Okay folks, the Droid is finally out now. Through all the iPhone-bashing and the creepy ad campaign, it has made its way into our minds and hearts (sort of). At the very least it has forced people to take a look at it and decide what it’s really like.
Overall, the reviewers have liked it and [...]
To Droid Or Not To Droid
Giganews Specials for Time Warner, Sprint and Verizon customers
You might have heard it in the news that Time Warner and Sprint / Verizon are blocking the complete alt.* hierarchy of the Usenet after coming to an agreement with N.Y. attorney general Andrew Cuomo in an effort to fight child pornography on the Usenet. This basically means that roughly 100.000 groups will be blocked [...]
When Unlimited means limited
Did you ever fell into the trap that you signed up for an supposedly unlimited service only to find out at a later time that the unlimited service did not really mean unlimited at all ? I fell into that trap with my first website which i hosted using an unlimited webhosting plan. No extra money for transfers over a certain amount of gigabytes, no worries about cpu and sql usage, everything was advertised as being unlimited. I started hosting some file mirros and ran some pretty resource demanding scripts and it did not took long until I was told to either upgrade my hosting account to a dedicated server or leave the company and look for hosting elsewhere.
Watch My Cell
Watch My Cell is a useful application for Microsoft Windows if you have a account with a cell phone provider with a certain amount of monthly free minutes. Many cell phone owners who use such an account have troubles keeping the overview of how many minutes they have used in a month and would normally have to phone their cell phone provider to find out.
