Computers / Electronics / Music / Games

i tryed frostwire, im my opinion it sucked, it showed very few song selections and the rest were all spam, i tried bearshare, the selection is amazing, but most of the songs are all in wma format, and i need mp3 only to transfer to itunes..so what is another good program to use please?

I did a search in the other sub-forum and did'nt quite get the answer I was looking for. I am looking to get the wife an MP3 player for christmas. Looking at around an 8-16 gb model. What do you guys suggest. What features sould I look for. 1st choice is an Ipod Nano. What about the Zune, or Sandisk models? Just looking at input before I buy one. Thanks, Toolmaker Mods: If this needs to be moved, go ahead, just trying to get a more diverse suggestion.

Link to comparison on newegg>> Newegg comparison Calvary Western Digital Elements Seagate Western Digital My Book Maxtor APRICORN

I'm looking to buy a new laptop, Alienware is what i want... The Alienware M15x. I need some opinions/thoughts on the configurations below. Dell customer service helped me out picking them.. (Its all gibberish to me) I told them i want it fast, dvd player, cd burner, and able to play Call of duty with no lag. How does this look? Alienware M15x, Cosmic Black Intel® Core™ i5-540M 2.53GHz (3.06Ghz Turbo Mode, 3M cache) 6GB Memory (1x 2GB, 1x 4GB DDR3) 15.6-inch WideFHD 1920x1080 (1080p) WLED 1GB GDDR5 ATI Radeon™ Mobility HD 5850 500GB SATAII 7,200RPM Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English Adobe Acrobat Reader Slot-Loading Dual Layer Blu-ray Reader (BR-ROM, DVD+-…

are you a Intel person, or AMD, along with Nvidia or ATI? Post CPU Type, then GPU type Intel Quad Core Q9550S, EVGA GTX 285.

Proud owner of 2 Intel items.... i7 2600k + Intel SSD 160GB ... didn't pay alot either....!!!! One of the very few perks of working where I do... BOOM!!!

I recently built myself a Q9300 (quad 2.5stock, OCed to quad 3.33 for daily use) with 4gb of RAM(OCed to 1114MHz) with a FSB of 1772MHz for daily. I built this pc mainly to be able to backup 1080p videos as i have done DVDs on this pc and has been phenomenal! 6-8 minutes on a 2pass encoding up to 3.5hrs worth of video complete. I also wanted to be able to do High Definition as well but i see that's more complicated. It took me approximately 3hrs 32min to 2pass encode a 2hr movie at 1080p. Everything will be around this if not higher in a couple yrs and that's when i want to build the next new monster... but what i am about to lay out IS A MONSTER. So, for those who alway…

Don't know about you guys but I've never heard a rap over a dubstep track but this was fcking bonkers!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cYp78TA3cI

alright guys, i'll be heading off to college in the fall and i need to get a new computer, so im looking for your suggestions i'm looking for a laptop, i dont really care if its uber lightweight since i most likely wont be carrying it around to classes but i do want to be able to take it home during breaks needs to be fast, i HATE slow computers a good sized HDD would be nice wi-fi ready and all that good stuff CD/DVD player/burner... can you get DVD burners in laptops? if not, not a biggie a good screen, i do like to mess around with photoshop and i think thats it, so let me hear your ideas TIA

Hey guys how are you. Today i want to buy a HDTV. THe only problem is i really dont know what to look for.. I only have 600 to spend. I am not looking for anything huge but something i can hook up with my ps3 and will look great( i also want to get into home theather too). I want to get it at a store like best buy or walmart( Or anything Like a department store) but is there better places to look. because we all know Best Buy and wal mart doesn't have the best car audio selection.I will really appreciate the help thanks Johnny no pun intended. i got my first system there too

Ok, I have a computer allowance for my day job and the budget is right around ~ $1500 USD, but can go a little higher then that. I am just looking for solid choices and reasons why they are the better choice. Main needs: Quad Core CPU (preferably i7) Strong GPU 4 - 6 Gig of ram decent size screen Reliability Uses: Heavy duty modeling and design SSA daily stuff BOINC crunching (very CPU and GPU intensive) Limitations, needs to be from Newegg or Amazon. I have been looking for over a week, and have had my eye on a couple, but wanted to get a few educated opinions. Bromo has been of assistance, and I wanted to see what a few other people thought. I had considered using t…

If you have an Xbox 360, and if you or somebody you know, needs some help. Here is a few links that could help. http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=484726 http://llamma.com/ Let me know what you think, or have any questions, I may or may not be able to answer, but I've been dealing with these faulty machines for a while now lol. The best "quick fix" I have been using for a while now, is the Q-tip trick. Simply stick a q-tip in each fan behind the console for 5 minutes, you will notice two red flashing lights, pull out, let cool, and then power up Any comments are welcomed. Cheers.

i moved to texas in late 97... its a long story how got here but when i arived i lived in the hood for about 2 years.. and i dont mean the bad side of town i mean in the heart of the hood of austin texas.... cheap rent... anyhow i friended many people.. and they were in the music scene so while going everywhere my boys went i met alot of people and hung out with alot of rappers ... well here we are 13 years later.. and some of the guys have made it big... and some have made it big and faild quickly.. and some have stayed at the top.... well this post is for trae.. i was just watching a few new vids and its clear to see that with all that he does for houston hes he…

What bands make you want to puke when you hear them live? Hoobastank Yellowcard Add on.

