Overly Chatty Penguins
The Ready Room => Off Topic => Topic started by: Magmatron on March 21, 2005, 02:45:59 PM
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Too lazy to come up with a description myself, so I'll just copy and paste!
//What is Wirehog?
•Wirehog is a social application that lets friends exchange files of any type with each other over the web.
•Wirehog is a utility for accessing data on your computer when you're away from home.
•(For geeks) Wirehog is an HTTP file transfer system using dynamic DNS and NAT traversal to make your personal computer addressable, routable and easily accessible — the way it was meant to be!
//What exactly does Wirehog do?
Wirehog makes it easy to access your friends' files through a standard web browser. The Wirehog software also runs on your computer in order to make your files securely available on the web. You choose which files to share and which friends to share them with and Wirehog does the rest.
Wirehog integrates with social networking services, such as Thefacebook, so it already knows who your friends are. If you have an account on Thefacebook, you can go directly to your friends' Wirehogs via their profiles.
Wirehog works with a standard web browser, but when you access a friend's Wirehog you are actually connecting directly to their computer. Wirehog also makes it easy to find your friends' computers on the web. Just type "nick.wirehog.com" (where "nick" is your friend's Wirehog nickname) into a web browser and you'll be taken to their Wirehog.
Wirehog is designed to simplify sharing media, such as pictures, videos and audio clips, but you can use it to share documents and other files with friends too. You can also share sensitive files because Wirehog lets you choose exactly which friends can view your files and even provides a "lockbox" that can't be accessed without a password.
//What's so different about Wirehog?
Wirehog isn't a "file-sharing" program in the standard sense.
Wirehog is a social application. Instead of searching a network of anonymous users for a specific file, Wirehog makes it easy to access files on your friends' computers, highlighting relevant content like the videos your friends have watched recently and the pictures your friends think are the funniest.
The media you see on your friends' Wirehogs is more social too. Unlike most file-sharing networks which are chock-full of popular music and pornography, Wirehog is geared toward finding pictures of friends, songs by local artists, and quirky files passed around by friends.
You can check out the website at http://www.wirehog.com (http://www.wirehog.com)
If you are interested in an invite just post with your e-mail addy.
***I will not invite you if you try to encode your e-mail with something like jamoncorona-thisisthe"at"part-yahoo-thedot-com. They take too much time to edit and I don't have that kind of time. Sorry.
I figure we could get a LM friend circlefap going on. Post your email if you want an invite, and I'll log into my account and send you one, basically.
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heeey, sounds like fun
since your a nub with the e-mail and no time, I'm going to PM it to you, consequentially causing more work that replacing /at/ with @ <3
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Added, Tak.
You too, Leader.
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Leaderz0rz@gmail.com
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sounds very unsecure and "Easily accesable" >_<
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Eh, I know about 500 people using it with no problem.
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how do i view other files? and is there anyone to limit the number of downloads? so people don't rape my bandwith like earlier today~
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My porn is mine and nobody elses.
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gimmeh!
theniteowl@gmail.com
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well if DHP is doing it, it must be safe.
Check your PM for my email addr.
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I'd join up, but I have limited upload and I'm nervous that Owl would leech all my Led Zep. <_<
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i like hamachi (http://hamachi.cc) with it's AES-256 and VPN tunnel through UDP so you can play lan games
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Nite and Gray added
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Add me.
j.v.rhodes [at] gmail [dot] com