there were other places with the same stuff but the SCL thread was the most complete and the oldest so I guess it’s the original source). Anyways full credit to original poster – i wouldn't have been able to find these even if i stared at pre channels non stop for the past two years.

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First of all do not be mistaken that TTi is open for signup – it is not. However I noticed something funny happening with their signup page. I had check4change setup to alert if any changes were made to tti.nu/signup.php and it did indeed alert me about content on the page changing. It was however not an open signup as I hoped it would be. Instead of the usual signup closed message you get on most private trackers, the following mysterious string was displayed on TTi’s page; 4dd77ecaf88620f5da8967bbd91d9506.

I couldn’t figure out what it was until someone on IRC said it was an MD5 hash value. Decrypting the hash using http://www.md5decrypter.com/ showed some pretty interesting results:

It’s probably the site’s coders having a little fun.

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We know for a fact that there are a lot of classic/obscure movie fans among FILEnetworks Blog readers. However only a handful BitTorrent trackers specializing in this niche such as Cinematik, Cinemageddon and Classic Cinema Zone have been featured here before. Good news is that today we are going to talk about another classic movie/TV tracker; I Love Classics (ILC). I Love Classics is only about two weeks old and is still a very young private torrent site. The start however has been a good one so far – lots of new torrents have been added and if the trend continues, ILC will definitely have a good future in the BitTorrent scene.

Currently there are over 500 active torrents indexed and tracked on I Love Classics. Around 30 new torrents seem to be added every day. ILC however needs more users – there are only around 250 registered users and lots of torrents are left with 1 seeder (the original uploader) as a consequence. Hopefully the open signup period will attract some more users as it will definitely help the tracker survive in the long run.

As for the content, this site tracks both movies and TV. Apart from classic movies related to various genres such as comedy, western, thriller, etc, some old TV shows such as Space Patrol, Land of the Lost, etc can also be found. Although there are plenty of movies indexed, the TV shows selection on ILC is somewhat limited (nowhere near that of TV-Vault). However don’t forget that this is a new tracker – all well established trackers usually start small.  The following screenshot displays part of the torrent index on ILC:

Notice the little F icon next to a torrent name? (see screenshot) That means the torrent is on free leech. ILC is on global free leech till the 1st of July so you can download your ass off here.

I Love Classics is currently open for registration. All new users get 1 free invitation. We do not know how long the signups will stay open so get in when you can.

Site Name: I Love Classics (http://www.iloveclassics.com)

Signup URL:  http://www.iloveclassics.com/signup.php

Categories:

• Action/Adventure
• Audio
• Comedy
• Documentary
• Drama
• Family/Animation
• Fantasy/Sci-Fi
• Film Noir
• Film Short
• Horror
• Martial Arts
• Musical
• Mystery/Crime
• Other
• Romance
• Silent
• Thriller
• TV Shows
• War
• Western

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Yesterday we reported about how Prototype (PC) was leaked online. I managed to get hold of a copy of the game and from my experience it was good game overall. The gameplay was extremely fun with lots of cool abilities, blood, gore and violence :P. However I believe the graphics could have been a little better. Most of the building and city textures look dated but model detail was pretty good. Anyway the aim of this article is to discuss various problems that might arise with Prototype and to discuss possible solutions and fixes for any such issues.

Note that this article is a work in progress. More issues/fixes will be added as we get further information.

Audio issues in cutscenes, stuttering/too fast audio playback or low volume level (quite audio)

Although Prototype is a relatively bug free port, some users have apparently run into audio problems with the game. These include stuttering or skipping audio, audio being played too fast (at high speed), or really low volume levels. I too experienced the weird cutscenes audio and small noise/stuttering and it was a good old fix that worked for Call of Duty 5 that finally saved the day.

