Monthly Archives: June 2005

On Feedlounge

Asides

I would be remiss to not point out fellow developer Alex’s new launch of the online aggregator Feed Lounge. I must still have a little country left in me, because whenever I hear the word “feed” I think the food you give the pigs and horses. But it’s good for bloggers too, and Alex’s new endeavor has the finest interface I’ve seen yet on an online aggregator. It’s a closed beta right now, so you can’ try it out yet, but you can go admire how their entire site is built in WordPress. I think it worked especially well for their FAQ section, maybe we should do that on wordpress.org. I wonder if this will be a quick flip?

This is Real Broadband

Personal,

Really fat bandwidth graph

Care of VVD Communications, the cool company with a bad website, I now have a synchronous 10mbps connection in my apartment. The first thing I did was go to a bandwidth testing site, as seen above. I was using Comcast before which was pretty snappy, but this is a whole new way to experience the internet. This is even faster than the connection I get at work.

This will definitely mean I’ll be able to run a lot more things from home, the upload bandwidth is about 10x what I had before, which means it’ll be much faster to upload pictures, serve files, stream music from home, and all the other stuff you should be able to do in a hyperconnected world. (Maybe I’ll even catch up on photos now.) They were also able to light up all the ethernet panels in my place so now doing some of the multimedia things I wanted to do around the house should be much easier. (Wireless was really too slow.) Best of all, the whole thing is only $35 a month and there was no setup.

I’m still going to have Comcast for a few months until my contract runs out, what I’m wondering now is if there’s a way to have the router balance the internet traffic between the two connections. I’m using a WRT54GS which I’ve loaded up with alternative Linux-based firmware before with good success. I wonder if that sort of balancing would be possible?

Mac Gamma Tip

Asides

While poking around and calibrating all my monitors the same way today I found the setting for making the Mac OS X gamma similar to that found on PCs, personally I prefer to see things how most of my users are going to see them. It’s under System Preferences, the Displays, Color, and then click Calibrate.