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While Syn is facing tough time trying to cover her Broadband Bills, I just decided to write a quick post about tools I use to save my precious bandwidth (1.2 Rupees per MB if 1 GB limit is exceeded).
Onspeed: Its a slipstream accelerator which uses Squid Cache to compress text and images before downloading. So far it has compressed 634 MB into 249 MB on my system.Works like a charm
FlashBlock Extension: I hate annoying flash ads, especially on Yahoo and by Tribal Fusion Ad Network. So this Firefox extension does the job of blocking them.
Imglikeopera Extension: Yeap, This is a Firefox extension too. It loads images from cache (I browse during free night hours to fill my cache) i.e saves bandwidth
Adblock Extension: I should have quoted this before Imglikeopera, Anyway this Firefox extension blocks all ads except ones in your whitelist
Tip: Just incase your a busy geek who exchanges mail frequently, Use any good email client instead of webmail (especially if you use Gmail or Yahoomail Beta, because they have lots of AJAX embedded in them). I personally use Thunderbird on Win or Kmail on Linux.
Tip 2: (Warning !! This tip is really stupid) Switch over to any good ISP would provides unlimited bandwidth.
Good Luck!
[tags]Dataone, Bandwidth, Broadband, Tip, Tool, Firefox[/tags]
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wrote, on August 21st, 2006
Here is a tip “[Trail]” should be “[Trial] (hint:its there on onspeed)
Some good tipe there
wrote, on August 21st, 2006
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Thanks for pointing the typo mistake. This is what happens if I wake at mid night and start writing.
wrote, on August 21st, 2006
Good tips for saving bandwidth, I don’t know why bandwidth is so costly in india in comparision to US and UK. With so many sites providing rich media, it has become very difficult to to reduce bandwidth consumtion.
wrote, on August 21st, 2006
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Maybe it will take another 5 - 6 years before it reduces.
wrote, on August 22nd, 2006
better, use opera, sillies:d it loads the entire page from cache (i bet you knew that) and primarily more or less it does have all features of the above extensions. and hello??wherez my intergrated email & IRC client mr. mozilla???
PS: can FF gimmi this? 0:)
wrote, on August 22nd, 2006
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I would stick to Firefox because of my favorite Extension which Opera doesn’t support.
I would rather consider using Flock, because its Gecko based and support Extension (You can convert FF extensions to Flock too) and does what your screenshot suggests
wrote, on August 22nd, 2006
8-| i know win9x is absolute but…flock and all those hi fi softwares cant jus jump on xp..flick neds XP,…so do i! :(( muttieeeeeeeee
wrote, on August 22nd, 2006
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Never knew that Flock Needs XP, BTW why don’t you switch to XP ?