All Posts Tagged With: "Windows"

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Leaving iTunes Behind - Moving To MediaMonkey And Lossless Music

I love it when I read a post that makes me decide to do something totally differently. CyberNetNews are doing a series of daily giveaways of useful software, and yesterday they were giving away three copies of MediaMonkey Gold the reknowned music player.

I don’t know what possessed me to read the story, as I [...]

5Dec2007 | Everton | 17 comments | Continued
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Building A Home Server Part II

I was bored yesterday, so I spent some time buying components for my Home Server. I set myself a budget of £250 for the system and I ended up spending just over £130 which I’m very happy with. Here are the components I purchased:

12Nov2007 | Everton | 60 comments | Continued
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Building a Home Server Part I

I’ve decided to build a proper home server as at the moment my files are scattered between different machines (pics of my home setup as requested below) and I want to centralise them, as well as creating a proper remote access solution. I’m not sure yet if Windows Home Server is the right OS yet, [...]

11Nov2007 | Everton | 13 comments | Continued
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Five Ways To Speed Up Outlook 2007

I have been using Outlook 2007 since beta 2. Feature wise it’s richest than its predecessors, and offers some new functionality such as the To-Do Bar, Instant Search, enhanced junk filtering and attachment previewing.
That said, Outlook 2007 can be sometimes annoyingly sluggish, specially when starting up. Today, I would like to provide you with a [...]

27Oct2007 | gili | 5 comments | Continued
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10 Simple Ways To Speed Up Windows Vista

Windows Vista is a rather heavy operating system with many neat features, but unfortunately they all come at a price. Right out of the box it requires a pretty hefty system to run (arguably).
Before you run out and buy a new computer just so you can run your base operating system, check out these [...]

19Oct2007 | Kline | 38 comments | Continued
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PCMark Vantage For Vista Coming Soon

I’m not a PC gamer, but I do like to know how fast my computers are. A good test of how fast a PC is has always been the various PCMark tests, but unfortunately these haven’t worked with Windows Vista.
This will be fixed shortly with the launch of PCMark Vantage, a new set of [...]

16Oct2007 | Everton | 4 comments | Continued
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Latest New Site Design Screenshot

I think this will be the last screenshot before my designer starts coding, so please leave your feedback now or forever keep your peace!
Apart from the site logo and sitename, I think we are almost there and my remaining issues can be dealt with on a live site.
Let me know what you think:

15Oct2007 | Everton | 17 comments | Continued
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What’s Eating Your Computer’s Resources? Don’t Blame MS Quite Yet

Everyone is always looking for ways to make their computer faster. Whether it’s linux, OSX or the ubiquitous Windows, no matter how many times you upgrade, how much more RAM you add, whatever, computing, for all its increases in speed in the past years, is still not fast enough.
It’s all crap. There are bigger [...]

26Sep2007 | Kline | 17 comments | Continued
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The Best Free Software For Your Computer - Part II

A week ago, I shared my best free software list with Connected Internet (CI) readers. That post generated some nice buzz and to date 27 individuals took the time and made some useful comments on the list I offered. Some of them even proposed additional free applications that could easily make it into my [...]

16Sep2007 | gili | 11 comments | Continued
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StartUp Delayer: Speed Up Windows By Delaying Apps

I’m a speed freak. That’s why I ditched my Stove top for the microwave and dumped the Corona for the SiR i-Vtec.
Now Windows is one of those critters that seem to hate speeding up, no matter how much RAM I ram down its throat or how beefy the processor I slap on its rump. [...]

12Sep2007 | Joseph Plazo | 10 comments | Continued
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