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There were two interesting articles I found on Digg and you should give each a good read because if you are on my website and reading this, you will definitely want to know how the world wide web and internet can become in a very near future.
Continue reading ‘The net as we know it to end; end of the last frontier?’
Having more bandwidth is costly, having a lot of bandwidth is expensive! For this one week event, I brought in a 6 mbps link through Covad Wireless for $3,000. The $3,000 gives me this 6 mbps ethernet drop off with a full Class-C of IP’s for one month. What type of speeds did I actually get?
For about $60 to $80 per month, you are able to get high speed internet access at home via DSL, cable or now FIOS through Verizon (limited to certain areas). To the right, you can see a speed test I conducted on a DSL connection at home. Sure it is a decent download speed but the upload is a bit slow. That’s the problem with most home connections, the download is fast but upload is slow. Even with typical cable providers of internet access, you have this as well. I think most DSL and cable access have download speeds of about 5-6 mbps and upload speeds up to 1 mbps.
I have had an iPhone since October of last year [2007] and even though it was unlocked to work with any sim; I had left it as that. I did not put any extra software since I didn’t have installer. Also, I was still sitting on firmware 1.0.2. I was not all interested in updating the iPhone until there was a firmware worth the upgrade. That is until I saw some of the functions available on the 1.1.3 firmware that I decided to update.
Continue reading ‘How I did my iPhone unlock and update to 1.1.3′
A home entertainment media center that has all the movies and music with a graceful user-interface that rivals Apple’s software? I came across this expensive yet bad ass home entertainment unit system and I am utterly blown away. This multi-media home theater solution is called Kaleidescape and if you watched their product demo video, you too will agree that this is the future.
Continue reading ‘Kaleidescoping home theatre for an added touch’
After reading an article by Engadget, I completely agree with their point of view that consumers should hold-off on buying the Apple iPhone. The reason is with their latest firmware update, it sacrifices many features that catapulted this super smart phone to an all-star status to fight against unlocking the phone so consumers cannot use the iPhone with other carriers. The 1.01 update essentially neutered the iPhone capabilities and only added the Wi-Fi iTunes store but at what cost?
Continue reading ‘Why Apple should embrace open-source software for their iPhone’
I had written a previous article describing why some people experience sending emails out with their email client software such as Outlook. After receiving some feedback that it was difficult to understand because I did not explain how to look up SMTP since it differs from each internet service provider. I will try to explain how you can locate who your current internet service provider is and then go on Google and look up there SMTP server. Here are some simple steps to take, step by step in doing so. Continue reading ‘How to locate your internet service provider?’
