Lets face it, most people today have an email address and many have more than one. Between work, home, your ISP and that old Hotmail or Yahoo account you got when you were 13, email addresses pile up quickly. You could setup Outlook Express (please never do this) or Mozilla [...]
Diskeeper has a new version of its workstation class defragmentation application called Pro Premier. This version is targeted to high end PCs and power users and adds to its suite of products which include Diskeeper Home & Diskeeper Pro. The main difference I see between the Home/Pro and Premier version is the increased [...]
Earlier this month I showed you how to use the Open Source defragmentation application UltraDefrag. On my system I changed the scheduled task to run every day instead of once a week. Below is a screen shot of the results of this daily defrag.
The results are impressive. Or are they?
In some of the lost [...]
It has been 9 months since Vista has been released into the wild. Nearly a year ago, and before general release, I posted a comment on Vista. I had used it for about 2 weeks at work to test the various applications I run. At the time I thought it was the prettiest bloated cow [...]
I've been doing quite a bit of maintenance work on the site recently, updating to the latest version of Wordpress, removing old unwanted plug-ins, updating plug-ins I do use, and the like. Today I went into the database for the site and noticed some old tables from uninstalled plug-ins that were still present. In my [...]
I am not referring to Luke Appling, I'm talking about me after a weekend of baseball. It was an up and down weekend for the Minnow Hut Crew. We started off with a convincing win over the team we let come back from a 14 run lead in last years semi-final, to a hands down [...]
Just a short note before I head off to play in our annual softball tournament. The 20 week doctors visit went well, but the radiologists report was not ready due to the return visit on Thursday. So no official news on what was seen, although Kris's doctor took a quick look at the unofficial report [...]
Does your PC just not run as fast as it did when you first got it? Chances are your hard drive has become fragmented. What does this mean? Well, your hard drive is made up of many "slices" which are called sectors. When you create a Word document or download a song onto your computer [...]
