Category: "Tech Tips"

TVShack, Ninjavideo Shut Down

The Feds have shut down video streaming sites including TVShack.net, Movies-Links.TV, FilesPump.com, Now-Movies.com, PlanetMoviez.com, ThePirateCity.org and ZML.com If you try visiting tvshack.net, you will see this image instead. You can read more about it here. No worries, most of the sites will pop back up in no time. TVShack for instance has reopened their site within minutes of being shut down with a different domain (tvshack.cc) Ninjavideo is still down, but you can use Re1ease.net or Icefilms.info in the meantime. [...]

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My Firefox Plug-Ins

Chrome and Opera are the faster browsers, so I tend to open one of those (mostly Opera) when I need a quick visit to a website on my slow laptop. However, Mozilla Firefox’s strength is in its vast collection of “Add-ons”. I don’t have a ton of extensions like some people. These are the ones I find useful. In block-quotes are the descriptions provided by respective developers. 1. Adblock Plus The most useful plug-in for Firefox. Not only does it [...]

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Top Search Engines for Uploading Sites

Online Storage services like Megaupload, Mediafire, and Rapidshare provide a medium for users to store and share their files. However with the exception of a few services, they lack the search capability. The good news is that there are search sites that crawl for files hosted on online HDDs. I’ll introduce some of the top search sites that do a good job of searching through various uploading sites. There’s ton of such sites by the way. I’m only listing ones [...]

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How I Watch Sports Online

There are a lot of “watch sports” online scams. You see them everywhere from Google ads to promotional pages disguised as blogs. Here’s a simple rule, if a site asks for money or your personal information, it’s almost a guaranteed scam. I don’t have cable nor satellite, and I’m a big NBA fan. I would rather watch games on TV comfortably rather than clicking here and there, but I don’t want to pay for all the channels I’m not going [...]

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“Watch Sports in HD Online” Scams

If you are a sports fan, but don’t have the money to — or don’t want to –  pay for cable/satellite channels, you probably have tried to find free or cheaper sources online, right? I was trying to update my Online TV Scam List, and found many new scam sites. Most of them are football (American football) related. If you paid for any of these, contact them and get a refund. Some sites do offer your money back, but there [...]

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