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Firefox 3 goes on a diet, eats less memory than IE and Opera
Benchmarks show that Firefox 3 uses less memory than Internet Explorer 7 and Opera. A number of significant fixes and improvements have brought down the open-source browser’s memory footprint and could make it a more viable choice in mobile environments. read more | digg story
It’s official: HD DVD is dead, the format war over
Toshiba just made a statements saying, “It will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders.” Finally. read more | digg story
Microsoft posts new Windows XP SP3 build, RC2 to the public
Two weeks after it last handed a new build of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) to several thousand invitation-only testers, Microsoft Corp. today posted that version for public downloading. Want to try it out? Here’s how: Uninstall RC1 if you have that first, download the reg patch from http://tinyurl.com/2mflo7 , then run windows update [...]
Wanna protect Windows from Hackers?…Set NO Password !!
I didn’t know about this…and its actually recommended by Microsoft. Your Windows XP computer is more safe if you don’t set any password at all than using some weak password like “abc123″ which can be easily guessed by hackers. read more | digg story
RSS in plain English
A video tutorial explaining the basics of RSS, as simple and elegant as Common Craft’s inimitable paper-and-marker technique. read more | digg story
Performance Tuning for Firefox
Here is a nifty program I cam across to simplify the tweaking of Mozilla Firefox. Its called Firetune. You run the application, and it fine tunes Firefox settings for the type of speed of your computer and the speed of your internet connection. Its simple and it works. FireTune for Mozilla Firefox was developed for [...]
iPhone going the corporate route
Seems like the iPhone will now be able to connect to Microsoft Exchange servers for email now. I have actually been waiting for that since the iPhone was first introduced. The support should be available to iPhones in an a 2.0 update in late June as per an article in ZDNet. Some of the features [...]
Saving money with your computer at home
The power requirements of the modern desktop PC have jumped to astronomical levels. Rigs sporting multiple processing cores and graphics cards and multiple hard drives require more juice than previous generations of hardware did. Some high-end power supply units are now rated in excess of 1,200 watts. A modern computer enthusiast’s gaming rig, including monitor, [...]
Disable XP Loading Screen
For those of us who want to squeeze out a little more from our Windows XP startup: To speed up your boot process slightly, disable the Windows XP loading screen. This can be accomplished easily by opening the MSCONFIG utility (‘start\run and type msconfig’), selecting the ‘boot.ini’ tab and checking the /NOGUIBOOT option. When you [...]
Swap File Tweak
Another memory tweak… For Users with 256 MB RAM or more this tweak will boost their Windows- and Game-Performance. What it does: It tells Windows not to use any Swap File until there is really no more free RAM left. Open the System Configuration Utility by typing msconfig.exe in the RUN command. There in your [...]
