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Future of Torrents; DHT, PEX and Magnet Links Explained

Bittorrent Explained

This week The Pirate Bay confirmed it would shut down its tracker for good, instead encouraging the use of DHT, PEX and magnet links. This move confounded many BitTorrent enthusiasts, who although wishing to adapt, were confronted with hard to grasp terminology and technology. Time for some explaining. [Read more...]

GPU video acceleration with Flash

Flash GPU acceleration Yesterday news spread of Adobe Flash 10.1 adding GPU acceleration support. Today, ATi has released drivers supporting GPU acceleration.

This update is beneficial to ATi users as it will allow fully smooth playback of high resolution, high definition, videos; Hulu, YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook Video, and others… As browser and flash playback has been CPU dependent in the past the long overdue inclusion of GPU acceleration will be a huge blow against video playback stuttering and choppiness through consistent and high framerate.

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Office 2010 Beta is Live!

Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft has just unlocked the download links on their Beta Office 2010 suite. It is available for both Windows and Windows Mobile platforms.

Theyre up for grabs at Microsoft’s site now!

A new, interesting to watch, feature of Office 2010 is the Outlook Social Connector “OSC”. It features an activity stream (think facebook wall) with support for LinkedIn, facebook and twitter integration will be out at RC or commercial release. [Read more...]

Geek Squad Manuals

geeknoobsIf you’ve ever wondered just what costs $200/h when you hire Geek Squad, find out. These 11 manuals, which you should learn for yourself, are a source of Geek Squad expertise.

Check them out


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Week Tech News Roundup

Sources:

GameGuru , Tech Amok, Fark