16 May 2009 - 08:26
Tags: Windows
Posted in Tech, Windows | No comments
The next Windows os is almost complete with promise of release by Holiday Season 2009.
Windows 7 Release Candidate
Ubiquity is an extension that allows you to enter commands that have knowledge of page content and return new information.
via Labs/Ubiquity – MozillaWiki.
3 May 2009 - 09:56
Tags: gigabit, vista, Windows
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So far I have been pleasantly surprised with my Vista install, a few things needed upgrading but no show stoppers. At least not until I copied a file from the media center machine. I was getting only a few mb/s despite the fact that both machines are connected via gigabit ethernet and have striped raid [...]
3 May 2009 - 09:55
Tags: gigabit, vista, Windows
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Like quite a few folks, I’ve been plagued by issues with Vista on a Gigabit LAN, namely seeing throughput that’s a fraction of what it should be. I tried the fixes Scott Hanselman outlined in his excellent Vista Gigabit post to no avail. The Google gods must have been smiling on me yesterday because I [...]
29 April 2009 - 17:47
Tags: browser, Firefox, tricks
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Everybody’s favorite open-source browser, Firefox, is great right out of the box. And by adding some of the awesome extensions available out there, the browser just gets better and better.
But look under the hood, and there are a bunch of hidden (and some not-so-secret) tips and tricks available that will crank Firefox up and pimp [...]