• On TechRepublic: 10 cool USB flash drive tricks

LimeWire Video

To play this video, you need Javascript enabled and the latest version of Flash installed. Install Flash now
LimeWire
Created: 06/21/2007
Video description: LimeWire is the world's fastest P2P file-sharing application for all types of computer files, including music, video, pictures, games, and text documents.

LimeWire Video Transcript

[ Music ] ^M00:00:02

>> If your hard drives media collection has gone a bit sour, you might want to give LimeWire a shot to juice up what you've got. Hi, I'm Seth Rosenblatt from CNETdownload.com and today we are taking a first look at LimeWire, a peer to peer program that lets you share well, anything that you have got on your hard drive. Before you get anxious about illegal sharing, the latest versions of LimeWire have been equipped with a copyright filters so if you don't want to see any illegal content, you won't. Let's start by activating a filter, go to filters and configure content filters then click on enable content filters. Now copyright holders who have contacted LimeWire won't have their properties showing up in our searches. LimeWire isn't the fastest way to distribute files but it's not a bad way to discover some really cool legal shares to. It's got a well designed layout with search tabs here on the left. The search results in the center, download controls below, and a built in media player at the bottom. This layout makes using LimeWire a cinch, the search default is set to all types, but you can narrow your search instantly by clicking on programs, audio, images, video or documents. We'll take a load for a free Sudoku game. So click on programs, enter Sudoku and in a matter of seconds voila, it programs and EXC to narrow the search field. But how do we choose which one to download? The number here indicates the number of computers sharing the file, the higher the number, the faster the download, double-click and we get a warning telling us if LimeWire can't find a copyright license for the program. To download or not to download, that is the question. I'll leave it up to you to decide, for CNETdownload.com I'm Seth Rosenblatt and this is been a first look at Limewire. ^M00:01:47 [ Music ]

Related Videos

LimeWire

This popular peer-to-peer file-sharing app is one of the best for Mac. Check out this First Look with Jason Parker from Download.com to get you up and running with LimeWire.

FrostWire

Take a First Look at this hot LimeWire cousin that sports a cool blue interface and some feature-set improvements to make your P2P life even easier.

LimeWire 5

Torrenting might be all the rage, but that hasn't stopped Gnutella client LimeWire from a major update driven by an interface redo and Web 2.0 features.

Can Apple's iTunes Music Store stop Kazaa?

ZDNet's David Coursey asks Apple's Philip Schiller how the company's new online music store will compete with popular file-sharing services like Kazaa.

Buzz Report: Lights out in California!

New PCs you would never recognize, buying cocktails online, and the fastest text messenger in the world!

The Queue: Week in Review

The importance of text-message alerts; BlackBerry outage leaves users twiddling thumbs; last-minute tax-filing lesson; and Sansa's Connect MP3 player ditches the wires.

Tekzilla Daily: View Files Faster in OS X Leopard

If you've upgraded to Leopard, you've installed a lot of handy new features. One of the handiest is QuickView. With QuickView you can look at any document, video, music, or pdf file without having to launch an application. It makes it easy to find out wh

DC++

The ultimate file-sharing client for the Direct Connect Network, DC++ has quickly established itself as the defacto standard client for Direct Connect.

Athlete: "Wires"

This video from Athlete speaks of wires coming out and wires going in.

Download.com guide to Winamp Full

New features in Winamp 5 include support for classic Winamp skins and Winamp 3 (Modern) skins; a fancy new Modern skin; the same classic skin for people who want the Winamp 2 feel; a vastly more powerful media library; CD-ripping support (AAC@2x in the Free version, MP3 at unlimited speeds in the Pro version); CD-burning support (limited to 8x in the free version); advanced title-formatting logic for file types that support it; huge AVS updates; support for playback of AAC and VP6 in NSV files/streams; global hot-key support; a new Signal Processing Studio DSP plug-in; options for disabling plug-in exception-handling for developers; a new Winamp icon; and the addition of XP manifest.xml to winamp.exe. Version 5.1 adds CodingTechnologies AACPlus encoder, Grand Prize Winner of the Internet Surround Music Project, SHOUTcast Wire - A Media RSS Browser and Subscription Service, and Predixis Smart Playlist Generator.