Google just released the Beta version of its browser, called Google Chrome (why chrome anyways?). Since a few days, I’ve been seeing that pokeball-like logo all over the Internets and I thought I must add my piece of text to the already long list of blog posts about the newest browser out there. Seriously, nearly 12 million results on Google when I search for “Google Chrome”.

What’s the hype about it? Everybody is “Chrome released”, “Chrome does that”, “Chrome does this”, “Chrome makes tea”, bla bla… Let’s see… Before I move on, I need to say that Chrome is released under BSD license, and it’s Open-Source!

Statcounter reports something interesting. In one day, Chrome captured 1% of market share, as you can see from the picture below. Amazing, I say. Most surprising is the fact that Firefox (a favourite), Safari and other browsers are losing ground, while IE is gaining.

Well, after all, it’s not that surprising. Why? Because with every new Windows install, you get a free browser, Internet Explorer. Yay! So with every new Windows install, you can assume that there is a new IE user out there (who has not discovered Chrome or Firefox yet). And yeah, Internet Explorer 8 was just released so this has to be counted too.

Coming back to Chrome, what’s so interesting about it? It’s just a browser, a piece of software like so many out there. For example, how does it surpass Firefox, one browser that the World has given much love to?

Here’s what I think Chrome does better than Firefox:

• Memory management! My Firefox (bloated with tons of addons) takes 163MB with around 10 tabs open (WTF!!) while on load, Chrome takes a measly 10MB of memory. That should make me a convert, but not yet. (try about:memory in Chrome’s address bar btw! )
  • Try “about:internets” in the bar now… “no quotes!” There are more of those “about” tricks. Go see Lifehacker.
• Chrome is fast! Blazingly fast!! Sites load fast, the browser loads fast (<1 second on my PC). Sites load faster than Firefox too, by some Google magic. I dunno why, but it happens.

  

• Chrome, being made by Google, is tightly integrated with Google. The address bar acts like an address bar (doh!) and a search bar, all in one. A bit like Firefox’s bar, but works kind of better. One thing I liked with Chrome is that it’s not just restricted to Google as a search engine. You can choose which search engine to use in the properties. Thumbs up Google for allowing competition.
• Chrome looks good. It’s pleasing to the eye, but that’s just me. I like the minimalist layout.
• Chrome is good at download management. There’s the “download sidebar” which tells you download progress directly in your sidebar. This is available in Firefox too, via addons. Chrome has it in-built.
• Incognito mode: This allows you to create a new window, and whatever you do in it doesn’t get recorded to history. Cookies are deleted on window-closing. This is especially useful if you want to plan birthday surprises (according to Google), or if you want to browse pr0n without your parents knowing (according to me).
• Tab dragging: You can drag tabs out of windows to create new windows, or merge tabs in a window. This kind of management is really useful for tab-crazy guys like me.
• Speed-dial like feature for commonly visited pages on new tab creation. This gives you thumbnails of your favourite sites so you can access them fast, without having to use bookmarks or type the address.
• Built-in task manager to handle unresponsive tabs and close them if needs be. Good move here Chrome.
• Built-in phishing protection. Now you will probably know if somebody is trying to steal your account or data.

There are other features available on Chrome’s home, so I’ll let you read them there. I just listed some here.

But this is how Firefox does things better than Chrome (since I’m a Firefox fan)

• Firefox has addons that let’s it do anything it wants. Manage tabs like you want with Tabmix, manage downloads with DownThemAll, find website bugs with Firebug, get website shots with ScreenGrab! Hell, you can even make Firefox do GUI prototyping with Pencil! It’s no longer a browser after a while.
  • Chrome has no support for addons (yet). This is good (less memory usage) and bad (less functions).
• Firefox has in-built support for RSS, something which is lacking in Google Chrome.
• Firefox can do what Chrome can do with the help of Addons. Yes. For example, AutoDial gives you the favourite-sites features in Firefox. Not very pretty, but it works.

So why Chrome? Because it’s an alternative. We’ve been using Firefox, Opera, Safari or some other browsers like Maxthon. Now we got a new contender, and it has some good features and performance figures to give us. Why not make good use of it? And when it comes from search-engine-giant Google, we gotta give it some serious looks.

