Speed up Youtube Video Playback and Download

Youtube Videos which are also used on sites like Myspace or embedded into blog posts sometimes take ages to load which results in freezes and stuttering which can only be solved by pausing the playback until the video is fully loaded. There is a possible way that would accelerate the download of the youtube video by up to five times. This is done by the free software Speedbit Video Accelerator which builds up five different connections to the video server to speed up the streaming of the video. This method does not help if you are already using the maximum bandwidth available of course.

Each request for a youtube video is routed through the Speedbit servers which open five new connections to the video server offering the video which results in a speed increase which can be remarkable.

The service has to be running in the system tray while watching youtube videos and starts automatically whenever a new video is requested from youtube. I was not able to take a look at some of the program features that are shown at the developers website but the video acceleration is working fine.

As you can see the technology is working in Firefox and Internet Explorer, unfortunately not in Opera. I found the software at the Connected Internet Blog.

How to Get Virtual Desktops on Windows XP

This guest article was written by Emma from Laptopical.com, a site covering news and reviews for laptop computers.

Virtual desktops are an excellent tool for anybody who likes to multitask. They allow the user to run multiple desktops simultaneously from any laptop or desktop computer, which you can switch between at the touch of a button. Each of these desktops can have its own background and have its own applications loaded.

I like to use it as an easy way to separate my business applications from my leisure ones. It doesn’t come standard in XP, but there is some perfectly safe and easy to use software out there that will give you up to 4 desktops to work with.

First, go to the Microsoft PowerToys download page, and select DeskMan.exe from the right side of the screen (the file it actually downloads will be called DeskmanPowertoySetup.exe).

Then double click the file and select “Complete” install. It usually doesn’t take very long.

Now it’s installed, so let’s test it. Go to the bottom of the screen and right click on the taskbar, then select toolbars. You’ll see there’s now an option for Desktop Manager. Click it.

This brings up the desktop manager toolbar, which integrates with your taskbar and looks like this:

You guessed it, each one of those four buttons corresponds to a different desktop. The green button on the left pulls up a view that previews all four and allows you to select between them. Right clicking on any of the buttons brings up some options to set different backgrounds for each desktop, or to assign shortcut keys for easy access.

And just like that…

You’ve got four desktops! Simply click on any of the desktops in the preview screen above to bring that one to the front. (Note there is also a way to get virtual desktops in Windows Vista, but that’s another article.)

Download Virtual Desktop Manager from microsoft.com

Share Worldcall USB (EVDO)

Wireless networking is spreading day by day and replacing every wired device one by one. In Pakistan, recently PTCL and Wordcall launched wireless broadband formely known as EV-DO (Evolution Data Optimized) USB device powered broadband. To learn more about EV-DO visit this link

Today, we bought PTCL’s USB EvDo device for our newly born office. We have to setup EvDo USB device, TP-Link wireless router and plan to share EvDo USB ’s internet via TP-Link wireless router, we had spent 3 hours struggling to fight with that, tryout every possible solution and at the end get a final solution, so I am going share it so that you can be get benefit from our experience.

Suppose, you have EvDo USB device, TP-Link or any other Wireless router, a PC or Laptop whose lan cabel should be plugged into Wireless router’s LAN port. You just need to follow these simple step to setup your sharing EvDo sharing with Wireless router.

Step-1: Open web admin panel of your wireless router, usually typing 192.168.1.1 in your browser will open it.

Step-2: Then give your wireless router an IP on the LAN side of 192.168.0.254 or 192.168.0.x (x is something between greater than 1 to 254), you have to think about what IP should be reserved for your router.

Step-3: Then turn off the DHCP server in the router.

Step-4: That’s all with your wireless router, do nothing with your WAN or any settings.

Step-5: Now goto your PC/laptop from where your EvDo is connected.

Step-6: Goto your Controll Panel then Network Connections.

Step-7: Right click on EvDo connection icon and select properties and goto Advance Tab.

Step-8: Check allow other users to connect through this computers connection and also checked the allow others to control the shared connection and click OK.

Step-9: When enabling ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) a windows warning message may alert you that the LAN Adapter will be set to 192.168.0.1 or something like that. It means that your LAN card’s IP address is automatically set to 192.168.0.1 with 255.255.255.0 subnet mask, please make sure you do not modify it otherwise sharing will not work. If 192.168.0.1 is not set on your LAN card’s IP settings then set this IP address by opening connection properties and IPv4 settings give it.

Step-10: Next final step, goto your laptop whome you want to connect to wireless router and use Internet. Then goto my network connections on it. Right clicked my wireless adapter and go to properties.

Then proceded to change its tcp/ip settings. Try to give an IP from range 192.168.0.2 to 192.168.0.253 with mask 255.255.255.0 and gateway of 192.168.0.1

Be sure to also place in the perferred DNS 192.168.0.1

That’s it, Your PTCL, Wordcall EvDo will now working fine with Wireless router.

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