R.I.P.

Today marks the death of both the analog cell network and the HD-DVD. I can remember like it was yesterday when I bought my first analog cell phone. I feel old now that I reflect on the technology that has come and gone. Today is the day that the FCC blessed the decommission of the analog cellular networks. Carriers can now begin to shut down those networks. Goodbye brick phone ... my old friend.

Now that Toshiba has pulled out of making HD-DVD, that format is most certainly dead. I didn't even know ya ...

Make Free iPhone Ringtones using iTunes 7.6

I'm happy to report that making free ringtones in iTunes 7.6 is still functioning after the software upgrade! If you need to know the steps, please see my post about how to create them in 7.5.

Make Free iPhone Ringtones using iTunes 7.5

I'm stoked that this still works. Right on playa!

Q&A with Head Honcho (aka "I followed your steps but ...")

Q: I try to sync, but I get multiple versions of the same ringtone. What's the deal?

1. On the iPhone summary tab, uncheck the box for "Manually manage music and video"

2. On the iPhone Ringtones tab, check the box for "Sync Ringtones" and the radio button for "All Ringtones".

3. Sync ... your ringtones should be there.

Q: I have made a ringtone, but when I sync, it is not on the iPhone. Does that suck or what?

Yeah ... it does. Make sure that you have entries for Name, Artist and Album supplied for the ringtone. Doesn't have to be correct ... it just has to be there.

Q: I try and sync, but I get a message that says that I can't play this song on my iPhone.

This is probably due to the version of the firmware that you have and the version of iTunes that you are using. Try upgrading iPhone firware and iTunes to the latest versions or both.

Q: I try to use an M4P file and it tells me that it is protected. What is that all about?

Sorry, the file is protected ... nothing you can do about that. You can either find a piece of software that will strip the protection ... OR ... burn the song to a CD and then reimport it into iTunes as an AAC file.

Q: I can't see any file extensions. What do I do?

Windows users:

Open your windows explorer and select Tools-->Folder Options from the menu. Click on the View tab and uncheck the box that says "Hide extensions for known file types". Then click the "Apply to All Folders" button at the top of the screen.

Mac users:

Open finder and select song. Right click and select 'Get Info'. Under the Name and Extension segment, uncheck the box that says 'Hide Extension'. Extension is also visible there at all times, so you can always just edit on the spot.

**** UPDATE ****
Beegs posted a modified version that he says works for those of you having issues with the sync portion of the steps. Here is my rundown of those steps:

1. Under Edit-->Preferences-->Advanced, check the boxes for "Keep iTunes music folder organized" and "Copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library"
2. Follow my steps on creating the 30 second clip and converting to AAC.
3. Delete the newly created AAC file from the iTunes library. Do NOT move the file to the trash.
4. Exit iTunes
5. Find the file in your iTunes music directory and move it to your desktop.
6. Rename the file extension from myringtone.m4a to myringtone.m4r (substitute 'myringtone' for whatever you want the ringtone called).
7. Double click on the .m4r file.
8. When iTunes comes back on screen, look in the iPhone ringtones tab to verify that the file is there
9. Sync

Copy and Paste for iPhone?

What will the next iPhone firmware hold for iPhone. Will the "crazy that it is missing" copy and paste function finally show up? Ever thought of how you would implement it on the iPhone? This guy has ... Lonelysandwich

I have to say ... I buy it. That is a solid solution and I would use the hell out of it. Not too mention the video mock up is just damn funny. I love you ...

Insert Signature in PDF

Ever wanted to insert a signature into your PDF? Why would you want to do this? Let's say, for example, you are a business traveler. Your company wants weekly timesheets, worklogs, status reports, whatever ... in PDF format. If you are like me, timesheets are generated directly into PDF and then I must sign these before handing them in. That's fine and dandy if you are working in your office. So what do you do on the road and can't print and sign but you still have to submit the PDF? I have a quick and dirty solution for you! After digging quite a bit trying to figure out how to do this myself, the solution is fairly simple. I use Adobe Acrobat 8 on a regular basis. I've seen many suggestions on the internets on how to insert a signature using the stamp tool. While this approach is OK, I found the results to be sub-par at best. My signature looked awful! However that stamp gets rendered, it looks like crap. So here is my suggestion. Follow these steps and you should get pretty good results.

