Monday, August 31, 2009

Blocking Unnecessarily Ads

Without doubt the ads are unpleasant out of control on the Web these days you can barely move the mouse over a page without ads to forward, emerging, who takes over the screen and pretend to be a dialog box indicating the imminent death, if you do not pay for the T system scan now. These ads can be implemented easily, using everyone's favorite extension Adblock Plus. Lifehacker is, of course, a site funded by advertising, so I would appreciate if you stay on the white list, "but we will make a charm for the intermittent pop-up-ING, overlapping, all the annoying ads through the Web.

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Sunday, August 30, 2009

Kanshin Kuukan - a community site

Kanshin Kuukan is a community site that helps its members to find relevant products, restaurants, movies, songs, etc. based on user recommendations. The company of the same name, showed an iPhone demo video that explores the relevant tweets Twittersphere for and published in December

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Saturday, August 29, 2009

Why Do I Need to Defrag My Hard Drive

A number of people don't understand the meaning of defragmenting the hard drive, which leads to the fact that they don't bother to perform it. And their computers become slower and slower because they don't do it. They panic until their computer freeze up and die. A routine defragmentation of the computer is of vital importance to the high performance which is what most of people require.

Before we get to experience the defrag program, why not get to know how it works first?

Your file in the hard disk is saved in what we called "clusters". Every cluster has a fixed size of 512 bytes. When a file is to be saved in the hard disk, it takes up as many clusters as it needs. For example, if the file is 20 bytes, it would need one cluster that is 512 bytes. And if you have a file that is 520 bytes, it will takes up one cluster and another 8 bytes from another cluster. Then the other 504 bytes is left unused.

The file can also be chopped up into different chunks in the hard drive. And the cluster are nor always next to each other. Over time, the split files are scattered all over the hard disk. That is called fragmented files. The computer needs more time to find and load those fragmented files when there are too many in existence.

There is also another way to explain this course.

The hard disk in your computer is like your CD shelf. When you fist bought it, you place all your CDs on the shelf according to the artists' names, years of publication or styles. Sometime you may take out one CD and play it. It is easy to find the particular one you want because you have already arranged them in a special way you know well. However, you only have one shelf and there may be some shift between the CDs. You may need new ones and throw out old unused ones. Now you have free space for new ones but there are dotted all over the shelf. Therefore, the CDs are no longer placed in its original way. Maybe you will find one CD in another case.

Over time, it is complicated for you figure out which one is in which place. Then you need to clean this shelf and place them in the proper way. That is what happens to your computer.

Defragmentation is like the cleaning work in your computer. It might not simple create more space on your hard disk, but it makes those fragmented files into a complete one. Imagine that if one file is split into to pieces and placed in two different locations, it will take your computer twice much time as it needs to find them. No wonder how long will it take to find a larger file that have more fragments. Defragmenting process is helping you and your computer to save both the time and energy for other works.

Think about give your hard working computer an opportunity to experience fresh and quick working condition! Then you will find the whole course worth it.

Download Smashing Defrag to defragment your computer now!

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Friday, August 28, 2009

The Vaynerchuk VaynerMedia - brand management in the online space

The Vaynerchuk VaynerMedia of brand management in the online space, and one of his clients become Jets. So he launched the idea that the team and the team decided to promote the idea before the first regular season game Sept. 7.

Sports Cantos is a strange thing that thousands of strangers come together to say in unison. Usually this happens in a stadium or an arena, but in reality, the idea is not so different from Twitter itself. I know I still some of the songs of Wolverine in Michigan, even when I'm sitting at home watching a game by myself (yes, even during football season unhappy last year), so why not on Twitter?

Before the song hashtag Twitter comes into play, the Jets are using Twitter otherwise. Tomorrow, before the last game of preseason, the Jets will give tickets for each player the Jets tweets. These notes may give fans the choice of players. The idea is to get players apparently involved in the online community.


