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Blackcats Games – Changes and new features

Posted: 20 Nov 2008 03:23 AM CST

Blackcats-Games (BCG), one of the best dedicated games torrent trackers around, has made some changes and added a lot of new features to the site. If you are a member of BCG you might already know this as the staff sent an announcement regarding this to all user classes. But then again an awful lot of members seemed to miss the announcements on login page change so we thought of posting this article.

The following is a list of new featured quoted from the announcement sent by BCG staff:

New Christmas Prize draw: For all the info on this, see the news post on the index page.
Everyone can Upload, and 7zip is allowed. Again see the news page for this.
Members creations See the news page again for this, basically, if you want 30,000 beta testers for a game you are working on/finished, then upload it into this cat.
Forum additions All of these can be found at the top of the forum.
Wiki Game reviews and anything else you can think of, can go here.
Army Mod Not exactly sure how this works as of yet, but basically, build an army and beat the crap out of other members.
Arcade Flash arcade that puts your high score in the database.

New things that are planned, but not ready yet:

Trophy/Achievement Table This is still being worked on, but some of the things you can expect are.
# of uploaded torrents
# of requests filled
# of torrents downloaded
# of torrents with varying degrees of ratio
average seeding time

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'Members creations' feature and the decision to give everyone the ability to upload will no doubt see the addition of new and unique content not seen on any other tracker to BCG. Apart from that, the army mod seems to be a great way to kill spare time.

In other news, we posted that Blackcats added 2 referals each to all members with the badge of honor about a month ago. According to site admins more than 40000 referrals were issued. However this does not seem to have increased the user base of BCG by that much. They used to have over 50000 members before they hid the site and the member count fell back to something around 29000 once they deleted every user who failed to generate the keyword. Now, even with over 40000 referrals floating around, the member count has only gone up by ~1800 (maybe by a little more as cheaters and inactive users may have got deleted during this time). This means that a lot of BCG referrals are still out there and those who still seek to get into this awesome tracker might still not be too late to get their hands on a referral.

 

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Skype 3.8.0.188 Final and Skype 4.0.0.169 Download

Posted: 20 Nov 2008 01:53 AM CST

Newest final build of Skype (build 3.8.0.188) got released on the 19th of November. As most of you may already know, Skype is a piece of software that allows users make free PC to PC phone calls over the internet (both parties need to have Skype client installed on their system). You need to pay for PC to Phone calls but international call rates on Skype are usually lower than normal IDD (International Direct Dialing) charges. Call quality is great and it's actually a great way to keep in touch with friends and relatives living or working abroad.

Version 3.8 adds significant sound quality enhancements and the ability to change headset, headphones or microphone without having to touch your settings. We have included direct download links to Skype build 3.8.0.188 final and for those of you who are brave enough to try the beta, links to the latest beta build are also provided.

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Developer Description

Make free PC to PC calls from your computer – yep free calls to other people on Skype and great rates to phones and mobiles across the world. And the sound quality is excellent, too – keep Skype running all day and it's like you're in the same room as the person you're talking to.

Features

  • Free PC to PC calls to people anywhere in the world.
  • Free video calls – plus get more detail than ever before with High Quality Video.
  • Call phones and mobiles at great low rates per minute.
  • Instant message for free when it's not a good time to talk.
  • Forward your calls to your mobile when you're offline.
  • Send SMS messages to people on mobiles.
  • Comes with the Google Toolbar (optional install).

Download

[Click Here] to download Skype 3.8.0.188 Final directly from official servers.

[Click Here] to download Skype 4.0.0.169 Beta 2 directly from official servers.

Grab your free Demonoid invite here – Demonoid invitation code giveaway 11

Posted: 19 Nov 2008 11:10 PM CST

Judging by the hundreds of comments received for our previous tracker invite giveaways, our guess is that a lot of you were waiting for Demonoid invitation code giveaway number 11. So here it is – fresh new Demonoid invite codes for FILEnetworks Blog readers. This time around we are giving away 23 Demonoid invites – the highest number of invitation codes to be offered in a single giveaway yet.

Majority of these invites come from loyal readers who obtained invites in previous giveaways and were grateful enough to give something back to the community. Also, let us not forget those who donated Demonoid invites for free in the comments section of giveaway number 10 (and 1-9 of course). For all these readers, TEAM FILEnetworks is forever grateful.

