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Monitor Your Reputation via Google Alerts

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Set up  Google Alerts  on your name and subjects that interest you. You can find out where you are getting mentioned and where to target efforts on spreading your knowledge. Sign up for  Reputation.com  to dive further into identity management. Once you know  where and how  you are being described, you can make changes to refine your presence online.  Google Alerts :  http://www.google.com/alerts/

How To Speed Up Your Torrents Easily

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How To Speed Up Your Torrents Easily ("I tried it and it works for me" - Trazor) Have you ever wondered why your direct downloading gives you more speed than your torrents? Do you want to know how to increase the downloading speed? The default settings of any torrent client will always gives you slow downloads because your client doesn’t know which type of connection you have. Every torrent client needs to be tweaked so as to increase the download speed. Today we will show you how to increase your torrent’s speed without using any any complex software, you’ll see the difference in downloading speed. Here we are using utorrent v1.8 as an exemplary client with a 256k connection. We won’t waste more time, lets start changing the settings. Connections Pane: Change Your Network Settings In Connections pane, Under “Port used for incoming connections” , enter any port number. It is best to use a port number above 10000. Mine is 17590 as shown in the pic. Rando...

Testing your new Google Public DNS settings

Open a command prompt, and run the following command: On Windows: tracert -d 8.8.8.8 On Mac OS X: /usr/sbin/traceroute -n -w 2 -q 2 -m 30 8.8.8.8 On Linux: sudo traceroute -n -w 2 -q 2 -m 30 8.8.8.8 If the last line of the output does not list 8.8.8.8 as the final hop, or if there are significant timeouts, there may be a network problem preventing you from contacting our servers. Please include the output of the command in any communication with the Google Public DNS team. If the last line of the output does list 8.8.8.8 as the final hop, continue to  step 2 . IPv6 Open a command prompt, and run the following command: On Windows: tracert -d 2001:4860:4860::8888 On Mac OS X: /usr/sbin/traceroute -n -w 2 -q 2 -m 30 2001:4860:4860::8888 On Linux: sudo traceroute -n -w 2 -q 2 -m 30 2001:4860:4860::8888 If the last line of the output does not list 2001:4860:4860::8888 as the final hop, or if there are significant timeouts, there may be a network problem preventing you from contacting o...