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bittorrent

How to Check if Your ISP is Throttling Your BitTorrent Traffic

Our ISP is currently Comcast, which is probably definitely throttling torrent traffic in this area, but how can we know for sure? Here's how. There's now a website that runs a little test, determining whether your ISP is throttling all traffic, all traffic on well-known BT ports, only BT traffic on well-known BT ports, or nothing at all. The full test takes seven minutes, but it's seven minutes well spent to find out whether you need another ISP. Or if you need to cut down on your PureTNA downloads. [Max Planck Institute via TorrentFreak via LifeHacker]

3:00 PM on Wed May 7 2008
By Jason Chen
22,312 views, 21 comments

Latest by egyptiansushi: @tinascry: I've never noticed Comcast download speed issues, either... more »

routers

D-Link's D-Life Manages All Your D-Link Hardware Online

The Pitch: A website (www.d-life.com) that lets you register all your compatible D-Link equipment online via 2 product ID numbers in order to manage all that stuff in one interface. Just connect the product to your network and you can change settings via the website.
The Catch: This probably won't make it easier for your mother to manage a home network, but will make things slightly more convenient by merging all your equipment management sites. [D-Life]

12:00 AM on Sun Jan 6 2008
By Jason Chen
880 views, 5 comments

Latest by bms: @technophobia: Amen brother! I have called D-Link every month since they missed the Q1 release date. They have no idea what the story is with the 855. I suspect it will get scrapped. more »

retail

Best Buy Still Using Secret In-Store Website With Higher Pricing [Update]

Even after being slapped in the face with a suit by a Connecticut attorney general, Best Buy is still having an internal bestbuy.com website that offers higher prices than the actual bestbuy.com. The only thing Best Buy promised to do is place a notice on the website to indicate that these are in-store prices, which may not be the same as the prices seen online. The point? Bring a printout or a browser-capable cellphone (don't use their Wi-Fi) so you can show employees the price you saw online, which they're supposed to honor. [Consumerist]

Update: A Best Buy employee sheds light on why this is happening:

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11:30 AM on Tue Dec 25 2007
By Jason Chen
27,862 views, 78 comments

Latest by jutman: Any place that has a "Geek Squad" which cannot understand Mobile vs. Non-Mobile CPU's are complete idiots. After doing server support for 13 years the amount of BS that there sales staff tries to push on custmers is priceless.Best ever more »

software

Super Bowl Dolphins Stadium Site Hacked, Spreading Malware

Super Bowl fans who are looking up info on the Dolphin Stadium site from a Windows machine may want to make sure they're using Firefox instead of IE. Apparently the site's been hacked and is hosting two known Windows Security flaws. More »

7:15 PM on Fri Feb 2 2007
By Jason Chen
702 views, 17 comments

portable media

Find The Best Unused FM Radio Frequency

If you're DJing up your own tunes with one of those old iPod FM transmitters that doesn't auto-seek the best frequency, you're probably always fiddling with it to try to get the optimum sound while driving. Say goodbye to potential vehicular manslaughter charges by using this FM radio locator before you even leave the house. More »

11:35 AM on Sun Jan 28 2007
By Jason Chen
5,544 views, 16 comments

gadgets

Price Protectr Saves You Money

Have you ever purchased a gadget only to have it drop in price the week after? Now you can make sure you get a pricematch/refund with Price Protectr. Just plug in the item you bought online, start tracking, and get notified by email when something drops in price. More »

3:00 PM on Wed Jan 17 2007
By Jason Chen
161 views, 4 comments

gadgets

Hotcaptcha: Hot Babes Eliminate Bots

You've probably seen website sign-up forms with a graphic of some crazy-looking twisted alphanumeric characters that you're asked to type into a form. That's to ensure that an actual human being has to do the signing up. It's called text Captcha (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart). More »

12:19 PM on Mon Jul 17 2006
By Charlie White
2,368 views, 8 comments

gadgets

Junk For Sale


Let s face it, there s a lot of crap for sale out there. Especially in the consumer electronics world, there are more knock offs of legitimate devices than actual devices available. Don t Buy Junk is a website combating this problem by aiming to be a resource about worthwhile products to purchase. It operates the same way a friend might recommend something. So what happens when your friend recommends crap? The site's TotalRank system calculates advice based on natural adjustment factors used to normalize different types of opinions. By comparing reviews from over 200+ sources with user reviews, Don t Buy Junk gives you tips that are almost Gizmodo close friend worthy. More »

11:30 AM on Mon Sep 19 2005
By coinop
1,182 views

japan

Gizmodo Japan: Mars Flag

The intarweb needs a new search engine like it needs another goatse mirror. While Mars flag is coming to an already crowded party, it shows up fashionably late and in style. It's killer feature: visual indexing. Enter a family-friendly search phrase like "college coeds," then watch in horror *cough* delight, as your search results display in all their visually indexed glory. -JM More »

2:22 AM on Sun Aug 7 2005
By jmanzone
40 views