For people who make heavy use of Google (me), Chrome is a real life-saver, due to its tight integration with Google. You can rapidly search for things on Google in Chrome, and it also gives you suggestions when typing addresses, which really rocks. Oh, another good reason to love Chrome: The Comic Book! Way to go for creativity!

There have been some privacy concerns with Chrome though, like a controversial clause in the End-User License Agreement (EULA) that says that whatever you do in Chrome, Google owns it. Like if I made this post in Chrome, Google would own “The Content”. This was changed recently, so no fears now.

Now, there is some claims that the address bar will send data to Google, and that 2% of this data will be kept.

Let’s wait and see what other browsers have to say to Chrome grabbing market share. (Firefox could learn some good things from Chrome, like memory management.)

Your views please? Do you use Chrome? Are you going to use it? Comments awaited!

Ps. As you may have seen, GeekScribes has no new posts for quite a while. Remember about me telling you that we were students? Well, Uni is really taking our time (Assignments! Too many of them!), and we are not finding time to post. But when we do, you will have good content, rest assured. If not, feel free to remind us.

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Behold Chrome: New contender in Browser Wars Arena!

The NetPC and the AMD initiative as I shall call it are good moves, but they each have their respective advantages and disadvantages, which you will learn in this post. You will also learn that there are other alternatives, which are either cheaper, or offer much more value for money at nearly the same price. Ready? Read on…

NetPC by Mauritius Telecom

It promises a low-cost “computer” for the masses, allowing people to have access to a number of softwares like Microsoft Office being one of them.

At first sight, the NetPC seems to be a good offer. You pay Rs.4300 (via your bills) for equipment, then Rs.490 / month for rental. You get these in return:

• Unlimited Access to software:
  • Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2007 (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook Express)
  • Internet Explorer 7.0
  • Adobe Acrobat reader.
• 30 hours of broadband Internet connection
• 1 FREE email address @intnet.mu
• 500MB of secured disk storage space on our server

Let’s see the softwares first. Microsoft Office Standard package. So no Microsoft Access. Which means your kid or yourself won’t probably be able to do your HSC computing project on the NetPC if you choose to use Microsoft Access as database platform. Most schools recommended Microsoft Access at HSC level for Paper 4 when I was at school. I don’t know if it’s still the same now, but MS Access is powerful. Internet Explorer 7? WTF! why not Firefox? I stopped using IE for around 4 years now and I don’t regret it. It was not intuitive to use for me. Lastly Adobe Acrobat Reader for reading your PDFs. I don’t see any software for playing multimedia like music and movies. Is it included?

If it isn’t, don’t bother trying to install them. You can’t install your own softwares with the NetPC. This seriously limits the amount of tasks that can be done with it. Forget school computing projects as these require specialized applications. Forget tasks like image retouching or categorizing. You are stuck with what they give you and you can’t complain.

Next the only 30 hours of Internet. For the rental of Rs.490, it’s not bad. But if you see it from another angle, it means 1 hour of Internet per day. It’s not enough for any kind of tasks, unless you just login to read newspapers. Students’ reference work take a lot of time and 30 hours won’t be enough. And yeah, you can get more hours, but it’s Rs. 0.5/minute. That makes Rs.30 / excess hour! Your bill will become seriously sour if you keep on using in excess of your 30 hours!

Finally the 500MB disk space. Is that a joke? What do I do with less than a CD’s worth of storage capacity? Nowadays, 80GB hard-disks are barely enough to hold an average users’ data, and now 500MB? My old 486 PC had 500MB of hard disk space, and that was back in 1996!

Downloading stuff with a 500MB hard disk is just pointless. So just plainly strike off downloading things with the NetPC’s capabilities. More MBs are available at Rs.10 / 100MB.

Also, the hardware capabilities are limited, like the absence of Wifi for now, and the inability to attach some hardware like a scanner. Before you invest in the NetPC, be sure to read the FAQ well.

The possible advantages are that it does not consume much electricity, so your electricity bills will be more gentle on you. It’s also more easy to use since you don’t have to actually install new updates for your (limited) softwares that the NetPC offers. Then your data is stored on a server, so no viruses and similar to be scared of.

