February 2016 – Page 6

February 3, 2016

Sell Your Vacation Photos to Help Offset the Cost of Your Trip

If you’re already taking photos of your trip, you might as well make a couple bucks off them (and you don’t need a fancy camera to do it.) You won’t get rich, but you may be able to cover the cost of souvenirs or a nice meal.

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Of course, you should only sell the good photos. Skip the ones with friends or family in them, since they may not want their image being used for stock photos. Travel+Leisure recommends entering your photos in contests to try for a big payday, but you can also sell your photos on sites like iStock, Alamy, Shutterstock, and Getty Images. If you have video from your travels, you can sell those, too.

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How to Make Money While Traveling | Travel+Leisure

Image from Nicolas Navarrete Carrasco.

via Lifehacker
Sell Your Vacation Photos to Help Offset the Cost of Your Trip

February 2, 2016

Monitor the Consistency of Your Broadband Speeds with a Raspberry Pi and IFTTT

We all know you can pop over to a site like Speedtest to check your internet speeds, but most of us only bother when there’s a perceivable problem. If you want to create an actual database of your speeds throughout the day, Make shows off a logging system that uses a Raspberry Pi and If This Then That.

Essentially, you’ll install a command line interface for Speedtest on the Pi, then create a small program that logs the internet speed on a schedule. That log is then sent over to a Google Drive spreadsheet using IFTTT. With the log in hand, you can now complain to your ISP as needed (or automate the complaint process through Twitter if you like). If you’re worried you’re not getting what you’re paying for on a consistent basis, this is a good way to get some data to back up your claims. Head over to Make for the guide.

Use Raspberry Pi to Measure Broadband Speeds to Hold Your ISP Accountable | Make

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Monitor the Consistency of Your Broadband Speeds with a Raspberry Pi and IFTTT

February 1, 2016

Use Raspberry Pi to Measure Broadband Speeds, Dropouts to Hold Your ISP Accountable

Constant drops and outages with your broadband connection can drive you to frustration, but you can use the Raspberry Pi, and a little bit of command line scripting to monitor it.

Angry Comcast customer set up Raspberry Pi to auto-tweet speed test results

Raspberry Pi does hourly speed tests, tweets if speed is lower than advertised.
via Ars Technica
Angry Comcast customer set up Raspberry Pi to auto-tweet speed test results