For those of you who are not familiar with our giveaways, here's how it's done. Posted below are 23 Demonoid invite codes. You may use one of these codes to register a new account at the popular semi private BitTorrent tracker Demonoid (www.demonoid.com). In order to obtain a code, you do not have to provide any ratio proofs, speedtests or anything else. Codes are given away on a first come, first served basis – no strings attached. We received a lot of complaints via E-mail regarding the time zone we chose to post giveaways number 9 and 10. This was not intentional. More than 5000 visitors read FILEnetworks Blog every day and we really don't know who gets the invites and who doesn't.

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From TEAM FILEnetworks

  • n58sf89dmce5c7fu2gdip5918qrok00xkbn1ojdrm6lqe
  • 0vswcpydvrwfcbd45dwj782oqz3pixwqk8d
  • jmwhihze4zb6q6si89l5y22qbasm64q27
  • rgp3lbeyawquh0wttinbz6ozx1aubw0mpglfn
  • 552mey6ek0bjv5c3el9lxzqtywkkk6mc
  • npgdjlz3s8ifu5zmhkighimcb0eybbx6gc41
  • kwk03cd5j57gjrh1l6vyah34j3stqqzpyad
  • w2dk97vza4x7qtldqesiukackw2a07v463
  • qkv597o0p7ouftg4yyn9bae3thdy7ab77sqxhs7o89v

From Priyantha De Silva

  • cbbxd83pkw9debcta3o9s1j5lxwq3xswgir
  • lsooontzf21witmmhmf9y8dymfbzl65xx1jwdii2lg3z
  • udf6sv7ngovs67zaxeczcsf5vvsmmppgb63m4zjcmics
  • 0uahzm6pewhm3t3zp3rhh3uc6fcrtdaolmtx7ieuwr
  • z3kzxcn6kirg7etxdtpatr3wl577e39jbsfra7zfl9rvd

From Sylvester K from NJ

  • 87kw5gu6rrp5pxq0rvuy57ersam9nbtni8bg7k1vmgu
  • jfrj7m54iozgi7g1vob9manx6aq47p9ex5r27qs3m18
  • ifq4fys2k3nj4e4fu4g3uvs63yt1jj4uvt08w3wzd7hx
  • ucl00i4my737z4l8tsxarfne3qq3swp48ri5ufcr6m

From Slydunn

  • ne187n383kyepuzkc6zmefwqycd8pj9aiqow

From a loyal reader who wished to remain anonymous

  • ykm4rcs3p2tzfhmxqmvfjomq6cymxl30k25qm
  • 30uu5fli96shjcdq1u8h5rwb572k9634kv4z8dm
  • fu11bshbbfpiv7lghfgd3seed6n8skwvdhrv2tfpkraw
  • 2fq63h5a3ho0fgppiocmv4s028vhpnnloyhb

If you get an invalid code error, that means another reader beat you to it. If this happens, try your luck with the next giveaway or keep an eye on our private trackers section for the next Demonoid open signup update.

Of course, any reader who wishes to share his codes with others are more than welcome to do so by posting a comment to this article (or you can send them to filenetworks[at]gmail[dot]com to be included in the next giveaway).\

 

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Classic Cinema Zone – Torrent tracker for obscure and classic movies

Posted: 19 Nov 2008 01:55 PM CST

Here is some more good news for fans of old, rare and obscure movies. Classic Cinema Zone is a private torrent tracker which specializes in movies not usually found on the internet. It's a similar tracker to Cinematik (if you are a frequent reader of FILEnetworks blog, there is a good chance you already are a member of Cinematik). That is, Classic Cinema Zone (CCZ) focuses on old, classic and obscure movie titles. CCZ is a fairly new tracker and currently it indexes around 500 torrents and has a user base of just over 1000 members. An interesting fact I noticed about Classic Cinema Zone is that it indexes torrents from external trackers such as Piratebay even though they operate their own BitTorrent tracker (external torrents can be identified using the 'ext' tag on torrent title).

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Majority of the movies on CCZ are 700MB (1CD) or 1.38GB (2CD) DVDRips. Apart from movies, CCZ also tracks classic TV Shows (current TV content is nothing compared to bigshots like TV-Vault though) and some old radio shows. Keep in mind that this still is a fairly new tracker and like most trackers out there, will take some time to stabilize. Classic Cinema Zone is currently open for signup so check it out, especially if you like old and rare movies.

classic cinema zone

Site Name: Classic Cinema Zone

Signup URL: http://www.classiccinemazone.com/index.php?page=signup

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