Archive for October, 2006


Understanding and Solving the BitTorrent Slowdown

Have you ever wondered why your Internet connection seems to slow down whenever you have a BitTorrent client running? Not only is this slowdown really annoying when you’re trying to download a file and surf the web at the same time, but it can get downright aggravating if you’re forced to share an Internet connection [...]

Setting Up Multiple Monitors

If you’re like most computer users nowadays, you probably have multiple applications up and running at the same time. In an effort to “multi-task” you might be using an e-mail client, a chatting application, a web-browser, a word processor, or any number of other programs. Most of the time, you’ll be using these applications, whatever [...]

YouTube sold to Google for $1.65 Billion

Google announced today that it has acquired YouTube.com for a hefty $1.65 billion in stocks. This marks Google’s biggest acquisition to date and would give Google access an estimated 50 million users worldwide. YouTube was founded just over a year and a half ago by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim and has since [...]

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