Note: I have also made this post it’s own sep­a­rate page that can always be accessed up in the top right cor­ner of the sidebar

The major­ity of the down­load links you will find on The­JortRe­port will direct you to my file host­ing site of choice Medi­aFire. Once you’re there and the page is fin­ished load­ing, click the “Click here to start down­load..” link on the left. You will be prompted to either Open or Save the file… choose Save. I always save my down­loads to my desk­top ini­tially so that I know where to find them when they’re fin­ished and then move, extract, or copy them to the nec­es­sary folder afterwards.

Now you’re prob­a­bly won­der­ing what the fuck a .rar file is. RAR is a com­pres­sion for­mat sim­i­lar to ZIP. It bun­dles every­thing (mp3’s or mul­ti­ple files) into a sin­gle down­load for ease of use. Once you have the .rar file down­loaded you will need the pro­gram Win­RAR to extract what­ever is inside. Win­RAR has become the stan­dard for down­load­ing across the inter­webs (and also works with ZIP files, among many more) so don’t feel like you’re installing some use­less pro­gram that you really don’t need. Here are links to the Win­RAR trial install and a key gen­er­a­tor (sssh­hhh…) to unlock the full version:

Win­RAR 3.71

Key­gen

These are direct links, not Medi­aFire. Save both of them and then run the Win­RAR installer just as you nor­mally would. No option changes, just click OK/Next the whole way through. Once you have installed Win­RAR suc­cess­fully, run winrarkg.exe, enter your name into the “Name” field and hit “Gen­er­ate”. You should get a prompt say­ing it was successful.

With Win­RAR installed, all of your .rar files should now look like a stack of col­ored books. You can either a) right-click and choose “Extract here…” to extract what­ever is inside to the same direc­tory the .rar file is in b) dou­ble click the .rar file and choose “Extract” and choose a sep­a­rate folder to extract to. Once the extract is done, you will have the files you need inside the folder.

If it is mp3’s you down­loaded, sim­ply do “File…Add folder to Library” in iTunes and choose the folder you just extracted to add the songs to your iTunes library. If you keep all of your mp3’s orga­nized else­where. Make sure you move the folder to that direc­tory before adding them to your library. Once you’ve done all this, you can delete the .rar file from your computer.

Please feel free to bother me with any prob­lems or ques­tions you have at thejortreport@gmail.com.

Enjoy!

~ by Hans on September 19, 2007.