Naked DSL has lots of attractions: no line rental fees and cheaper calls via VOIP. But sorting through the range of plans on offer can be a time-consuming process.
BitTorrent is extremely useful for lots of downloading and file-sharing, but if a less tech-inclined friend of yours doesn’t understand BitTorrent or you can’t install a BitTorrent client, new website httpTorrents lets you download files of popular torrents directly via HTTP.
You’ll find an abundance of tools to test your internet connection speed but what if you want to test the quality and reliability of the connection? Pingtest gives you feedback on your connection.
Want to wave at the International Space Station as if flies overhead? Website Heavens Above keeps space freaks and NASA junkies advised of precisely where man-made and naturally occurring objects are orbiting to make tracking their movements a snap.
Time and time again, people tell me that they’ve bought an external hard drive to backup their pictures, music and documents. Great, right? Sadly, that’s not always the case.
Windows: Microsoft’s SyncToy is a simple but effective tool for mirroring folders across hard-drive locations, networks or USB devices. With a 2.1 update, it’s been retooled to run faster, back up configurations and handle errors much better.
Want to get writing without having to worry about fonts, formatting or anything else, really? SimpleText.ws signs you in using Google, offers revision history and looks like a text editor from a classic black-and-white Mac.
Windows 7/Windows Server 2008: If you’re a fan of the virtual hard-drive system available in newer versions of Windows but you’re not a fan digging in the control panel for clunky mounting and unmounting, check out VHD Attach.