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Firefox Memory Management

The plague of Firefox in recent years, climbing to reach traces proporitions gigabyte of memory were common to many users. We highlighted several methods you can shake a stick to Firefox to accelerate and improve their times outside of the memory usage monitoring, but people should rest with Mozilla to get to the bottom of this issue of one way or another, and users should not have to learn 18 tips for taking care of Dark themselves. This is not just about memory, or memory of Firefox were high, but the browser was fast, it would be one thing, but this is simply not the case. And despite some evidence shows that Firefox win the battle against the memory of other browsers, the fact of the matter is this: If users typically experience severe downturn due to the memory of the browser in the clouds over time, all tests in the world did not really do better.

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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Super Macro Your Cellphone Camera With A DVD Lens

You always have your cell phone, but not really ready to take a close-up shot. With recycled parts of an old drive or DVD drive, you can design a makeshift macro lens for your small camera.

It turns out that small lens inside the DVD player is almost the perfect size for shooting, and the enlargement of the small lens of the camera mobile phone in a macro tool. You only need a player who cut up a piece of cardboard or rigid plastic lens mount, and some screens tactics or tape to hold the lens mount in place for the lens of your camera phone.

The result? Your camera phone has become more intense look. Find the right image for an example of what the DVD-macro lens is able to visit the following link for photos and additional information.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Time to Defrag Your Computer

Have you ever have the feeling that your computer was fast when you first bought it, and now it has become slow? The virus could be a problem. But it is not only the virus that makes your computer perform slowly but also the fragmentation in your hard disk. It takes longer for the computer to access the files rapidly when the files turn to fragment and scatter around the hard drive. That is why we need a defragmenter to address this fatal problem routinely.

Fragmentation happens when the files are broken into countless pieces and separated around the hard drives. When you save a finished file, your computer will break it up again into slender pieces, or maybe even more pieces. And it has to put all the little pieces back to their original place after it find all the places that it has put them previously. That's the reason why your computer becomes slow.

This is a serious problem that causes poor performance because the system is contributing its time to check on countless places on the hard drive to find the pieces that the user is asking for. And this happens to all the hard drives and workstations.

What you need is a defragmenter. It is a kind of software that reorganizes the fragments. It helps to improve the computer's performance in a faster way. When the computer is defragmented, the hard drive is where this course takes place. It helps moves the related files closer together so that it is easier for the computer to find them. Defragmentation contributes to the high efficiency and performance of your computer. It would better be done in a routine basis in order to ensure the perfect performance of your computer.

If the size of your hard drive is about 300G, a special designed defragmenter is required. This kind of advanced defrag program will allow you the usage of free storage spaces and do the defrag job well. You can download these programs easily through the internet. Unlike traditional Microsoft defrag utility, this special designed program does the job much faster. It only takes 5 to 10 minutes to finish the defragmentation for each hard ware volume. Furthermore, these programs embark several other useful features like individual file defrag, file filtration and defrag report. All these features make the course more flexible and the time more favorable, which is also a good option I think.

Time to take action now! Get a defragmenter and defragment your computer right now! Sure you will experience the joy of your high efficient computer performance.

Download Smashing Defrag to defragment your computer now!

Monday, August 24, 2009

Startpage - search privacy and peace

Disgusted with the search engines and register to keep information on every search you do on the Internet? Get your privacy and your peace of mind to Startpage!

Startpage (formerly known as Ixquick) has a simple design of Nice for the main search page with relevant links for more information, adding page on your browser and settings. We recommend having a quick look at the configuration page to see if you want to make adjustments to the search parameters or how the results will be displayed.
 
 

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Why We Should Defrag Our Computer

Have you been tired of the slow speed and system failure of your computer? When suffering from the program error or freezing up, people tend to think they need a new computer. Actually, your computer needs only a defragmentation to improve its performance, because hard disk fragmentation is the head cause to the misbehaving of your computer.

What is fragmentation? When the files are saved, new data will be stored in the free space in different places. The disk gets fragmented especially when the files are added, changed or deleted. And the data currently written in the disk will be separated around the disk, which is the cause of fatal problems for your computer. In other words, the disk is just like a room and the files are like the objects you place in it. In order to find things in a short time, you need to tidy it up regularly. You should do a routine work to label those things and put them into one place. So dose your disk. With the cleaning up of fragmentation in your computer, you will surely receive a higher reading and scanning speed.

