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Google's Billion-Dollar HTML Tag

Marissa Mayer, vice president for search products and experience at Google, was the keynote speaker at the O’Reilly Velocity Conference yesterday, and her focus, as is usual with Google, was on speed. Google, as a company, is known for its obsession with speed from its home page to the Chorme browser. It's...

25 June 2009
04:17 GMT

Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part XI: Internet Options

It’s time once again for another episode of our Windows XP optimization series. In the past few months, you’ve seen tweaks that helped you change the Start Menu, Desktop, Display Properties, Control Panel, Folder Options, and so on. Most optimizations could not be made the old-fashioned way (from the Cont...

27 April 2009
04:07 GMT

Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part X: Start Menu (Part II)

It’s time to continue from where I left off in my previous article regarding registry tweaks for your Microsoft Windows XP operating system. Therefore, in part ten of your tweaking saga we’ll go through a few more important tweaks for your Start Menu. So if the previous article caught your attention and y...

6 April 2009
02:41 GMT

Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part IX: Start Menu

The Microsoft Windows XP system optimization saga continues today with a few tweaks that will enable you, as the title states, to customize your Start Menu. Why would you do that? Well, if you’re a long-time user of a Windows operating system, you’ve surely noticed that some of the items in your Start Men...

3 March 2009
15:01 GMT

Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part VIII: Add or Remove Programs

In part eight of the our tweaking series we’ll go through a few Control Panel optimizations for Windows XP power users that may not interest most people using their operating system for basic tasks. When they wish to install and especially uninstall a program, users access the Add or Remove Programs component i...

26 December 2008
12:01 GMT

Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part VII: Windows Applications

In this episode of our Windows XP tweaking saga, we’ll learn how to customize a few default applications of this operating system. If you’re just joining us, please allow me to ‘fill you in’ on the details: the "Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience" series provides tweaks that do ...

23 December 2008
12:01 GMT

Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part VI: Control Panel

The moment has come once again to pimp your Windows XP with the skills of a power user and the tool that will always be at your disposal, Notepad. This article, along with the previous ones (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5), will allow you to enhance and customize your operating system with advanced IT knowled...

29 November 2008
16:31 GMT

Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part V: Desktop Icons

Once again, it's time to enhance your Windows XP operating system exactly the way you want and without paying a cent on expensive programs that do something so simple that even a kid could handle it. This series allows you to make important changes to the look, feel and behavior of your Microsoft Windows XP with...

26 November 2008
16:21 GMT

Microsoft Revamps Games for Windows Live Service

Microsoft is a software company that is getting more and more involved in the game industry. Its Xbox 360 console is currently one of the best selling ones on the market, largely because of the fact that it has a very solid library of great games, like Gears of War or Dead or Alive, and because it offers players a gr...

13 November 2008
09:01 GMT

Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part IV: Display Properties

Welcome to yet another episode of our Microsoft Windows XP tweaking saga. If you're not familiar with the procedure, please start by reading the first article in the series, so as to fully understand how exactly you should use the lines below and how to run the tweaks. However, don't hesitate to have a look...

12 November 2008
16:01 GMT

Speedy Mac 3 Enhances Text Clipping Handling

Altomac has updated Speedy Mac, its utility that allows users to quickly access items necessary for everyday work, by organizing them in a menu. Speedy Mac 3 (build 081) adds the ability to put multiple text clippings into a clipboard, in order to access them from the menu. Other improvements and fixes have made thei...

7 November 2008
09:30 GMT

MacPilot 3.1.8 Loads Resources on Startup

Koingo Software has updated its maintenance utility for OS X to version 3.1.8. MacPilot V. 1.x and 2.x users have to pay a total sum of $9.95 for this upgrade that adds just one new feature and a bug fix. Only those who own the Utility Package, the Software CD, or those who purchased the program after October 31, 200...

29 October 2008
14:21 GMT

Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part III: Folder Options

Welcome back to the registry optimization saga! If you’re just joining us, please start by reading at least our first episode, which describes a few rules that must be followed in order for the optimization process to take place successfully...So, now that you’ve opened your tweak.reg file and you’v...

25 October 2008
03:01 GMT

Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part II

Allow me to start this article by recommending you read (if you haven’t already) the first part of this “tweaking series,” as it sets the ground rules that must be followed in order to get the job done right.  The concept behind the "tweaking series" is quite simple, in that it shows you h...

23 October 2008
05:01 GMT

Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience

You may ask yourselves, why should this article be any different from all those tweaking tutorials around the Internet or, better yet, why should you read this when you can install a program that does it all for you? Here's why: this article will help you make important changes to your system with just two windo...

16 September 2008
04:01 GMT

Pure Defragmentation

Defragmentation – all Windows systems need it; otherwise, all the disorderly files can cause severe performance slowdowns. It may sound like a chore for many users, but in fact the entire process can be handled automatically through the "set-it-and-forget-it" function included in a great deal of defraggers on t...

11 September 2008
15:31 GMT

OnyX 1.9.6 Beta 3 Adds Save Desktop Feature

OnyX, by Titanium Software, is a free maintenance, optimization, and personalization utility for Mac OS X. It allows you to verify the Startup Disk, the structure of its System files, run miscellaneous tasks of system maintenance, configure hidden parameters, delete caches, and more. The latest version adds a dozen e...

9 July 2008
02:34 GMT

Microsoft Application Platform Optimization

If you were looking for a way to measure the effectiveness of your Application Platform, then look no further. The Application Platform Optimization website is now live, courtesy of Microsoft Canada. The website offers a small questionnaire that focuses on the key aspects of Application Platform optimization, startin...

10 January 2008
03:42 GMT

UCLA Scientists to Squeeze 5 Percent Transistor Juice

A group of scientists at the University of California (UCLA) has managed to get a five percent boost in conventional transistors' performance without tampering with the manufacturing process. However, they re-created the circuit shape and produced 30 percent shorter wires than in the conventional designs. The re...

20 December 2007
11:22 GMT

Performance Tips for PostgreSQL (II)

The next recommended procedure is reindexing the database. If you want to create a new table, the fastest procedure is to create the table, load the data using COPY command and at the end, and create the indexes needed for the table. Creating an index on pre-existing data is quicker than updating it incrementally as ...

1 October 2007
11:13 GMT

The Basic Rules of Search Engine Optimization

Search engine optimization is a process that generates traffic for your website. The SEO (Search Engine Optimization) includes principles and algorithms, mainly related to the website design, capable of generating actions to improve the search engine ranking for your webpages. Increasing the value of your page's...

16 August 2007
12:10 GMT

The Enterprise CAL Suite Fits the Concept of Infrastructure Optimization and Standardization

As Microsoft is known to have an increasing interest in helping companies become People-Ready with the help of the IT, PressPass discussed with some experts about it and explored topics like standardization, IO (Infrastructure Optimization) and Microsoft`s licensing structure. The interviewed experts were Joe Matz, v...

26 May 2007
08:18 GMT

How to Avoid a Google Ban

The Mountain View-based company presented some new AdSense optimization tips to avoid a potential Google ban that might block your account. As you know, it is very important to configure your advertising account to avoid infringing the search giant's guidelines and receive a ban. Today, the company's employ...

4 May 2007
03:18 GMT

Defrag Away

Hard disk defragmenting is on the menu today. And you are all aware that keeping your files defragmented will make your computer running smooth and fast. What do you use do unclog your machine?I have tested a few softwares all designed to arrange the files on the hard disk. I must admit that the first defragmenting a...

25 October 2006
09:55 GMT


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