Peer to peer softwares are the most popular way of downloading large data from the internet. In a p2p architecture you download files not from a big server consisting of million files and thousand users requestng it, But a group of peers just like you. In return you should also share those files which you have downloaded from other peers.

Why p2p architecture?

The question arises that why you should go for p2p softwares when you can download from rapidshare, megaupload and others and what is the difference between the two.

The problem arises in a server client architecture like RapidShare when many a thousand clients request for a same file. There is a severe load on server to transfer all files to all those clients and a high usage of bandwith on server side. If the server can't accomodate so many connections then it will simply start refusing them.

On the other hand in a p2p environment a client can request same file from many different peers. Downloading speed increases drastically and there is no load centralized system. A peer can start transferring file as soon as it gets one. So there will be no wastage of bandwith and problem of load on a single server.

Following are the best p2p softwares available

LimeWire

LimeWire is the world's fastest P2P file-sharing application for all types of computer files, including music, video, pictures, games, and text documents. Other features include dynamic querying, file previews during download, advanced techniques for locating rare files, and an easy, clean user interface.

BitComet

BitComet is a fast and easy-to-use BitTorrent/HTTP/FTP download client. It is P2P file-sharing freeware and one of the most popular P2P protocols designed for high-speed distribution. BitComet supports simultaneous downloads, DHT networks (trackerless), a download queue, selected downloads in the Torrent package, fast-resume, disk caching, speed limits, auto port mapping, proxies, and IP filtering.

uTorrent

uTorrent is a powerful and efficient BitTorrent client for Windows. Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in uTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading, and Mainline DHT. Additionally, uTorrent supports the protocol encryption joint specification and peer exchange. Unlike many torrent clients, it does not hog valuable system resources--typically using less than 6MB of memory, allowing you to use the computer as if it weren't there at all.

BitTorrent

BitTorrent's software client allows you to quickly download high-quality digital content such as video, music, and games. Available in over 20 languages, it leverages our community of over 70 million users to securely deliver files to your PC faster than anything else out there.

Features include detailed graphs and stats on the health of digital media files provide you a safer, more controlled downloading experience, local peer discovery and automatic port mapping increase file transfer speed without the need to reconfigure routers or other hardware, and dynamic bandwidth management allows you to download content without disrupting Web browsing, e-mail, or other applications.

eMule

eMule is one of the biggest and most reliable peer-to-peer file sharing clients around the world. Thanks to it's open source policy many developers are able to contribute to the project, making the network more efficient with each release. eMule is a filesharing client which is based on the eDonkey2000 network, but offers more features than the standard eDonkey client.

BitLord

BitLord is a p2p file-sharing program fully compatible with .torrent files, which is one of the most popular p2p protocol designed for high-speed distribution of 100MB or GB-sized files. BitLord supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, chatting, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, proxy, and IP-filter. Version 1.1 adds integrated Web browser.

p2p softwares have made it possible to download data in GBs. It appears to be efficient and more reliable source of downloading. Ofcourse there are disadvantages of p2p softwares as well such as malwares and viruses in files, no central authority to guarantee quality of file but still we love it.

Source: Respective owners of the softwares mentioned. The order of the list is defined as the most downloaded softwares at download.com from LimeWire the hoghest downloaded to BitlLord the lowest one.

http://techasad.blogspot.com/2008/10/best-p2p-softwares-for-file-sharing.html

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OrkutFeeds is a service which keeps you updated of orkut activities. If you are a very active orkuter , you may forget sometime that on which community you last posted or which community topic should have an answer to your query. Here comes this service called “OrkutFeeds” which is perfect for you.


How it works?
Here's the link : www.orkutfeeds.com . Enter the url of the page on orkut you want to track. It might be a community page,a topic in a community, a profile of a friend or a scrapbook.Some example of urls are
e.g. http://www.orkut.com/Scrapbook.aspx?uid=2008781293621471903
e.g. http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=19587001
e.g. http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=19587001&tid=2586161222417045620

You will be given rss feeds of the link which you can subscribe in your iGoogle , Google Reader or any other news reader service. Now when ever you check your feeds you'll get update of that community/person.
http://techasad.blogspot.com/2008/10/get-updated-of-orkut-activities.html

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An error is common these days on most windows XP computers. When ever you click on your Drives c,d,e etc on my computer it displays you open with dialog box. In order to combat this bug I have found this simple trick.




