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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