Web-I-See : digital life for everyone

With the advent of P2P applications, torrents and other kinds of downloads, everybody has been downloading so much. And recently some ISP started cap on the bandwidth limit. It is always good to keep an eye on the uploads and downloads going on. We’ll look at some of the best free applications for monitoring bandwith. 

Bandwidth Monitor tools on  Client-Side:
- Windows - FreeMeter Bandwidth Monitor - Freemeter bundles in some useful networking tools, like ping, traceroute, and IMAP and POP email notifiers. The graphs are highly configurable, show upload and/or download traffic, and can monitor any and all network interfaces (wifi, wired network, 1394, etc.) All in all a useful little bandwidth tool for seeing what kind of data volume you’ve got flowing in and out of your PC. Download here.

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Do you remember Lycus, Excite, Altavista, Dogpile. These were the famous search engines before Google. Google is celebrating its 10th Birthday. For a look at Google’s history you can see the company’s interactive timeline and the official 10th birthday site. Project 10¹⁰⁰, Search back web index in 2001 are something that can interest most of us.

Search Google web index in 2001 - Oldest available index.

This is pretty interesting, you can search for terms like popular terms and you’ll know what it returned in 2001. Most of the current web sites and blogs don’t even exist then. Try it http://www.google.com/search2001.html

Project 10¹⁰⁰

Project 10¹⁰⁰ (pronounced "Project 10 to the 100th") is a call for ideas to change the world, in the hope of helping as many people as possible. Google will fund $10 million to five selected ideas. Everbody can participate and submit a multiple number of ideas.  Visit the homepage http://www.project10tothe100.com/index.html

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If you are bored with Google.com search results, well you can try mse360.com. It’s an alternate search engine to Google.com. It is better then much hyped cuil.com, it is fast and has impressive search results.

MSE360 an independently financed technology company based in the UK. MSE360 offers users with a dynamic 3 column search interface, while all the time using the advanced power of popular search engines.

Summary of MSE360
• A Unique 3 Tier layout for maximum efficiency when searching
• A Powerful Spider, that indexes quality rather than quantity.
• Powered by Several of the most popular search engines
• Emphasis’ on users privacy
• Ever changing, and always listening to users!

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In the last post, Access Blocked Websites; Gtalk, Yahoo Messenger, MSN - NEW UPDATED, I mentioned about ways to access mainly instant messengers and little did I mention about accessing emails when our IT dept blocks them. This gets difficult especially when websense filtering is used.

So, I started a new service at intelligentbrains.com : A Reliable and Secure alternate, easy and fast solution to access Gmail or Google Apps hosted Custom domain. This service works even if websense filters are used. We’ll continuously work to create new domains when blocked. Comes in handy, when your IT dept blocks Gmail completely or When Gmail server is down.

Pre-requisite: IMAP Access should be enabled in Gmail before you can login from here. Goto Settings; Forwarding and POP3 ; Enable IMAP; Save Settings

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Yahoo Messenger 9.0 Final is available for download, a week after Microsoft released its beta update of Windows Live Messenger 9. The complete Look and interface are changed over the previous versions. There are a number of color scenes to choose from. Both follow the same basic skeleton and functions.

Yahoo Messenger 9 Complete Features | Windows Live Messenger 9 ( Wave 3) Features

I’ll very soon update the links for Stand alone installers for Yahoo Messenger 9 and Windows Live Messenger 9 ( wave 3 ).  Stay tuned. Use the below online installers.

• Download Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 ( ver. 9.0.0.1912 ) – Online installer
• Free Download Yahoo Messenger 9.0 Stand alone Offline Installer - Direct Download from Yahoo Server
• Download YM 9 Offline Installer Stand alone from  RapidShare

Download Windows Live Messenger 9 ( Wave 3)

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