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Ooops, don't know how i managed to quote myself. *tries again*

Ooh ok, then it should work on your lappy.

Not sure if your phone supports the program, check out the download page, you could try the sony ericson download, or the other download http://www.toonel.net/downloads.html Sorry I can't be of much help, I am yet to try it on a mobile. I'll assume anything that is fairly sophisticated will run it.

Jim, I am a photographer too, do you use RAW or JPG? If you use RAW you have nothing to worry about. With JPG, if you ZIP the file up before hand it should be ok. It might be a good idea contact Vodaphone and ask them directly. Hi Liam thank you for your reply. Although it is posible to siphon data from a proxy, it's not easy is it? Much like anything you do on a computer isn't going to be 100% secure from onlookers (keyloggers and the alike). The point I'm making to some poeple it might think that it's easy to view your data if you use the service. It wouldn't be very good for Toonel.net's reputation if they weren't relatively secure. (Although hard to prove).

Yes and no. The purpose of google accelerator was to speed up your broardband connection. It does this using various methods (including compression). However, the main purpose of Toonel.net is not to speed up your connection. It is to save money on your pay as you go, or surf more on a capped broadband contract (e.g. 5gig limited). Also the program is platform independend, so you can use it on your mobile/smartphone. This program will speed your connection up if you have a slow rate (around 56k or less).

Ah I see, I don't really mind them seeing my email addresses I send to, in fact I don't really send that many emails, my main concern is them seeing the websites I surf (not that I have anything to hide). I believe if you use proxy websites, they not only encrypt the websites, but the website URL's (uhhh, not sure if the encryption is client side or server side, if it's client side it would be impossible to figure out, if it server side it's posible if they put in the effort). Yeah I thought about that, I guess as long as I keep logs and records of my own activity, and obviously I don't do anything dodjy, I've got nothing to worry about. I'm happy to waste their time (even at the expense of my time) for the cause.

As stated on their website, no information is stored regarding your surfing. HTTPS does not go through their servers, please read my posts. That's a total infringement upon our rights to privacy, next they'll be opening our post to read it... It's funny though; it's not exactly hard to encrypt your own data with top security strength encryption, and it wouldn't be hard for me to set up a form of proxy to stop them viewing my emails. Although I don't need to, I have nothing to hide, I'd just do it out of principle, basically laughing in their face. Unless they make that illegal too >.> P.S. Sorry if you were reading this thread when I was editing, I got myself highly confused.

It may not have been updated, but the servers are still running, you can still use the program. No wories, I should have made it more clear in the original post, but here's answers to your points 1. It's very simple to turn it off, you can just close the program and set back the options in IE. Also most transactions are done using HTTPS, which isn't compressed unless told to do so (doesn't really compress it as much as normal HTTP) 2. If you're using home broadband then no, it wont speed up your connection. However I have been told that 3G can be very slow sometimes, in these situations it will speed your connection up (the same if you're using 56k modem). Aside from that, the point of the program isn't to speed up your connection, it is to save money on a pay as you go service (because most services charge you by the download/upload amount), or if you have a capped broadband service (say 5gig) then you can surf longer. It also has the option to lower the quality of JPGs and GIFs to further increase the amount you can download. The q&a on their site states: No data is saved on either your computer or their servers, they use SSH tunnelling, and as I've stated before, if you're doing financial things, it'll most likely be encrypted using HTTPS, which is not compressed, and does not go through their servers unless explicitly told to do so. If you do financial stuff with normal HTTP, it's just as likely to be intercepted with or without Toonel. Wow... so much oposition, I'm not trying to sell this thing, it's a good idea to save money and/or increase your time on the internet. It's just as easy to plant a keylogger on your computer to view everything you do rather than simply view your internet traffic, and if you're going on to a site which you don't want others to view, it's just as easy to turn it off. EDIT - On reflection I figure you're just looking out for each other, I don't mind, it would be nicer if you could read the site more before posting negative points about the software.

That's brill, 3G is exactly the sort of internet service Toonel.net is aimed at. And because it's java it'll work on most things (mobile phones, etc).

Apology more than accepted, was my fault for not being clear, as you can see by my post count I haven't been on these forums for long. Seems like you guys have a problem with this sort of spam. I'm going to start a tutorial staight away. A bit silly of me really because it's not overly simple to set up. Edit - I shall remember that for future, thank you

I'm sorry, I've looked into the site, read into it and don't see anything suspicious. I'm computer savvy and would spot anything that's off. I'll install it right now, even scan the program with my antivirus. EDIT Downloaded program, no viruses

