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Clean Your PC Frequently
I know that not everyone will be as obsessive as me about cleaning their PC, but it is a good idea to clean your machine every now and then to get rid of programs and settings that you no longer use.
My favourite program for doing this is CCleaner. This great little app will removes [...]
Make Winamp Sound Better
Winamp is a great free music player and now you can make it sound better. The easiest way to do this is to download Enhancer 017 which is free and activate the “General improvements” preset.
Other presets which are worth checking out are “Treble boost”, “Party with ambience”, “Inside the music”.
Optimize Your Internet Connection
Remember the days when 512K seemed fast? Even though most of us have connections much faster than this now it is still worthwhile to make sure that your connectedion is optimized.
One of the quickest ways to do this but by far the easiest is to run TCP/IP Optimizer. To run the tool do [...]
How To Use iTunes With Other MP3 Players
Are you one of those ’special people’ who don’t have an iPod and use a different mp3 player?
Well if you are, but you still want to use iTunes which is the best music player around, then this great little application could be the solution. BadApple is a free plugin that allows you to sync [...]
Free Up PC Memory By Disabling Indexing Services
Indexing Services is a small little program that uses large amounts of RAM and can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This system process indexes and updates lists of all the files that are on your computer. It does this so that when you do a search for something on your computer, it [...]
19Oct2006 | Tony Williams | 0 comments | Continued
Using Gmail Overseas: Unlock Extra Features
Google are quite slow at rolling out new Gmail features to international users. In some countries it doesn’t even have the same name - in the UK it’s called ‘Google Mail’.
For some reason, features that are available in the US aren’t available overseas. If you are one of the unlucky international users of [...]
How To Streamrip Online Radio Stations
Streamrip and Streamripping were terms I’d never heard of until last week, and now I can’t live without it. Streamripping is when you save mp3 files from internet radio streams to your hard drive. I love it as it’s a great source of new music.
In order to Streamrip (in some countries this might [...]
Make Your Hard Drive Run Faster
We spend so much time worrying about the speed of Graphics Cards and Memory, we tend to forget about optimizing one important component of all PCS - the Hard Drive.
These 10 tips will help to speedup your Hard Drives and your file access times. The ten tips are:
1. Disable Short Filenames
2. Name Your Files [...]
How To Put Outlook Notes On Your Desktop
I often use the Microsoft Outlook Notes to store To-Do lists that are not related to work. I discovered this great tip a few months which allows me to put my notes on my desktop, and I love it as it means I can access my notes without having to open up Outlook.
To create [...]
Automatically Defragment Your Pagefile
Keeping your pagefile defragmented can provide a major performance boost. One of the best ways of doing this is to creat a separate partition on your hard drive just for your page file, so that it doesn’t get impacted by normal disk usage.
If you are unable to do this then another solution could be to [...]
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