1. You first need an image file of your signature available on your computer. Make sure that it is a good scan. I would suggest looking up how to do this on google or something if you are unsure how to do it. A couple tips on this ... don't use a fine point pen. Try and use either a felt tip or one of those gel ink roller type pens.
   
2. Open the PDF that you need to modify with your signature with Adobe Acrobat 8
   
3. Once the file has opened, navigate to the 'Tools->Advanced Editing->TouchUp Object Tool' menu item.
   
   
   
4. Once you select the TouchUp Object Tool, you will get a black arrow. Right click where you would like your signature to appear and select 'Place Image'.
   
   
   
5. You will get an open dialog box where you can select the signature image you created earlier.
   
6. When you select your file, the image will be inserted ... probably quite large. The image that I used wasn't particularly good. I didn't scan it ... good ol' GIS.
   
   
   
7. You will want to shrink the size down by grabbing one of the corners of the box and dragging the corner towards the inside of the image. You will know if you are doing it right as the mouse pointer will turn into a double headed arrow.
   
   
   
8. Now that you have the image sized, you will want to move the image to the spot where you would like it. In my case, right above the signature line. Now keep in mind that the image will block the line itself if you have placed the image over the line, so make sure that the image is above the signature line.
   
   
   
9. Save the updated file. All done. You now have a PDF with your signature on it.
   
   
   

You should be able to use a variety of image formats. It is your preference. I don't know if transparent gif files can be used. I honestly haven't tried or have needed them. If they do work, please let me know. There are also some vector image creation tools on the internets that you could use that may make your signature look more crisp. A tool like VectorMagic comes in handy.

A few things to mention, these instructions are for Adobe Acrobat 8 only. I haven't tried this in any other version of Adobe Acrobat or another PDF creation application. If you have tips or hints for other applications, please feel free to leave them in a comment.

iPhone wishes ...

iPhone basically rocks. There are a few items that I would love to see though in future firmware updates.

Must haves!

- Copy/Paste

--> Where the hell is it?? That is tops of my list!

- Chat

--> Gotta have gtalk or iChat or something!

- Drive Mode

--> Seriously ... I want to be able to steal company secrets and take it home with me

- Delete Multiple Emails

--> Can't believe this isn't available

- Speed Dialing of some sort or Improved Favorites (voice dialing perhaps)

--> I really don't want to click multiple times to get to a quick list of contacts

- Flash support in iPhone Safari

--> Really ... how can I get to the really good pr0n without that??

- Auto suggested words

--> I would rather click on the auto suggested word to insert it rather than clicking on it to not have it inserted.

Other Annoyances

A partial list from my buddy Rappin' Reggie. I'm inclined to agree with him on most of these. Although not high on my list ... I definitely would like to see them at some point

- Quick access to Contacts

- Save pictures sent in an email to your camera roll

- Email multiple pictures in a single email

- Customize email send and receive sounds

- Reorder of icons

Make Free iPhone Ringtones using iTunes 7.5

Since Apple was good enough to "break" their fix for creating free ringtones in iTunes 7.5, I figured I would go ahead and type up a quick how-to on creating your own ringtone. The trick is that you need to pick a file that is 30 seconds long or less. 30 seconds is plenty since your phone won't play any more than that anyway ... not to mention that iTunes won't transfer the song if it is over 30 seconds using this method. So now the problem is getting your hands on a 30 second clip from a song. Sure you could buy some nice little program or use a tool like Audacity to trim off a segment. But honestly, you can just use what is in front of you ... iTunes itself. I'll show you really quick how to make a 30 second clip in iTunes and then tell you what to do with that to make it a ringtone.

First off, you need to go into your iTunes preferences and make sure that you have the AAC converter turned on. To check, go into the iTunes preferences and click on the 'Advanced' tab. Click the 'Importing' tab and under 'Import Using' should say 'AAC Encoder'.



It's all set right? Sweet! Now pick a song that you want to get a 30 second clip from. Right click on the song and select 'Get Info' from the menu.



Just for simplicity sake, lets just say that you want the first 30 seconds of the song. You will click on the 'Options' tab and change the Start and Stop time. Click the checkboxes and change the Stop time to 0:30. Feel free to use any 30 second segment that you wish. Just note the start time and add 30 seconds to it for the stop time.



The hard part is done! Now just exit out of the 'Get Info' screen and right click on the song that you just modified and select 'Convert Selection to AAC' from the menu. Let iTunes work it's magic.



