Switzerland: Track if your ISP is Throttling BitTorrent

Published at August 13, 2008   Filed Under Tools   1 Comment  

Electronic Frontier Foundation has released a tool few days ago to test if your ISP is blocking some kinds of traffic like Bittorrent and VoIP. The tool is named Switzerland and released under Open Source.
Switzerland is designed to detect the modification or injection of packets of data traveling over IP networks, including those introduced by [...]

Keep Track of Beijing Olympics with Google Summer Games Site

Published at August 9, 2008   Filed Under Google   2 Comments  

Google launched a summer games site to help users stay updated with the Olympics. The site features medals, events and stadiums with a Google map mashup.

Watch 380 TV channels on the internet with Livestation

Published at July 21, 2008   Filed Under Software, Technology   0 Comments  

Livestation is a Microsoft backed startup that provides streaming TV channels for free on the internet. Initially they stared their private beta focusing on news channels, at the time of the launch the listed channels are BBC World, BBC World Service, Al Jazeera (English), Bloomberg, Euro News (English & French), France 24 (English, France), i>Télé, [...]

PDF Search Engine: Search and Download e-Books

Published at June 25, 2008   Filed Under Web 2.0   7 Comments  

Want e-books on a particular topic head over to PDF search engine. It lets you search the web for PDF books and easily download them to your hard disk.

Google Tools Will Tell You IF Your ISP Is Throttling

Published at June 15, 2008   Filed Under Google, Internet   1 Comment  

Google is developing tools to determine if ISPs are throttling broadband connections. Google is a big supporter of net netrality debate and this is no surprise they are developing these kind of tools to monitor ISPs manipulating the network connections.
“We’re trying to develop tools, software tools…that allow people to detect what’s happening with their [...]

Record Internet Radio Stations and Download Tracks

Published at May 5, 2008   Filed Under Internet, Tools   0 Comments  

Chilirec is a web application that lets you record Internet radio stations and stores them online. You can play them online or download as MP3 file to your computer.
Currently it supports around 350 radio channels, expect this number to go up in near future, be default these channels are all selected, you can select [...]

Buy Stuff from Amazon via SMS

Published at April 2, 2008   Filed Under Internet   1 Comment  

Amazon launched a TextBuyIt service, using that users can buy stuff from Amazon using you their cell phones. Mobile communication is growing rapidly and so web adoption to mobile. TextBuyIt is a smart move from Amazon to give its users another option to stay with them.
Now using textbuyit you don’t have to sit infront [...]

Internet Party

Published at January 25, 2008   Filed Under Video   1 Comment  

It’s an Internet Party, where all your favorite companies are there.