If you're using a pay as you go internet service or have limited bandwidth on your boat, Toonel is a program nice piece of freeware that allows you to compress your internet traffic. So, if you're using pay as you go, you'll be able to save money (compression rates are 30-70%). And with limited bandwith you can surf more. About the program The purpose is not to speed up your internet connection, though with speeds around and below 56k it will increase the download/upload rate. As stated on the site, no information is stored on either your computer or the servers about your web browsing. The software uses SSH Tunnelling which is very secure It is easy to turn it off when viewing sites you're worried about others seeing (I'm not trying to be crude here) If you are doing transactions you are mostly likely using HTTPS (as opposed to HTTP), of which is not compressed and does not go through the Toonel.net servers unless explicitly told to do so by yourself. Setting it up I'll assume most users will be using a windows machine, so this is the platform my guide is aimed at. The prerequisite of using this program on a windows machine is the JRE, it's quite common so you may already have it on your pc, if not, it's downloaded from http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp#win. The link to the Toonel download page is http://www.toonel.net/downloads.html#generic Once downloaded, make sure you know the location of the download, copy it to your desktop if you wish, then simply double click and it'll bring up a window. You'll need to set up your web browser, the toonel.net site has given a tutorial on this, you can find here. And you're set to go NOTE - If you use vodaphone, this program is not needed as this type of service is built in.

You pretty much hit the nail on the head. The inverter did work, but it complained when I used it with the laptop on. It would charge fine, just when I started using it with it plugged in it didn't like it. We rarely could find wireless networks, and like you say, we were boating for many hours so it made it difficult to concentrait on writing a diary. But I'll post the remaining entries now. My parents also wrote a bunch of entries, they might post them up too, anyways, enjoy Day 2 (19:48) Dad started the engine this morning at 7:00 or so, waking me up, even though I’m the other side of the boat… loud engine! So he turns it off to sort something out, then attempts to start it again. However, instead hearing the motor whir into life, the resulting noise was simply a futile clicking sound of the key turning, nothing was happening. A whole morning was wasted taking various board off, fiddling with different wires, and periodically attempting to start the engine, to no avail. Eventually we conceded and phoned an engineer to come over. So the engineer arrives; mum and I were sitting at the front of the boat, we hear some chatting and about two minutes later we here the engine start. After paying the engineer £5, dad walks to the front with a shameful look on his face. He tells us there is a second battery master switch, that he must have brushed past after he had stopped the engine. His excuse is that below the switch there “Fuel stop cock” is written. At about 11:30 my grandparents arrive. Getting fed up with the mess, I begin to clear up, and I started work on cleaning the worktops in the galley, and I polished the tiller with some brasso, the transformation was quite astounding. Actually that was quite funny because I had at first been using some brasso left over by the previous occupants, to save time I was polishing as we were going along, what I was doing was looking up when we had turned around a corner, and if it was a long straight with no other boats I‘d continue polishing. On one particular corner I did such, but looked down, with the tiller still turning, so I’m concentrating for a while, until finally I look up to realise we were heading straight to the bank, I nearly chuck myself off the boat trying to correct my error, I narrowly miss the bank. So anyways, I’m rubbing the tiller furiously with these straggly bits of dry brasso that were left over, and it must have taken me about an hour to polish about 5 inches. Then dad mentioned about the brasso drying out, so when we moored up I took some brasso we had bought over, it took me about 10 minutes to polish the whole thing. (20:58) We finished the day with a toast, I caught it on camera. Parents had forgotten to pack the posh glasses, so we used none other than plastic, half-pint cups. Nothing like toasting with class.

Hey there, just going to do a diary of our first voyage with a boat by the name of Iona. We've just purchaced her and are taking her from Northwich to Coventry. Hope you enjoy reading them Day 1 - 9th October (14:35) On the way there at the moment, wow, such a lot of luggage! Parents are fine, they’re in the front of the car, I’m sitting in the back, and it feels like I’ve been engulfed. At least I’m so jammed in, if we do have a crash, I doubt I’ll be harmed at all. But anyways, as I said we’re currently driving down to the boat, that is, we’re journeying from Kent to Manchester. A little bit hectic at the start as I had an appointment at 11:50, and the place holding our boat will be shut at 5. But after a quick call they said they’ll keep the place open and if we’re really late they’ll leave the key some where for us, so all is fine . We were very kindly given an inverter so I should be able to write a diary of our maiden voyage on my computer, and then upload them at internet cafés or open internet WiFi spots. (20:41) We’re back at the boat after a nice meal at a pub called “The Old Broken Cross”, but I shall continue where I left off last time. We arrived at the brokers about 15:55, unpacked our mountain of items, and, well, made a mess of the living area, how can 3 people have so much stuff?! We began our journey soon after unpacking and sorting out various things with the brokers, the boat seems a lot faster than hire boats, mainly because it’s smaller and has a fairly powerful engine, dad did his first “winding”, which was pretty painless I must say, got a few pictures of that, (they‘re time-stamped so I can show how long he took ) So now I’m sitting in the living area reflecting on the day before us. It was nice, but not brilliant as it was overshadowed by a 4 hour journey, so we’re all fairly tired. I think it’s ironic how lots of time sitting down takes so much energy out of you.