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From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Wall Street protests, this year has been full of political turmoil and unrest--and if there's one recurring trend we've noticed, it's that the most timely, powerful coverage doesn't come from a cable news channel, but from normal people on the ground floor.

Families that can't afford to pay from $30 per month for Comcast's Internet access services now have a less expensive alternative. The cable provider launched a new plan dubbed Internet Essentials, which will cost low-income families only $10 per month for Web access.

Looking at this it might make sense why some websites are seemingly so slow. For example, if you are in Indonesia accessing a site hosted in Texas in the US, you can see how many hops there are. Or do a trace-route command on a website to see the actual number of hops to get to that site.

Free utility that turns a windows 7 laptop into a wireless hotspot.

Could be very useful for workshops with limited number of cables.