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Five secrets to faster Vista starts

Oh, great. Here we go again. The wise old men of mainstream tech journalism are once again repeating the conventional wisdom that Vista is slow to start up and slow to shut down. They're wrong. I proved this to my satisfaction last spring (see also the first...

Tags: Sony Corp., Network, Minute, Start-up, Problem, Microsoft Windows Vista, Leopard, Startup Time, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2007-11-26

MS Office 2007 versus Open Office 2.2 shootout

MS Office 2007 versus Open Office 2.2 shootoutAgree but...for people who can't afford a full office suite, Open Office is great. Though it may not be as great at allocating my computer resources, it does help me allocate a more important resource, my money. =) Nice report and it's good...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Office, memory usage, OpenOffice, startup time, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-04-27

The final word on Vista startup times

The final word on Vista startup timesXP to boot in 18 seconds ...but only as a VMware image. If you use a lightweight host like Damn Small Linux DSL or Puppy Linux to boot a VMPlayer desktop can you get XP or Vista to load even faster? That would be...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Viruses and worms, Desktops, SECURITY, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, startup time, Microsoft Windows, antivirus software

Discussion threads 2007-04-18

The final word on Vista startup times

As I’ve pointed out in the previous two installments of this series, a properly configured, well-maintained Windows Vista installation should start up in a reasonable amount of time, in most cases taking roughly 10–15 seconds more than it takes to start Windows XP on the same hardware, and in some...

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Blog posts 2007-04-18

Java Browser Edition: New name, wrong direction

Java Browser Edition: New name, wrong directionJava rethinkHere's an idea for Ethan Nicholas and his co-geniuses at Sun -- drop Java altogether. Just clean it off the universal hard drive, throw up your hands and tell everyone how sorry you are. The sigh of relief that rebounds around...

Tags: Programming languages, Web browsers, rich Internet application, startup time, Java, applet, Web browser

Discussion threads 2006-09-11

Additional Resources

Oxygen Phone Manager II for Nokia Phones 2.18.8 (Windows)

Oxygen Phone Manager is the most complete software tool for managing the content and settings of a Nokia cellphone from a personal computer. It is compatible with nearly all currently available models of Nokia and can communicate with the phone through different types of connections: a cable, InfraRed or Bluetooth...

Tags: Oxygen, Phone, Nokia Corp., Microsoft Windows, Oxygen Phone Manager, Telecom & Utilities, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-24

Call Graph 1.3 (Windows)

Call Graph Skype plugin is a desktop application. It can record your conversations and save them in an mp3 or a wav file. Its completely free for personal and business use. It can record all kinds of Skype calls, Skype P2P, SkypeIn and SkypeOut. There are no time limits or...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Windows, WAV, MP3, Sedna Wireless, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-11-18

My scareware night and how McAfee lost a customer

With their Comcast and AT&T dealsMcAfee has a huge market share hereit pretty much does nothing to prevent being infected by these rogue antivirus attacks.I have found Combofix (http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix)is the most effective tool to remove these things but even that isn't 100%.Usually you will want to rename it before you...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Vista/7, software, McAfee Inc., AV Software, Malwarebytes

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

Linux to your grandma this Christmas

finaly:)RE: Linux to your grandma this ChristmasEldy is definetly a great piece of software, works on windows and linux and it's absolutely free of charge and ads freelong live the no profit European Associazione Eldy!RE: Linux to your grandma this ChristmasNot a viable option. Grandma already has enough problems trying...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, value-add, Linux, grandma, Eldy

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Cool New Google Maps Feature: New Jersey Wormholes!

wow, just wow ntntSpock: They're maps, Jim, but not as we know them.[sigh] Where's Scotty when you really need him?

Tags: Google Inc., Google Maps, Mapquest, Bing Maps, Cool New Google Maps Feature, Bing, New Jersey Wormholes, Brook

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Bloat Buster 1.2.1 (Windows)

Is your PC slow? Does it take forever to start up? Are you wasting valuable time constantly waiting for your PC? Software Bloat has become a major problem on PCs these days, and there hasn't been a good way to fix it, until now. Bloat Buster is the first software...

