LittleShoot is:
- Easy File Sharing in your Browser
- Streaming P2P Downloads
- Searches of YouTube, LimeWire, Flickr, and More
- Instant Publishing with No Size Limit
- The Dawn of P2P 2.0
- Open Source
Help
Are there other places I can get help with LittleShoot?
LittleShoot always runs in the background on my computer. Why?
Is LittleShoot legal?
Where does LittleShoot store files it downloads?
I'm not getting any results from LimeWire. Why?
Is LittleShoot secure?
Does LittleShoot work on Opera?
Does LittleShoot work on Linux?
How do I remove LittleShoot on OSX?
How do I remove LittleShoot on Windows?
Why isn't there a system tray entry on Windows?
I love LittleShoot. How can I help?
Q) Are there other places I can get help with LittleShoot?
The LittleShoot forum is a great place to ask questions and interact with other LittleShooters.
Q) LittleShoot always runs in the background on my computer. Why?
LittleShoot runs in the background to make the files you publish always available. In addition, you become a source for the files you download. LittleShoot is a cooperative system. Each user contributes a little bandwidth serving their files. Everyone contributing a little bit of bandwidth quickly adds up to a lot of bandwidth for the whole LittleShoot network, though, so everyone contributing a little allows everyone to enjoy a network that performs well when you go to download files yourself. The LittleShoot network united together creates an optimized system for distributing your files and your friends' files cheaply and easily.
All that said, we're working on changes to LittleShoot now that will make it only run when you need it to -- LittleShoot will close at all other times to save your system resources, only running when you need it to. These changes will be complete sometime before March 2009.
Q) Is LittleShoot legal?
The short answer is yes. The long answer is more involved. First and foremost, LittleShoot is not a tool for distributing copyrighted content. If you don't own the copyright to a file or are unsure of the copyright restrictions on a file, you shouldn't publish it, and you shouldn't download it. LittleShoot adheres to copyright law and something you may have heard of called the "Digital Millennium Copyright Act," or the "DMCA." Under the DMCA, a copyright holder can ask us to take down links to files they own the copyright to. When we receive valid takedown notices, we will remove the content in question. Also, if we see a file on the network we know our users don't own the copyright to, we'll remove it from the system as soon as we're aware of it. Finally, we just don't think that's a particularly interesting use for the technology. We see LittleShoot as a tool to give you better access to the knowledge of the world.
Q) Where does LittleShoot store files it downloads?
Here are the download locations for the various operating systems. We will let you customize this in the future.
Q) I'm not getting any results from LimeWire. Why?
First, there's a known issue where LimeWire can become disconnected from the network. We're working to fix this. Unfortunately, the only solution to this problem right now is to restart your computer. If you're not getting any results from LimeWire at all, this is likely the cause. If you're getting some results, but just not as many as you'd like, you may be connected poorly or to a part of the Gnutella network that does not have many files matching your search terms.
Q) Is LittleShoot secure?
We care a great deal about you're security at LittleShoot and have a robust framework for ensuring you can use LittleShoot safely. We discuss the details in the technology section under "security," but at a high level LittleShoot's servers issue temporary keys each time you want to make a request to LittleShoot from your browser, and LittleShoot only allows your computer to make calls to your LittleShoot plugin. This combination ensures that no one on your wireless network can access your LittleShoot, for example, and no other web site can try to do anything sneaky (well, they can try, but it won't work!).
Please read the technology section for details, and feel free to have a look at our open source code if you're feeling really motivated! It's a combination of calls to our Python code running on Google App Engine and the local LittleShoot client (see LocalHostFilter.java, for example, and SignedRelayController.java).
Q) Does LittleShoot work on Opera?
There's a bug with Opera running the LittleShoot Flash detector at this time. We love Opera and should have this fixed soon, though, and we apologize for the inconvenience.
Q) Does LittleShoot work on Linux?
We have a tgz installer for Linux at this time that works well, and we plan to create versions you can use with apt-get and yum. If anyone out there wants to take a stab at this before we get to it, we'd love to hear from you! We strongly believe in Linux as a technology and community, but we just have limited resources.
Q) How do I remove LittleShoot on OSX?
LittleShoot includes a handy uninstaller that lets you remove LittleShoot quickly and easily. Just double click on "LittleShootUnstaller" within your home Applications directory (not your normal Applications directory). This will prompt you to confirm the uninstall before proceeding.
Q) How do I remove LittleShoot on Windows?
You can uninstall LittleShoot on Windows in the usual "Add/Remove Programs" window on XP and "Programs and Features" window on Vista. Both reside in your control panel, and you simply double click on the LittleShoot entry.
Q) Why isn't there a system tray entry on Windows?
We just haven't gotten to it yet. We'll be adding this soon. Until then, if you really need to stop LittleShoot, you have to go to the Task Manager using CTRL-ALT-DELETE. We apologize for this inconvenience and will have it fixed shortly.
Q) I love LittleShoot. How can I help?
Glad you asked! We're working hard with minimal resources over here, and we need all the help we can get. Any of the following help tremendously:
LittleShoot always runs in the background on my computer. Why?
Is LittleShoot legal?
