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Yes….we are stepping into a new decade and I (The Admin) at Tech-How.com, value your support and thank you for all the love.

I wish you all a Very Happy New Year 2010.

Tech-How.com also completes its one year at 18 January 2010…
I had started this site just to help my friends by writing good articles on technology and I started this site without anybody’s support and I never thought of coming too far.

Tech-How.com currently has 38 articles in total…
I must acknowledge of being way too lazy in writing articles daily which my readers demand. But coming 2010 will see lots of great articles and I will try to post more articles and try to be less lazy.

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TuX (Tech-How.com/Blog Administrator).

We have already seen OpenDNS, a free DNS service which is fast and reliable and here is another name which speaks of reliability….Yes its Google.

Google’s DNS servers claim that they resolve DNS queries quicker to provide a faster browsing experience.

Google has introduced a free DNS service, but it does not provide any customization and filtering as OpenDNS does.

The IP addresses of Google DNS Servers are:

Primary DNS    8.8.8.8
Secondary DNS    8.8.4.4

Some people confuse it with Level3 DNS servers because the IP range of Google’s DNS servers fall within the IP address rangle allocated to Level3 Communications.

But Google runs its servers themselves and says that users will be protected by DoS Attacks (Denial of Service) which sometimes happen through DNS servers. Also Google claims that the servers are fast and are located at many places around the world which provides fast access to users in many countries.

I must remind you that changing your DNS servers DOES NOT MEAN faster DOWNLOAD SPEEDS.

If you want to use Google DNS servers, simply point your connections Primary and secondary DNS servers to the one which have been given above.

A detailed guide is given in my earlier post on how to use OpenDNS servers for better browsing experience.

>>Click here to see how you can change your DNS Servers. Read More on DNS<<

Read more on Google DNS Official Site. >>Click Here<<

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A short article on Torrents: Written By TuX (Site Admin)

We all have been witnessing the rise of the content distribution network – The Torrent.

It is a P2P sharing technology which enables users to share files with other users.

There are some things you need to know about before you can actually utilise the torrent network….

Seed is a user/computer which is allowing other users to download the file from it and it has finished downloading the file.

Peer is a user/computer which is downloading the file from other seeds/peers.

1. Torrent Files (.torrent extension)
2. Torrent Client (a program which can download files supporting the .torrent extension)
3. Torrent Tracker

Now we will explain you point by point so that you know about the background of the P2P network….

1. Torrent Files – The torrent files can be downloaded from many distribution sites such as bittorrent.com or ubuntu.org

(which provides ubuntu Operating System)

You can download .torrent files which are necessary to download the files. These files are small in size and some people

confuse them being actual files. So download .torrent files and keep it on your computer at a know location (e.g. Desktop)

2. Torrent Client – Many popular torrent clients are on the Internet.

The most popular are uTorrent and Azureus. uTorrent is a very lightweight client (download size is only 180KB) and uTorrent

offers good functionality and ease-of-use.

Azureus is for the power user and it offers a lot of tweaks and now comes with a new interface called Vuze which is like an

online media library which allows the users to watch or download videos and movies.

Both the torrent clients are free and the download links are provided at the end of article.

Many download managers and third party programs also have torrent file downloading capabilites but we recommend you to use

dedicated torrent downloader like the two listed above.

3. Torrent Tracker – This is the most confused concept amongst the torrent users who are currently using torrents.

A torrent tracker is a server which contains the addresses of the seeds/peers which are sharing a particular torrrent.

The tracker keeps a ‘track’ of the users which share the torrents. There are many torrent trackers on the internet. Some

trackers are provided by:

openbittorrent.com
publicbt.com

There are numerous other trackers and it is recommended to add more trackers so as to discover more peers as peers use many

different trackers.

Here is a screen-shot of uTorrent:

Here is a screen-shot of Azureus:

Another article coming soon on Tech-How.com…..Keep following this blog for more articles…

Download uTorrent: >>Click Here to Download<<

Download Azureus: >>Click Here to Download<<

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