Interesting Software and System News

[DavidR]

That extra cost made it too much for many people and they would wait until they were going to upgrade or buy a new system...

Still a heck of a lot less expensive than switching to a Mac. 

Probably by a long way

Over to you Mac

[Gene J]

I installed Win7 on an older P4 system that would not run Vista. Win7 Beta set up and ran flawlessly. I think they have a winner here. It seems like an upgrade of WinXP rather than an upgrade of Vista. it took several attempts to get the 2.44GB file downloaded (server problems), but it installed easily and is so far not problematic at all.

CCleaner doesn't install to the recycle bin, but works fine from the desktop shortcut. I would suggest using administrator rights when installing all programs to get full functions. Avast installed fine and works as great as always.

I guess I won't have to get that Mac after all.......lol.

[.: Mac :.]

  Not going through the Price war again. 

[drhayden1]

Hi Mac
click on pic to enlarge

[.: Mac :.]

Intel's Net Profit drops 90 percent

[bob3160]

Glims for safari
Glims adds a cocktail of features to Safari (Tabs, Thumbnails, Full Screen, Search Engines, Search Suggestions,
Forms autocomplete on, Dated download folders, Type Ahead ...)
 

[bob3160]

TOONEL.NET   
toonel.net is an experiment in a technique for conserving network bandwidth.
If you are paying a fee based on the amount of data you transfer (e.g. 3G/GPRS/DSL/CDMA) and have monthly download limit,
or if you have narrowband connection (e.g. dialup modem) then you are most likely to appreciate the service toonel.net offers.
There are number of toonel.net client application packages. All solutions are 100% Java based and therefore this service can be used
on any platform with an installed Java Runtime Environment, including mobile phones

Information and description:
http://toonel.net/ 

Download link:
http://www.toonel.net/downloads.html

This should help all of those on Dial-up like David. 

[.: Mac :.]

TOONEL.NET   
toonel.net is an experiment in a technique for conserving network bandwidth.
If you are paying a fee based on the amount of data you transfer (e.g. 3G/GPRS/DSL/CDMA) and have monthly download limit,
or if you have narrowband connection (e.g. dialup modem) then you are most likely to appreciate the service toonel.net offers.
There are number of toonel.net client application packages. All solutions are 100% Java based and therefore this service can be used
on any platform with an installed Java Runtime Environment, including mobile phones

Information and description:
http://toonel.net/ 

Download link:
http://www.toonel.net/downloads.html

This should help all of those on Dial-up like David. 

Actually this could help everyone because soon all internet connections will have data transfer limits unless the Government steps in.

[YoKenny]

Actually this could help everyone because soon all internet connections will have data transfer limits unless the Government steps in.

That would really mess thing up.

[DavidR]

I'm having a quick look at Toonel (interesting take on words, like a Geordie saying Tunnel), but it uses a proxy so you would also need to co-ordinate that with the web shield and since it also does email, perhaps we would have to do something with the internet mail provider.

[Lisandro]

Information and description:
http://toonel.net/ 

I could not understand yet what does it do... how it works...?

[DavidR]

I still don't fully understand it, I thought that the downloaded toonel.jar would be an archive that you had to extract and install the program. But no it opens the program interface see image.

So it looks like it is a stand alone that you would have to run on boot, copy shortcut into startup folder, etc. you have to set your browser to use localhost 8080 and add 8080 to the web shield redirects and uncheck the Ignore local communication for it to work with the web shield.

http://www.toonel.net/support.html or http://toonel.net/qa.html are more useful than the main page.

I'm trying to figure out how to get it to work with email and the internet provider, I haven't started on that aspect yet, just playing with the browser side for now.

[alanrf]

Hmmm ... this is a program that has not been updated in three years.  I wonder what is the business model that allows it to run the servers needed by its users completely for free. 

It does mean that everything you do is going through their servers controlled by who knows.

It does not appear to be very different from any other of the "Web accelerators" previously encountered except that it requires you to set up the proxies manually rather than the transparent intercepts we have seen in other similar products.

In today's increasingly more graphic intense Web sites it would probably require that the optional degrading of non-compressible images be used (as in other Web accelerators) to obtain really good reduction in bandwidth consumption.  I look forward to David's findings. 

[Lisandro]

Seems a hoax...

[DavidR]

@ Alan
There are settings under Web tab that allow you to degrade images by default there is no degradation. I have changed just changed the jpeg to 80% as the as they are by comparison bigger than gif images (which you will notice is what I post) and on-line there is negligible difference.

Whilst the seem to show better compression on outbound  (handy ion dial-up) and the inbound compression 5 shown appears reasonable the physical difference I'm seeing isn't huge, but so far that has been limited to the forums. So I wouldn't expect to see much change, but we will see over time.

Whilst it hasn't seen any update since Jan 2006, I guess it is one of those things that there isn't much to change once you have the compression algorithm and linkage to JAVA runtime there isn't much else to fiddle with as the above image shows (the GUI is sparse).

@ Tech
Would you care to expand, I see no sign that this is a hoax