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5 Questions Intended to Change Your Life
September 17, 2008 By 1 Comment
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September 16, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Most of us pay for broadband Internet connections every month but really don’t have much of an idea as to what we get for our money -- other than a connection to the Internet.
Speakeasy, a communications company that sells high speed Internet connections, provides a useful service -- a broadband speed test that allows you to test your connection speed from servers across the U.S. You are shown separate scores for your upload and download speeds.
With Comcast instituting a bandwidth cap of 250 gigabytes a month as of 1 October, you might as well know what level of service you’re getting from them.
As it happens, I have nothing to complain about from Comcast, see my benchmark below.
Test your broadband speed
Speakeasy, a communications company that sells high speed Internet connections, provides a useful service -- a broadband speed test that allows you to test your connection speed from servers across the U.S. You are shown separate scores for your upload and download speeds.
With Comcast instituting a bandwidth cap of 250 gigabytes a month as of 1 October, you might as well know what level of service you’re getting from them.
As it happens, I have nothing to complain about from Comcast, see my benchmark below.
Test your broadband speed
Update: Bright shiny new update to VLC Video Player
September 16, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Last week we first told you about VLC, the open source multi-platform video player that plays most any video format and this week, presto, there's a nice new release for you, that they say has been two years in the making.
Here's what they say is new:
The 0.9 version of VLC media player adds a new interface module for Linux, Unix and Windows, a media library and an improved playlist, many new inputs and codecs support and many new audio and video filters.Here at the EnquiringMimes lab we have taken a look, and pronounced the new interface on Windows and Linux as very snappy. Many of the other features are updates are to keep up with fast-moving world of video technology. The new release provides even more reason for you to use VLC for you videos. Download VLC
Clean your new computer or an old one – The PC Decrapifier
September 16, 2008 By 1 Comment
I hate the applications that have been pre-installed on my computer.
I recently bought a new PC. That means even before I start installing the applications I really need, there are a boatload of trial applications installed. Most are a result of marketing agreements between the various software publishers and the manufacturer of your new computer. Many give you something like a 60-day free trial, on the 60th day the nagging begins to buy a paid license.
To me, the most notorious offender is Symantec’s Norton Security Suite, which does a fine job for the 60-day trial period, but is relatively expensive (especially when AVG is such a good free alternative) and becomes very persistent and annoying in its nagging.
PC-Decrapifier is a free utility that gives you a chance to delete all the applications on your Windows PC that you didn’t ask for, and are just going to, at best, take up disk space and, at worst, run in the background and make your computer operate slower.
If you’re running PC-Decrapifier on a computer that you’ve already installed applications, you’re given the opportunity to take a snapshot which you can return to after cleaning, if the results are not to your liking.
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PC-Decrapifier is a free utility that gives you a chance to delete all the applications on your Windows PC that you didn’t ask for, and are just going to, at best, take up disk space and, at worst, run in the background and make your computer operate slower.
If you’re running PC-Decrapifier on a computer that you’ve already installed applications, you’re given the opportunity to take a snapshot which you can return to after cleaning, if the results are not to your liking.
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Dropbox – the easiest way to sync file between computers
September 15, 2008 By 2 Comments
I work on a PC and Mac and I have a constant need to move documents and images back and forth between my computers.
One way is to just email the files as attachments to myself using Gmail and then download the attachment on the other computer. That’s not a bad method, fast and efficient but is limited to the 20MB file size imposed by Gmail.
DropBox is just about the easiest way I know of, to keep a folder of files in sync between two computers. I’ve been using DropBox throughout its private beta but now the beta is open and anyone can get an account. Just sign-up for the service and download a client application for each the computers you want to keep in sync and you’re in business.
A DropBox folder looks like any other folder on you system.
You can drag and drop any file into your DropBox folder and it will be automatically copied to any other computer you have installed the DropBox software. If you want to copy the files to a computer other than one with software installed, there is a web interface from which you can login-in and download.
A free account on DropBox gives you 2 gigabytes of file space. You will be be able to buy a 50GB Dropbox for $9.99/month, or $99.99/year if you need more space. Client software is available for Windows, Mac and Linux, so you can keep in sync any of those types of computers as well, of course, Windows and Windows, Mac and Mac.
Register for DropBox
