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µTorrent 1.5 is released.

This is the biggest release ever. The major changes are of course Peer Exchange and Protocol Encryption, in combination with optimizations to download speed and harddisk accesses.

The biggest GUI change is a new category list that sorts your torrents by label.

The full changelog can be found at http://utorrent.com/download/1.5/utorrent-1.5.txt

Source: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=7199

Yup, the latest version of µTorrent has been released. µTorrent is a very good Bittorrent client, very lightweight and no installation needed! I’ve been using it together with Bitcomet (both of them are really good, I couldn’t make up my mind so why not just use both?).

Download µTorrent here: µTorrent Download Site

What’s so great about AJAXPress?

AJAXPress aims to be a very minimal, but very usable, AJAX powered blogging system. AJAXPress is focused on ease of use, web standards, and speed. AJAXPress is not full of unnecessary features that just confuse the user. AJAXPress is light, fast, and simple. And best of all, it’s 100% free open source!

LINK: http://www.ajaxpress.org/

You can view the demo blog here: http://www.ajaxpress.org/demo

And here’s the demo admin panel: http://www.ajaxpress.org/demo/admin Uname: demo, Pword: demo

It’s a fully AJAX-powered blogging system. Looks a lot like Wordpress though (maybe because both are open-source? I realised that a lot of websites are implementing AJAX recently, especially websites with blog/journal function. At the moment, it seems very simple, but perhaps that’s just because it’s still in a very early stage of development? Will it be as popular as Wordpress one day?

Introduced this month, the system will allow 20,000 households to surf the web and download material at speeds up to 2,000 times faster than present services. Users will, for example, be able to download all 32,640 pages of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in less than seven seconds, managers of the government-funded project said.

Most commercially-available broadband connections operate at a speed of 2 megabits per second (2Mb/s), but the Shoreditch project can access internet images and content at a speed of up to 2 billions of bits per second (2Gb/s).

Source: TimesOnline

I mentioned about 100Mbps broadband just a while ago (click here) and now 2Gbps connection is already out?? Not for everyone though, lucky those people who are staying in Shoreditch, East London! (anyone of you from East London?) I wonder how long will it take for this high-speed broadband to be available to other consumers, and how much will it cost?

Also, could this be the answer to all the critisms on how the UK is much behind other developed countries in terms of providing a high-speed broadband service?