1. Go to your sound card’s control panel.
2. Locate the option that allows you change the default audio format for the card.
3. Set the default format to 24-bits, 48000Hz or less (if it doesn't work with 48000Hz, try 24 bits, 44100Hz)

 
Image: How the default format selection looks in RealTek HD Audio manager

If you set your sound card’s audio format to anything higher than 24 Bits, 48000 Hz, you may experience audio issues with Prototype. Note that this is not an in-game setting. This setting should be changed from your audio card’s control panel (Realtek HD Audio Manager, etc). If you cannot find the option in your sound card software you can try the generic fix below:

1. Right click volume control on system tray and choose Playback devices.
2. Choose the your default playback deveice and click properties.
3. Go to the advanced tab. The default audio format should be selectable from there.

As for the low volume level, I haven’t quite figure out a way around it yet. However you can play around with your speaker configuration (change it to 5.1, 7.1) and see if it makes a difference. You can of course try turning up the volume on your speakers.

How do i change the screen resolution of Prototype? My screen resolution is not supported.

Instead of making available all resolutions to all users, Prototype devs have decided to enable certain resolutions only for video cards with high memory. This in my opinion was a bad choice. Anyways only the following screen resolutions are available if your video card has less than 512MB of video memory.

• 640 x 480
• 800 x 480
• 800 x 600
• 1024 x 768
• 1152 x 720
• 1152 x 864
• 1280 x 720
• 1280 x 800

The following resolutions (plus all of the above) are available for video cards with 512MB or more video memory.

• 1280 x 1024
• 1440 x 900
• 1600 x 1200
• 1680 x 1050
• 1920 x 1080
• 1920 x 1200
• 2048 x 1152
• 2048 x 1536
• 2560 x 1600

Usually it’s possible to manually edit game configuration files and force resolutions that are unavailable by default. However Prototype’s config files seems to be encoded and I haven’t figured out a way to edit them yet. ill update if I come across anything new.

Prototype installer takes a long time to complete or hangs at installation

Some users have reported Prototype installer taking an abnormally large amount of time to complete or sometimes hang or crash at installation. I never experienced this myself but here are a few fixes you can try (on Windows 7 64-bit) if you encounter similar problems:

• Windows 7 Installer crashes – Fix
  OR
• Go to control Panel and click on "Local Security Setting" click on "Software Restriction Policies" in the right hand column double click on "enforcement" under this topic "Apply software restriction policies to the following user make sure you click on "to all users except local administrators"

My rig exceeds all requirements but gameplay performance is slow or game crashes to desktop, etc

I’ve seen people experience crashes or slowdowns with the game even if their computers exceed minimum system requirements. Usually, such random crashes and slowdowns are pretty hard to troubleshoot. But if you use a NVIDIA video card, I suggest you try playing the game with v186.08 beta drivers (download). Also note that prototype might display the frame rate incorrectly (the game says your FPS is 10-12 while the actual gameplay is smooth). If this is the case, just ignore it.

1. Update DirectX – If you are using Windows XP, please update to the latest DirectX monthly runtime. This will get rid of all the ‘missing dll file’ errors and will reduce the possibility of in game crashes. Latest monthly runtime can be found here.
2. Update Video card drivers – Both NVIDIA and ATI have recent video drivers out – you should always try updating to the latest official driver version available for your hardware for best performance. If anything goes wrong, the option to rollback to previous release is always there.
   ATI Drivers: Download the latest ATI Catalyst drivers from this link: http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx
   NVIDIA Drivers: Download latest official NVIDIA drivers from this link: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
   For Beta ATI/NVIDIA drivers for Windows 7, XP and Vista, check out this page: http://downloads.guru3d.com/
3. Update sound card and motherboard drivers - Click Here to download 3DP Chip for Windows Vista/XP – This program will automatically detect your hardware (video card, sound card and motherboard) and find available driver updates.

How do i run Prototype in windowed mode?

Bad news is you can’t. Following is mentioned on the game Readme file - Windowed mode is not a supported feature of Prototype™ as you may get unexpected results.

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Here is a site that fans of Asian movies, TV , anime and drama will enjoy greatly. AZNV provides free high quality streaming video for premium Asian content online. I’ve seen this site being listed on many private tracker automatic open signup checker sites and BitTorrent forums but it is NOT a torrent tracker. If you are looking for torrents do not even bother registering. AZNV is all about online streaming and it does not operate a BitTorrent tracker at all. Anyways lack of torrents does not mean this is a bad site – it’s an excellent resource for those who seek high quality online video streaming links for movies and TV shows from Asian region.

