An Alternative To Bittorrent

Bittorrent is a great technology for downloading large files, especially video files. It’s so good, in fact, that many ISPs estimate that between 50% and 90% of all their traffic is data being shared by Bittorrent. But Bittorrent isn’t perfect. In fact, there are two distinct disadvantages to using Bittorrent to get your video files.


The first has to do with Bittorrent technology itself. When a user wants to share a file, he uses his Bittorrent client to create a .TORRENT file based on what he wants to share. He then uploads that torrent file to a tracker, a server on the Internet that keeps track of the IP addresses of people sharing the file. 


 Although this is what makes Bittorrent so fast, it also creates two problems: a) you can accidentally connect to a computer owned by the Media Police, and get busted for sharing illicit files; and b) according to Bittorrent etiquette, you’re supposed to upload as much as you download. This means that a 350MB download of a TV show actually costs you 700MB in bandwidth. As a one-off, that’s not that big of a deal. But if you’re downloading 10 shows a week, it really adds up: 7GB worth of bandwidth to download 3.5GB worth of shows!


The second problem with Bittorrent has to do with most people’s Internet connections. Most broadband connections in the United States are

How to connect to your computer from remote location

To enable this feature, you need to login to your host computer as an administrator.After logging in to your host computer, some configurations needs to be changed.

Click on "Start" 

Right click on “Computer“–>Properties->Remote settings

Retrieve the IP address of the host computer. To get the IP address of the host computer, go to the command prompt and type “ipconfig/all“.

7 chrome extensions everyone must have

To use Chrome browser to the full potential, you need to make use of the plugins or extensions available. You can visit the chrome Web Store for all the plugins download. But there are hundreds of plugins available there. So we thought of making it easier for you and narrowing down your top and best plugins that you must have so that you don’t have to go through each and every plugin to find out the best of them all.

1.Adblock: This plugin ensures that you do not have any advertisements from any webpages,even Facebook and Youtube. It automatically blocks all sorts of pesky ads with the help of a filter.
2.StayFocusd: StayFocusd extension is perfect for those who sit on computer to do some work but get carried away with all sorts of social media attractions. It keeps you focused to your work and allots specific time that you need to spend on other websites.You can customize the time the way you want.

3.Chrome Toolbox :The Chrome Toolbox extension by Google adds some more advanced browser options and commands to spruce up any browsing experience. For example users can save unsubmitted internet form data for use later, view web videos in standalone windows, and can pre-define the browser to open all links in an external window.

4.Smooth Gestures : This extension will make you feel of a touch screen experience.This Mouse Gestures extension allows you to move the mouse while holding the right mouse button to trigger actions, such as page navigation or tab management. Supports click-and-drag (mouse gesture), click-and-scroll (scroll gesture), click-and-click (rocker gesture), and keyboard shortcuts

kid version of ' Kolaveri Di'.

  Introducing ace Bollywood singer Sonu Nigam's son Nevaan Nigam in the kid version of 'Kolaveri Di'. Nevaan's song is a MILK song, where he's asking for Milk! Check it out!

Repair Corrupted Files

 How to repair Corrupted Files?

• Download and install File Repair.download link
• Launch it and select the file to repaired.
• Click on Start Repair.
• After the Repair Process, the repaired file will be saved in the same directory with a different name.

It can

• repair corrupted Word documents(.doc, .docx, .docm, .rtf)
• repair corrupted Excel Spreadsheets(.xls, .xla, .xlsx)
• repair corrupted PDF files(.pdf)
• repair corrupted Access databases(.mdb, .mde, .accdb, .accde)
• repair corrupted PowerPoint Presentations(.ppt, .pps, .pptx)
• repair corrupted Zip or RAR files(.zip, .rar)
• repair corrupted videos(.avi, .mp4, .mov, .flv, .wmv, .asf, .mpg)
• repair corrupted music(.mp3, .wav)
• repair corrupted JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, PNG or RAW images(.jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .tiff, .bmp, .png)

If you still find that the results are not in your favor, then you can also mail the corrupted/damaged file to “repair [at] filerepair1 dot com” for the manual repair by the experts.
Do let us know how it works out for you or any similar tool that you are already using.

10 Cool Facebook Status

1. HOW TO: Add a Dislike Option to Your Status Update

"Like" buttons are everywhere on Facebook, and they're everywhere on the web. But what if you want to update your status or share something that your friends can "dislike?" We know, your friends can choose to "comment" on your post, but where's the fun in that?

The clever Status Magic Facebook app can add a dislike button to any status updates posted via the app. And if you wanted to really mix it up you can actually customize the second emotion to anything, such as "love," "hate," "disagree" or even "LOLs."

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2. HOW TO: Hide Status Updates From Certain People

Using Facebook's general privacy settings (find these by hitting "account" on the top right of a Facebook page) you can select whether everyone, just friends or friends of friends can see your status updates. However, there is a way to narrow those options down even further.

