Linode Tokyo/Japan Speedtests

by Ruchira on September 25, 2011

Linode which is my favorite VPS host, recently announced their service availability on Tokyo,Japan data center.  If your visitors reside in Asia you might be interested in jumping to Tokyo data center.  But what about speeds? London data center is already performing very well for Asian linode customers.

So to find out what kind of speeds that I can get with Tokyo Data Center, I have snatched a 512MB linode on Tokyo DC and decided to perform some network speedtests. All tests were done with 100MB test files.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unfortunately the results are extremely poor as you can see below. I wont put the blames quickly on linodes part because since its new there can be few minor problems and most likely be able to resolve this by simple support ticket. But I found something interesting,

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Cyanogenmod 7 on HP touchpad

by Ruchira on August 29, 2011

If you were lucky enough to snatch a HP touchpad for $99 before they went out of stock you are now lucky than ever before. You might heard rumors that Android will be ported to run on touchpad! I read comments on various techblogs about HP’s decision to sell out touchpads for $99 and most of the commentators said that they are going to buy one because in future Android will be ported to run on it. On the time HP started fire sale there wasn’t any evidence that Android can be ported to touchpad.

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Cloudberry Explorer review

by Ruchira on August 21, 2011

You may have seen my post  Amazon S3 review. Looks like it went viral and some famous amazon s3 managing software vendors commented on that post and some vendors sent emails to me asking to review them. Nadya from Cloudberry Explorer is one them. She asked me to review cloudberry explorer, Since I love freewares and I was using cloudberry explorer already to manage my S3 instances I thought I should write a review about them.

I begun to use Amazon S3 last year and now its more than 1 year since I’m using amazon s3 to hold files for my web sites. And on the first day I signed up for amazon s3 I felt in need of a nice and fast interface to manage my files on s3. Main reason for that is AmazonAWS Console is too slow and the the console slowness is a common fact on amazon aws. They need to work on that or provide native pc/mac client to manage s3 and other AWS services.

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Amazon S3 and Cloudfront Review

by Ruchira on August 16, 2011

I have tried amazon s3 and cloudfront services on this blog few months ago and had some “Not worth staying with” experience with amazon web services. However I’m still using s3 and cloudfront to serve images for few posts on this blog and you can find the post I done about amazon aws here – https://www.ruchirablog.com/amazon-s3-wordpress/

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Back to Basics!

by Ruchira on August 14, 2011

Hi guys! Did you missed me? 🙂 I know some of you guys visit everyday to read my posts. Feedburner count shows that clearly. Sorry I didn’t wrote anything for last 6 weeks. Lots of thing changed recently, When things keeps me busy its hard to think of something special to write about.

But now I feel that its very bad idea to stop writing this precious blog because silently this blog attracts about 1000 visitors a day who reads about 1500 pages daily on this blog.

Some recent changes

  • Now this blog is under alexa’s 100000 most visited web sites list. ( Ranked 96178 at the moment ) Its very hard to achieve this guys. Going under 100000 on alexa was one of my dreams when I started this blog
  • More than 3000 comments made on my posts. And getting average of 20 comments per day as of we speak.
  • 901 daily email subscribers. more than 1700 people subscribed but more than 800 of them missed to activate it on activation email. So real number is 901 opted in email subscribers now.
  • My post about unlocking huawei HSPDA modems is still really popular and more than 1000 comments made on that 2 posts.

 

Really guys now I feel that why should I destroy this blog by not writing  anymore. I’m very lucky to achieve those facts mentioned on top and I shouldn’t waste it.

So people I’m gonna be writing this again 🙂

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Have you ever wondered about a great feature which lets you to copy photos,videos,music and stuff wirelessly to your phone while you are on home or work? I know that now you will think about bluetooth file transfer 😛 but its so slow can even think about copying a movie to your phone from your pc.

If you have a Android handset and Wifi connection on your pc you are lucky. I’m going to show you are very easy way which I found about 10 minutes ago to mount your phone’s internal memory and external SD card via wifi on your windows Vista or 7 PC.

It simply means that you can access your phone memory just like you access it when you plug USB cable in mass storage mode. Yes in this method the memory will show up as a drive on your pc which you can behave like you are accessing it on mass storage mode! So lets get to the topic,

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Have your ever wondered about the tiny little gyroscope thingy on your mobile phone? If you studied physics little bit on school you might already know that gyroscope is kinda amazing device.

For gyroscope lesson hit this wikipedia link- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyroscope

Actually there are only very few apps which uses your amazing gyroscope sensor. One is Google Sky Map but ill leave it there because there is no much fun on it than using gyroscope to navigate on maps.

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Finally

by Ruchira on June 28, 2011

Hmm. I have took a long break. However some interesting things happened online in last few days. Ray William Johnson, My most favorite youtube author passed NigaHiga becoming most subscribed youtube user.Actually whats hard to understand is why NigaHiga become this much popular with his late videos. Sorry NigaHiga fans but I must admit that NigaHiga’s videos are much better in the past but now they become worse.

However Ray William Johnson will keep his position for years I have no doubt about it. I’m a huge RWJ fan So I take this moment to congratulate him about his success.

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