Those of you who are used to private BitTorrent trackers might find the site layout pretty unfamiliar. It however does come packed with features such as detailed content descriptions, favorites, bookmarks, popular categories, ability to sort content by language/country/rank, stream listings, user ratings for indexed shows and many other enhancements.

Unlike popular streaming sites such as YouTube or DailyMotion, AZNV.TV does not use flash video. The reason is very well explained on the site itself:

AZNV.TV isn't your typical online video streaming site. We don't use flash, so you won't be watching anything in your web browser. Instead, the NSV container is used along with VP62 video and HE-AAC audio as our choice of codecs. Just for some quick history, we've been doing this since 2004 - way before sites like YouTube and Veoh were even around. And at that time, Flash video was uber crap and not fit for any kind of video streaming. The only options then were Windows Media, Real Media among some of the technologies available... but we chose NSV because at the time Winamp TV was popular and it did offered the best quality. Just ask some of our oldest members :)

Users without the necessary codecs to play AZTN’s streaming links will be automatically taken to a page with all the instructions and download links configure everything properly.

Unlike most other streaming sites, AZNV is not open to the public. Users either need to register during an open registrations period or need to get invited from an existing member. The does open up from time to time but open signups usually don’t last for more than a few minutes. At the time this post is being written, AZNV is open for registrations. We cannot guarantee it’ll be open for very long but if you are lucky, you might get in. If you couldn’t get in, don’t lose hope because it randomly opens up quite frequently

Site Name: AZNV.TV (http://aznv.tv)

Signup URL: http://aznv.tv/?p=register

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One of the most anticipated PC games of 2009, Prototype, has just been cracked by veteran scene group Razor1911. The cracked release has leaked online and the leak comes right on the game’s official release date in North America (9th of June). The game has not even been released in Europe yet. Prototype is a open ended action game developed by Radical Entertainment which has a really interesting storyline. Judging by various previews of the game, Prototype has fantastic graphics and great gameplay as well.

Coming back to the leaked release, this game was protected by Sony’s SecuROM DRM (Digital Rights Management) software. Razor1911 has apparently cracked the protection and have included a cracked game executable which will allow pirates to play the game without serial/cd-key checks, DVD checks or online registration. It is currently not known if any SecuROM triggers were present in the game or if Razor1911 managed to remove all of them in their crack (SecuROM API allows developers to insert triggers (checks) at various points in game and if triggered these mess up a critical part of the game, usually rendering it unplayable.). The leaked release which is around 7.4GB in file size also contains a full DVD ISO of the game. Cracked version of the game has already made its way into the public from scene topsites to public and private BitTorrent trackers, one click hosting sites, etc.

Speaking of the game, this looks like a must have title for any PC gamer. I couldn't find any review of the game online so far but XBOX360 and PS3 versions of Prototype have both got an aggregate score of 90% on Gamerankings.com.

Note: This post is for informational purposes only. Do not post links to cracks, key generators or anything of that sort here.

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When browsing through the usual file sharing forums today, I came across several recent threads about TheScene.Ro music tracker (TSCN). Since this was not exactly a brand new torrent site, i decided to check what the renewed buzz was all about. Ever since we featured it for the first time last January, TheScene.Ro has apparently undergone several changes in the last few months,  One of the major changes is that the site has now become a ratio free tracker. In the meantime, TSCN has beta tested an automatic torrent upload script with some good results. Additionally, 3500 inactive accounts have been pruned and public registrations have been made available once again.

As you might already know, there aren’t many ratio free music trackers currently online (except for a few like CoExist) so TheScene could actually attract a few more users with this move. Although the need to maintain a specific upload:download ratio is gone, users however need to maintain a monthly minimum traffic requirement of 300MB. In other words, the sum of your total download and upload traffic for each month should exceed 300mb (ex- if you download 250mb and upload 50mb, you’ll still be fine).

