Blog Tipping #2

Internet Safety Advisor - A lady on a mission, the blog is about keeping your kids safe online I highly recommend the read she has a lot of information on different subjects it is well worth the read.

Blogger Design - Another brilliant website targeting the design market its brilliant if your running a blog it has some excellent tips on running your blog and designing it.

Bittorrent Server.

Well the other day I came across a couple of bittorrent routers so it got me thinking about making one on the cheap which is just as efficient if not more, so I set out to do so.

So i figured a computer to run around the clock shouldn’t be very powerful strip it down to the minimal 128mb RAM and at the most 500mhz processor, so I asked around and luckely someone was throwing a old computer out which was around 500mhz.

So I considered a lot of operating systems but came to the conculsion of using Windows, it is very user friendly compared to Linux allowing to easily configure and run so i am running Windows 2000 Server Edition, I would prefer to run something like Damn Small Linux because it uses up very little resources which will also cut the electricity bill down but for now I will play with Windows.

Next I needed to find a bittorrent client, one of my favorite clients is Utorrent it has encryption and most of all a web user interface, so we can connect remotly to utorrent.

Firefox Addon: Temporary Inbox

Well as you might know I did a post a while back on Disposable Email Addresses now I’ve found a plugin for firefox which helps a long the way with temporary email addresses.

Okay so this addon is called Temporary Inbox, but why you might ask do we need this as i explained with the other post (Temporary Email Addresses) it will protect you from many things like spam and identity theft.

So you can find Temporary Inbox on the mozilla website here what the addon does is it generated a random email address using various domains provided it will give you the option to check the mail or one of my favorite options is forward your mail.

So if your a disposable email address fanatic then go and download it at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2650.

POTW: WinPatrol

This is one of my favorite security programs its brilliant in how it works one of my favorite ways is say you edit the host file it will have a message pop up saying the host file has been edited would you like to accept this change, now imagine someone has put malicious code in their remotely when WinPatrol checks it will find that someone has changed it and you don’t have to accept it.

Now the most important thing is the resources programs use like the ammount of RAM this is a brilliant for using very little space and RAM usage.

If you really want to secure your computer download it, it really is a good program worth installing.

POTW: Bluetooth Remote Control.

I’ve been addicted to this tool a lot this weekend the main reason is so I can control play list from it, I can turn the volume up and down skip the track, fast forward and rewind its a amazing.

I highly recommend this if you use your computer as a media center, it will save you purchasing a expensive remote control for your computer.

Most people already have a phone with bluetooth installed and now you get bluetooth dongles with a lot of mobile phones, if not you can pick one up for under a tenner.