{"id":551127,"date":"2006-12-17T10:20:06","date_gmt":"2006-12-17T10:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/551127-got-bandwidth-use-it.html"},"modified":"2006-12-17T10:20:06","modified_gmt":"2006-12-17T10:20:06","slug":"got-bandwidth-use-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/551127-got-bandwidth-use-it.html","title":{"rendered":"Got bandwidth? Use it!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Probably the only time you\u2019ll have heaps of unused bandwidth lying around the place is over the December\/January break, when your employees, children or other bandwidth-hoggers have left the building. Looking for a few fun things to do with it to ensure you get full value from your service provider by using up all your expensive bandwidth allocation (beyond the boring and quasi-illegal downloading of movies and MP3s)?<\/font>\n <\/p>\n

Try these options if you haven\u2019t already.<\/font>\n <\/p>\n

1. <\/font>
\nwww.LiveLeak.com<\/font>
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\nLiveLeak is a little like YouTube, just with slightly\u2026no, MUCH more adult content. And that\u2019s not adult in the porno sense either. With half of Iraq either in the process of exploding, or cooling from a recent blast, there is a good deal of footage of what really happens \u2018out there\u2019. It\u2019s not just military clips, either \u2013 accidents, catastrophes and carnage from around the world features. Not for the faint hearted or squeamish.<\/font>\n <\/p>\n

2. <\/font>
\nwww.secondlife.com<\/font>
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\nIf reality isn\u2019t what you had hoped for, try carving out a happier existence online. Second Life is a surreal experience in which your avatar has a whole world to explore and literally live in. You can earn and spend money (Linden Dollars) and do almost anything you can do in the real world. It is a parallel existence \u2013 hence the name. You can even earn a real living by selling virtual services to any one of the millions of people who inhabit Second Life; you can exchange Linden Dollars for greenbacks and blow them in real life. Careful, though. It is addictive.<\/font>\n <\/p>\n

3. <\/font>
\nwww.youtube.com<\/font>
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\nEveryone knows about YouTube since the Googlemeisters bought the company out for considerably more than a billion dollars. This site is more than just a time waster, too. Use it to find lessons on everything from how to play the guitar (or your choice of instrument, be it stringed, woodwind or brass) to cooking the perfect egg. It\u2019s an incredible resource which demonstrates in many ways the real power of video+internet.<\/font>\n <\/p>\n

4. <\/font>
\nwww.rotten.com\/library<\/font>
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\nOK so its not a big bandwidth-eater, but Rotten\u2019s library is one of the most fascinating resources available on the Web. It presents some of history\u2019s more interesting (and obscure) events and personalities in an inimitable style which will have you hooked for hours of reading and research. Double check the facts presented by keeping <\/font>
\nwww.wikipedia.org<\/font>
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\nopen in a separate tab; there are some discrepancies as certain facts are presented differently (in accordance with the principle that history is written by the winners).<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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Use up your leftover bandwidth allocation by checking out some cool sites \u2013 and learning something new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}