You will get a second song in your iTunes library ... but it will only be 30 seconds long! You can right click and select 'Get Info' and change some tags to make it easier to find in your iTunes library. I like to change the artist and genre to 'Ringtones' so that I know right where to find it.



Exit iTunes. Locate the file in your iTunes music directory and rename the .m4a extension to .m4r.



Once you have renamed the file, just double click on it so that it adds itself to your iTunes library again ... but this time as a ringtone!! iTunes will launch, and the ringtone you just created will appear in the Ringtones list. If for some reason you are having an issue with this the first time, you might want to check in your iTunes preferences and see if you have the “Keep iTunes Music Folder Organized” option checked. Having that checked will automatically create a ringtone folder for you.



An alternative to the double click method is to simply open iTunes, open your ringtones library and then drag the .m4r file from windows explorer or finder (on mac) into the ringtone library. Either method should work.

A lot easier than it seems. Let's see how long this lasts for. Maybe apple will realize they made a "mistake". Let's hope that it is just an effort to keep the masses happy. I for one make most of my ringtones from movie quotes. Can't do that with the official 99 cent way. Keep rockin' ding dongs!

Q&A with Head Honcho (aka "I followed your steps but ...")

Q: I try to sync, but I get multiple versions of the same ringtone. What's the deal?

1. On the iPhone summary tab, uncheck the box for "Manually manage music and video"

2. On the iPhone Ringtones tab, check the box for "Sync Ringtones" and the radio button for "All Ringtones".

3. Sync ... your ringtones should be there.

Q: I have made a ringtone, but when I sync, it is not on the iPhone. Does that suck or what?

Yeah ... it does. Make sure that you have entries for Name, Artist and Album supplied for the ringtone. Doesn't have to be correct ... it just has to be there.

Q: I try and sync, but I get a message that says that I can't play this song on my iPhone.

This is probably due to the version of the firmware that you have and the version of iTunes that you are using. Try upgrading iPhone firware and iTunes to the latest versions or both.

Q: I try to use an M4P file and it tells me that it is protected. What is that all about?

Sorry, the file is protected ... nothing you can do about that. You can either find a piece of software that will strip the protection ... OR ... burn the song to a CD and then reimport it into iTunes as an AAC file.

Q: I can't see any file extensions. What do I do?

Windows users:

Open your windows explorer and select Tools-->Folder Options from the menu. Click on the View tab and uncheck the box that says "Hide extensions for known file types". Then click the "Apply to All Folders" button at the top of the screen.

Mac users:

Open finder and select song. Right click and select 'Get Info'. Under the Name and Extension segment, uncheck the box that says 'Hide Extension'. Extension is also visible there at all times, so you can always just edit on the spot.

*** UPDATE ***
For those of you that are experiencing a "worked the first time, but not the next" problem, Jonah posted a comment on how to get around the issue. It sounds like a good solution, so I'm incorporating it into the article here. Thanks Jonah!

"I think I found a fix. I did everything according to your directions (including the space before the extension). When I double click to get the m4r file, it still goes to the library and not the ringtone file. But, what I learned is, highlight the 30 second m4r file that isn't going to ringtone and is in your library and delete it. A message will come up asking, "Do you want to move the selected songs to the Trash, or keep them in the iTunes Music folder?" Click "Keep Files." Then go back and look in the folder and you will see the m4r file still there. Double click on it again and this time it will work. It has worked everytime."

**** UPDATE!!! ****
This process still works in iTunes 7.6. So keep on rockin' it yo!

**** ANOTHER UPDATE!!! ****
For those people that are using iTunes 7.6 with iPhone 1.1.3 and are having issues with the sync, I tweaked my steps a little based on Jonah's comments and some forum postings I found. Poster Beegs then was gracious enough to tweak those steps ever so slightly and it works fine for him now. Here are those steps:

My original steps for 7.6/1.1.3
1. Under Edit-->Preferences-->Advanced, check the boxes for "Keep iTunes music folder organized" and "Copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library"
2. Follow my steps on creating the 30 second clip and converting to AAC.
3. Delete the newly created AAC file from the iTunes library. Do NOT move the file to the trash.
4. Find the file in your iTunes music directory and move it to your desktop.
5. Rename the file extension from myringtone.m4a to myringtone.m4r (substitute 'myringtone' for whatever you want the ringtone called).
6. Double click on the .m4r file.
7. When iTunes comes back on screen, look in the iPhone ringtones tab to verify that the file is there (Do not sync!)
8. Find the file again in your iTunes Music/Ringtones Directory.
9. Rename the file from myringtone.m4r to myringtone.m4a
10. Sync

