Kyung (Tech Blog)

So the social media tool that I'm going to be talking about is Spotify. First what I did was Google whether or not Spotify is social media just to get some other input and Google told me with its feed user profiles and people tab. "

Spotify is already well on its way to becoming its own social network"

You can just type in Spotify.com on whatever browser you use and it will give you the option to sign up or log in and it tells you.

How you can have Spotify for free or you can get Spotify Premium APK. Since I'm a student I get it at a cheaper cost and I pay five dollars a month for Spotify.

So I think the shrinks are it's an easy way of listening to music and it makes finding music a lot easier you can just even go to another artist and go to related artists and see that there's just gonna give you suggestions of that.

So now I can play the song and it's just a really easy way to get from one song to another and iTunes is a lot like this but  Spotify is their own version of it.

I guess the weaknesses would be the lack of privacy in a way. If someone follows you there's they could not see what you're listening to as long as they're on their computer and they have the sidebar open.

But I find that to be a pretty cool aspect it doesn't bother me. but it could bothersome I definitely plan to use Spotify in the future.

What is the best DNS server for you guys around your area? So basically it all depends on where you basically live so a lot of people have been talking about the open DNS a lot of people have been talking about Google DNS and which one is better comparing them both or all depends on your location like Google could be better or Open DNS could be better or neither one of them. actually there could be another one that's actually a lot better for you. So Here is an Article on 6 Best DNS Servers for Gaming 2018. Read out and See Which DNS server best according to your location.

One of the most common questions that we get is how to get around block internet sites.

Now, this is probably a problem that you see if you're at school or work and you're trying to access the internet, and there's some draconian access policy in place.

So three methods will need to do this you know to get around them.

Now the first two are easy but don't always work the third one is guaranteed to work, but it's going to take some setup time.

1) Access Via IP Address:

We're going to try is using the IP address of the website. It doesn't work all that often but it is worth a shot so first open up a command prompt and ping the site that you want to visit.

We're going to get the IP address here copies it to your clipboard.

And then paste it into your web browser if you're lucky the site you're looking for a load.

2) Web Proxies:

Second method is to try using an anonymous web proxy these are basically websites that access the block sites for you and sort of feed the data back through to you a few of these that you can try are

1. anonymouse.org 2. zendproxy.com 3. kproxy.com

Drawback often these sites can be very slow and also tons of annoying ads. But it is worth a try, though If you want to unblock website without a proxy site at school. Then this article How to Unblock Any Blocked Websites Without Proxy Sites for School is for you. Do read it.

3) Tor Browser

Method 3 is using Tor now it's going to be the most efficient way to get around block sites now Tor is distributed anonymous network.

Download TOR Browser Bundle here: torproject.org/download/download.html.en

Tor is going to let you access pretty much anything on the web anonymously. While getting around any restrictions that are in play and the developers of Tor made this easy enough to install now used to be a lot harder but now all you have to download the installation package and then dump them onto your flash drive.

Once it’s done run the Tor browser button it's going to load a little panel at this is going to initiate all the software and get you hooked up to the network when that's done.

Now what handbrake is, it is a relatively simple DVD ripping tool as well as a video converter now it may look complicated at first. 

But it is a relatively simple application once you know how to use it and that's what I'm going to explain you.

It can convert any video for your iOS devices, so your iPod touch, your iPod, you know your classics iPhone, iPad, and even the new Apple TV, and it also can convert DVDs.

So you can play those on your iOS device or computer so to download handbrake you need to go to handbrake.fr and you'll see this page here. And from there you go to the download page.

You download your version. It available almost for most of Operating Systems. I have Mac so I have the option to download Intel 64 bit or Intel 32 bit. 

And I'll get into that in a second this works on leopard and snow leopard. So a lot of users are supported but it doesn't work for PowerPC, Macs.

So you're also going to need VLC. If you want to be able to rip DVDs and VLC is a media player, and you can download VLC. Once you go to that page, you are going to select your version here.

