On my Mac, I’ve been using the BitTorrent client for a while and noticed every time I start downloading anything, my internet connection crawls to a halt. This is maybe the reason why I lost interest in torrents and thought they are not worth the effort. And then there was Transmission. It’s small, it’s simple…
Tag: internet
WiFi in Tokyo
I recently bought an iPod Touch and was excited at the idea of being able to connect it to the internet anywhere I can get a free WiFi connection. And connect I did. WiFi seems to be all over Tokyo. Walking from my apartment to the station while checking available networks, I can see several….
Secrets of Magibon
Magibon is a *very* famous YouTuber, who does nothing but stare at her camera but still gets thousands and millions of viewers. I think she’s American pretending to be a Japanese doing cutesy Japanese “stuff”. Then, there is this well-crafted and EXTREMELY funny video created by allnamestaken14 trying to add audio to Magibon’s stares. It’s…
Google Bookmarks Search Plugin for Firefox
I’ve created a Firefox plugin that you can download so you can easily search your Google Bookmarks from Firefox. You can download it here. Just click on the “Google Bookmarks” link. Warning:This is only useful for people who store their bookmarks not in their browser (Internet Explorer or Firefox) but in Google Bookmarks. People (like…
The Mobile Net
On one boring day, I wrote this article and sent it to my fellow trainees here in Japan. I modified it a bit to suit my journal. I said a hundred times before that I don’t like to work in Japan primarily because of the ubiquitous Language Barrier Problem. I simply can’t speak Japanese. Recently…
On Internet and Emails
This week is like a continuation of the Windows programming lessons we had last week but I’m not going to talk about that. I’ve already done that last week. Rather, I’m going to talk about Internet-ing and Email-ing. Being the Internet fanatic that we are, most of us can’t help but surf the net whenever…
Enrico in Tokyo 