Beeg's steps that he says works for him
1. Under Edit-->Preferences-->Advanced, check the boxes for "Keep iTunes music folder organized" and "Copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library"
2. Follow my steps on creating the 30 second clip and converting to AAC.
3. Delete the newly created AAC file from the iTunes library. Do NOT move the file to the trash.
4. Exit iTunes
5. Find the file in your iTunes music directory and move it to your desktop.
6. Rename the file extension from myringtone.m4a to myringtone.m4r (substitute 'myringtone' for whatever you want the ringtone called).
7. Double click on the .m4r file.
8. When iTunes comes back on screen, look in the iPhone ringtones tab to verify that the file is there
9. Sync

SeeqPod: Pure Genius or Devil's Plaything??

I've been seeing a lot of internet babbling about SeeqPod. For those of you that haven't heard of this website, let me run it down for you in a nutshell. It is a music search engine that allows you to build a playlist and listen to songs it finds on the internets. Sounds really cool right! I think it sounds effing great ... but the people that have posted those songs may not think so. Let's say that you are using a hosting site that grants you a certain amount of bandwidth during the month. After you exceed that limit, you start being charged for extra bandwidth. So now SeeqPod can find these songs and the more people that use SeeqPod, the more accessible these files are on the internets. Some Joe Baloney that posted his favorite Metallica song that may never get any internet hits, may now all of a sudden be getting hundreds of hits a day ... and worse, may get a hit right in the ol' wallet at the end of the month. He'd be lucky to get past Lars Ulrich's wrath anyways.

So streaming some MP3 files doesn't sound so bad. Kind of like it. There are a few Firefox plugins that let you play MP3 files you encounter with an embedded player. These are just little one off sorts of things. The playlist feature in SeeqPod is nice since you can find enough material out there to last you for a long time. Instantly, you have people that want to download the files that they encounter. While SeeqPod does not allow you to download these files, it does tell you the location of where to find them on the internets. Basically you can type in the URL that you see and get to the MP3 file and download it. How quickly will SeeqPod be turned into a device for illegally downloading songs?? Now, I don't condone downloading MP3s, but I wanted to see how easy it would be to turn SeeqPod into an MP3 download tool. Took me about 5 minutes and it is cake. Here is how to use SeeqPod for downloading MP3 files:

I use Firefox, so these instructions are for firefox users. First off, go to www.seeqpod.com and do a search for some music that you would like to listen to. I did a search for Dream Theater (because they are da bomb). If anything is available, you will get a list of songs on the left hand side of the screen. That's all you need to do as far as SeeqPod is concerned. The rest will be up to you and your browser. Open up a second tab in FireFox and paste 'about:cache?device=disk' into the location bar (without the quotes). This should pull up your cache. Do a search in your cache (ctrl + F) and paste into the find box 'anonSearchPaginationFlash' (again, no quotes). Scroll through those results and look for links that have what you searched for (dream theater would be visible somewhere in the link). Click on the key link and it will load it as cache entry information. Click on the key link again and it will load the XML of the SeeqPod results page. Look for Location tags. Those will be the path to the MP3 file that you searched for. At that point, it is up to you how to handle the download. If I were a crafty person, I would just copy all the links and stick it into some sort of download.html file I created on my computer. Then I might just load that file in Firefox and use the DownThemAll plugin to grab all the files at once. This is just a concept, so if you want to experiment, go ahead. I'm not responsible for your downloading activity ... just sayin.

Is SeeqPod a great idea ... absolutely! Will it be used for illegal downloading ... certainly. Anytime a website that crops up that seeks out MP3 files on the internet, it will probably be put to use in a negative way. Haystack is another example of the streaming audio principle. It is a bit different, but again, very easy to download music off of.

If you are going to download something ... since it is so irresistible ... at least experiement with CD's/music that you already own. Not that it makes it any better, but at least you have dropped some money into the artists pockets for it at some point. That's a whole other can of worms that I'm not going to touch.

*** Note ***
If you do have an iPhone, then just find a song that you want to hear and then you can "share" the link. The share button just emails a link to whoever you want (in this case, the URL of the mp3). You can just email it to yourself and then using your email tool of choice, download the file from the link you just sent yourself. Very cake!

