If you’re like me, one of the biggest reasons you bought your iPhone was the ability to customize how your phone looks and load what applications you want. Browsing the App Store can be addicting, going through the top downloaded lists for each categories and such has become something I do quite often.
It can be a little overwhelming when you start looking for apps to install on your iPhone. I thought I’d throw together a list of programs that I use and recommend to get you started taking full advantage of your new iPhone. Continue reading ‘Recommended iPhone Apps To Get You Started’
I don’t even know why I called Linksys’ “tech support” in the first place. I guess I was pretty desperate. Have I not learned nothing over the years? After finding nothing but people who are having the same problems as me and not getting any answers from Linksys, I decided to try to figure it out.
The issue that I was having (as well as all those other people) was that the WUSB54GC would drop connection. For some people it was random. For me, it was when I downloaded large amounts of data. I couldn’t visit Google Maps or Google Images. If I’d open a few websites in seperate tabs, depending on how much content each site had, I’d dropped connection. Of course going to Linksys was a waste of time. They haven’t updated the drivers since 1/2007. Don’t even get me started with the phone support.
Continue reading ‘WUSB54GC and Vista’
On my previous article I talked about how I’ve upgraded from DD-WRT to Tomato and how much of an improvement it was over DD-WRT. While I’m still tweaking my setup I thought I’d provide a quick tutorial on how to setup QoS in Tomato.
For those of though who don’t know, QoS (Quality of Service) provides different priorities to different users or data flows, or it can guarantee a certain level of performance to a data flow in accordance with requests from the application program or the internet service provider policy. In Tomato’s case we are going to set it up to give priority to data flows. In a nutshell QoS tries to guarantee that important network protocols are given priority over non-important protocols. For example, http has priority over BitTorrent.
I’d like to start off my mentioning that there isn’t just one correct way to setup QoS. This guide is only intended to give you a basic idea on how to setup your own.
Continue reading ‘Tomato QoS Setup’
UPDATE - 11/4/08: Unfortuantely, the site that hosts the file does not allow direct downloads. You must go to the site to get the download, so my program is pretty much worthless. I recommend using PeerBlock — which is a spin-off of PeerGuardian but it actually works in Vista/7 (both 32 and 64 bit).
If you know of a link to a direct download, please let me know and I’ll update the application to download it.
UPDATE - 12/3/08: It appears that the URL has been changed. I was in the middle of updating the program but the URL that it changed too is down as well. Bluetack is having an issue finding a host for the ipfilter.dat file. As soon as the download is backup, I’ll release 0.2 with a few additional features. Thanks.
I recently wrote a little program that you can use to download an ipfilter.dat to block IP addresses when using uTorrent. It really isn’t anything fancy, just saves you the time of downloading it, extracting it, renaming it, and then copying it to the correct location.
The list is downloaded from B.I.S.S. (Bluetack) which is updated every week or so.
Prerequisites:
- uTorrent already installed
- Latest version of .NET installed
- Windows XP or Windows Vista (I’ve tested it on a 32bit Vista machine, and a 32bit XP machine)
Usage:
- Download ipfilter.dat Updater
- Extract both of the files included in the .zip to any location on your computer
- Run ipfilter_updater.exe and click Update
- Now you need to force uTorrent to use the updated list
- Quickest way is to close uTorrent, and open it back up.
- If you are currently downloading some files, you can force a reload in the preferences.
- Open the Preferences dialog (CTRL-P)
- Click on Advanced
- Find ipfiler.enable (should already be set to True)
- Change it to False, then back to True.
- To verify the list has loaded
- Click on the Logger tab in uTorrent
- You should see: [xx:xx:xx] Loaded ipfiler.dat (# entries)
- NOTE: You only need to update once a week. The list isn’t updated everyday.
You will see all blocked IP requests on that Logger tab.
Manual Install:
- Download nipfilter.dat.gz
- Go to Start->Run and type %APPDATA%\uTorrent\
- Extract the contents of nipfilter.dat.gz into the folder.
- Read above on how to force uTorrent to load the new filter.
For added security, check out PeerGuardian 2.
If you experience any issues with my program, feel free to post a comment.
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