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Download torrents from Office Network bypassing Firewall (Free, no SSH Proxy)

April 5, 2013April 3, 2022 18 Comments

As you might know, when you download a file from a browser, it is limited by the speed limit per stream imposed by the download server. Refer to my previous post on using a Download Manager to bypass this limitation: Why you should use Internet Download Manager. But sometimes, using IDM is not an option […]

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Why you should use Download Manager

March 27, 2013April 3, 2022 3 Comments

Have you ever observed that you are not getting full speed while downloading something. Well, the reason is when you start a download from a browser, your browser usually opens a single stream to download the file. So even if you have 10Mbps connection, but the file server has limited the speed to 1Mbps per […]

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Why 3D movies are a waste of money

February 5, 2013March 16, 2022 No Comments

Quoted from CNET article on the same topic: Conservatism hurts the films : The problem: studios have been too conservative, and have been reluctant to go too deep with the 3D, resulting in a 3D movie that doesn’t satisfy anyone. Steve Schklair, CEO of 3ality, said that 3D films can use about 4 percent of the […]

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Create partition for Xbox 360 without formatting or converting USB hard disk to Fat32

January 2, 2013February 16, 2022 29 Comments

I have an external hard disk with NTFS file system which is nearly full of “important” stuff and I want to use it with my Xbox 360. But when I looked up online for a guide to do it, all the guides required the hard disk to either have Fat32 file system or required me […]

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Play or Stream MKV videos on Xbox 360

December 31, 2012February 16, 2022 12 Comments

First of all, let me tell you, I was as disappointed as you might be when I found out that my Xbox 360 won’t play mkv file only because it chooses not to. (maybe because of licensing issues). So, without much hope, I tried to google for some workaround to make it play the mkv files, […]

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