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Howto: Facebook Chat XMPP settings

02/11/2010 By Aleksandr Oreshkin Leave a Comment

Here are XMPP settings to connect to facebook chat with your favorite client. We recommend Pidgin, PSI, or Miranda IM.

Protocol: XMPP

Username: Your Facebook Vanity Name
Domain: chat.facebook.com
Jabber ID: vanityname@chat.facebook.com
Password: <Facebook password>

Connect port: 5222
Connect server: chat.facebook.com
Use SSL/TLS: no
Allow Plaintext Authentication: no

So if you are setting it up for Pidgin, your settings should look something like this:

If you are still having trouble, check out the official support page.

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The silent death of Technorati

01/05/2010 By Aleksandr Oreshkin 9 Comments

UPDATE 1/30/2010: bayareatechpros.com has finally been approved. I should note that the thumbnail of the website remains unchanged and I am unable to edit site info or do anything with the claim at this point.

UPDATE 1/7/2010: It appears as though Technorati is inching forth, but the backlog which they are developing far outweighs the amount of blogs being approved.

UPDATE 1/7/2010: An employee, Phillip Winn, who is a senior web developer has taken up a PR stance and resumed replying to the thread. It appears as though Technorati is inching forth, but the backlog which they are developing far outweighs the amount of blogs being approved.

Technorati-DeadTechnorati has been an authorative and integral part of the blogosphere, positioning itself as a benchmark and indexed search engine for blogs in the start of the Web 2.0 boom. This was then, however, and how fast things change…

In October to November of 2009 a peculiar problem arose, the real-time search engine of Technorati was no longer indexing new blogs. According to some wizardly mathemagic a new blog is created every second and Technorati, as a search engine, is not indexing any of the 26,000,000+ new blogs which were created in the past 2+ months, according to math. [Read more...]

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Operation Chokehold: take down ATT data network

12/15/2009 By Aleksandr Oreshkin Leave a Comment

Operation ChokeholdThe iPhone, with its aesthetically pleasing and functional design, beckons users to enjoy internet access, YouTube, and other data services. AT&T as the single exclusive network and reseller of the iPhone, carries a tremendous data burden on its already deficient network. Rather than focusing on the issue at hand, the unreliability and overstress of the network, CEO Ralph de la Vega voices his displeasure with the amount of traffic AT&T customers demand from his network and attempts to redefine the smartphone based upon its keyboard size and potential data use rather than OS capabilities.

I will go ahead and point to the obvious; if you want an unclogged network do not force iPhone users to stick with it. You can’t have two things at once, pick priorities; though it seems AT&T intends to nibble what it cannot eat, and keep it on a 2 year contract of sub-par service and coverage.

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YouTube phases out old accounts

12/01/2009 By Aleksandr Oreshkin Leave a Comment

YouTube

If you signed up for YouTube prior to Google’s acquisition you may be displeased to see that you are no longer allowed to use your YouTube account independent of your email. The change merges your YouTube account with whatever email was associated with it at the time.

The qualifying conditions are as follows:

  • You’ve signed up for their original YouTube account before May 2009.
  • You’ve joined your YouTube and Google Accounts together.
  • You’re still signing in with your original YouTube password.

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Future of Torrents; DHT, PEX and Magnet Links Explained

11/24/2009 By Aleksandr Oreshkin Leave a Comment

Bittorrent Explained

This week The Pirate Bay confirmed it would shut down its tracker for good, instead encouraging the use of DHT, PEX and magnet links. This move confounded many BitTorrent enthusiasts, who although wishing to adapt, were confronted with hard to grasp terminology and technology. Time for some explaining. [Read more...]

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How To: View archived messages in Gmail

11/03/2009 By Aleksandr Oreshkin Leave a Comment

GmailTransparent1 No labels, no workarounds. Archived all your messages and want to view them in chronological order, from latest received?

A simple URL change is all you need!

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PeerGuardian PG alternative, ipfilter + utorrent, ipfilter.dat

06/02/2009 By Aleksandr Oreshkin 21 Comments

utorrent ipfilter

Whether you are looking for an alternative to PG2 because it fails to function properly, or simply looking to cut down the number of processes you are running – the information here is for you.

It is possible to block ip-ranges with utorrent’s built in ipfiltering system.

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Slow torrents with Windows 7

06/02/2009 By Aleksandr Oreshkin 9 Comments

torrent windows 7After getting windows 7 I noticed that my downloads of the Linux kernel through utorrent were running at incredibly slow speeds.

Though the reasons behind this may be complicated, the solution turned out to be rather simple.

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Peer Guardian 2 with Windows 7 pgfilter.sys 64

05/08/2009 By Aleksandr Oreshkin 30 Comments

peer-guardian-2 Because Windows 7 requires digitally signed drivers PG2 will not work out of the box. But the information provided on PG2’s instruction page is outdated pertaining to the RC. The solution?

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