Weekend goodies #004

Stefanos Karagos | January 6, 2007

After two weeks off-site, because of a small vacations period, now I'm back!
First of all I'm wishing you all, a Happy and Prosperous New Year!

Let's the weekend's links-show, begin :-)

[1]

BitTyrant is a new, protocol compatible BitTorrent client that is optimized for fast download performance. BitTyrant's creators claim that their application [based on Azareus 2.5 core] is faster as during evaluation testing on more than 100 real BitTorrent swarms, BitTyrant provided an average 70% download performance increase when compared to the existing Azureus 2.5 implementation, with some downloads finishing more than three times as quickly.
Also, BitTyrant is designed to make efficient use of your scarce upload bandwidth, rewarding those users whose upload allocations are fair and only allocating excess capacity to other users.

Time will show if I'll change my beloved uTorrent ...

[2]

If you want to meet Kevin Rose, Mike Arrington, Bradley Horowitz and the others Web2 gurus [?] you can have the chance for this meeting in London, this February.
FOWA is the congress about the Future Of Web Applications which will take place in London [20-22 February]
I'll be there ;-)

[3]

There are a lot e-shops for Golfers around the world. The best I have found recently is the GolfOnline in UK.
They have the best deals for beginners and not only for them ;-)
Before some days, I had a very good support experience form GolfOnline, as one of the items I ordered was out of stock and really it was a suprise for me, the fast way they reacted about this issue!
Oh yes, I'm a golfer :-D

[4]

mon.itor.us is a personalized network monitoring desktop.
mon.itor.us provides 24 x 7 network and website monitoring service with personalized interactive interface, where you can add server performance and availability tests, get uptime reports, add contacts to get the alert notifications. Tests are performed from geographically distributed servers. The monitoring will be performed outside of your network firewall and on the application level - that is a big advantage over ISP provided (if they do) network monitoring.
I'm using this very useful service and really helps me to have the right "picture" about the availability and performance of my sites.

[5]

I've tried a lot of anti-spam modules on this site but all were failured in the spam comments war...
The last 3 days I started using the Akismet service via this great Drupal module.
And yes! this module works great... till now!

Happy 2007!

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