All Posts Tagged With: "Microsoft"
Convert YouTube Videos In One Click
Youtube is fast becoming one of the best and most exciting sources of content. There are so many videos, you can quite easily spend hours watching videos.
Downloading them isn’t as easy though. There are several tools available to download videos but they tend to be quite clunky, and also use the flv file [...]
Trying To Kill 5 Mins? Use StumbleUpon
if you’re trying to kill 5 mins online and you’re bored of watching mindless YouTube videos, then maybe you should try StumbleUpon, a free browser plug-in that’s like a Web-concierge version of del.icio.us.After installing the plug-in, which adds a toolbar to your browser, you choose one or more topics of interest: astronomy, politics, television, and [...]
16Nov2006 | Tony Williams | 0 comments | ContinuedFree 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 | ContinuedHow 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 [...]
How To Capture Screenshots From Windows Media Player
Whatever you may think about Microsoft, they do make some good software. One of their best is Windows Media Player which is free and is installed on all Windows PCs. Capturing screenshots from your favorite videos can be difficult, but here’s a quick way to do it:
Open Window Media Player
Then go to ‘Tools [...]
How To Improve Your Swapfile Performance
If you have more than 256MB of RAM on your PC this tweak will considerably improve your performance. What it does is tell your PC to use every last drop of RAM before using the swap file, which is slower than real RAM.
To enable this tweak is easy. Just follow the steps below:
Go to [...]
29Sep2006 | Tony Williams | 2 comments | Continued

