The Bittorrent protocol has gone a long way since the beginning and the applications have become increasingly easy to use for most users. They do come with a lot of settings though which can speed up the seeding and downloading and configure the client exactly the way the user wants it to be but usually [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, P2p, Windows

It is sometimes required to issue a ping or tracert command to identify the source for a slow Internet connection or no connection to a server at all. I usually use those commands when I notice that websites that I own run slow or are not responsive at all. This can also be useful if [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, The Web, Windows

Is your country / ISP filtering the Internet ? That’s a question that not many users in the Western Hemisphere are asking themselves assuming that Internet filtering is more of a method of oppressive regimes to control the information flow in their countries. Countries like Iran, China or Syria are known to filter the Internet [...]

Categories: Uncategorized

Finally a new version of Opera. That was my first thought when I visited the Opera website and saw that they announced a new version of the browser there. Opera 9.27 comes roughly two months after the last release of Opera 9.2x The new version addresses three security related fixes as well as several other [...]

Categories: Browsing, Opera

Many file hosters require registration before you can use their service which is often sometimes that turns users away from the service. If you are looking for a simple file hoster that lets you upload files with a size of up to five Gigabyte without registration you might want to consider File Dropper.

Categories: Online Services, The Web, Tools

I don’t like to install a lot of toolbars in Firefox (or Opera) because they tend to decrease the screen size that is available for the website. Sure, there is a way to display and hide the toolbars whenever I need them but this is not that practical and I tend to forget about them pretty fast.

Categories: Cool, Entertainment, The Web

Yesterday, I posted about the software U.R.Celeb, which allowed people to create personalized covers of popular magazines. Later on, I found a website that can do the same thing. Magmypic is sort of a combination of magazinize (is that even a word?) my picture. The site is pretty straightforward. Upload picture = magazine cover. Actually, [...]

Categories: Browsing, Cool, Entertainment, Misc

A submarine cable map was posted recently in a Guardian article about the ship that cut two of the cables which had the result that more than 70 million Internet were left with limited access to the Internet. The ship’s anchor cut two submarine cables which had the result that the bandwidth capacities were severely reduced.

Categories: The Web

Subjoost is a widget for Joost that adds subtitle support to Joost. The widget can be added by downloading it to your computer and adding it from within Joost. To do that start Joost after downloading the widget and go to My Joost > Widget Menu (bottom-left) > Widget Manager and select the subjoost.joda widget after clicking on add widget.

Categories: Music and Video, Software