32-bit or 64-bit now if you're confused. It’s not as confusing as it sounds if you don't know which version to install you can find some documentation on the handbrake website. 

That will help you with that it's not that confusing and once you look at it. The 64-bit version does run about 10% faster that's the benefit of it but if you're not sure it's safe for us to go with a 32-bit version.

As it should work on everything so you're going to need to install VLC and you need to make sure that's in your applications folder you don't need to have VLC open to use the handbrake.

How to Use HandBrake

Handbrake once you open it. It's pretty simple I do have a 64-bit version. It's going to give you a selection that you can look anywhere on your computer to find media. 

What it's going to do is it's going to scan the source now this can take maybe a minute or two depending on the video size. So just be patient and it'll finish up.

First handbrake GUI graphical user interface on the right-hand side here you have this little presets pane that comes up, and it gives you all the different presets for different devices.

So iPods, iPhones, the iPhone 4 which would be retina display optimize them guessing iPad and then your Apple TV you don't really have to worry about this.

If you just want to convert a normal file the normal setting should do it good enough so here you see the chapters, and you can select what chapters you want to encode and this tells you where it's going to put the file.

It just generally puts it right to your desktop you can select other locations now you can convert this to a mp4, MKV file but safest to say with mp4. If you want playback on your iOS devices, you can also choose. 

Between web optimized, iPod 5g support, and large file size you can make a choice between two different video codecs and if you don't know really what you want to choose you can just leave it on h.264.

It doesn't matter I find that according to with MPEG-4 works a little bit faster, but it's not something you need to work up worry about and you can also choose your frame rates you can leave that alone - there's a quality slider here and if you want the highest quality video. 

I would suggest putting on all the way up.  you can also choose your bitrate and target size megabytes those are really something you really need to play with either and down here just tells you what your picture size sources and the output and resolution so Output is 720 x 480. 

And up here you can add things to your cue to encode while you're-recording other things and this just shows you what's in the queue and there's nothing in there right now.

So before I start this I just want to warn your copyrights that there are copyrights on a lot of DVDs copy protection now circumventing this is illegal,

So you really need to watch out if you do is copy protection it's not something you're going to want to rip in order to abide by laws and also it is legal to make a personal copy of a DVD for your own home use but going around the copy protection is not legal so this is something you want to handle with caution I'm going to hit start.

This is how to use handbrake now what handbrake is so it is pretty much virtually impossible to tell the difference the one that I just included is a little smaller file size and that has something to do with the settings and used.

How to download iTunes Plus AAC M4A music for free. For those of you who don't know its an original music from iTunes that you can purchase our single usually course 1$ dollar and 29 cents. The iTunes is the most popular site in the US, and therefore I'm sure you all heard of it, and in case you're wondering why I just don't convert the video to mp3 straight from YouTube.

Well, I want to the high quality of music and also all the tags of the song that iTunes provides.

Here is an example this is a screenshot from my Android Phone as you can see the song contains certain tags such as title, artist, album, and cover art.

These are not all but only the most important tags and the last but not least when you convert the video from YouTube you get some parts from a music video, and you don't want that you want only a song it takes more time, but it worth it trust me.

So, it takes these sites.

Iplusfree.com

Nhachot.info/browser

Iplusbuzz.info

I list just a few as an example. But they're much more, and before we start you have to check whether the song you want to download exists on iTunes and whether it exists as a single or an album.

Here are some examples let's say that you want to download drake - "single hotline blink"

It's easy just type in google Drake "hotline bling iTunes" Here it is hotline bling single by Drake.

Let's move on to the first site called Iplusfree.com in the search box type the artist and the name of the song that you previously checked on iTunes in my case it's Drake hotline bling.

Second is the right link and other is going for music Video.

On this site download links are located in the comments section below you will usually have two options the first one is VK and the second one is google drive. I prefer google drive but if the link doesn't work you always have an alternative click on the link and it will open the page with ads. But the procedure is the same for all the sites just keep clicking skip this ad until it brings you to download site.