A Guide To Using Bit Torrent

A guide to using Bit Torrent, including an overview of Bit Torrent, applications, and a list of torrent sites.

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Xbox 360 to feature 512Mb Memory

"The Xenon retail console will include 512 MB of UMA system memory. This is eight times the amount of memory that was available in the Xbox. The Xenon system software will still reserve six percent (32 MB) of total memory for system components, such as the visible features of the Xenon HUD, as well as the non-visible background system tasks."

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Drag and drop Firefox tab reordering

The miniT Firefox extension lets you re-order open tabs by dragging and dropping them in the tab bar.

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Next xBox for $299?

"Goldman Sachs predicts in a research note today that the next-generation Xbox could be released as early as October or November at a retail price of "perhaps about $249-$299."

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Analyst: Apple is lightyears ahead of Microsoft

"I spent some time over at Apple yesterday taking a closer look of their new OS known as Tiger or Mac OS 10.4 I had seen it at MacWorld in January and was pretty impressed with the demo then, but seeing it up close and personal yesterday made it clear to me that Apple is light years ahead of Microsoft"

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Satellite Pictures Hold Suprises

Notable surprises include a just-erupted volcano, violent scenes from Iraq (a bomb going off in Baghdad and a firefight in Najaf) and even a 747 landing in Tokyo, something difficult to capture given that the satellite is moving at 17,000 mph. (Note: Story contains a picture gallery.)

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Firefox 1.1 Scheduled For Beta End Of May

Firefox 1.1, the next significant upgrade of the popular open-source browser, will go into beta, or preview, in six to seven weeks, a Mozilla Foundation engineer announced this weekend.

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RIAA cracks down on Internet2 file-swapping

The Recording Industry Association of America filed suit Tuesday against students at 18 universities accused of operating file-swapping services on the supercharged Internet2 network

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