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Since the early days of DSL, I have had a lot of modems. Perhaps it was because I was an early adopter, but it just seemed like nothing was completely rock solid as I would have liked.

7 modems, 4 brands and 5 years later, I’ve found the Netgear DG834. It’s fast, supports up to ADSL2/2+ (24Mbit), has a built in firewall and 4 port switch and looks cool!

I’ve put one in at home and one at work, and they are super fast and have not missed a beat. And they are cheap too.

Banana Rating: 4/5

As website owners look for more ways to maximise revenue and provide exclusive content, more and more are turning to compulsory website registration to view content or participate in discussion.

Not only can this be annoying, but also has privacy issues. The worst offenders of late are news sites, which require you to register before being able to view a news article.

Enter www.bugmenot.com. Bugmenot has a database of logins, where you can simply enter the website address, and receive a generic pre-created login. Enter this login, save time and protect your privacy (a little bit).

Banana Rating: 3/5

As the world gets smaller, and it’s now normal to buy an everyday item from the other side of the world, websites like xe.com become invaluable.

Rated as the world’s best currency convertor, xe.com has several top quality tools, and converts every currency I any monki could ever think of!

Banana Rating: 4/5

Even though we are in the age of free web-based email with huge space, such as Gmail, ISPs and web-hosting companies continue to slap what now seems pint size limits on email, even though we are entering the stage of up to 24Mbit broadband in Australia.

Enter saviour YouSendIt. You send it allows you to send any file up to 1 Gb in size to any email address. You simply enter their email address and click send. The file is uploaded to yousendit.com servers, where the recipient will receive a notification where they can download it.

Now, it’s possibly not as convenient as firing off an email, but it’s about as close as we are gonna get for now.

Banana Rating: 3/5

It seems the web has a flood of Gmail invites, where once people were actually paying for these, now people can’t get rid of them.

In case you don’t know, Gmail, or Google Mail, offers free web and POP based email, with storage space of 2Gb and over.

If you want a mailbox, Contact Me and I’ll send you an invite.

Banana Rating: 4/5

MSN Messenger 7.0 final seems to have been released with the build number 7.0.0.777.

It has some cool features, like fullscreen video conversation… updated winks and other features, like the one allowing you to show what song you are currently listening too.

Something else I like, being able to search directly from the conversation and the results are displayed in the conversation window.

Seems good to me!

Banana Rating: 4/5

Monkeys can’t really write… but I think they are learning… Check back, I think they might have evolved further in a couple of days…or years