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What is HLS M3U8 ? Learn how to download M3U8 video stream 🎞️ and how to download YouTube live event ✨?

HTTP Live Streaming (also known as HLS) is an HTTP-based media streaming communications protocol implemented by Apple Inc. as part of its QuickTime, Safari, OS X, and iOS software.

It resembles MPEG-DASH (MPD) in that it works by breaking the overall stream into a sequence of small HTTP-based file downloads, each download loading one short chunk of an overall potentially unbounded transport stream. As the stream is played, the client may select from a number of different alternate streams containing the same material encoded at a variety of data rates, allowing the streaming session to adapt to the available data rate. At the start of the streaming session, HLS downloads an extended M3U8 manifest playlist containing the metadata for the various sub-streams which are available.

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Windows 10 version 1803 – Redstone 4 – April 2018 🚀 Next release 📆

Windows 10’s Redstone 4 (version 1803) is the next major release set to deliver a new wave of features and improvements. Although we’re still 1 month away from the final release, there has been a number of previews unveiling a number of changes coming to the platform.

There are already confirmations that Window 10 Version 1803 will be followed by Version 1809 & Version 1903. Which simply means that after the release of Window 10 Version 1803 in March or early April, Microsoft plans to release next feature updates in September 2018 and March 2019.

At the time of writing this, the current Windows 10 version is 1709 a.k.a Fall Creators Update released last year, October 2017.

How to check your Windows 10 computer score?

It’s quite simple, just install ChrisPC Win Experience Index software and you will get back the Windows interface that you are already familiar from Windows 7 and Windows 8.

ChrisPC Win Experience Index is a free software for non-commercial use.

You can improve your computer graphics, gaming performance, internet connection speed with our software: Chris-PC Game Booster

Manage your computer memory and pagefile usage more wisely than before by changing Windows default behavior with our new software: Chris-PC RAM Booster

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What exactly is a DNS? How to change your DNS?

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network.

Simplifying DNS mechanism one can say that DNS is an intelligent phonebook where network entities (computers, servers, printers etc) have a human readable name associated with their technical unique Internet address which is a sequence of numbers. 

In the end, computers connect to each other on the network by their technical internet addresses called IPs: IP (v4) or IP (v6).

A DNS server has the capability to quickly serve the IP of the named computer/entity that is accessed from your PC/laptop/tablet/smartphone. Therefore it is necessary for the functioning of your Internet browser when using URLs (Uniformed Resource Locators) and also when you send emails, since you use email addresses (which are in human readable form). Hence DNS is vital for browsing on the Net.

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Get Windows Experience Index (WEI) score on latest Windows 10 using free software

ChrisPC Win Experience Index is a free software that brings bag the Windows Experience Index on your Windows 10 OS.

Totally convenient, ChrisPC Win Experience Index runs on any Windows version on 32 or 64 bits, but aims to be used mainly for Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.

On some computer configuration the Windows System Assessment Tool – WinSAT might fail to calculate the WEI score so no ratings will be shown by ChrisPC WEI. In this case click on “More details” button and see where the assessment fails.

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9 YouTube Facts You Didn’t Know About

Everyone nowadays has heard of YouTube. Want to search for a tutorial? You go to YouTube. Want to watch and listen to some music? the answer is the same: YouTube.

But I guess you didn’t know about these facts:

1. YouTube started as a Dating Site 🙂

Crazy, right? It’s true! They have started YouTube as a Dating site back in 2005, you can check this by yourself using the Wayback Machine.

2. You can create YouTube Playlists

This is one of the powerful feature of YouTube. You can create as many YouTube Playlists as you want with your favorite videos, TV show, news videos and so on.

3. First Video was uploaded in 2005

The first ever YouTube Video was uploaded on april 23rd, 2005 by Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube.

4. You can download YouTube videos to watch them offline

There are moments when you want to download some nice videos either music video clips, news, tutorials, cartoons, documentaries and/or even (old) good movies.
Why? Because you want your favorite collection of videos with you when you are offline: on the beach on a remote island 😉 or when flying.

Now how to do that? Simple just download this Free Tool.

5. Every minute, more than 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube

6. YouTube has over a billion users and rising each day.

7. YouTube was founded by 3 former employees of PayPal

8. Google bought YouTube for 1.65 billion dollars just 18 months after YouTube’s creation

9. 60% of YouTube’s 1000 most popular videos are blocked in Germany