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Welcome & Acknowledgment

Welcome to OmahShare's Homepage! Here you will find information on OmahShare, the next leading P2P file sharing application. More information to come.

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News

Wednesday, 12 May 2004
(6:04pm) Site update (fixed broken links). OmahShare is nearly finished, after months of set-backs. Stay tuned for the final release!
Sunday, 11 January 2004
(5:54pm) Release has been pushed back until about Wednesday (14 Jan).
Wednesday, 7 January 2004
(6:22pm) We're shooting for a Monday (12 Jan) release. Let's see how that works out.
Sunday, 4 January 2004
(9:00pm) OmahShare Help has been put online. Tour coming soon, as well as the final release!
Sunday, 28 December 2003
(1:30am) OmahShare will be released very soon. Keep checking back for further news.

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Features of OmahShare

Ultrapeer Mode
This mode allows you to act as a "hub" on the network. Basically, users connecting to the gnutella network will seek out Ultrapeers to get their initial connections. OmahShare will automatically detect whether or not your machine should be running in Ultrapeer mode. Basically, if you're getting a fair amount of bandwidth, and you have a pretty fast processor and a moderate amount of free RAM, OmahShare will enter Ultrapeer mode. This option can be disabled in OmahShare's Preferences.
Built-in Media Player
OmahShare introduces an embedded version of Windows Media Player. You can now play music files from within OmahShare. Future versions will allow movies to be played as well! (note: OmahSoft does not promote "music piracy". We have no way of controlling the content served over the gnutella network using OmahShare).
File Hashing
This is what allows OmahShare to download files from multiple sources. Basically, it will break your shared files into smaller parts or "chunks". This makes downloading files faster, as you can download different parts from multiple users, instead of the entire file from the same user.
Built-in Web Browser
You'll find Microsoft Internet Explorer embedded within OmahShare. This allows you to browse web pages and see various server statistics from within OmahShare itself. Future versions will embed Mozilla instead of MSIE.
Multiple Source Downloads
Makes the delivery of your file even faster. This is possible thanks to file hashing.
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Final notes

The motivation for making OmahShare was simple. With the downfall of Napster, there seemed to be no perfect P2P replacement. Thus, OmahShare was conceived. It is an Open Source work, meaning anyone can download the source code for it, and build and distribute it under the GPL.