I don't follow a lot of Mac news… but I remember reading somewhere that a recent update restored a feature back with respect to photos.  Perhaps this is what you're seeing, and perhaps you can Google for news related to this and see if there is an update.

While I may not know of a proxy service that's available in China, I do know of a few VPN services, which will render the same end result in the sense that they will make you appear to the internet to be using an IP address from within China. The downfall to most free proxy services is that they're not an anonymous proxy, which allows them to reveal your original IP address for tracking purposes, which may be why the connection is being rejected. A VPN (preferably PPTP) on the other hand will not expose your direct IP address in any manner, thus getting around that issue.

Re-download and overwrite or try Transmission

I like Camstudio.  http://camstudio.org/  Completely free and it works with a huge amount of codecs.  Experiment with it a bit to find the best codec for length to size ratio you desire.   And then be sure to Upload any good ones for the rest of us to watch!  As a Warning… Be careful with the installer...it comes with a lot of Bloatware designed to make you click accept without reading the nonsense.  You can still continue if you click Refuse or Decline on the first handful of the ones it asks.  Otherwise it will download and installed a ton of stupid nonsense.

@Pawpcorn: Since I haven't been one to suffer uTorrent crashing…. WHY (and how?) do members experience the problem of uTorrent "crashing" ??? Actually Pawpcorn that's a good question.  The user that requested a means to have uTorrent auto-restart said he had 800+ torrents in it, and thought that might have been part of the reason for it crashing.  I gave him advice on cleaning it up (how to select and remove multiple torrents at once) but then I also thought the script was a kinda fun challenge for a a couple of hours (well not long to write, longer to test it properly It could be used for any process that might exit unexpectedly…  Or hell.. if you changed the checking interval to much longer, you could even use in unexpected ways, like to occasionally do a backup or something Nick

I could also have something to do with the program you used to download the videos.  I generally use Netvideo Hunter on Firefox.  It seems to find the actual source files and let's be download them.  90% of the time I seem to get .mp4 files.  This could also have to do with the sites I'm downloading from… but generally if it won't play on MPC or FLV your video files are probably junk.

You're showing as connected and the 2 torrents you're downloading are being seeded. You are not registering on GT.ru tracker as seedig anything. Check your uTorrent QUEUE settings to assure you have allowed seeding/downloading and have the appropriate number of slots available. OPTIONS>> PREFERENCES >> QUEUING

@Gambit1313: did try to take a look at the page's source code to see if there as a directly accessible link the .MP4 file I wanted. You want a program that uses RTMPDump. There's a list here: http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/

Thanks for the info.  I had already Google'd and tried most advertised screen capture apps for the Mac - just wanted to find out what others were using.  If there was a quicker, simpler solution than I may be tempted into capturing and sharing more!  R >:D

What you say is typical for what cannonmc mentioned, you haven't got all the files in a torrent's file list as completed completed download, but only those parts which you've selected to download. The way you put it "(…) All my parts to a torrent file are downloaded fully. (…)" seem to confirm that. The question is not to have all your parts, but all files of a torrent. The torrent protocol knows basically two type of peers: Those which got all files of a torrents file list and can seed it all of them, known as Seed/Seeder and the others having not 100% known as downloading peers (or derogative leecher). So if you haven't got all files completely a tracker will count it still into the downloading group. Of course any amount of data you seed will be counted correctly towards your total upload. This is common to all trackers I know (and it are quite a few). If you say to have got all files (not only those you've selected to download), then it would be interesting to know what torrent client programme and version you use.

I have IDM (internet download manager) installed on my laptop and it gives you an option to download video files instantly when the video starts to play.. You can optimize it like "only download FLV videos.. or MP4 videos" etc..

This is a shot in the dark but you might try (if you haven't already) turning on MSI install logging so it's verbose, downloading the AppFabric installer from Microsoft, running that and then checking the logs to see if there's an issue with the prereq install; if not, then try running the Sharepoint installer and check its log?

Hi Krwing, I'm taking it you've remembered IGII. It's a good prog if you want some control over your images. If you want a blunt approach Media Player Classic will produce contacts of various sizes taking a snapshot a regular intervals. It does for most of my thumbnails if all I want is to suggest a flavour of the movie.

@bear1515: Well, Screenshots are good to make other people know what is the torrent about. And at last one is required to post it. Any player have an option to take a screenshot of the video. And in Media Player Classic you can go in File - Save Thumbnail, it will take a screenshot of many moments of the movie. It's the best way. And I have some questions if you don't mind. How does a blind person watch porn? Do you get only audio, or do you hear the audio of movies? And how do you know it's a good video if you can't see the actors and what are they doing? Forgive me for this questions, but I have these curiosities, hehe. I use audio. The audio has to be a certain way for me e.g plenty of verbal, etc. I hate music. Can't stand it. That's something I've never done is have someone describe what is happening in the video, but I certainly wouldn't be adverse to trying

i noticed that you are using WINDOWS so why dont you try with windows video maker? watch that: Windows Live Movie Maker - Use Slow Motion And Speed up Effect i think almost any VIDEO editing software can do it. For example in  SONY VEGAS: 1) add the video 2)hold SHIFT then pull the mouse to the right. Its ALL … i think its simple for better notion watch this: Sony Vegas Pro 9 TUTORIAL: Slow Motion!

Plasma died for a few reasons. First it far from being environmental friendly and it consumes much more energy. But the major reason, is that it doesn't last as long as other technologies. A plasma television, will have dead pixels, and you will have to trade it faster than any other technology. So why would you spend so much money on something that won't last long?

Are you sure you downloaded regular version and not non-codecs version? In Mint all codecs should work right out of the box. Check if you have this package installed, http://community.linuxmint.com/software/view/non-free-codecs If not install it. Otherwise try another video player (totem is quite good), maybe  VLC is bugged.

I use ImToo, but then again, only to convert to phone format.

Windows Movie Maker is often "good enough", but don't botch the movie with anything ridiculous or overused… basic transitions and a non-default, but subtle, font should do. Also look into Microsoft Photo Story. It turns any picture set into a movie, complete with generated music, that would nestle into a History Channel documentary. And yes, you can narrate over it too.