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The beauty of forgotten networks
Forgotten networks are beautiful things. They are the unheralded heroes of the rest of the world. They are the pathways through the rice patties along which the rickshaws of the internet carry all the...
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Shrink Pic – Simple photo compression for the field
I should have written about this long ago when I first heard about it but unfortunately this blog did not exist back then. A fine Dutch gentleman in Indonesia mentioned that I might try it as he...
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‘Low Bandwidth Networking to maximize informations per dollar.’
Renaud Gaudin of Geekcorps-Mali has an excellent summary of ways to optimize your network when you are stuck with an over-priced and often over-sold VSAT connection. These low bandwidth/high latency...
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Opera Beta Offers Email “Low Bandwidth Mode”
Lifehacker has a story about Opera’s new browser featuring a “Low Bandwidth Mode”. This could come in mighty handy for those of you stuck in the bush. When is the rest of the world going to figure...
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My friend Jeff has rescued me from my flu induced apathy by sending an excellent reality check highlighting the limits of IT in the field. Here it is in full: Jon writes here often about how cutting...
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Follow on to ‘IT Next to the Beneficiaries’
This response is a follow-on to Jeff’s post which can be found below as well as some responses that were received to a cross post. This is my take and hopefully Jeff (and others) will comment....
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The Loband option
I am not sure how many of you are familiar with Loband but it is one of the best options for viewing websites over low bandwidth connections. It strips out all images, formatting, etc and leaves you...
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Maneno – a lightweight blogging platform for folks heading to the field
A few days ago I posted on Loband and how it’s the perfect tool for browsing the web in low bandwidth environments. Miquel dropped by to read the post but also to let us know about Maneno which is a...
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BitMate – BitTorrent For the Less Privileged
Dritte‘s BitMate may solve the problems I touched in my last post and may serve as a solution for the mapping crowd including OSM HOT. Schuyler ran into this problem in Haiti as did Jeff and I in Indo....
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Slowy App – A Great New App For Testing Your Sites In Low Bandwidth / High...
I just came across this great little app on Y Combinator’s Hacker News site. Slowy markets itself as a “real-world connection simulator and bandwidth limiter” and it seems to work quite well. I am...
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