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How To Survive Windows Vista, Part I
Part II ->We have to face facts, people. Microsoft has deprecated Windows XP in favour of Windows Vista. I’ve been having difficulty coming to terms with this, largely because of what I see as major...
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How To Survive Windows Vista, Part II
<- Part I || Part III ->Welcome to part two. Last week I described in detail what I see as flaws in Windows Vista. This week I’m going to offer five simple solutions for some of the most critical...
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How To Survive Windows Vista, Part III
<- Part IIWelcome to part three in my series on how to survive the Windows Vista transition. Last week, I provided five steps to make Windows Vista perform faster, improve application compatibility,...
View ArticleStandards Compliance
So apparently Microsoft has taken a hint about how much users want standards-compliance in their web browsers. Took them long enough.Now the race between Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 8 is on. Which...
View ArticleBloat, Bloat, Bloat!
I’m tired of over-bloated applications. They really annoy me. I used to love Ahead Nero Burning ROM. But now, they’ve bloated Nero into a whole suite of applications which have functionality I don’t...
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CheckMark: A checksum algorithm benchmark
I’ve been working on a new benchmark for the past several weeks (would have finished it much sooner too, had it not been for college). I think the results are very much worth sharing.The first thing to...
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Acid 3: The Race Continues
The Acid 3 web standards-compliance test has been up for a while now, and there’s no release-quality browser in existence yet that fully succeeds at the test.Let me explain what these results are...
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You Never Want to See This
I don’t know whether to blame the hard drive, Windows 2000, or NTFS-3G. But never in my life do I want to see chkdsk show this again: It kept scrolling that text for about 10 minutes before finally...
View ArticleSpeed up your Windows XP machines with eBoostr!
I was doing a bit of research not long ago, looking for a Windows XP equivalent of Windows Vista’s ReadyBoost feature. As it turns out, there’s an awesome product available called eBoostr which does...
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