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The last few days have been terrible with regards to access to Internet connections for me and I have been bombarded with dropped connections both at office which uses Road Runner [Time Warner] and at home where I have a wireless setup on a Comcast modem.

I tried Googling to find a proper bandwidth manager but always hit a dead end as the softwares I found were either paid or too crappy to use.

Nevertheless that search ended today when I found a worthwhile software to monitor the bandwidth usage for my computer in a app called Cyber Bandwidth Monitor.

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Creating 3D applications is not that easy but even more harder is spending thousands of dollars to get a software that allows you to create 3D animations.

If you are fretting over the price of the available 3D modeling software you should definitely give a try to Blender which is a free and open source 3D modeling and animation Program.

Another good thing about Blender is that it is available for all major operating systems including;

• Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista
• Mac OS X (PPC and Intel)
• Linux (i386)
• Linux (PPC)
• FreeBSD 5.4 (i386)
• SGI Irix 6.5
• Sun Solaris 2.8 (sparc)

Below is the screen shot of the blender interface in action.

The Blender user interface is flexible and has a fully configurable window layout there are a whole lot of other features which makes this a real must have for all the 3D animation developers out there.

So what are you waiting for go ahead and save your self some money and download Blender for FREE.

Though email storage has evolved over time from the meager 2MB Yahoo provided once upon a time to the enormous amounts you have now. Though the storage space has gone over the roof the size of the attachment you can send with a mail has not seen the same changes.

The maximum attachment sites for most email providers is about 20MB which will very well allow you to send up to 5 MP3 files but not a huge video you shot with your camera.

Send files up to 2 GB

In comes filemail a service which allows you to send attachments of up to 2 GB without even registering on the site, to top it you can even use your existing email account to send the emails. The service also allows you to choose and select multiple files for uploading.

The thing to note is that the target email account you will be sending the files to will not receive the actual files but instead receive a link to a secure download page from where they can download the files.

Summarizing

Though the service has not achieved something by rocket science there are various other services like this which allow users to share huge files with others, many of which we have already covered here, here, here and here.

I wonder in coming days we would see sites which come up with a 5GB alternative ;).

Well its not a joke but a Word add-in called DAISY (Digital Accessible Information SYstem) will allow you to listen to your word files. The add-in adds a additional option to your save menu to allow you to save as the file as “DAISY XML”.

The add-in was created through an open source project with Microsoft, Sonata Software Ltd. and the Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) Consortium and can be downloaded on SourceForge.

Download Save as DAISY XML add-in.

Via: [BetaNews]

Smashing Magazine has put up a review of 35 useful source code Editors. Those editors can be quite useful for editing HTML, CSS or programming code or just as a notepad replacement.

Here are some of my favorite picks from the list most of which I currently use too.

• Adobe Homesite.
• UltraEdit.
• EditPlus.
• Notepad++.
• PSPad.
• TopStyle CSS Editor.
• TextPad.

The one editor that finds a worthwhile mention from my end if Eclipse which I use to create java and PHP projects. I use eclipse for creating WordPress plugins and client projects because of the better management features it provides me with.

Would love to know which is your favorite editor.

How many time have you Googled your name to see if your name shows up in the results? If your answer is atleast once then Additomatic would add to your excitement of ego surfing.

Addictomatic searches multiple sites to fetch results for the name you type in. Some of those include Google, Yahoo, Twitter, Technorati, Digg, Bloglines, etc. Below is a list of complete source from which Addictomatic fetches its results.

I had earlier also talked about EgoSurf another website to search the Ego ranking of your blog. EgoSurf is a Web 2.0 based site that helps you find your blogs ranking in most of the popular search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN and also Del.icio.us and Technorati.

So with all these options available what are you waiting for, go and get your dose of Ego for today.

Via: [Digital Inspiration]