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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 [...]
List Of Useful Microsoft Office Shortcuts
I tend to use a laptop a lot and using keyboard shortcuts are essential if you don’t have a mouse.
Here are some useful ones I’ve learnt. Please share any others that you know.
SHIFT+F10: Display the shortcut menu
HOME or END: Select the first or last command on the menu or submenu
F1:Displays the Help task pane.
CTRL+F1: [...]
Download Shockwave Animations
How many times have you visited a website and seen a cool Shockwave Animation that you wanted to save but you couldn’t?
Quickonlinetips have produced a great little guide with images which will walk you through the process of downloading and saving animations.
To see the full guide follow this link.
Receive Reminders On Your Cell Phone
Are you always late for important dates? Do you forget to call that important person? Forget to pick up the kids? Well, you will never forget an important event again if you use ‘Oh, don’t forget’.
This great site lets you create text message reminders just by entering your cell number, the date [...]
Make Your Own Ringtones
Making your own mp3 ringtones is easy when you know how. All you need is to download a great little application called Audacity.
First off download and install Audacity and also download and extract Lame_enc (this is essential)
Once you’ve done this open up Audacity
Step 1: Go to ‘File’ then ‘Open’ and find and select your [...]
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