Increase the Speed of Your Internet Connection

Does your ISP deliver the speed you pay for? It’s rather easy to test your broadband internet speed. However, there are a few things to keep in mind. For one, ISPs usually promise an “up to” speed, so you can’t expect top performance at all times, that’s part of the deal. During high traffic times your ISP will suffer from high loads and will certainly not be able to deliver the maximum speed. Thus you’d best perform different speed tests at different time points, to see whether you ever reach the top speed. Also, when running a speed test, make sure no other applications are using the internet, else the result will not be accurate.
Speedtest.net is a good place to test your internet speed. They operate through servers all over the world, so you can connect to a server near you, which increases the accuracy of your result.

As you may realize, your internet speed does not only depend on your ISP, it also depends on the hardware and software used on your end of the line. If you are using hardware provided by your ISP, there shouldn’t be a problem. The bottleneck for speed often sits in the connecting computer.
Here are a few tips to Increase the Speed of Your Internet Connection

(1) Connecting Port

This may seem obvious, but you should connect to the internet though an ethernet port, rather than a serial, parallel or USB port. If ethernet is not an option, it may be advisable to update your hardware.

(2) Enough RAM

Make sure your system memory can handle the load! If you want to browse fast, you will need to close other applications in case your RAM is maxed out.

(3) Fast Browser

Mozilla based browsers generally are among the fastest browsers, while still being comfortable to use. Whichever open source browser you pick, make sure you don’t overload it with extensions or addons, those will just slow your browser down dramatically. On the other hand, if speed and RAM are not an issue, go for the luxury!
Also there are a number of tweaks and addons to increase the speed of your browser.

(4) Increase Speed under Windows XP Pro

Windows XP Professional reserves 20% of your bandwidth for services like updates or spyware checks. If you would like to exploit this reserve, do the following:

1. Click [Windows] + [R] and type gpedit.msc in the Run window.
2. Under Computer Configuration expand the Administrative Templates.
3. Go to Network and click the QoS Packet Scheduler tab.
4. Double-click on Limit Reservable Bandwidth and enable it.
5. Finally change the Bandwidth limit to 0% and click Apply.
6. Reboot your computer and enjoy.

(5) Tweak Tools

There are a number of programs that promise to increase your internet speed. They may work, they may not. They all apply a number of changes to optimize your network settings. Whether or not they will really improve your internet speed or which one will work the best for you greatly depends on your system, hence it’s difficult to recommend an application.
For further reading I will refer you to a set of articles found on About.com. Start with DSL and Cable Broadband Speed Tweaks and work your way through the links at the bottom.

How To Download 100% Working Verified Torrents

With a huge potential targets, bittorent sites are now the most safest place for hacker and spammers. In the past few months I’ve noticed more and more infected torrents getting getting popular. Some torrents are password-protected others contain malicious viruses, and there’s even fake torrents to lure in unsuspecting torrenters.So how can we know before downloading

whether the torrent has been infected and it’s working or not.

Vertor is bittorrent site where every available torrents is checked for viruses, fakes, DRM and passwords. For this, it first downloads and then scans using latest antivirus software’s for any potential threat and makes sure that it not fake or password protected.

Suppose if you are downloading a new movie or popular video songs, you can search for the file with it’s build in search engine and each video torrent files are listed along with it’s screenshots.So you could verify before downloading whether the video torrent was fake or not, thereby saving your precious bandwidth.Similarly, for music torrents users can preview 20 seconds of the tracks, to avoid downloading the wrong files.

Further more, If a user has downloaded a torrent from a different site and wants to check if it is good enough, he can enter the hash of the torrent on a special page. If the torrent was checked by Vertor.com it will tell you whether it is a good one or not.

Overall features of Vertor

• Check torrent files for complete download.
• Screen-shots of video torrents.
• Audio samples for music files.
• Text/read-me/NFO files preview.
• Checks torrent by hash.
• HTTP Downloading Through BitLet.

Get Youtube on Your Desktop

We all use Youtube to watch and upload videos, its the undoubtedly the King of video sharing sites and its even going huge day by day. But recently I came across a freeware called Desktube which is a small tool that plays Youtube videos on desktop so you do not need to open Youtube in your browser.
The reason why I am promoting this app because of its simplicity and a lot more cleaner interface, its like Youtube minus the comments and ads. But it keeps all standard option like video sharing and related videos intact. Another good thing about this freeware is that it is not limited only to Youtube you can watch videos from Facebook and Twitter and upload videos too.

Also you update status on facebook and enjoy watching videos.


I bet you will enjoy using this app and like me you also advice other about this software.

System Requirements

Basic you will need adobe air to run this app and it supports all major operating systems. Know more about Adobe Air here

How To Watch Youtube Videos In High Quality

Today I am going to share a Youtube tip with you.Sometimes it is very annoying when you are watching any low quality video on Youtube.You are unable to read the text while watching any tutorial.So here is a very simple trick with which you can watch Youtube videos in high quality.
This will not boost up the quality but will surely increase it.So here is the simple trick.

When you are watching any just just add the following code to the end of the url

&fmt=18

or

           &fmt=6

For example :
If the video url is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24qml1t3dZ0&feature=dir
Just add the code and your url will look like this :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24qml1t3dZ0&feature=dir&fmt=18
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24qml1t3dZ0&feature=dir&fmt=6
Here is the proof :
Screenshot of original video :


The video will load slower but quality will definitely increase.Do not believe me ??Try it yourself and do comment here, is it working or not !!
Note : This trick will work on 90 percent of the Youtube videos.

How to insert YouTube movies into PowerPoint slides?

Now click on "Movies and Sounds" option from the Insert" menu and choose the option "Movie from File".

You can insert the YouTube movies into your PowerPoint slides to express your idea or better way to communicate something. You can convey these ideas in more effective ways, if you are using movie files with your simple slides.

Follow the given steps to add YouTube movies into PowerPoint slides:

First of all download the YouTube.com movies and then save on your computer hard drive. Mostly movies are available in flash video file format on YouTube site. You can convert also the downloaded movies from YouTube into any common format, for example, windows media video file (wmv), windows video file (avi) and movie file (mpeg).

First of all open the presentation in which you want to insert movie file.

Now select your movie that you want to insert into slide and click on Ok button.

Here now you are asked "Do you want your movie to play automatically in the slide show? If not, it will play when you click it."

Recommend choosing Ok button to play automatically even if you want the movie to play when clicked.

Finally save your PowerPoint presentation and run it for test.