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Free Google Tool Helps Determine if Your ISP is Throttling / Blocking BitTorrent

As I mentioned in a previous post ISP’s are throttling and sometimes completely blocking Torrent services.  I stumbled across a handy tool which helps detect if your ISP is indeed throttling or blocking your torrent uploads/downloads.  They report that a majority of US users being blocked / throttled are in the Cox or Comcast networks.  To... [Read more of this review]

Console Killer? OnLive Offers High-End Gaming On Demand

OnLive is launching the world’s highest performance Games On Demand service, instantly delivering the latest high-end titles over home broadband Internet to the TV and entry-level PCs and Macs.  So how is that going to work?  Chances are you have heard the buzz about Cloud Computing.  If you haven’t,  Wikipedia defines it as a style of computing... [Read more of this review]

Western Digital My Book Studio II 2TB Review (WDH2Q20000N)

I backup my PC on a regular basis, but I needed a backup solution for my newly purchased Macbook.  I thought it was  necessary after taking all my photos and music from my PC and loading them on to the Mac.  So after doing some research I decided to go with the Western Digital My Book Studio II.   I was debating on getting a NAS for the Mac but... [Read more of this review]

Integrate Twitter with Gmail using TwitterGadget

With all the talk of Google buying Twitter I imagined that Twitter would eventually be part of Google, but I figured that would take some time.  Well I just tested out TwitterGadget and it is a fully functional Twitter Client that sits right in your Gmail sidebar.  Tweet away Gmail users!  You can get instructions on how to add to your Gmail from... [Read more of this review]

Google Voice: First Impressions and Review / Walkthrough

So it’s been about 2 weeks now since I was converted from Grand Central to Google Voice.  Before I go on, if you have no idea what Google Voice is read this article and then come back to this one.  So far I am very impressed with the service. Even though it does have some flaws and some areas for improvement, I think Google is going to hit... [Read more of this review]

The Importance of Data Backups: Are You Backing Up Your Data?

Are you backed up? I had a scare recently that I had lost all of my pictures on my computer when none of my photos would open up. It turns out that everything was fine after a reboot, but for a minute I felt the pain of what it would feel like to loose everything. It made me question how I am backing up my data. Today, everyone is storing something... [Read more of this review]

Stream Video/Audio and Download Torrents from a Network Attached Storage (NAS) Device Made Easy

Before you go ripping/downloading your favorite DVD’s and TV Shows to your hard drive you may want to consider an external NAS hard drive. With movies ranging from 600 MB to 12 GB (depending on quality and length) you can fill a computers hard drive extremely fast. I have been in the market for an external hard drive because I want to archive... [Read more of this review]

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