Ok, this blog is going to turn into a blog to show people how to do things with their computers and stuff. Leave some suggestions of some stuff you want me to explain to you and I'll write about it if I can.
For the first week, I'll explain torrents. For all of you who still use Limewire or something for every, you are all noobs. Torrents are way better for larger file and have way better quality for everything.
Torrents are files shared among others. To put it simply, You are downloading bits and pieces of a file from other computers who have the file downloaded and are seeding. More about seeding later.
1. First thing you have to do is download a torrent client. I suggest Bitcomet, Bitlord, and what I actually use uTorrent. For beginners I think Bitcomet would be the best for you since it has a very easy user interface.
2. Now that you downloaded the torrent client, you're now going to want to go and start downloading. Now some torrent clients have search boxes where you can search things, but I prefer to go to websites to search for my torrents. A couple good websites are the infamous The Pirate Bay and Demonoid. The more advanced torrent users will use torrent search engines like Oink which is an invite only search. If you can get an invite to one of these websites its definitely the best and safest place to download your torrents from. When you search a torrent you want to download, you will end up usually with a long list of torrents all for the same thing you searched for. You must pick the one with the most Seeds (usually under the column marked S) That means that this file is the one more people have to share it with you so you will have a faster download.
3. That is actually the easiest part, even though it is the longest part. Torrents come in many files types and this is probably the most confusing for non-torrent users. Video files are going to come in all sorts of file types. Using Windows Media Player is not going to cut it because of all the possible codecs you might need to download. So I suggest getting VLC player. Other files will come in .rar files or .zip files which need to be unzipped. I suggest using Winrar to unzip all of those. When you download larger files like applications and games is when it gets more complicated. Those files come in .iso files. I will explain .iso files another week.
4. Once you have all of that your done! All you gotta do is make sure you keep seeding your files so other people can download them too. Thats what makes torrents go.
BTW, downloading torrents uses a large amount of bandwidth. A broadband connection is pretty much required. If you do download a lot of torrents be careful because broadband providers watch your bandwidth and if you use too much they will disconnect your internet for a while. They might even send you an email or something warning you to stop downloading.
I can not be blamed for any viruses (which there really are none because this is safer than limewire and stuff) and internet disconnections. The best way to learn about torrents is downloading them.
I am in no way endorsing the use of illegal downloading, but if it is necessary or if you are on a tight budget, I hope this helped you get started.
