MIT Haystack has automated the process of downloading and processing GPS data (Rideout and Coster 2006) to produce globally gridded TEC data with a resolution of 5 min.
To make the process of downloading from Youtube, etc. faster, get Firefox with the video downloader plugin.
Because the process of downloading photographs was so slow, it was instructed to send them back in fragments.
For example, at any given moment in the week ended May 2, an average of 47,069 people were in the process of downloading the movie "The Chronicles of Narnia" using BitTorrent, according to BigChampagne Media Measurement, an online market research firm in Beverly Hills, Calif ."Scary Movie 4," which hit theaters just last month, was being downloaded by an average of 37,287 people in that week.
Twitter user @kessler also sent us a series of screengrabs as he went through the process of downloading his tweets.
"There are CCTV cameras in the area and we're going through the process of downloading and reviewing that footage so we can have a clearer picture of what has taken place".
In Eason's in Ireland, staff members guide e-reader buyers through the process of downloading their first e-book from the shop's online store, meaning they are more likely to purchase from the chain's digital arm in the future.
"We started doing an HTML5 web app, we're really happy we did because people who did want to sign up for this thing, they don't want to go through the process of downloading an app first, they want to click right through the browser to get started.
In the process of downloading and categorizing the images for this show, I came across hundreds of trends and connections that exist in the selfie world, and I'm going to keep producing work that revolves around my interpretation of these trends.