Just got an IPad mini from work for free. Never had a tablet or smartphone before, believe it or not. Give me some Ideas for apps to get. First person to suggest that Skar app gets banned.

anyone want to help a brother out? right now all I have uploaded is the white album and help, most of my beatles are on vynl, and I dont want to deal with the mess of going from an EP to MP3

A lot of my music I have clips very easily and I was wondering where you guys actually download your music from. I'm not saying bass enhanced music that people make, but just normal music you hear that you like and then download it. I use zippyshare to get a lot of my music.

I play these games online- Company of Heroes C&C Generals Zero Hour Call of Duty Call of Duty 2 Warcraft 3 every now and then Just wish I had more time to play them What does everyone else play online?

Built myself a new computer finally... had my old one since 2002 and it was overdue to be replaced. The old one is still stable as can be but is showing it's age speed-wise on newer programs. Anyhow... on to the specifics: Intel e4300 1.8 Ghz Dual-Core over-clocked to 3 Ghz (1.325 volts, stock voltage) Massive Heat-Pipe based heat-sink with 120mm fan (forgot brand... copper base and aluminum fins) ABIT AW9D-MAX Motherboard 2048 MB OCZ Reaper 1066 DDR-II RAM (2.1 volts) 2x Seagate Barracuda Perpendicular technology 250 GB SATA Drives 2x Sony DVD-RAM Drives (SATA interfaces) EVGA Geforce 7800GT Video Card (all stock speeds, I don't really play games) Viewsonic 19" LCD Scree…

Okay im looking to get a HDTV for my room and i kinda want a cheap one because im tight on cash and i have other stuff i want to buy. Anyways how does this one look? TV Don't know too much about TV's but this one will fit where i want to mount it on my wall and its around what i want to spend.

Ok guys, here are my parameters: - My sister, brother-in-law and I are pitching into get a little TV for my mother to use in the kitchen when she is cooking or doing projects - My mother wants us to keep the budget under $200 as she is not really kicking-back to watch movies with it - She would prefer a flat screen around 19" - I don't want to buy a junker from Walmart So I am putting this out there to see if anyone knows of a better deal on line. Newegg has a few options, but wanted to use the power of the forum base to see if I can find better. Thanks guys.

1 gb dual channel Gskill RAM, AMD 3200+ singlecore but its at 1345mhz fsb. Foxconn NVIDIA nforce 4 motherboard ,7.1 surround, firewire,4 usb out back, PCI -Express, Huge copper thermaltake cooler sittin on a AMD athlon. direct x 10 ATI HD2600xt graphics card....help!!!lol what does all this mean and is it a good computer?

Sick of networking BS between my XP & Win 7 machines with some on a domain and some not, so I am going to bite the bullet and upgrade. My hardware (i7 quad) is fine to support it, plan on just adding another hdd so that I can switch boot drives if necessary. The computer will run: Internet - primarily Office suite - Word/Excel/Powerpoint Interface with my Canon video camera & DSLR with associated LIGHT editing Act as a home automation machine - currently 90% of what I have will run on either Absolutely no gaming atm Pretty simple tasks, but what I've read knocks the 64 bit for some availability and capability of running some programs. Curious if there are other l…

<-- Noob I haven't ever had a wireless connection before as my old house was completely wired, considering this I am not sure of the proper & logical way to secure my wireless network. Amusingly, I can use my neighbors both here and at my old house but considering the price of routers these days wanted to install my own for flexibilty. So, any recommendations or primers on doing this the right way? I figure I am not the only one here not in the know so I thought I start a thread. Any input would be appreciated!

Alright I'm starting a topic here because there is a lot of discussion in the H0P and I wanted to keep it all straight My Dad wants a new desktop. Our current one has a Pentium 4 1.5Ghz, 512mb of RAM, 127gb HD (replaced after it crashed), DVD-RW (recently purchased) and a CD-RW all housed in a Dell Inspiron 4300 case. We have a mouse, keyboard, new flatscreen monitor and speakers that can all be carried over to the new comp. The reason he wants a new computer is because this one is getting ridiculously slow. I honestly don't understand considering we do the same thing on it for years (and recently had it reformatted when the HD crashed), but I guess parts just get old? …