The Ultimate Free Guide

This post requires a huge disclaimer. What you read does not mean I have used these sites to acquire anything illegally, nor does it mean you should do this for any illegal action. This may or may not be legal in your country. Once again, this is merely for reference. Here goes.

This is how one would go about finding programs, cracks, and serials for free. First, since some of these sites can be harmful for your computer, make sure you are running a full security suite on your computer. I recommend using Firefox with AVG, Spyware Blaster, and Adblock Plus. You will also need WinRAR to unrar many of these downloads. If you are set here, let's move on.

Here is a list of sites that you can check out and what they are good for.
1. Phazeddl.com - This site will give you links to nearly every program possible, along with cracks and serials. Most of the downloads will come from rapidshare, where you will have to wait for a minute or so to download either the program or the crack. Always follow the explicit directions given in the rar file.
2. Serials.ws - Search this site to give you game and program serials that will allow you to unlock demos that you have downloaded online. It gives a nice percentage next to the serials to tell you how successful the numbers have been in unlocking the program.
3. FileCrop - This search engine will search the databases of Rapidshare and Megaupload to find programs,cracks, serials, music, videos, anything.
4. IRCDig.com - If you have an IRC client installed, I recommend mIRC, this site will search for files over the IRC network, where you will have to accept a connection to download the files. The speeds are sometimes limited, and the success rate is not 100%, so I would recommend starting somewhere else.
5. Newzbin - For this, you will need a newsgroup client along with a newsgroup subscription. I recommend AltBinz along with a NewsHosting subscription. This will cost you about $10 a month, but it opens up a plethora of music, videos, cracks, serials, and programs at ridiculously fast speeds. The Newzbin site allows you to search the massive newsgroup database at a very low cost, and it makes it easier than any site I have seen.
6. Mininova.org - Use this alongside a torrent client, I recommend utorrent, to search the massive torrent database for free music, cracks, serials, videos, and programs. Note that torrents have become easy to track for ISPs and institutions, so be careful here.
7. Crackfind.com - I put this one last for a good reason. This is the most risky of any of the sites mentioned. Many of the files downloaded here and sites linked to could contain viruses, so be very careful. Searches on this site can lead to .exe overwrites to unlock full versions, serials, or links to cracks where you will have to copy the crack into the program directory and apply it to the program. Once again, follow the directions carefully, and have your full suite of security programs running.

Hope this helps for all of your informative needs. My next post should feature anonymous browsing and downloading.

How to Get Free Music Using SeeqPod

Before I start this, I must say that the legality of this has not been confirmed. So from here on, this is for informational purposes only, and you should not download copyrighted songs. That being said, here is how one would theoretically go about getting free music from seeqpod. This is not a perfect solution.

Torrents and p2p can be blocked by companies and tracked by ISPs. Although companies can block specific websites, ISPs will never block the simple internet traffic used for this type of downloading.

The easiest way to do this is through a program called Jaseeq. This scours the internet for mp3 files, plays them, and through the file menu, gives you the option to download them. Yet people, including myself, have reported having problems with this program. So here is the backend way of doing this with seeqpod, downloadhelper, and firefox.

1. First, you need to be using Firefox for this guide to work. You really should be using this browser instead of Internet Explorer anyways, so now is a good time to switch.
2. Now you need to install the DownloadHelper extension for Firefox. Restart the browser, and you should see an extra 3-ball button on your toolbar. If you don't, right click on your toolbar, click customize, and add this icon.
   
3. Head over to seeqpod. If you haven't been there before, this is a great website for finding and playing the mass of music that is stored on the internet right from this site. All you need to do is put a few words in from a title or artist in the search box, and seeqpod will display both video and audio links right from its page.
   
4. Click on the audio link on the left that you want to listen to. Note that not all will work as links change constantly. Let the entire song load, and make sure that it is the right version of the song, and that the quality is decent.
5. Now this is where the DownloadHelper comes in. Click on the arrow just to the right of the 3 balls icon, and a dropdown menu will appear. Hopefully, you will see the exact song you are listening to as an mp3 file, and when you click it, you will be able to download the mp3 to the destination of your choice.
   
6. Yet many things can go wrong. Sometimes this won't show, or the file that is downloaded will be a corrupt mp3 file of less than 20 kb. Delete this file. In this case, you should notice that there are files with .mpg extensions in the downloadhelper drop down menu when you are on seeqpod. The titles won't correspond with your file, but don't worry about that for the time being. Download all of these, as you can't be sure which one is the correct one. Then, all you need to do is change the resulting file from .mpg to .mp3, and your files will be able to play. Import them into iTunes or whatever you use to play your music, and test the files out one by one to find out which song you were looking for.

Between downloading the mp3 and trying the mpg files, you should be able to acquire every song that plays in seeqpod as an mp3 file that is all yours to do whatever you wish with.

Note that the DownloadHelper extension will allow you to download media from any website, including Youtube and Google Videos, where a .flv file will show on the dropdown menu. Best of luck.

Truly Free Ringtones

Here is a simple guide to create truly free ringtones...no gimmicks...and legally. This should work with any service provider, within some given limitations.

Here goes...

1. You must have the mp3 on your computer already for this guide to work. Getting free music should be in my next post, so stay tuned.
2. Go to Audiko and upload your music file. This should take around a minute.
3. Now you can drag the blue area to the portion of the song you want to have as your ringtone. It is set at 20 seconds, but you can drag this longer or shorter if you wish. *You can play the portion either by double-clicking a position in the song or by clicking the play button to the left of your song title.
4. After choosing whether to fade in and/or fade out, click "Create Ringtone"
5. If you have an iPhone, obviously download the iPhone version. Finally, drag and drop this file into iTunes, and when you sync your iPhone, this ringtone will be transferred right over, the same as if you had actually bought it.
6. If you don't have an iPhone, download the mp3 ringtone to your computer, and remember where you save it. Note that some Verizon phones have a limit of either 350 kb or 30 kb depending on the model, so if you notice that this file is too big, you may need to shorten it up.
   
7. Continuing for the non-iPhone users....head over to FunForMobile's Upload Tool. Enter in your information, and you should receive a text very soon with either an attached ringtone or an easy link to download it.

Now this assumes that you are fine with both receiving texts and using a data plan. Yet if you happen to be cheap, there is an alternate way, provided you have a usb cord for your phone. If you do, plug it in, and be sure that all of the correct drivers are installed. Then, download and install Bitpim, which will allow you to access the inner folders of your phone, pretty much no matter the model. Note that this program can easily damage your phone if used improperly. Once you have installed and opened Bitpim with your phone plugged in, you should see your phone's folder structure on the left pane. After exploring around, you should be able to find your ringtones folder, and if you are sure that your phone supports mp3 ringtones, you can simply drag the mp3 ringtone you made from Audiko into this folder. There are conversion options that will pop up, I recommend choosing a bit rate of 96 kbps with a mono output to save space. Click convert, wait for it to finish transferring, disconnect your phone, and it should be there.

Finally, if your phone does not support mp3 ringtones, you have another option. You can basically be sure that your phone supports qcp ringtones. For this, you can simply go to Media Convert, upload your mp3 ringtone, and convert it to qcp right there. From there, you can either go the FunForMobile upload route or the BitPim route, depending on your preference.

Questions or suggestions? Leave them in the comments. Thanks