Precious bandwidth. Many providers try everything in their power to make their customers who are on an unlimited plan or flatrate to reduce their monthly bandwidth usage which is quite the irony. The webhosting world is marching to the same tune for a very long time. One company seems to be at the center of [...]
Internet Memes try too Hard these days
Is it just me, or are internet memes trying to hard these days? An internet meme refers to some kind of “catchphrase or concept that spreads quickly from person to person”. A few which I can think of off the top of my head are rickrolling, the ‘Fail Whale’ and references to ‘bitchmemes’. Many good [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Reduce Opera Bandwidth Usage
I covered an article earlier this month that described changes that could be made to the Firefox configuration in order to save bandwidth. This is extremely useful if you are connected to a volume based internet connection where you pay per Megabyte or Gigabyte. Flatrates are not that common in many parts of the world [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Online Calculator eCalc
Every operating system comes with a calculator that provides access to basic arithmetic functions and probably some additional ones like base conversions and some functions of a scientific calculator. They usually do lack some features like a history function in combination with an option to use results from history for new calculations. The Online Calculator [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Expect a serious increase in domain name spam
The ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has decided to get rid of the current domain name extension restrictions that are currently in place to make way for additional top level domains. Currently domain name extensions are limited to 21 top level domain extensions and various country domain extensions. Now everyone can bid [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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US to get metered bandwidth
Innovation usually gets blocked or slowed down by monopolies. A company with barely any competition can make decisions that concentrate more on the profits and less on the satisfaction of their customers. Time-Warner is currently testing metered bandwidth plans for new customers in Beaumont, Texas. New customers have to select a metered bandwidth plan with [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Select a country for your proxy
Finally a innovative proxy website. Web Proxies are all alike, mostly. They use the same four of five proxy scripts that are available, may have a different design and tend to disappear after 1-12 months. Worldproxy added an interesting new feature to it’s proxy: Country selection. Many multimedia services, like streaming Internet radio or video, [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Tinyload Upload to Multiple Sites at Once
Tinyload is an advanced script which makes it possible to upload to upload files with a size of up to 100 Megabytes to a maximum of twelve file hosters at once. Uploading files to multiple file hosters has several advantages such as backup locations if a file expires or gets deleted at one hoster for [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Monitoring Internet Reachability in Real-Time
What’s the first thing you do when your Internet connection is not working ? I changed my reasoning from thinking that it was related to my computer to one that assumed the Internet Service Provider was responsible for the outage. Well that’s not 100% true but I know several signs that tell me if it [...]