As far as I can tell, the ban has not yet been enforced. I can access both https://cryptbin.com/ and https://snipt.net/, though my ISP is limited only to Bangalore area.
Edit: Well, it looks like pastebin & dailymotion are banned, but cryptbin and snipt aren't
All 4 seemed to be blocked from my office in Kerala. Github is up so they probably have resolved the issue.
A week back Github became mysteriously unavailable (with github status showing no downtime). I guess now we know what happened.
cryptbin and snipt are blocked here (Vodafone network).
I presume all the major ISPs have implemented the bans.
I think you should not have commented if you knew that your ISP doesn't care to enforce government ordered bans (I know some small ISPs can't afford the hardware to implement URL blocking.).
I recently spent days writing AngularJS app and I came to same conclusion that I should have split the app into modules.
Even though the style of grouping together Controllers and Services works well, it still won't be easy to maintain when the size of app grows big.
One thing that I find genuinely useful is the Traffic/Navigation feature. It is almost always correct and gives me the best route even in Bangalore (India). Also if I search for some location on Google Maps, I get a suggestion on Google Now about traffic, route and direction.
Personally I would go for single device that does everything I need. Something on the lines of what Ubuntu is doing. Even Surface to an extent solves this issue. I don't want to carry an iPhone to call/msg/listen to music, an iPad to casually use internet/read/play games and a laptop for everything else. Better carry one phone which does call/msg/music/internet,reading and minor editing/office stuffs when plugged to dock.
After owning an iPad mini I have to say that an as-light-as-possible 7'' tablet appears to be one more device that's very useful have / bring along. It allows you reading / media consumption on a device with a satisfying screen size that's as light as a medium paperback book, i.e. you can hold it for extended periods without getting tired.
The idea is great but I think there are a few things that you should look into.
1. What if there are so many entries in the main page, that eventually it becomes just noise?
2. There should be some way that I could follow/know more about one who shared his/her work, so that in future if he creates something new I am notified.
3. Wouldn't be better to give some kind of rating system and a search box.
This is now only a 3.5-day app. So yes, it doesn't do much yet :-)
The main page will probably end up being just the latest posts. I expect I'll add categories for easier exploring and navigation, but it seems premature now.
I might add following people/projects if enough people are interested.
I'm planning to send daily/weekly emails to share the latest projects and encourage people to keep working on their projects. I certainly lose momentum on things, so pushing each other to keep going will help.
You can run a torrent client if you want, but some of the Android Market apps are flagged as Wi-Fi download only - the switch may be carrier specific, but see https://market.android.com/details?id=com.escapistgames.star... - this app will only download over Wi-Fi on my Nexus S (ICS, AT&T)
Even though i would be sticking with Google for now, but i commend your compilation. IMO I would go with these alternatives.
Gmail -> +1 to your idea of personal domain. Though there are other alternatives like gmx, fastmail (as you mentioned), etc
Reader -> Thunderbird is not so great, there are many other clients which are far better feed readers like FeedDemon. Even Liferea and Akgregator are good.
Calendar -> Thunderbird and if you have some money to shell out Outlook is unbeatable. Also evolution is not bad either!
Address book -> Thunderbird and Outlook
Docs -> Ms Word or Libre Writer. MS Word has been around for quite some time and is really polished. Writer on the other hand is like an untamed beast with lots of feature.
Picasa -> Flickr, or if you want to get your hands dirty, you can try zenphoto on your personal domain.
Blog -> Blogger has become relatively old and i have seen many of the old blogs migrating to either Posterous or Tumblr. Obviously one can go for their own domain with Wordpress on it.
Search -> +1 on DDG. Its awesome! It has been my primary search engine for a while now.
If they pull this off, it will be dream come true. All will then boil down to 2 device that you carry, your windows phone and a protable awesome tablet cum pc.