Click here and download the batch file. Run the file and your problem will be solved. Now you can double click and open drives rather than right click and select open.
http://techasad.blogspot.com/2008/10/get-rid-of-autorunopen-with-bug-on.html

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I got an idea of writing this blog post when once again a person asked me How to earn money online. I once again repeated that the same old story. So here it goes again.

It would be nice to indicate that this is not a very easy and fast method of earning online. But still you can make a lot if you are a rite type of person for it.

Its nothing that fancy. Follow these steps :


1)Make a blog like this one

Most of you I guess do not know web designing. But no problem here comes a magic website called a blog. You just don't have to care about its designing and developing. Its a free piece of software that is made for you and you will just have to put your content in it. Most famous of these are Wordpress, Blogger which I am using, ThinkPad and LiveJournal. I suggest you blogger as a beginner . Read my article on why I suggested blogger. Click here to signup for blogger.

2)Select a template
Select a nice and cool looking theme for you blog. It may have a good effect on reader's eye. Your theme should also contain necessary gadgets like recent posts,top comments etc and some icons like that of rss or follow me on twitter. Audience will find it easier to find you. Good theme should be search engine friendly that means your pages have good chances of getting into search engines.

3)Define your target audience
This is perhaps the most difficult part in the initiation of your business. You have to think of one such topic for which you can write more very effortlessly and any time. Apart from this you should also take care that there is a handsome amount of people interested in that topic. So your choice depends upon how well you know a particular subject and how well demanded it is. Try to be unique or at least get into less saturated domain.

4)Start posting quality content regularly
Thats the most toughest part. Start writing and creating content. Create killer posts which attract further visitors for your site. Offer something which in which people may be interested in. Remember audience won't like whatever you like unless they find something of their benefit in it. You can find quality content for your subject from Internet. Do your research and always give your customers value so they become your loyal customers and visit you again. Remember traffic on your blog is directly proportional to quality of your content.

5)Put ads on your blog
You have setup a blog and written few posts for it. Now comes the part on how to earn from it. You can place ads on your blog. There are lots of advertising services available but for a beginner I will suggest Google's adsense. Because most other services have certain traffic requirements which adsense does not cater for. So google's adsense program is perfect. Signup with google adsense. Make ads and paste ad code on your blog. You can track you income,impressions and clicks from your adsense account. Just make sure you comply with adsense term of services. Fake clicks on your own ads and other cheating techniques will get your account banned from this beautiful service. Once you make your $100 they will send you your payment.

6)Marketing and traffic gathering
You have quality content on your blog and ads running. Now what you need is traffic of visitors. Not just visitor I say quality visitors. Marketing doesn't mean you go around on irc or orkut and spam around about your blog. That way you won't get good readers but just passers by who might have no interest in your blog. As a matter of good approach I suggest you following ways to get traffic.

• Search engines where thousand of people enters their query every second, target them.
• Social networking sites, Get decent traffic from websites such as facebook.
• Social bookmarking websites like digg,delicious and stumbleupon can give you a huge amount of traffic if your story become a hit.
• Tell friend bloggers to link you.
• Feed your latest post updates on twitter . Use twitterfeed for automatic updates.
• Leave comments on high traffic forums. First few comments have good chances of getting clicked.
  

7)Get your reward $$
If you have worked hard then you'll surely get your reward. There are different modes of payment for different advertising services. As far as google ads is concerned you can receive a check or if you live in Pakistan the most feasible mode is of Western union money transfer. You can collect your money from western union as soon as google pays you. But minimum payout for google is 100$.

I wish you all best of luck. If you need any kind of assistance ping me. I will try to help you to my best.
http://techasad.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-get-paid-online-with-your-blog.html

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For those of you who are unfamiliar with twitter thats how wikipedia describes it

“Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.”

Its a new concept and is on atmost of its boom like social networking and bookmarking sites. You can update world about what you are doing and get latest updates from people of your interests. If you haven't used it ,I suggest you to give it a try and I promise you won't look back.


twhirl
A desktop application based on Adobe Air which gives you mini environment for twitter on your desktop. Now you can avail all the functionalities of twitter with this twitter client on your desktop.


Qwitter
A free service which lets you know who unfollowed you on twitter. Signup with your email address and twitter credentials. Whenever some one unfollows you, Qwitter will mail you and will indicate after which status update the user unfollowed you. A must use tool because you can't guess who unfollowed you especially when you have a large number of followers.

Lets tweet it
Its basically a directory of tweeters categorized according to their areas of interest. You can get listed there on one or more categories and get informed of others who join that category.