(Side note: if your data is stored on the server, you are dependent on the availability of the server. The day it goes down, your data will be inaccessible as long as the server is not put back. Second, if your data is on a server, people might just have a peek at it. I.e. Your data is not secured. I’d be careful about putting my sensitive data on a server away from me. Remember, servers get hacked even if the admins think they did everything to protect their machines.)

Who should benefit from the NetPC? People who make very light use of computers. For basic mail checking, typing a letter once a fortnight or so, create a Powerpoint presentation for school somewhat often and check some online newspapers and sites for less than one hour a day. Simply put, very basic tasks. Students (above CPE) probably won’t be able to make good use of it. And yeah, students like games (real games, not Solitaire!), which will be impossible with the NetPC.

Shah has some good ideas about how you can bypass the software limitations of the NetPC, but as he notes, use your 30 hours judiciously. Also, since the applications are online and since we have crappy connections here, expect the applications to show a definite lag at some points.

Low-Cost AMDs

Mr. Etienne Sinatambou recently announced a deal with AMD to provide low-cost machines to Mauritius at around Rs.10,000. This is hot news, and there are not much details about the specs of the computers yet, so I don’t know what they are capable of. They seem to be a good low-cost solution for the average Mauritian’s PC needs. Looks promising…

However, there have been fears about AMD dumping old technology in Mauritius. We are going to have old, crappy machines at Rs.10,000. The possibility is there, but not confirmed yet. We can just wait and see what kind of computers we will have from AMDs.

Asus’ Eee PCs / Eee box

Aww I’m seriously looking for one of those Eee PCs! They are so cute and really practical! And are quite powerful at that, packing a lot of new technology at an affordable price.

Basically, you get an ultra-mobile laptop, weighting less than 2Kg, with something like a 10″ screen. It’s not big. It won’t do gaming. But it’s really good for on-the-go work, and even for at-home computing.

On Amazon, you will be able to find many different models with varying price tags from $300 to $700. The specs vary widely too, so for comparison, I’m going to consider the Eee 900. The Amazon price is $400 (Rs.12,000 at $1 = Rs.30) and you get the following specs:

Specifications:

• Internal memory: 16 GB solid state disk
• Memory expansion: Slot for MMC/SD(SDHC) cards
• RAM: 1 GB DDR2
• Processor: 900 MHz Intel Mobile CPU
• Operating system: Linux
• LCD: 8.9 inches, 1024 x 600 pixels
• Networking: 54g Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), 10/100 Fast Ethernet
• Peripheral connectivity: Three USB 2.0
• External video: One VGA
• External audio: One headphone and one microphone port
• Webcamera: Yes, 1.3 megapixels
• Battery life: up to 3.5 hours
• Weight: 2.2 pounds (35 ounces)
• Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.7 x 1.33 inches

The Eee PC comes with 3 USB ports, so you can always attach more devices like a flash drive (pen drive) or an External DVD drive or scanner/printer if you need one. Seeing it has a VGA port, you can also attach an external monitor of bigger size if you don’t want the small 10″ something screen. Remember, you will still need peripherals with the NetPC, so expect to buy your own monitor and printer, etc… Wifi is enabled, unlike the NetPC. It comes installed with Linux, but is also compatible with Microsoft XP Home.

It’s not a bad deal after all, when compared to the NetPC. You get more HD space (16GB vs 500MB) and it’s a Solid State Drive (SSD), which means silent operation and fast loading times. 1GB of RAM should be sufficient for XP or light Linux distros and for most tasks. And considering its size and weight, it’s very portable for bringing to school or university if needs be. You can then install additional software if you require. Of course, the bundled Linux distro comes with pre-installed applications like Open Office which should be sufficient for your uses. No viruses and spyware (Windows-oriented ones) to be scared of if you are using the bundled Linux distro.

You can also choose to install XP and your softwares which should take around 5-6GB on the HD, leaving 10GB free for you. You can still attach an external HD if you require, via USB. Basically, the Eee gives you a machine to build upon according to your needs and your budget. Just what I need in fact!

I firmly believe that the Asus Eee PC or probably any of those low-cost $100 laptops coming out now will be a real challenge for the NetPC. Even China may start offering really cheap laptops, just as it did for the Ipod, producing ok quality MP4 Players at a great price (~$100) and loads of features (AVI/RMVB playback?).