Tags: PC, Microsoft Windows, Bravura Software, Software Bloat, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-10

Net Monitor 4.5.1 (Mac)

Overview Net Monitor graphs a histogram of network activity of local and remote computers in a floating window, the Dock, the Menu Bar or in a regular window. Net Monitor is highly customizable.Traffic log, including html reports.Traffic Stopwatch.Traffic Calculator.Net Monitor includes special features for PPP interfaces, like connect/disconnect & auto...

Tags: Monitor, PPP, Apple Macintosh, Menu Bar, Network, Window, Guy Meyer, Net Monitor, Construction, Networking

Software downloads 2009-11-05

QuickReader Lite for iPhone 1.0.1 (Mobile)

QuickReader Lite for iPhone saving you time and bringing you enhanced productivity. It features read at a consistent words per minute speed, focus your attention on larger groups of words or lines, learn optimal eye tracking, measure your speed reading ability and improvement, and practice anywhere, anytime and pick up...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Speed, Inkstone Software, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-05

QuickReader for iPhone 1.0.1 (Mobile)

QuickReader for iPhone saving you time and bringing you enhanced productivity. It features read at a consistent words per minute speed, adjust your WPM incrementally, focus your attention on larger groups of words or lines, learn optimal eye tracking, measure your speed reading ability and improvement, and practice anywhere, anytime...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Speed, Inkstone Software, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-05

Smart System Informer 2.1 (Windows)

How do you get the PC features quickly? You may surely use special tab or panel, but the data will be located in different places. Smart System Informer will make it for you swiftly. Specific information includes computer ID, processor, BIOS, memory, disks, video, motherboard, monitor and other. This information...

Tags: Performance, Memory, Microsoft Windows, Computer, Smart PC Solutions, BIOS, Performance Management, Productivity, Flash Memory, Hardware, Components, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2009-11-05

Xobni expands to include enterprise but where are Web, Mobile and even Mac versions

Search tools more than important!!!Good that mostly everbody knows that in business life nothing works without e-mail and even that important is a reliable and fast search tool for Outlook! One of those is Lookeen It has so many features which lighten your work that is amazing. It works with...

Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Office, Mail.app, Entourage, Web, Xobni, Microsoft Outlook, Apple Macintosh, mobile

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

iHacked: jailbroken iPhones compromised, $5 ransom demanded

... WHAT?Who in their right mind keep a server running with default usernames/passwords on the default port....I doubt that jailbroken iPhones are alone in this. It's possible, specially if iPhones have a ssh server running, that this could happen on non-jailbroken iPhones also.Just one question...Has this person been remanded yet?...

Tags: Smart phones, extortion, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

iHacked: jailbroken iPhones compromised, $5 ransom demanded

Yesterday, a "Your iPhone's been hacked because it's really insecure! Please visit doiop.com/iHacked and secure your phone right now!" message popped up on the screens of a large number of automatically exploited Dutch iPhone users, demanding $4.95 for instructions on how to secure their iPhones and remove the message from...

Tags: Apple iPhone, SSH, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-11-03

Berkeley UPC 2.10.0 (Mac)

Unified Parallel C UPC is an extension of the C programming language designed for high performance computing on large-scale parallel machines. The language provides a uniform programming model for both shared and distributed memory hardware. The programmer is presented with a single shared, partitioned address space, where variables may be...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Programming, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Unified Parallel C, Berkeley Unified Parallel C, Apple Mac OS X, Development Tools, Operating Systems, Processors, Software, Apple Mac OS, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2009-11-03

VirIT eXplorer Lite 6.5.12 (Windows)

VirIT eXplorer Lite is an anti-virus/anti-spyware for Windows. Clean your computer from viruses, root kit, spyware, worms, trojans, backdoor, dialers, BHO Browser Helper Object, adware, hijacker, fraud tool and malware software. The features of VirIT eXplorer Lite are: real time intrusion detection system, sort startup programs by date, scan and...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Virus, TG Soft, VirIT eXplorer Lite, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware

Software downloads 2009-11-02