TwitterFox
A firefox addon which sits in the bottom right of your browser and keeps checking for twitter updates in the background. A must have addon for tweeting while you browse. It gets all the updates and you can also write your updates and reply to others from there. When ever there there is an update you get notified immediately.














Twitterfeed

A free service to feed your blog updates to twitter. It registers your with your twitter account and gets your rss feeds. Now whenever your blog/website is updated your status is set to that blog post and its url. A must have utility for bloggers to keep updating their followers about blog post and that way getting handsome amount of traffic of loyal readers/ fellow tweeters.


Twitterific
A twitter client for iphone users. Lets you tweet rite from your iphone.






Twittergallery
A large collection of twitter themes divided into a range of categories. The site also contains cool follow me buttons for twitter.

TwitterPatterns
Same like TwitterGallery and has lots of free twitter backgrounds. Must use it as twitter's traditional themes are just limited and boring.

Twitpic
Twitpic is a free service to share your pics with tweeters. You can signin with your twitter credentials and upload images. Your image link will be posted to twitter where tweeters can also comment on your pic. A really cool service.

Twitter badges
Twitter provides badges which can be used on your blogs and social networking sites like facebook/myspace. It also provides html/javascript codes to embed in your pages as well as flash widget that work on any social network.


http://techasad.blogspot.com/2008/10/list-of-most-useful-twitter-utilities.html

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I am about to write a review on image editing and optimizing tools that are most useful and that you might not know. Sometimes you need to shrink an image size or you may wanna crop an image. Many a times you want to make fun of your friends pic. Sit back and check out these wonderful tools.

Smush It
A really useful online tool to shrink your image sizes while maintaining its quality. Its is very useful in case of sending large images in email and having less space. You just have to upload image and it will smush it into a lesser size and will indicate you how much size has been decreased.

Sizeasy
Size easy is a useful tools for online purchasers. In case you buy a thing and you don't know how its size is gonna be. you can compare it with some most commonly used things of daily life. Sizeasy will take the size of the unknown object and it will compare it with any common object so you can get an idea of how big or small your object is going to be.

GifNinja
A very easy to use online tool to create animated gif images. Upload images and it will combine them to form an animated gif . You can adjust the speed at which the image animates.

PictureMosaic's Crop tool
Crop any image easily . Useful when using a part of an image or cut out ur favorite part from an image.

DrPic
One of the most useful online image editing tool. You can use it like online mini version of Paint to edit your personal images. Features includes adding text to images, resizing images without destroying quality, adding grayscale ,poloroid effects,blur and sharpening effect . A must use tool .

PhotoFunia
Its probably the best out of the whole list. Ever wondered how people make fun of your images by adding your head to an animal body and so. Now you can also do it without having any photoshop or designing knowledge. Visit photofunia.com , select a funny posture to put an image into and upload an image which has an upfront face which is easy to recognize. Now see what happens next ... enjoy !!!!

YearbookYourself
Here comes a fun tool . Ever wondered how you looked if you were in 1970's or even in 50's. I am not joking around. Check out this cool website and you can go back in the old age. Just upload a picture and adjust it as advised and your old images will be generated. You can make fun of your friends images as I did. After getting to know about this tool .

MagMyPic
A kool one ...Put your face on a fake magazine cover... there is pool of magazine covers to attach your image into ... perfect for posting on MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, Hi5 and other social networks & blogs .

http://techasad.blogspot.com/2008/10/online-image-editing-and-optimizing.html

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Here are some kool firefox addons that I am using. I will update this section as soon as I get new and kool firefox addons. For time being watch out the following firefox addons and do comment.




Cooliris This Firefox addons gives you a 3d experience of images and videos from google, flickr, youtube, SmugMug, Photobucket etc and developers can also extend it for their web sites. TwitterFox Twitter Fox is a Firefox extension that notifies you of your friends' statuses of Twitter. It refreshes at an interval and gives updates if any without disturbing your browsing and you cann reply from it without bothering to open twitter's site.FoxMarks
If you use Firefox on more than one computer, you'll want Foxmarks. Install Foxmarks on each computer, and it works silently in the background to keep your bookmarks and (optionally) passwords synchronized. Foxmarks also keeps your data backed up and safe from computer failures. If you're away from your computer, Foxmarks allows you to access your bookmarks online by logging into my.foxmarks.com.



http://techasad.blogspot.com/2008/10/best-firefox-plugins.html

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