No matter how good the configuration of your Windows PC may be, if you don’t take care of it, it is bound to slow down soon. Just like all other appliances you own, it is essential for you to perform regular preventive maintenance of your PC.
The following are some of the simple and effective methods [...]
While Gmail doesn’t filter all spam messages that could reach your inbox, it still does a better job as compared to other webmails such as Yahoo Mail or Hotmail. Apart from consistent improvements being done on Gmail’s filters, the utmost ingredient that contribute to the overall effectiveness is the use of community signals. Whenever you [...]
Most of internet users use RSS aggregators to keep themselves updated with their favorite websites or blogs. By using the syndication, time taken to learn the goings-on in hundreds or even thousands of websites can squeezed be down into a small fraction of time, thus sparing us more time to do other useful activities.
Unfortunately, this [...]
Even though more and more people are migrating to Windows Vista, Windows XP has really made its presence felt in this recent years and will not tail off so quickly, at least not in this near future. Though my laptop is Vista-ready, I doubt its capability of handling Windows Vista. I believe many share the [...]
Rapidshare now comes back again with its Happy Hour. Lucky me, I had a chance to enjoy it yesterday. For those who are not familiar with this feature, it’s actually a limited time frame provided by Rapidshare where free users don’t have to input the “cats” CAPTCHAs and enjoy the same privilege as premium [...]
If you are observant enough you should notice when you try to defrag your hard drive, the file system of any USB drive usually in FAT32. Even if you try to format your USB drive you are only left with 2 option; FAT and FAT32.
FAT32 is the default setting in Windows XP and there must [...]
I still remember vividly the old days when a friend a mine was in great despair to find his newly bought handphone (can’t remember what model it was) was left spinned in washing machine for quite some time. Kaput is the only word that came across my mind; I was convinced there’s no way of [...]
Many programs like to start when computer starts to boot. The problem starts when all of these programs try to start simultaneously, fighting for CPU cycles and disk access. For average computer it tends to take ages to load everything to the extent you can’t even move your mouse. One of common methods usually [...]
