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6 Things You Can Do To Test Your ISP for BitTorrent ThrottlingYesterday

The cat-and-mouse game between ISPs and bandwidth-hogging P2P applications is almost as age-old at the Internet itself. If you’ve noticed deathly-slow torrent downloads as of late, it’s probable that your ISP is manipulating (throttling, rate limiting, blocking or sandvining) your P2P / BitTorrent traffic. ISPs from all corners of the globe are desperately trying to [...]

Winners of MacCleanse or MacPilotYesterday

Hey

Sorry this is slightly late, uni work always seems to get the better of me. Anyway I am pleased to announce the winners of MacCleanse or MacPilot. As the rules stated the first person picked will win what they want, second will win what they want and so on. I hope you guys get what you requested, made it really hard for me to get the order right.

The winners are as follows:

1) #93 Brad - MacCleanse

2) #8 Rishi - MacPilot

3) #60 Camille - MacPilot

4) #27 Aurel Nagy - MacCleanse

Surprising the winners won exactly what they asked for, anyway an email has been sent to the publisher and you should receive your codes shortly.

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Winners of MacCleanse or MacPilot

A New Website For Young PhotographersYesterday

Jake Stangel has a new website for young photographers called “Too Much Chocolate” and it’s already off to a great start because of a smart interview with Trevor Graves. Trevor was part of a group of talented snowboard photographers who revolutionize the snowsports industry in the 90’s. They brought in-your-face, lifestyle and grungy party photography to an industry that had been dominated by pretty landscape pictures with people walking/skiing through them. The surf/skate/snowboard genre of photography is my favorite for the way it seamlessly blends lifestyle and action photography. Trevor now helms Nemo Design over in Portland, OR.

Here are a few choice quotes from Trevor in the interview:

“Personally I hope to be exposed to a young shooters work though a respected third party.”

“We are looking and thousands of creatives a year, I may not have a job today for you but I may in the future so I want to put your website in my bookmarks folder under “something”. David Lachapelle I would put under “Fashion” or “Sexy”, Ansel Adams I would put under “Landscapes”, Annie Leibovitz as a “Celebrity portrait” photographer. Make my life easy, where can I classify your style? Is that category the type of work you would like to be doing ten years form now? I don’t want this to sounds harsh, but I have 10 minute

Use Gmail Backup to Save Your Emails from OblivionYesterday

We all know how awesome Gmail is. It, however is not without downtime, as with all online services.

What if you need your email on one of those downtimes? Are you afraid that one day Gmail might crash and take all your emails with you? Or maybe the 7 gigabytes that Gmail offers is not really enough for you? Afraid that you might forget your password or you might somehow get locked out of your account? Or maybe you just like to download your email from your Gmail account so it’ll be safely stored on your hard drive?

Gmail Backup might be the perfect program for you.

It can save and and restore the complete archive of your Gmail email account via Gmail’s built-in IMAP capability. It’s available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, but only the Windows version comes with a graphical interface. You just need to enter your complete Gmail address and password, and you just need to click the backup button. You should be done.

Gmail Backup saves your emails, complete with attachments, in Microsoft’s EML format. However, the Linux and OSX version is command line only, which is something I don’t like. Linux users won’t have a problem with command line interfaces, I think, but not all Mac OS X users would like having to deal without a user interfa

Open docx Files in Firefox without Office 2007Yesterday

If you like to open .docx files without Office Word 2007, there’s a new Firefox extension from Microsoft that should help. Available for Windows as well as Linux machines.

Open DOCX files as an HTML document in any web browser

Called OpenXML viewer, this plug-in (download link) lets you read docx files inside the Firefox browser just like any other HTML web page while retaining all the text formatting and layout.

There’s a command-line version of OpenXML viewer (download link) available as well for converting docx documents into HTML files that you may then open in any other web browser.

Other alternatives for reading docx files without Microsoft Office 2007 include Internet Explorer,  Gmail,