Upon installation of Catalyst Control Center on my workstation, I discovered an immense drag. I checked my running process and found that 1/3 of my system resources were being used by CCC.exe. This is a problem, since presumably I need those resources to run high quality graphics, not to run my graphics driver. A program [...]
I just finished transferring hosting for TipsFor.us from 1and1 to MediaTemple. I had no major qualms with 1and1 other than feeling like we had outgrown them (see the downsides of shared hosting). MediaTemple will give us a lot more room to grow without worrying about the occasional spike of traffic from Digg, StumbleUpon, or whatever. [...]
I love Gmail Tasks. It’s my to-do list of choice for its simplicity, portability, and (of course) integration with Gmail. If you’re a fan of Google Chrome, you can also easily add Tasks as an application directly on your desktop. Enable Gmail Tasks First things first, if you have not already enabled Tasks in Gmail, [...]
Have you run into the problem of having too many RSS feeds that only SOMETIMES contain an article that you’re interested in? They publish lots of updates to your favorite sites, but you are only interested in a fraction of those stories. Don’t you wish you could scrub those results? Well, the folks over at [...]
Here’s a quick tip about Windows that you may not know. While both XP and Vista allow you to easily add executables to the Start Menu via a right-click –> Pin to Start Menu, adding a folder is not so easy. Actually, I lied. It’s much easier! There’s no need to deal with complicated registry [...]
Earlier this week Google launched the Beta version of Sync – free tools for synchronizing your mobile phone’s Contacts and Calendar with your Google account. Phones supported by Sync include the Apple iPhone, Blackberry, Symbian, and Windows Mobile. As you might suspect, I’m quite excited about Google Sync, and I’m glad to see Windows Mobile [...]
Want to get your hands on a free copy of Acronis True Image 10? Act quickly and you can! In conjunction with PC World, Acronis is currently giving away licenses of True Image 10 Personal Edition. Link – http://www.acronis.co.uk/mag/ati10pe The catch, of course, is that they hope you like the now-outdated version 10 so much [...]
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