And yeah, if you don’t want the portability, but would like a cheap but performant computer with low footprint and energy-saving, you can still go for the Asus Eee Box priced around $350 on Amazon. It has a nice processor of around 1GHz, 1GB RAM, 80GB Hard Disk and some other good features, making it a great, low-cost machine.

Note: According to an advert I recently saw in the Defi Plus newspaper of 9th August 2008, the Asus Eee PC and Box were available at Pascal Computers. The Eee PC started at Rs.11,000 and the Eee Box was at Rs.9500. Both prices are Vat Exc. Mind you, I’m NOT affiliated with Pascal Computers in any way. I’m just telling you where you can get an Eee if you need one in Mauritius.

Any other alternatives?

There is! You can still decide to build your own PC. IslandCrisis has an article about what you will need to build your own machine at a great price.

I’d recommend similar specs so I can’t really add anything there. You can probably find better prices though, if you buy second-hand parts.

However, there is an even cheaper alternative. I’d say around Rs.10,000 something. You are going to be buying loads of second-hand parts, and an old PC. It’s not for everybody, but you will get a machine that works well.

Basically, you will need:

• An old/second-hand Pentium 3/4 machine which are retailing at around Rs.3000-6000 (processor, board, memory, other cards, HD, optical drive included) now. You can then upgrade the parts and make changes if you require.
  • Find similar specs: 1GHz processor at least, 1GB RAM minimum, a compatible motherboard to plug in everything, 20GB something hard disk, a VGA/Graphics card, a soundcard, a keyboard, mouse, a monitor and a CD/DVD drive.
• For the software, install a good Linux distro, like Ubuntu (I’d recommend Xubuntu), PCLinuxOS or Puppy Linux if you want a really really fluid machine. You can install XP too, but it won’t be free, unless you “ask a friend” as IslandCrisis says! (Though it’s not legal! )
• That’s it! You now have a machine that you can work with, has all the applications you will need and at an affordable price. You just need to know how to find the lowest prices and be a good discount-seeker.

The machine above may not be the fastest on the market, but it should do its job admirably.

There is one thing to note though. Apart from the NetPC, all of the other solutions will require you to get an internet connection from an ISP. Depending on your budget, you might go for a 256K MyT connection at Rs.650/month, or any of the other ISPs’ offerings. This is your choice. But at least you will get unlimited usage with most packages, unlike the NetPC’s 30 hours limit.

That’s about it for my article about low-cost solutions to a computer in every Mauritian home. There are many solutions, some of which I may not have mentioned. You are free to share your comments with us, if you have more solutions to the problems. However, before you buy anything, you need to research it properly to see if this is what you need.

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NetPC, Low-cost AMDs, Asus Eee: Which one is best for me?

From a mere crush on blogging, many has fallen in love. In fact, it is addictive. Finding the right tools you will achieve bliss. The few words you write helps you as a being, and these very few words matters to the online community. Lets see some Firefox Addons that will help.

Fireshot makes blogging web pages you like even easier. No need for the traditional “Print Screen” and Paste in image editor. Yes, the bulky way. With a couple of key strokes you are ready (CTRL+ALT+Z). Or even better, at your top right hand corner of your browser there is a classy button for you to “click and catch”. Adding to its default functionality there is an embedded editor which will allow you to annotate the screen shots you make. That is pretty useful as you catch as you go. But mind it,this addon is only available for the windows users.

Fancy Numbered Tabs takes tabbing to the next generation with Mozilla Firefox. While writing, you get glued to your keyboard. Finding your mouse often breaks your line of thought. While trying to make reference to other pages , you will find it rather handy. With a simple “CTRL + [1-9]” or “ALT + [1-9]” you can jump to any tab you wish. What really happen to your tabs? Instead of your little “X”, there is a number assigned to each tabs. With “CTRL + Desired tab number” you go directly to it, without getting your face off the monitor.

LinkChecker allows you to blog more efficiently. You would not want to include a dead link by mistake. After searching for your materials to include in your next killer article with a right click and a left click you would a safe from dead links. LinkChecker will go though each and every links on the page you are referring to and highlight valid links with green, broken links with red (needing attention) and skipped links with grey. You can take appropriate measures to correct for the faults.

