Tag: NETWORK

With the aid of a tiny little program -- of the juicy, sub-100-kilobyte freeware variety -- you can get those cute little blinking-blue screens back onto your system tray in Windows 7. In yet another case of inspired naming, Network Activity Indicator for Windows lets you re-attach the network activity indicator to your system tray. It's been sorely missed in both Vista and Windows 7 by many ...

Millions of people awoke today to find they couldn't tweet about their poops or post-party shenanigans. As the web cried a collective "oh noes," the alternatives started hiccuping as well. Yep, Facebook began having fits and spurts as it felt the collective sag of all those un-tweeting masses rush to the "next best thing." So what? Well, I'm sure it'll all work itself out somehow. But ...

Fans of the ribbon interface who want a full-featured alternative to task manager, check out Yet Another Process Monitor. Apart from showing task manager-esque information about running processes, YAPM also provides details about Windows services and your network activity. The system information panel provides realtime monitoring of processor, memory, and disk activity. Service startup types ...

With all the uproar about third-party Twitter app security and authorization, I thought it would be nice to talk about a Twitter site that works without logging in. Twitterfriends generates statistics about your conversations on Twitter: what percentage of your posts are @replies? What percentage are links? Who do you talk to the most? Twitterfriends can tell you all of this. It also provides a ...

I can't read, write, or speak Turkish, but that didn't stop me from downloading BD IP Organizer. If you provide service for customers that need an easy way to switch IP settings, don't let it stop you, either. NetSetMan - which I reviewed recently - may be English and sport a larger feature set, but it's not free for anyone but home users. I highly doubt that anyone that really, really needs this ...

Cyber Bandwidth Monitor does pretty much exactly what you'd expect it to do, and more. This little WIndows utility tracks your upload and download speeds over time and plots your network activity on a little graph. The utility grabs data once per second, but you can adjust the settings so that it refreshes more frequently. You can also tweak a ton of display settings, ranging from the font and ...

Brad Fitzpatrick, the developer responsible for Livejournal and OpenID is up to it again. This time, he let us know on the Google Code blog, that the API for Social Graph is now available. Social Graph is an API that functions like a Pagerank for social relationships. The idea is that when you join a new social network you don't have to manually add previous relationships because it can populate ...

Google has made yet another acquisition, this time extending into the mobile space with Zingku. Zingku is a mobile social network. Simply put, the service gives users the ability to send and receive text and picture messages between friends. It is a way for trusted friends to send invitations using the standard text messaging service that is available on all mobile devices. The service is also ...

Pretty much every TV network and its sister offers up a way to watch popular shows for free online. Just hop on over to a network website and you'll find a way to watch recent episodes of everything from Heroes to Girlfriends. The episodes are typically free, but include advertising. And not an assortment of commercials like you get on broadcast TV. No, we're talking about a single ad which plays ...

What do you do if you have the phrase, "helped create the internet" on your resume? Start a networking company of course. An original team member who helped create the Internet, Arpanet, has launched a new hardware company designed to take advantage of next generation IP services. Larry Roberts' new company, Anagram has developed a hardware device designed for next generation video, voice and data ...

It was only a little while ago that Zoho got into the Facebook game and offered up its applications inside of accounts. Now it seems like so many other companies have also developed their own Facebook applications, mainly because Facebook is the social place to be. Another recent leader in the race to Facebook is DivShare. They have jumped on board and added the ability to send documents, photos, ...

Social networks are obviously where it's at, and the more niche and targeted they can get, all the better for users. Its now time for clothes lovers to unite with this latest network. Trendmill is the newest member to hit the fashion social network scene. Users can upload images of clothes they wish to own, as well as clothes they do own. Trendmillers can then vote and rate on other user's clothes ...

The instant messaging application isn't even available to the public yet, and it's being integrated into social networks. It didn't take someone long to wrap up Pownce and integrate it into Facebook using the developers API, but its here and ready to use. Jake Jarvis didn't sweat it out too much when developing this add on, and now those Facebook users that have been lucky enough to score a Pownce ...

We have covered Jangl in the past, their unique service enables users to communicate with anyone through phone lines, without revealing phone numbers. Jangl widgets came out a short while ago, and now the team has announced a partnership with Tagged, a social network that has been quickly been climbing the ranks and currently has over 40 million members. So needless to say, now members of this ...

One thing that tends to take a while in the Web 2.0 market is the expansion to non-English speaking markets. Even Google is guilty of waiting a while to open up services for non-English speaking residents of the world. Piczo, the social network that specializes in the teen market, has finally expanded to include other languages. The second place superstar in the social space for teens now has ...