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Archive for March, 2007
Speed Up Your Site: Use Height And Width Tags
It’s amazing what a difference a few small changes can make. Daniel from Daily Blog Tips (No, not a sister site!) has explained how when images or tables on your webpages don’t use height and width tags then browsers have to figure out the size of the image, then load the image and then [...]
Visual Tooltip: Get Vista Thumbnails With XP
Vista thumbnails are cool. I just realised today that the Vista thumbnails even show videos playing. Now you can create the experience with Windows XP with Visual Tootips, with a few tips curteousy of The How To Geek:
Disk Fragmentation: The Monster in Your Drive Bay
Lets face it, Hard Drives are dull. They are one of the most forgotten about computer components and hence most people don’t show their drives a lot of love. However, if you don’t put together a regular routine to keep your drive optimized then the rest of your system will suffer.
How To Recover Deleted Files
Every now and then you will delete a file by accident and normally by the time you release, it’s too late.
Luckily the team that brought you the amazing CCleaner have also released Recuva. This cool free program scans your hard driver and will display all the deleted files in a list. This includes files emptied from the [...]
FixYa.com – Get Free Technical Support
FixYa is a nice concept that I think will grow over time. The service allows you to ask support questions about a range of consumer products, and like Yahoo Answers, other users can submit potential solutions.
There’s a rating mechanism, so you can quickly spot who are the good problem solvers. Users can even [...]
Using Flickr To Help Choose A Digital Camera
Regardless of your budget, if you’re looking to buy a new Digital Camera then you really should check out Flickr’s Camera Finder service, which shows the cameras used most often to take photos that have been uploaded to Flickr. All types of cameras are listed and there are even separate lists for point & [...]
Ten Tips And Tricks Every Vista User Should Know
Today’s tip was sent in by Al from VistaRewired. Al has put together a list of Ten Tips And Tricks Every Vista user Should Know. Although some of these aren’t strictly ‘tips’ they do provide interesting information. For instance, I finally discovered why my memory utilization is always high even though I have [...]
How To Update And Remove PC Drivers
Updating your drivers and software sometimes can significantly improve the speed of your PC and software, as well as fixing old bugs or adding new functionality. Unfortunately, many manufacturers don’t build into their applications an auto-update process, so the only way to do this is manually.
How To Disable Windows Vista’s User Account Control
I’ve finally started making a few changes to my Windows Vista setup. One of the most annoying recurring problems I’ve had is that User Account Control, which is designed to protect your computer from unauthorized changes isn’t very intelligent and doesn’t learn from past behaviour. So, if you will constantly have to approve [...]
Donate Money To Charity To Generate Backlinks
Following Everton’s lead, I checked out my future PageRank. According to this tool the Page Rank of One Tip A Day will be increased from a measly 1 to a respectable 5!
I’ll be chuffed if this proves to be correct as I’ve only just started focusing on generating links to this site. I [...]