Countdown to iPhone!

It's getting sooooo close!!! I'm about to wet myself. Why do I want an iPhone?? Well ... I just do k!




Thanks to whoever built the little timer there ... awesome job. Link

Joost Update!

UPDATE: Matthew over at LifeWithoutToast.com just hooked me up in a big way!! Thanks Matthew!! I'd make love to you if you were a woman ...

So check it out ... if you want an invite, just let me know. Post a request wif yo email address or pop one off to me at (honcho at the gmail). Word suckas! I will get to it as quickly as possible.

Looks like the beta opened to allow all beta users to invite an unlimited amount of friends ... or so it seems. I'm all about spreading the wealth. Gimme a shout if you are interested.

Guerrilla Mail

This is one of those hmmm sort of things that I run into every now and then when I'm out trolling the internets. I haven't quite figured out the usefulness of this, so if you have an idea, then let me know. Anyways ... Guerrilla Mail ... is a temporary email address. Great idea!! Screw the spammers! Crap ... the damn thing only lasts for 15 minutes. Now this is the part where I wonder about the usefulness. Ideas?

The interface is very simple. Load the site and click the button that says "Get temporary e-mail". The temp email address is displayed and a timer starts counting down. Any email that comes to that address while the timer is counting down is then displayed on the screen.

I wouldn't mind if the address lasted a full day at a minimum. 15 minutes is a little to short I think for it to have any valid uses. Just my opinion. What is yours?

http://www.guerrillamail.com/

Yes

Ever drive around listening to the radio and you hear a song that you like but don't know the name of it? Maybe you know the name but don't know the artist. How will you ever be able to find it on iTunes? Never fear! Just use Yes. Load the site on your home PC (mobile browsers work pretty decent too) and in the search box at the top of the page, type in the station call letters and or the numeric dial location and then hit the YES button. So let's say you are in the car and you just heard a kick ass song. Make note of the time and then when you have access to the internets, hit up Yes and search for the call letters of the station. It will list all the songs played going back 7 days ordered by the time of day it was played.

Holy craps!! It' da bomb! Any other services like this that may be better ... Let me know.

http://www.yes.com/

IM Bots

Anyone use these things? Interesting concept. I don't know how well most of them are implemented, but I have found one that works quite well and I actually use from time to time. Check out IMified. It is actually pretty handy. I mostly use it for to do lists. It is available for AIM, MSN and Google/Jabber. If you use any of the web apps that it is integrated with, then it is even more handy ... as long as you don't mind sticking your login info on a server who knows where. Actually it is in the Rocky Mountains at some secure data center if it makes you feel any better. Overall, I like it. I think it's hotter than a snake's ass in a wagon ... but that's just me.

If you know of one better ... leave me a note in the comments.

Late!

http://www.imified.com/

Notepad replacements??

One of my boys needs some help finding a decent notpad replacement. I'm not a big fan of notepad in general, so I haven't been able to help. Anyone out there know of a good replacement? I personally love TextPad (well for windows anyway). There is also Jedit which is pretty nice. There is also Notepad++ that seems worthy. So my boy didn't like my choices ... anyone got anything? Please drop me some suggestions in the comments! Hook a brotha up! Oh ... he's a windows user if that helps with the choices.

WiPeer

Since I'm always looking for ways to be able to share files ... I recently ran across WiPeer. It is a simple little tool for sharing computers on a local network. The local network could be wired, wireless or really just some ad-hoc connection between you and that hot chick in class. Sweet right!? She's prolly like ... you are a big geek. Best of luck to you anyways.

Works pretty nice when you are sitting next to some nucklehead contractor that needs a file that you are working on and can't access the network because he hasn't got his login yet from the arse that hands those things out department. You know what I'm talking about if you are in the computer world. Ah ... it's the small things in life that make it soooo sweet.

Another handy tool from your good bud EdZachary.

www.wipeer.com

Serious waste of time!!!

So you are saying to yourself ... "I have too much time on my hands and I need to piss away some time doing something totally brainless and stupid". I have the answer for you. The answer is called LineRider. Whoever built this thing has started something huge. I can't call this a game since there is no winning or losing going on. This is just a pure waste of time. You basically just draw a line on the screen and a bobsled follows the line. You can do tricks and crap if you want. Some people are seriously into this and trade SOL files (a container file of all the crap you draw) or do ping pong. That's where one person draws something and then passes it to the next person that then draws some more crap. There is a whole site dedicated to just drawing for this crafty little time waster. It really helps if you have a wacom tablet since drawing those friggin loops is tarded with a mouse.