You can select specific friend lists to see your status (relevant for work, special interest groups, etc.) or even individual people by name, which is useful for anyone organizing a surprise party.

To take advantage of these options, click the padlock icon just below your "what's on your mind" box on your wall and a drop down menu should appear. Selecting "customize" will bring up more options such as "make this visible to" and "hide from" with the option to make your selection a default.

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3. HOW TO: Pre-Schedule Status Updates

While SocialOomph, Sendible and HootSuite offer the same kind of service, the simplest way to schedule Facebook status updates is by using the easy, free Later Bro service.

Just sign in with Facebook Connect, select your time zone, type in what it is you'd like to say, set the calendar and clock to when you'd like to say it, and presto!

11.11.11 Is Just Another Day! Period

The 11.11.11 date is upon us and we are on the verge of a great illumination or “shift in consciousness”. Or Not! The date is an interesting observation, but that’s about it!

Seen this before, right? No?

Numerologists, psychics, metaphysicists (I don’t even know if that is really a proper profession or not), occultists and other people with no lives to call their own are going head-over-heels proclaiming today as the day of the enlightenment. Apparently, while we are simply sitting at home, or getting yelled at by our bosses at office (who yells at these bosses?), there is going to be a “harmonic convergence” and a (for the second time!) paradigm “shift in consciousness”. Why? Because an inevitable date occurred and the digits looked interesting given a particular, arbitrarily chosen, calendar that we happen to follow.

The Magic of the Day and the Charlatans!

Many people are busy proclaiming the uniqueness of the date – it happens once in a lifetime. I’ll give you more – it happens once every century!! How many dates (calendar dates!) have you seen repeating themselves? Heard of anyone

Prevent Facebook from Automatically Tagging You In Photos

Though facebook introduced automatically tagging photos, the feature is bothersome for some. Though the face recognition feature introduced by Facebook does sound cool and useful it can get very annoying for many when they get tagged a lot.To prevent  Facebook automatically tagging you in photos all you have to do is edit a few settings in your Facebook Account. It doesn’t require any special plugin for your browser or anything. So without going on about the new feature let’s begin the tutorial.

Just follow these simple steps to prevent Facebook from tagging you Automatically:

• Click on Account drop down menu and then select Privacy Settings.
• Now scroll down and click on Customize Settings. Scroll to the Things Others Sharesection and click Edit Settings near Suggest photos of me to friends. Now a dialogue box will appear as in the picture above. Just click on the drop down arrow near Enabled and change it to disabled.
• That’s it. Now photos of you won’t be automatically tagged.

If you ever feel like re-enabling this option just follow the same tutorial and change the Disabled to Enabled again. For more such helpful tips subscribe to the Computing UnleashedRSS Feed.

Watch Hindi and English Movies For Free on Youtube

Youtube is now turning towards Pay-per view basis for movies, that would allow the users towatch Hindi and English Movies after paying a small fee. But youtube has now put up some of the bollywood and hollywood movies in HD quality, which you can watch for free of cost.

Yes thats right you can now watch some of the Bollywood and Hollywood movies in HD quality for free in Youtube. The movies coming under these channels can be watched legally without shedding out any money.

Though the movies are free, you will be shown advertisements before the movie gets played.

via [Techie-Buzz]

10 Blogs I Read Every Day « Brad Lomenick

10 Blogs I Read Every Day « Brad Lomenick: "1. Michael Hyatt
2. Seth Godin
3. Mashable
4. Fast Company
5. Perry Noble
6. TechCrunch
7. Pete Wilson
8. TED
9. Catalyst
10. Swerve
THESE ARE NOT THE ONLY BLOGS I READ EVERY DAY. I read way more than 10 a day, but only including these 10 this time. Just to clarify.
Also, wanted to mention a couple of blogs I would love to read every day but unfortunately they don’t currently exist:
- Andy Stanley blog…. come on Andy!!! It’s time!
- Bill Hybels blog…. come on Bill!!!
- Tim Keller blog….
- Jim Collins blog…. yes, please."

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Speed Up Video Buffering – Sure Way To Stream Videos Faster

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Do you experience slow video buffering speeds? Thinking of how to buffer the videos faster? The videos get buffered slow at times. For users with slow internet access speed and for dialup users this is a head ache. They’ll lose the pleasure of watching videos hitch free. Usually in such cases, we pause the video and leave it for some time to get the video buffered 100%. But also wastes the time. But there is a way to speed up buffering of videos.Speed Bit Video Accelerator has come up with a solution to buffer videos faster in youtube, metacafe, Dailymotion, Bebo, CNET and other 150+ popular video sharing sites. This tool will stream the videos using multiple connection to the server of the video sharing site. The company offers a speed boost of upto 5 times the normal video streaming speed by this method.