Google Browser Sync will allow you to bookmark wherever you are. At work you will now be blogging. But yet, what will you be doing you got an interesting link? Ideally at home you would have bookmarked and referred to later on. But at work? Just bookmark on your computer and let Google handle the synchronisation and get ready for some writings.

ReminderFox lets you manage your to do list and reminders. Ideas may pop up as you browse and they are easy to forget. With an easy to go interface and comprehensive function set jot them down as they surface. When it is time to write just go through them to get a better picture of what awaits. Now lets imagine you want to write in accordance to an special event. I am such a freak when it concerns dates, ReminderFox is the perfect solution for your reminders. Just add them and they will appear in your status bar.

Google Notebook features another great Mozilla Firefox Addon. Make notes as you browse. Don’t you think this will help? I do. If ever you copied any part from a page (inspiring words) it gets into the notebook along with the page you were browsing as you add new note. Use it the right way and you will be the winner.

CopyPlainText is yet another useful addon for copying around. We don’t want to copy the formatting, just the content. This one satisfies your first for copying.

Take a look at what the Lifehacker’s editor has written on blogging tools.

I hope this will help your blogging experience. Your recommendations will be appreciated.

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Mozilla Firefox Tools to Simplify Blogging

If ever you have gone though the media guru’s blog, you must have read that his articles are being copied by basictweak.com. To circumvent such practices, I will try to come up with some major tips to protect yourselves. I have yet to implement them. As a matter of fact this article is the product of inspiration to fight plagiarism.

Copyscape – The first thing you should know, there exists copyscape.com. Enter your URL, and a list of websites having same or similar contents (partial) will be compiled. From these you can decide who is copying what. Well, this applies if you have not copied from somewhere else.

Creative Commons – We all ponder should we license our work or not. My advice, license it. Creative Commons is here to cater your needs. You choose the type of license you want to attribute to your work. The below gives everything about the license.

Offering your work under a Creative Commons license does not mean giving up your copyright. It means offering some of your rights to any member of the public but only on certain conditions.

What conditions? You can find an overview of the Creative Commons licenses here. All of our licenses require that you give attribution in the manner specified by the author or licensor.

Attribution. You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if they give credit the way you request.

Example: Jane publishes her photograph with an Attribution license, because she wants the world to use her pictures provided they give her credit. Bob finds her photograph online and wants to display it on the front page of his website. Bob puts Jane’s picture on his site, and clearly indicates Jane’s authorship.

Our core licensing suite will also let you mix and match conditions from the list of options below. There are a total of six Creative Commons licenses to choose from our core licensing suite.

Noncommercial. You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work — and derivative works based upon it — but for noncommercial purposes only

Examples: Gus publishes his photograph on his website with a Noncommercial license. Camille prints Gus’ photograph. Camille is not allowed to sell the print photograph without Gus’s permission.

No Derivative Works. You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.

Example: Sara licenses a recording of her song with a No Derivative Works license. Joe would like to cut Sara’s track and mix it with his own to produce an entirely new song. Joe cannot do this without Sara’s permission (unless his song amounts to fair use).

Share Alike. You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.

Note: A license cannot feature both the Share Alike and No Derivative Works options. The Share Alike requirement applies only to derivative works.

Example: Gus’s online photo is licensed under the Noncommercial and Share Alike terms. Camille is an amateur collage artist, and she takes Gus’s photo and puts it into one of her collages. This Share Alike language requires Camille to make her collage available on a Noncommercial plus Share Alike license. It makes her offer her work back to the world on the same terms Gus gave her.

More examples are available on our examples page. Also note that every license carries with it a full set of other rights in addition to the allowances specifically made here.

Taking a License

When you’ve made your choices, you’ll get the appropriate license expressed in three ways:

1. Commons Deed. A simple, plain-language summary of the license, complete
   with the relevant icons.
2. Legal Code. The fine print that you need to be sure the license will stand up in court.
3. Digital Code. A machine-readable translation of the license that helps search engines and other applications identify your work by its terms of use.

Using a License

You should then include a Creative Commons “Some Rights Reserved” button on your site, near your work. Help and tips on doing this are covered here. This button will link back to the Commons Deed, so that the world can be notified of the license terms. If you find that your license is being violated, you may have grounds to sue under copyright infringement.

