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Entries for August, 2008

Are You Going To Blog World 2008?

It is the second year in a row that I end up not being able to attend the Blog World Expo conference. I really wish I could go this year, given the amount of interesting people that will be there, but for a Brazilian it is not so easy.
Apart from the travel budget that [...]

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Blogging Questions & Answers 14

Another set of answered questions is live. If you submitted one in the past but it is has not been answered yet, just hold tight. We have a small back log of questions, so sooner or later I will arrive at yours.
If you want to ask a question, you can do so by leaving a [...]

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Featured Freeware: DC++

Part community and mostly file sharing, DC++ occupies an unusual niche in the P2P game. Unlike torrents, which are direct peer connections, or centralized networks like LimeWire, DC++ manages connections to hubs. Most hubs are built around an interest, such as science fiction or movies. From there, you can chat and share files with other [...]

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Featured Freeware: WirelessKeyView

This utility is absolutely utilitarian, and may strike users accustomed to a bit of visual flash and bang or superfluous features as being sparse. However, WirelessKeyView does precisely what it promises, and every additional feature builds on the central purpose.

The main feature lets you view the passwords your Wi-Fi manager has stored, useful if [...]

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iPhone apps of the week

(Credit: CNET Networks)
Apple’s iPhone App Store grows every day with new free and paid offerings. The lion’s share of apps (and clearly the most popular) have been games, now with 626 digital time wasters at the time of this writing. I check the App Store almost every day for new stuff–mostly in the free category, [...]

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Earn your bandwidth black belt

Comcast has thrown down the bandwidth gauntlet. Starting in October, Comcast broadband users will be restricted to 250GB worth of downloads per month. When asked whether the cable company was planning on offering a bandwidth meter to customers, a Comcast representative stated that it hopes to, eventually, but until then Google would be a nice [...]

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More tidbits on the new Comcast cap (updated)

Thursday’s news about the upcoming 250 GB monthly cap for Comcast data subscribers left some questions unanswered. I shot a few of my own, as well as some from readers over to Comcast to get them answered. These are mostly items that did not appear in both the post about the amendment, or the otherwise [...]

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Featured Freeware: Download Accelerator Plus

This download manager brings much more to the table than fast file transfers, but it definitely delivers those, too. Upon installation, Download Accelerator Plus asks for your e-mail address in hopes of sending you special offers, but you don’t actually need to submit any information.

Increased download speeds are the program’s bread and butter, speeding [...]

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Comcast to cap monthly consumer broadband

Starting October 1 customers of Comcast’s residential data services will have an invisible barrier on their monthly data usage. Under the new guidelines of Comcast’s Acceptable Use Policy announced Thursday, that cap will be set at 250 gigabytes per month, per account.

Users who go over the limit will get a courtesy call from Comcast’s [...]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 08/30

Extended Categories Widget
A replacement of the category widget to allow for greater customization of the category widget.
Protected Post Password Hint
Traditionally all password protected posts contain a boiler-plate password form without any hints. Without any capability to change the string, one must provide the hint in another post, which is a bit clumsy. Not to mention, [...]

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