A mass PM sent to existing users of TheScene.Ro explains some of the changes in detail:

The test period for the auto-upload script it's ended with success. In approximately 24 hours, there were uploaded more then 250 torrents, having great pretimes, being in front of the "big, specialized trackers" .

Another "surprise" of the staff team it's the new approach way of traffic measurement. From today, TSCN it's joining those trackers which have gave up at the "ratio system" ,hoping that we'll get rid of the "i don't have enough ratio to download" thinking.
The new system it's based on total traffic , and the counting of download + upload amount. For now , the only rule kept is that all users must make at least an amount of  300 mb / monthly , for not getting disabled .

*The upload is still free for POWER USERS .
*We expect to see opinions about this .

Sure it cannot match the torrent index of What.cd or waffles.fm, but TSCN is still a decent music tracker. As of 7/6/2009, this tracker has 5400+ registered members and tracks close to 1800 torrents. The site’s origins lie in Romania however majority of indexed torrents point to English music (audio and music video) releases. Below is a screenshot of part of TSCN’s torrent index:

As mentioned at the stat of this article, public registrations for TheScene.Ro are currently open (over 3500 accounts inactive for 90 days were recently deleted). If you want to check this tracker out, you can create a free account now.

Site Name: The Scene (http://thescene.ro/)

Signup URL: http://thescene.ro/signup.php

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Buzzwords on the internet these days are Google’s Wave and Microsoft’s Bing. However this post is about neither - we are going to talk about a somewhat lesser known but really cool web application; G.ho.st or Ghost (Global Hosted Operating System). G.ho.st is basically a virtual computer which comes complete with an operating system, a desktop, file storage and even applications. Unlike traditional operating systems, G.ho.st does not reside on a single PC – it resides on the internet, accessible to the user via any computer with internet access or even a compatible mobile phone.

As you can see from the above screenshot, Ghost’s interface is similar to that of Windows Vista. It has a start menu, a desktop with icons, a control panel, an E-mail client, RSS readers, games, multimedia players and tons of other features. There are links to several dozen web applications such as Google Docs, Zoho apps suite, Meebo and ThinkFree. The service offers gigabytes of online storage (you get additional GBs when you invite friends to the service) and even file sharing.

If you are a person who’s on the go, this web application can be immensely useful. Imagine that you are accessing the web from an internet cafe or a public computer at work - with Ghost, all your files, applications, settings, bookmarks, RSS, E-mail, etc will be available to you at the click of a button. Given below are some of the major features of this free service:

• Access your desktop, files, apps and settings from any Internet browser
• Desktop and apps run without the need for installation or updating
• Customize your desktop and choose from 20+ available languages
• Share or publish your files directly from the G.ho.st® DriveG.ho.st® has chosen the very best available storage service for your precious data - Amazon Web Services
• Read, write and edit documents, spreadsheets and presentations using G.ho.st® integrations with Zoho, directly from your G.ho.st® Storage
• Edit Google Docs, sheets and presentations stored at Google from within G.ho.st®
• 15GB professionally hosted and backed-up disk space
• Many file types can be viewed or edited online with a simple double-click
• Upload and sync your documents, photos and music easily using the G.ho.st® Upload Download Utility, Sync program or FTP
• Manage your e-mails, calendar and contacts with the Web's leading collaboratoin suite
• You will receive a yourGhostID @G.ho.st email and can retrieve other emails as well (using "POP3")
• Manage smart shortcuts called Tagged Things to Web resources - webmarks (URLs), files, photos, videos, music, products
• Single sign-on to other services such as Google Docs using My Logins
• The G.ho.st® Virtual File System shows you G.ho.st® Drive files, Google Docs files and other Web files all in one place
• Yes G.ho.st® runs within the browser but also contains a browser of it's own! Whichever computer you are on, the G.ho.st® Browser will have your history, your webmarks, and your "cookies" so that other sites will recognize you

How to sign up and access the service

[Click Here] to access to G.ho.st homepage. You can either sign up for a free account using the ‘Sign up’ button or instantly check out the service using the ‘Guest account’ option.

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