How To Add Beautiful Subscribe Section to Blogger

Do you like to add a good looking subscribe section to your blog?

1. Login to your blogger dashboard>>>layout>>>edit HTML
2. Scroll down to where you see </head> tag .
3. Copy below code and paste it just before the </head> tag 

<style type='text/css'>

#hsection{border:4px solid #D3D3D3;background-color:#e9e9e9;}
#hsection:hover{border:4px solid #BABABA;background-color:#e9e9e9;}

#sectionmy .sectionmy2 h2.subscription { border:0; margin:0; padding:6px 0 0 55px; height:42px; font-size:16px;font-family:&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Calibri,&quot;Myriad Pro&quot;,Myriad,&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
font-weight:bold; }

#sectionmy .sectionmy2 h2.rss { background:url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBJ7arCJKUZUX5TaBYr2dL87pvh1EEn9mHv65lVTKn02jkmWEJKqMEk7SinSicVMINBDscnDG2TbXQV2n4zVFKj9oXC8ouGs9gBHZWqjodDo3fGGvUIvgO_h6OgM2OpT0oomxiELtaDh9w/) no-repeat top left; }

#sectionmy .sectionmy2 h2.email { background:url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQgOWqsk9WVf2wqfykYbTyecidwGmHcLX03rRCOBCsMzswJt8Wl1p76x8HpD2Rba0P7EWjzVmJP-_OQcjHSd70HFGiINaW0Tr7nqDBCYYXV3oE-3B0ro9CfAoCIgdjKcu_hvMsqL0cGZFX/) no-repeat top left; }

#sectionmy .sectionmy2 h2.twitter { background:url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOnpkCy7NJ4FUcdVWWw1wqZT_01Xia5_4MGo0ztaaskYAcN_btT6BGPPlUDEGGtaTHBkdrxxSt8AFRnICmFmCZpfCvMu1_6ZclXmoNzUY8p7N_jID2QWpFXiTsepxaM7aphEyj4nNxiW_d/) no-repeat top left; }

#sectionmy .sectionmy2 .subscription a { color:#252e28; text-decoration:none; }

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Protecting the web for your security, privacy and anonymity!

Are you constantly annoyed by websites blocking you because of your location? Many websites use your IP Address to find out your location and prevent you from accessing data. There is a simple way to gain access to such restricted data. The easiest way to gain access is by getting an IP address that these sites will approve.

100% Security Through a VPN

Hotspot Shield creates a virtual private network (VPN) between your laptop or iPhone and our Internet gateway. This impenetrable tunnel prevents snoopers, hackers, ISP’s, from viewing your web browsing activities, instant messages, downloads, credit card information or anything else you send over the network. Hotspot Shield security application is free to download, employs the latest VPN technology, and is easy to install and use.

10 YouTube Channels You Can Switch On To Catch The Best Movie Reviews

There are a lot of movie buffs on YouTube giving their two-cents worth by way of movie reviews. In fact, they have full-blown YouTube movie review channels to show-off their critical takes.

Which are the better ones out there? Just like the reviews you catch, the select ten is also taken from a list I follow. Agree or disagree, just give them a ten second glance.

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Epic, the first browser by Indians : a review

Epic is the first ever browser for the Indians, by the Indians. It claims to be the worlds only antivirus browser.  One month after its release lets checkout whats in store for us in this epic browser named Epic.

Facebook launches Video Calling feature powered by Skype

Facebook has launched its new Video Calling service powered by Skype. You might be thinking that they’ve done this to tackle the much discussed Google+ Hangout feature but comparing both of them is not the right thing to do.

You can Video Call just one you Facebook friend at a time, whereas Google+ hangout is a group video calling feature. You can access Facebook Video calling service from here. You’ll first need to set up some stuff before you can actually start calling your friends, we’ll help you throughout the process.

Use Custom Background Image in Windows Explorer

Are you big fan of Windows? Is it the only operating system that you use. If it is then you may have tried experimenting with various modifications in Windows such as changing the icons, installing various themes and docks or sidebars.

Even changing the Log in Screen or even the boot screen. But the one modification that was common in Windows XP that a few people missed in Windows 7 was the ability to change the background images for Windows Explorer. Have you ever wondered the same thing? But not to worry here is how you can do it within minutes. All you need to do is download a free tool that runs on. .NET framework and use it to select custom background images.

Change Windows 7 Logon Screen without using any software or hacks

It has been found by rafael from withinwindows that Windows 7 will now officially support tochange the logon screen background without using any software or hacks. So we can use our favorite picture as the background in the logon screen of Windows 7. Before we used many softwares like Tune Up Utilities, Logon Studio etc. to change the logon screen in previous Windows version.
Here are the steps to change the logon screen in Windows 7……….
First download this regisrty file (EnableCustomLogonFeature) from here.