From: Creative Commons

This generator assigns all the attributes of your selected license type and generates the html code. Do it now.

ISSN – We all heard of ISBN (unique reference for a book),and today it is ISSN. It is an International Standard Serial Number used to identify your digital work online. Be part of it. Here is the list of all the centres (worldwide)

For Mauritius, below are the concerned information.

 

Bibliothèque Nationale de Maurice

Country code: MUS

Centre code: 61

Bibliothèque Nationale de Maurice
2ème étage, Bâtiment Fon Sing
12, rue Edith Cavell
Port Louis

Telephone: +230-210.7121 / +230- 211.9891 / +230-211.9892
Fax: +230-210.7173 / +230-210.7117
E-mail:
Website: http://national-library.gov.mu
Director:
M. Yves Chan Kam Lon
Directeur

After or during my exams I will proceed to register Geek Scribes.For the sake of having an identity. Your ISSN can be used as a reference in cases of plagiarism for fighting your case.

Contact Webmaster – Webmasters often tend to ignore emails concerning contents they have scraped from you. A better solution is to perform a WHOIS and email either their web host or their domain registrar.

My favourite WHOIS is whatsmyip. You will have the registrant details associated with the domain name. If ever they are all false details, you will end up with square 1, that gives you one. There is still hope, see the name servers. Perform a whois on it/them or go to the “adomainame.com/net/etc” extracting it from the name server. If there are any contact form report issue and see if any actions are taken.

DMCA – The last but not least, ask Google to de-index the concerned web site. For such a process you need to perform a DMCA. Check Google DMCA page for more info about this one.

Update: Thank you Jonathan Bailey, your comments has made the article become more meaningful. Yeah, the word of a pro. Fighting plagiarism is his niche, check out his weblog out and have a boost in knowledge.

According to his recommendation it is preferable to work with Google. That is getting the web site de-indexed. I would second that. But after being de-indexed from Google, we may access the web site directly with its domain name. My word, plagiarism is an art in itself, needing some brains and patience.

Along side with copyscape do use bitscan. No need for a premium account as copyscape.

Well carrotmadman6, partial feed is a solution. But we all love full feed. Copying contents automatically is done via feeds. It is virtually impossible to protect it. There are other methods to do so. Like, in blogger settings go to “site feed” and have a link back to your weblog or put your ISSN number in there. For wordpress I think there is some plugins that do this job. I will just need to search for one.

I hope I have been able to draft a clear picture of what needs to be done and this would help.

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Plagiarism – Protect Yourself

As you can see from above, NetMeter is really easy to understand. It shows your current download and upload speeds, as well as your Total Downloads (TDL) and Uploads (TUL) for the month.

Basically, you just need to download the program and install it. It’s freeware! After that, it’ll silently run in the background (3.3MB usage on average), monitoring your usage in real time. It comes with dynamic icons to show you your uploads and downloads. (Sorry for the dark picture, but the icon is dark red when there is no usage, and fills up with green when usage is detected.)

NetMeter also comes with a Totals window which gives you loads of information about your usage.

Since I just started using it, my totals are pretty low, but from the window above, you can see how extensive the totals given are. The best one is Projected tab, which foresees your usage! You can also have Daily, Weekly, Monthly reports about your usage. Very useful if your ISP starts messing with you saying you downloaded too much. Send them the monthly report!

Another useful feature I found in NetMeter is the Traffic Volume Limit option (grayed above). You can input your limits, and it tells you how much you have left. It may even alert you when you are going to exceed your limits (FUP?). We still don’t know what is the Download limit according to the FUP, but if it becomes known, that Traffic Volume Limit will be useful!

You can also have the main window opened at all times to monitor your speed if you want. NetMeter includes options for transparency and click through. The options panel is extensive and filled with choices. You can track all network interfaces, or all of them (eg. Only track Internet traffic on your modem, wireless, ethernet or all of them).

Well, that was me watching a YouTube video. It was a 4 min video, and my usage increased by around 5 MB. This means that I can only watch 200 such YouTubes videos in a month on a 1GB cap limit, assuming that I don’t browse and don’t download anything else.

Overall, I found the application very friendly to use, and provides very useful features for monitor your traffic speed and usage in general. Give it a try.

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Monitor your traffic usage with NetMeter