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The LinkTank is a list of important or interesting links related in some way with Shareaza project. It includes both links to shareaza project pages and links to sites/software which we think our users will find interesting and/or useful. The list is created based on the experiences of our users and community.

The Shareaza project links

Official home site of the Shareaza project.

http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/

Shareaza final version download page

http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/?id=download official and only true Shareaza download page. Please always use this page for downloading Shareaza official releases.

Shareaza debug version download page

http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/?id=debug Download page for so called debug builds, in theory for beta-testers and advanced users, in practise for all who need more updated/fixed Shareaza before nearest next official release will be published.

Help desk page

http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/?id=support Shareaza help or support site, here you will find links to Shareaza IRC, wiki and forums. IRC is the quickest way for user to obtain help. You can enter IRC using links here via browser or any IRC client or by using built-in Shareaza IRC client.

Shareaza forums

https://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/shareaza/ Forums of Shareaza project, place where you can post for help, improvements, news, development and others subjects.

Shareaza User Wiki

https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/shareaza/index.php?title=Main_Page User Wiki or Media Wiki, Shareaza project wiki for users support, interactive knowledge database about Shareaza for common users.

Shareaza Developer Wiki

https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/shareaza/wiki Dev Wiki or Trac Wiki, this wiki focuses on Shareaza development. Mysterious kingdom of coders, open source and IT knowledge for all interested in.

Shareaza skins and additions

http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/?id=addon Skins and additions like torrent wizard for torrent making.

Shareaza general overview

http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/?id=tour General description of Shareaza software functionality.

Useful or helpful software

PeerGuardian 2 (PG2)

http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/ Description from linked site: "(...) PeerGuardian 2 is Phoenix Labs’ premier IP blocker for Windows. PeerGuardian 2 integrates support for multiple lists, list editing, automatic updates, and blocking all of IPv4 (TCP, UDP, ICMP, etc), making it the safest and easiest way to protect your privacy on P2P. (...)". It is maintained but not developed actively, open source. Idea is continued by Peerblock team, described below. All systems before Vista.

PeerBlock (PB)

http://www.peerblock.com/ Description from linked site: "(...) PeerBlock lets you control who your computer "talks to" on the Internet. By selecting appropriate lists of "known bad" computers, you can block communication with advertising or spyware oriented servers, computers monitoring your p2p activities, computers which have been "hacked", even entire countries! They can't get in to your computer, and your computer won't try to send them anything either. (...)". This is continuation (fork) of PeerGuardian 2, fixed and recommended for Vista and W7 users - while PG2 is not.

VLC media player

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ VLC is probably most popular replace for Shareaza Media Player (in Shareaza settings any external player can be set permanently as default player, and all Shareaza functionalities will remain unchanged, thanks to modular design of Shareaza). Descritpion from linked site: "(...) VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac ...) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols - full features list on site. It can also be used as a media converter or a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on networks. (...) The cross-platform open-source multimedia framework, player and server. (...)"

Useful or helpful sites

Shareaza in Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareaza Updated by Shareaza and wikipedia community members. Main and most actual is English version. Other languages versions are updated from English version and are maintained by users. National versions can have small and minor differences in details.

WOT

http://www.mywot.com/ WOT or Web Of Trust, very recommended addition to your browser which auto warns against dangerous or fake-malware-virus-scum sites, so allow during surfing the Internet to avoid places which should be avoided. Also warns against sites propagating Fakeaza.

Mcafee SiteAdvisor

http://www.siteadvisor.com/ SiteAdvisor software adds safety ratings to your browser and search engine results. Available for both Internet Explorer and Firefox

Reports and articles about Shareaza in the Internet

G2 Network Statistics

http://crawler.trillinux.org/index.html The crawler stats are updated every 5-10 minutes. All times are UTC-05:00. G2 Network Statistics provides: Network size, Countries, Versions, Vendors, Density, Uptimes, Uptime Graphs, Superlatives, Bad Hubs, World Map and more.

"Shareaza Install Guide" by OldDeath

This is guide in form of PDF and you can download it via G2 by searching for it with Shareaza. (When you will download it, please share it for other users like you) This is very useful step by step "how to" install Shareaza explanation. Recommended for everybody, especially new users. Currently in English and German. Thank you OldDeath.

Some (NOT ALL) of scummers, malware etc. sites

Here are listed sites which should be avoided so they have intentionally dot (" . ") replaced with asterisk (" * ") to make them not linkable. This is warning against danger places.

shaeaza*com - stolen domain, which is not Shareaza home any longer.

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