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Archive for April, 2007
Speedup External USB Hard Drives In Vista
Lots of useful Windows Vista tips are now starting to materialize. A new one that I’ve just implemented on my external Lacie USB Hard Drive is to enable Write Caching, which is turned off by default. By enabling Write Caching you can significantly speedup external Hard Drives in Windows Vista.
Why You Should Buy a DirectX10 Graphics Card
If you’re a big PC gamer then you really should consider upgrading to a DirectX10 Graphics Card. Rather than baffling you with performance figures, I’m just going to post these pictures that highlight the vast difference between DirectX9 and and DirectX10.
Check Your Page Rank With The Alexa Toolbar
I must have been having a psychic moment with my tip yesterday about Google Page Ranks, as Google has been updating Page Ranks this weekend. I’ve been lucky enough to be bumped up from a Page Rank 1 to Page Rank 4, which I think is a pretty impressive increase and should hopefully mean [...]
Guide To Google Page Ranks
One Tip A Day has been experiencing some pretty impressive growth over the last couple of months, and I think it’s time for me to start learning about Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) to try and drive some extra traffic to One Tip A Day.
One guide I’ve already read today and I’ve filed to read again [...]
List Of Search Engine Ranking Factors
Carsten from Search Engine Journal has pulled together a summary of the monster Search Engine Ranking Factors document, which contained the opinions of 37 SEO experts.
If you’re pressed for time, then this is the quickest way to learn about Search Engine Factors or a quick reference guide to remind you of all the little things [...]
Use Any USB Drive With Windows Vista Readyboost
ReadyBoost is a disk caching system introduced in Windows Vista that relies on flash memory to boost system performance. At the moment only certain flash drives are compatible with Readyboost, but gHacks have found a way so that any USB drive can be used with ReadyBoost.
Don’t Waste Money Buying Expensive Digital Video And Audio Cables
Many of us are slowly building our dream home AV setup, although a few lucky individuals are able to purchase a complete setup in one-go. Buying a plasma, home entertainment center, receiver, Xbox 360, PS3 etc isn’t cheap, and unfortunately the cables don’t tend to be cheap either.
However, many retailers take advantage of naive [...]
How To Fix Problems Copying and Moving Large Files In Windows Vista
Although Windows Vista is a major improvement over Windows XP, there is one particular bug that has really upset me which is how slowly it moves or deletes files. In Windows XP there were no problems moving big files. However, with Windows Vista if you move big files even on the same drive [...]
Windows Media Player Plugin For Firefox
The popularity of the internet browser Firefox continues to grow by the day, but it still has a few annoying quirks. One of these is that it can be difficult to watch Windows Media Player videos within Firefox.
Luckily, thanks to Port 25, who are the team at Microsoft who look after interoperability, there’s a [...]
Install K-Lite Codec Pack To Solve Video Playback Problems
Sometimes playing videos on your PC isn’t easy, particularly when they have been downloaded off the internet. This is normally because your PC doesn’t have the necessary codecs installed to play the video file in question. Codecs and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video formats.
The quickest [...]