Check out the official spot of LineRider and waste an hour or so.
http://www.official-linerider.com/play.html

Lot's of videos of the stuff that they built for LineRider on YouTube. Here is an example:

Last.fm

Last.fm ... what a cool idea. A community of music listeners where you can find people with similar tastes and listen to what they are listening to. Music is an international language that everyone understands. This site brings people together from all over the world. This is sort of a social networking website meets internet radio sort of thing. It is worth taking a look. I'm just getting into it, so if you have an pointers, let me know!

Once you sign up and download the software (yeah ... software to download ... great), whenever you listen to digital music from your computer, it gets "scrobbled" to Last.fm. It basically keeps a running record of all the artists and songs that you listen to. You can then use that info to see how popular the artist is either in your listening habits, or the habits of all the Last.fm users. Being a huge Dream Theater fan, I can quickly see that out of the top 400 artists, they rank 152 ... which puts them somewhere between Bob Marley and The Police on the popularity list. Not bad company I might add.

There is also the concept of Neighbors in Last.fm. These are people that are closest in similarity as far as music tastes are concerned. My listening habits are very wide in scope, so I rarely have neighbors that have more than one or two artists that are in line with what I like. Not that it's a bad thing. I like to think of it as a doorway to other music. If I see a fellow DT fan listening to Opeth let say ... I'll check it out and see if I like it. That leads me to another cool feature of Last.fm ... Radio! You can listen to channels that are provided by other users or you can listen to a channel of your picking. You supply either the artist or a tag, and Last.fm will create a station for you that incorporate the tag/artist that you picked as well as other similar artists. OK, so I just mentioned tags. Any song that you listen to, you can give it a tag. Tags can be the artist name, style of music, a mood that strikes you when listening to the song, or anything else that floats your boat (envision something like Flickr). Let's say I want to listen to Dream Theater. I would supply that as the artist and last.fm creates my station to listen to. There may be a little DT, Queensryche, Amorphis, Opeth or a variety of other progressive rock/metal groups. What a way to grow your listening base!

I'm barely touching on what this site offers. Check it out for yourself and see how you like it. Look me up or add me to your friends list if you would like. My user profile is Ed_Zachary (note the underscore between the Ed and the Zachary). I recently cleared all my listening preferences and settings and decided to start over from scratch. If you are a last.fm user, send me some music recommendations (crap ... something else I didn't mention) or add me to your friends list. I'm always looking to expand my musical tastes and to meet new people.

Word!

Last.fm

http://www.last.fm/user/Ed_Zachary/

Online file sharing ...

Mkay. I gave my thoughts on my favorite P2P software at the moment. Thanks to Zach for pointing out PodMailer!

So here is a little problem .... you think all P2P apps are the devil. Maybe your Grandma Birtha doesn't know squat about installing software or using sharing software. Perhaps your buddy that you want to share stuff with hates the flavor of P2P that you like. I have the solution for you! Check out Senduit!! It doesn't get any better than this in my opinion. It's clean in design, and is overall pretty fast. Now mind you, this isn't a storage site ... just a sharing site. Pick the file that you want to share with your buddies ... specify the length of time that you want it available for download ... upload it ... share the link ... all done! You get a nice brief link address, instead of some of the impossible ones that other sites provide. Try it and I think you'll like it.

If there is something better that I should know about, please post a comment! I've tried a ton, so it better be good.

Something to share!

Aight ... so as I'm surfing to the ends of the internets, I sometimes run across things that are cool, interesting or even useful. I might group this into all of those groups. AllPeers is a handy dandy P2P file sharing tool. I'm just starting to get my feet wet a little with it. As a Firefox user, it has a nice add-on that incorporates drag and drop functionality into your Firefox browser. Great for sharing large files or other files that could be blocked by your email system (like exe files). I've also given Pando a spin. Seems cool, but it lacks the simplicity that AllPeers has. Plus Pando is a much larger install and it imbeds into your email application. Still very handy, but AllPeers is so friggin easy! Do it! ... Do it! ...

EdZachary what you needed? Get the Firefox Plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3234/

If you know of anything that rivals AllPeers for ease of use and minimal install, hook a brother up and let me know about it!