Defragmentation addresses this fatal problem properly by arranging the files to its original place. All you have to do is to select the right hard disk and press a button. However, regular hard drive maintenance is not getting enough attention from people. They hardly notice what the true problem their computers are facing, and often deal with it in the wrong way. Most people never spend time to clean their hard disks. Therefore, it needs a rather long time for the solution of the slow computer. Defrag is recommended for most people to fix a sluggish computer. In this case, you would love to have this done in the night because the defragmentation course takes a couple of hours. With a regular defragmenter, your computer's performance and durability will be improved.

Fragmentation is an unavoidable problem to every hard disk. It is an inconspicuous threat to your computer, which is also the one cause of many of your computer problems. Fragmentation should be realized by the users and handled properly. Only by doing this can the failure and freezing up of your computer be avoided.
 
Download Smashing Defrag to defragment your computer now!
 

Friday, August 21, 2009

Office.com released

Microsoft has recently become the proud new owner of the domain name generic Office.com attractive after the purchase of an American businessman for an undisclosed amount. Instead of reserving the name of its next set of line of business software services, the domain name was live this morning with an advance on the website of Microsoft Office Online.

For reference, the site is designed to help people learn more about desktop software Microsoft Office, but also bind to some of its products on the Web (eg, Microsoft Office Live).

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Thursday, August 20, 2009

Windows Live Movie Maker - A New Updated Version of Windows Movie Maker

Windows Live Movie Maker, a new tape of sports, updated version of Windows Movie Maker, has left beta and is ready to handle your needs for video editing.
 
Movie Maker has been a long love video editing application that many people have not even touched, but as more and more people to go with your digital video, such as video editors free Movie Maker will probably be more useful and used by the general public.
 
The new and improved Windows Live Movie Maker sports now ubiquitous in applications for Windows Tape menu (above), compatible with HD, a tool to upload your videos on YouTube, and you can share with other popular video sharing sites with the right of modules.
 
Windows Live Movie Maker is a free, Windows Vista and Windows 7 only. If you have time to give full effect through, we know how you like the new and improved Movie Maker in the comments. Looking for something a little stronger? Check out our six best video editing applications. Windows Live Movie Maker is here: http://www.windowslive.com/Desktop/MovieMaker
 

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Driver Sweeper

When you update your video card, or just the drivers from the previous version and leave the configuration registry entries cluttering your system, but you can clean them.

Driver Sweeper works by removing all the additional elements uninstall the driver leaves, you will need to uninstall the video card, motherboard or sound card drivers, then run the utility to remove all traces extra. When you've done (and restarted), you can proceed with the installation of new drivers. He is a utility that is not really necessary for most people, in fact, it is not recommended for the less tech-aware, but a tool that I used to always do an update.

Driver Sweeper is a free download for Windows only. If you have a device that is not compatible, or you want to delete the drivers built into Windows, so I've already written an article on how to improve performance by removing the old drivers after the update upgrade to new equipment.

Driver Sweeper is here: www.phyxion.net/Products/Products/Driver-Sweeper
 

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

K9 Internet filtering

Many of us have had experiences with K9 Internet filtering, if for no other reason, which is used in thousands of schools across the country. One of the strengths of K9 is the division of content filtering in 60 categories, which allows you to lock and unlock the big chunks of your black list, without having to get their hands too dirty. K9 is a desktop computer, install software and all the controls on the Internet to make calls against the filters you have specified. In an effort to overcome the limitations of the work of a database, this real-time dynamic K9 Rating actively access the content of the websites and the ban if the filter is divided into categories that you have chosen.

K9 is here: www1.k9webprotection.com

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Sunday, August 16, 2009

Foxit Reader - A Good PDF Reader

Foxit Reader is an alternative policy, a network on top of the display of PDF files with a minimum interface, it also has a lot of features at your fingertips all packaged in a lightweight package 6MB. Foxit loads immediately without any delay or splash page to load plug-ins. Read PDF files is the snappy, images and text and graphics quickly. By filling out PDF forms, you can save your progress in the form and return later to complete the form. Although the free and the Pro version allows you to annotate the text, insert graphics and pictures, and insert links, free Foxit add a stamp on each page, note the Pro version removes the mark. Foxit is available as a portable application.

