2006 November

For years, people have been telling me to go with an AMD processor on my desktop. Well, that may have happened today - with the launch of AMD’s new Quad FX platform (formerly known as 4×4). I’ll be replacing my current system (running a slightly out-of-date Intel processor) with a brand new one in a [...]

ASOv2 includes 30+ tools to supercharge your PC’s performance, and more than 200 tweaks to customize Windows to your liking, and improve performance.
Version 2 has 30+ tools, including:

A spyware detective

E-mail checker

Icon manager

Fast e-mailer

Comprehensive backup tool for outlook & files-folders

You can back up the Registry and restore it if it is damaged by a virus [...]

G-Zapper helps you stay anonymous while searching Google by blocking and deleting the Google search cookie. Did you know that Google stores a unique identifier in a cookie on your PC, which allows it to track the keywords you search for? G-Zapper helps you protect your identity and this valuable attention to data by allowing [...]

I’m still very new to the city that I’m living in. Even though I used to only live about twenty minutes away from where I am now, it’s still a different location, and I hardly ever used to come over here before. Therefore, I’ve been learning my way around town with varying success, and I’m [...]

Have you ever taken a closer look at your Start Menu? If you have, you’ll notice there are distinction sections. There is the All Programs option. Above this you have all sorts of programs, which can change if you hadn’t noticed. This is because these are your recently used programs. Any programs you recently opened [...]

Each time you open Internet Explorer, an HTML page is displayed. This is referred to as the Home Page. By configuring the home page settings, you can specify which HTML page you want displayed when you open Internet Explorer.
To change the Home Page, open Internet Explorer, click the down arrow beside Tools and click [...]

Hilary Rogers of Uniblue writes:
Global warming and its impact on the environment is a hot topic in the news at the moment. As a software company, we are aware of the fact that the energy required to run the computers belonging to 660 million users worldwide, runs into millions of kilowatt hours each day. It [...]

Having used the service myself several times over the past few years with great satisfaction, I have to say that Overstock.com has some amazing deals running this holiday season. If you’re able to knock some of your shopping out this weekend, you might want to take advantage of this one:
Save 12% off your ENTIRE ORDER plus [...]

If we can have Freeware Fridays, then why can’t we also have a little bit of Wednesday Link Love? In preparing for another small video project, I had to sign up for a handful of video upload accounts that I didn’t previously have. Of course, if you missed the fun - it’s all still here [...]

So you need to burn a few files on CD, but you do not want to pay an arm and a leg for a software burning suit. I do not blame you. Some of the software packages out there do the job, but are filled with a lot of junk that you will never use. [...]