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Posts Tagged ‘Hive Five’

How to Make Gmail Play Nicely with Your Desktop Email Client

How to Make Gmail Play Nicely with Your Desktop Email Client

If you use Gmail as your email backend but prefer a good old-fashioned desktop email client for handling your day-to-day email, you’re probably aware that many clients—like Outlook or Mail.app—don’t play that nice with Gmail. Here’s how to fix that.While Thunderbird no longer needs any extra work to become the ultimate Gmail IMAP client, mail clients, such as Mail.app or Outlook, do not exhibit normal behavior when using Gmail’s servers.

Gmail ..read more

Five Best Personal Web Hosts

Five Best Personal Web Hosts

The web’s full of services happy to host your photos, blog posts, and other online data, but if you’re control- or privacy-minded, you can do better. If you’re thinking about hosting your own site, check out these five popular personal web hosts.

A few things are worth noting about nomenclature used by web hosts, especially those catering to individuals doing small-time hosting. The term “unlimited” is bandied about a lot in the small web hosting circles. The ..read more

Five Best Public BitTorrent Trackers

Five Best Public BitTorrent Trackers

A great BitTorrent client is all well and good, but you need a great tracker to get the actual torrent files and stoke the bandwidth burning fire in your client of choice. Here’s a rundown of five of the most popular options.

A bit of clarification is in order before we share the list of the top five contenders with you. In our call for contenders we asked for you to share your favorite BitTorrent trackers, but ..read more

Best Content Filtering Software? [Hive Five Call For Contenders]

Best Content Filtering Software? [Hive Five Call For Contenders]

Despite the fact that the internet is quite mainstream, it’s hardly lost its Wild West ways. Which tools do you use to tame rowdy content and make your computer kid and co-worker friendly?

We’re huge advocates of the freedom of information and the personal responsibility that comes with access to a tool as powerful and far reaching as the internet. Nonetheless, there are times when it’s necessary to filter the information coming down ..read more