All Posts Tagged With: "Tools & Tips"

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Test The Readability Of A Website: Connected Internet Suitable For 9 Year Olds!

Juicy Studio’s Readability Test measures the readability of websites just be simply entering a url. It calculates the Gunning Fog Index and the Flesch-Kincaid Grade for the site, which are supposed to tell you how much schooling a person needs before they’ll be able to understand what you’ve written.It also calculates the Flesch Reading [...]

14Jan2006 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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More Ways To Speed Up Windows XP

Update: If you are using Windows Vista then check out 10 Simple Ways To SpeedUp Windows Vista.
Athough I’ve just got a new PC that is scarily fast (well, compared to my old machine) I’ve still spent quite a bit of time trying to make it even faster, and I’ve discovered some handy tweaks that I [...]

12Jan2006 | Everton | 26 comments | Continued
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Useful PC Tip Site - FixMyXP.com

I discovered fixmyxp.com a few days ago and it's quite a handy little site.  Although most of the tips are ones I already know about it's quite nice getting them a couple at a time in a feed, as just because you know about them doesn't mean you've implemented them. 
I guarantee that over the [...]

9Jan2006 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Building My First PC Was Easy - Everyone Can Do This

One of the projects I’ve been working on over the Christmas break is building my first PC as my old PC which was over 4 years old started acting up. It’s gone really well and I’ve run a few tests to compare the performance between the old PC and the new machine and there [...]

8Jan2006 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
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Advice Needed - Building My First PC Next Week

I’ve finally had enough of my desktop. My latest repair involves a piece of string (honestly!) to hold my disk controller card in place, which is crazy.
I think it’s time for a replacement and I’ve decided to build my first PC. Over the years I’ve replaced graphics cards, added memory, installed new drives [...]

18Dec2005 | Everton | 3 comments | Continued
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Updated Free File Host List December 2005

Martin from gHacks has updated his free file host list. The list has been updated to show more information at first glance including file hosts with and without registrations and image hosts with and without registrations.
I found the article via Digg, which is rapidly becoming a major traffic generator. I’ll be very surprised [...]

10Dec2005 | Everton | 2 comments | Continued
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10 Intermediate Ways To Speed Up Windows

Update: If you are using Windows Vista then check out 10 Simple Ways To SpeedUp Windows Vista.
Given how successful my Simple Guide to Tweaking Windows XP has been I’ve decided to post some more complex tweaks. The effectiveness of each of these tweaks will vary from machine to machine.
I’ve tried to focus on tweaks that [...]

5Dec2005 | Everton | 66 comments | Continued
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Last week on Connected

Phew it’s been a very hectic week. The new site design is finished (although I bet I won’t be able to stop myself fiddling with it!) and I hope you like it. I still need a bit of help customising My TagCloud so if there are any XML experts who can spare 10 [...]

4Dec2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Download JHymn - Play Music Purchased On iTunes On Other MP3 Players

JHymn is quite a cool little application. It removes iTunes DRM restrictions without any loss of sound quality and also converts mp3 tracks from AAC to mp3 so that they can be played on other players.
There’s just one catch - it doesn’t work with iTunes 6 but they are working on fixing this. [...]

4Dec2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Videora Xbox360 Video Converter

I’m in a bit of a quandry at the moment about what gadgets to put on my shopping list next year. Item’s that I ‘need’ include a new PC (my current PC keeps crashing every 60 mins or so) and a Home Cinema System.
The area where I’m not sure what to is video playback. [...]

4Dec2005 | Everton | 3 comments | Continued
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