Ensure a Fast Internet Connection When You Need It [Feature]

 

Your internet connection is an indispensable part of your life, but between BitTorrent, Xbox Live, web browsing, and VoIP, sometimes there’s not enough bandwidth to go around. But rather than running around the house shutting down all of your computers next time you’re experiencing a little lag on Xbox Live or Skype is breaking up on you, you can set up Quality of Service (QoS) rules on your router to distribute bandwidth to your different gadgets and applications based on your priorities. Today I’ll show you how.

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Homemade Window De-Icer

 

 

Homemade Window De-Icer

Top 10 Food and Drink Hacks

The Secret Strategies Behind Many “Viral” Videos

 

Update: Dan has a follow up to this post, here.

Have you ever watched a video with 100,000 views on YouTube and thought to yourself: “How the hell did that video get so many views?” Chances are pretty good that this didn’t happen naturally.

Over the past year, I have run clandestine marketing campaigns meant to ensure that promotional videos become truly viral, as these examples have become in the extreme. In this post, I will share some of the techniques I use to do my job: to get at least 100,000 people to watch my clients’ “viral” videos.

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Now Up To Six Simultaneous Users On TokBox Video Chat

 

 

Now Up To Six Simultaneous Users On TokBox Video Chat

MyDownloader: A Multi-thread C# Segmented Download Manager – The Code Project

 

Introduction

MyDownloader is an open source application written in C# that is almost a complete download manager. MyDownloader has many features to manage downloads:

• Segmented downloads from HTTP and FTP
  • With smart segments: when one segment ends, starts another segment to help to terminate another segment more fast
• Allow downloads to be paused and resumed
• (NEW) New friendly “New Video Download” window to download videos from: (you need save the file as *.flv)
  • You Tube
  • (NEW) Google Video
  • (NEW) Break
  • (NEW) PutFile
  • (NEW) Meta Cafe
• (NEW) Speed Limit — to avoid to use all your bandwidth
• (NEW) Download Scheduler
  • (NEW) Download files only on allowed times
  • (NEW) Limit the number of simultaneous downloads
  • (NEW) When one download ends, starts another automatically
• (NEW) Support for FTP site that requires authentication
• (NEW) Support for Mirrors
• (NEW) Download from HTTPS
• Notification download completion with sounds and XP balloon
• Anti-virus integration
• Automatic retry when a segment or download fails
• Batch downloads (enter a generic URL such as http://server/file(*).zip and MyDownloader generates a set of URLs with numbers or letters)

MyDownloader: A Multi-thread C# Segmented Download Manager – The Code Project – Internet / Network