Where does LittleShoot store files it downloads?
I'm not getting any results from LimeWire. Why?
Is LittleShoot secure?
Does LittleShoot work on Opera?
Does LittleShoot work on Linux?
How do I remove LittleShoot on OSX?
How do I remove LittleShoot on Windows?
Why isn't there a system tray entry on Windows?
I love LittleShoot. How can I help?
Q) Are there other places I can get help with LittleShoot?
The LittleShoot forum is a great place to ask questions and interact with other LittleShooters.
Q) LittleShoot always runs in the background on my computer. Why?
LittleShoot runs in the background to make the files you publish always available. In addition, you become a source for the files you download. LittleShoot is a cooperative system. Each user contributes a little bandwidth serving their files. Everyone contributing a little bit of bandwidth quickly adds up to a lot of bandwidth for the whole LittleShoot network, though, so everyone contributing a little allows everyone to enjoy a network that performs well when you go to download files yourself. The LittleShoot network united together creates an optimized system for distributing your files and your friends' files cheaply and easily.
All that said, we're working on changes to LittleShoot now that will make it only run when you need it to -- LittleShoot will close at all other times to save your system resources, only running when you need it to. These changes will be complete sometime before March 2009.
Q) Is LittleShoot legal?
The short answer is yes. The long answer is more involved. First and foremost, LittleShoot is not a tool for distributing copyrighted content. If you don't own the copyright to a file or are unsure of the copyright restrictions on a file, you shouldn't publish it, and you shouldn't download it. LittleShoot adheres to copyright law and something you may have heard of called the "Digital Millennium Copyright Act," or the "DMCA." Under the DMCA, a copyright holder can ask us to take down links to files they own the copyright to. When we receive valid takedown notices, we will remove the content in question. Also, if we see a file on the network we know our users don't own the copyright to, we'll remove it from the system as soon as we're aware of it. Finally, we just don't think that's a particularly interesting use for the technology. We see LittleShoot as a tool to give you better access to the knowledge of the world.
Q) Where does LittleShoot store files it downloads?
Here are the download locations for the various operating systems. We will let you customize this in the future.
- OS X: /Users/your_user_name/shared/downloads
- Windows: c:/Users/your_user_name/shared/downloads
- Linux: ~/shared/downloads
Q) I'm not getting any results from LimeWire. Why?
First, there's a known issue where LimeWire can become disconnected from the network. We're working to fix this. Unfortunately, the only solution to this problem right now is to restart your computer. If you're not getting any results from LimeWire at all, this is likely the cause. If you're getting some results, but just not as many as you'd like, you may be connected poorly or to a part of the Gnutella network that does not have many files matching your search terms.
Q) Is LittleShoot secure?
We care a great deal about you're security at LittleShoot and have a robust framework for ensuring you can use LittleShoot safely. We discuss the details in the technology section under "security," but at a high level LittleShoot's servers issue temporary keys each time you want to make a request to LittleShoot from your browser, and LittleShoot only allows your computer to make calls to your LittleShoot plugin. This combination ensures that no one on your wireless network can access your LittleShoot, for example, and no other web site can try to do anything sneaky (well, they can try, but it won't work!).
Please read the technology section for details, and feel free to have a look at our open source code if you're feeling really motivated! It's a combination of calls to our Python code running on Google App Engine and the local LittleShoot client (see LocalHostFilter.java, for example, and SignedRelayController.java).
Q) Does LittleShoot work on Opera?
There's a bug with Opera running the LittleShoot Flash detector at this time. We love Opera and should have this fixed soon, though, and we apologize for the inconvenience.
Q) Does LittleShoot work on Linux?
We have a tgz installer for Linux at this time that works well, and we plan to create versions you can use with apt-get and yum. If anyone out there wants to take a stab at this before we get to it, we'd love to hear from you! We strongly believe in Linux as a technology and community, but we just have limited resources.
Q) How do I remove LittleShoot on OSX?
LittleShoot includes a handy uninstaller that lets you remove LittleShoot quickly and easily. Just double click on "LittleShootUnstaller" within your home Applications directory (not your normal Applications directory). This will prompt you to confirm the uninstall before proceeding.
Q) How do I remove LittleShoot on Windows?
You can uninstall LittleShoot on Windows in the usual "Add/Remove Programs" window on XP and "Programs and Features" window on Vista. Both reside in your control panel, and you simply double click on the LittleShoot entry.
Q) Why isn't there a system tray entry on Windows?
We just haven't gotten to it yet. We'll be adding this soon. Until then, if you really need to stop LittleShoot, you have to go to the Task Manager using CTRL-ALT-DELETE. We apologize for this inconvenience and will have it fixed shortly.
Q) I love LittleShoot. How can I help?
Glad you asked! We're working hard with minimal resources over here, and we need all the help we can get. Any of the following help tremendously:
- Telling us as soon as you notice a bug or think of an improvement we could make on the forum or directly using the feedback e-mail (at littleshoot.org).
- Use the "Share This" links within LittleShoot to post about it on social networks, Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, etc.
- Blog About Us
- Twitter About Us
- If you're a programmer, fix bugs in the open source code.
