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May 18th 2010

Opera 10.51 web browser deserves to sit on your start menu

Or your quick link, pinned on your taskbar or simply on your desktop. This alternative browser is fast. Loads web pages in seconds and rendering any graphically intensive pages without hiccups. In fact, its Carakan javascript engine performs remarkably well. Best seen and tested in http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/.

Fastest internet web browser opera 10.50

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July 19th 2009

Monitor hardware temperature of your PC

Computer hardware don’t like heat. You have seen server rooms being fitted with large air conditioner to cold the stack of computer servers at cold temperature. This is to ensure the hardware doesn’t overheat. And overheat will cause the hardware failed to run properly. I’ve seen many of my friend’s PC stop working because of overheat. Normally due to the incorrect way of applying thermal paste on the CPU. From what I have seen, most PC shop owners doesn’t know the correct way of applying thermal paste (at least in this country) which is a saddening fact.

Well, there is a utility which can monitor the temperature of your PC. It monitors the CPU, graphic card, hard drive and chipset temperature. You can help yourself by saving the trip and bucks to the computer shop, by identifying the failing hardware yourself. Continue Reading »

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July 14th 2009

Clean Windows Registry to speed up your PC (freeware)

If your PC is getting slower, booting which took over 5minutes or more, opening applications become as sluggish as ever, this is a sign that your PC is not well maintained. Defrag your hard drive is a well known maintenance method to make your hard drive to access data faster. But one thing that many people overlooked is the Windows registry. Your Windows registry builds up lots of junk entries overtime. Things like uninstalling applications, registry hacks, incomplete installations, or even some incomplete downloads from the internet can cause the registry to piled up overtime. Fortunately, there are registry cleaner utilities which can help you to optimize and clean your registry with junk entries, but at a cost as it doesn’t comes free. Continue Reading »

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June 23rd 2009

Easy FTP,Web,and Streaming server setup on your computer via Opera Unite (review)

If one thing to be voted as the best innovation of 2009, I wouldn’t miss my vote on Opera Unite. Why wouldn’t anyone thought of this idea earlier? It was simply brilliant and amazing. File sharing, web server, media streaming all in one package, and the best is, you don’t have to be a network specialist to setup all these in under 5minutes. On top of that, it supports every platform (mobile version is in development) as it brilliantly uses the vast availability of HTTP. Continue Reading »

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June 4th 2009

freeware multipurpose video and music player

You’ve got tonnes of high quality video files and high bit rate mp3 files in your computer, and you can’t find a media player just good enough to play all of them. So, you resort with the default player in your Windows, the Windows Media Player. The next thing is, you started to curse Microsoft for not having all the codecs installed for the beautifully designed Media Player. And then Windows recommend you to follow the steps to get the codes, so you follow without questions and install the codecs one by one. Why all the hassles when you can get a better media player? And guess what, it’s free! Continue Reading »

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