Foxit Reader is here.

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Friday, August 14, 2009

My Myopic Eyes

When I was a child, I always felt envy of people who wore glasses because they were different from me. When they couldn't see something clearly they put out a pair of glasses and said. Oh, forgive me, I have to wear it in order to see that more clearly. At that time I thought it really cool and elegant to wear a glass.

So, I, a naïve girl, tried every means to become myopia, including wearing my grandpa's glass which looked like bottles' bottom , reading under the obscure light or dazzling sunshine or sometimes in a moving bus and narrowing my eyes like a myopia even I can see the surroundings clearly.

These efforts did't go to waste---- I became myopic as I had wished. It was simply a festival the day I wore my first pair of glasses. It was a pair of little and common glasses with red frame and some flower carve. I wiped it clearly and wherever I went, my eyes were keeping searching for something that could reflect--- a shopwindow, a mirror , or even a pool of water. I felt myself shining with that pair of glasses. I felt confident and rose my head proudly.

However, that happiness did't last long. Gradually , I couldn't see the remote objects even with glasses. I was puzzled and was asked to have an examination again which gave me the result that my myopia had become more severe. Thus I had to change another pair of glasses. That case had happened several before I got angry and took off the glasses.

I went to school , went to canteen and sat in the classroom all without glasses, thinking that it will help to relax my myopic. However, things went to the other side. Not only my disease became more severe but also my study dropped behind because of the obscure picture of the blackboard in my eyes.

My friend was worried about that and asked me why I don't wear the glasses. I told her the reason--- the glasses make my myopic more severe. She was surprised and corrected my wrong conception. She said that it is the unsuitable and unqualified glasses that cause the deterioration of my eyes and to the contrast if I choose a pair of suitable and quality assured glasses, my myopic will keep stable. And if I went on without glasses, my myopic will undoubtly go to bad rapidly.

That frightened me and I realized the importance of choosing a pair of good glasses. I did as my friend had told and searched in the Internet for authoritative websites for qualified glasses maker. It isn't an easy work because there are so much fake information. Finally, I found what I want. It is a website of high public value. The customers there are so appreciate for their product that they write down their sincere thanks.

Under my parents'help, I bought a pair of glasses which is dedicated and qualified.
Now, my myopic has becomed better and many of my classmates asked me where to buy that glasses and how.

I smile and say "follow me"

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Convert videos from FLV format to MP4 format

It's my birthday yesterday. I was so happy and excited because my best friend Tom attended my birthday party and he gave me a new mp4 player as birthday present, which is what I have been dreaming of for a long time.

The mp4 player is so smart; I couldn't help showing it to my classmates. They all admire me so much. But there is a question; there are only two mp4 format videos. So I download some from my computer. To my disappointment, what I download are all FLV format and my mp4 player does not support!

I began to search software which can convert videos from FLV format to MP4 format. From Google, I got a lot of results, but when I download them, most of them are unworkable. I had to try one by one.

This software contains four parts, that is, DVD to iPhone Converter, iPhone Video Converter, iPhone Transfer, and iPone Ringtone Maker. After installing it, I operate the iPhone Video Converter, add an FLV format video, choose the output format and began to convert. It takes me only 30 seconds to convert a 6.41MB video. The output MP4 format video is 26.99MB, the screen is very smooth and the sound quality is very clear. The convert speed is really satisfactory. What's more, the software support 11 different convert formats and you can freely set the video size, video quality, audio quality, split size, etc.

Through my experience above, I think this software is a powerful application that can convert nearly all DVD and video files to MP4 and other frequently-used formats. For example, Advanced Audio Coding (*.aac), MPEG-4 Audio (*.m4a), MPEG Layer-3 Audio (*.mp3), Waveform Audio (*.wav), QuickTime Video (*.MOV), MPEG Video (*.mp4) and so on. Nowadays, there are really a lot of good videos and movies online everyday. When we download them into mp4 player, some maybe unsupported. At that time, we are usually depressed and get angry. But when you get this software, I believe you will never have this feeling.

However, there is one disadvantage, the trial version has limitations, at most 3 minutes of every file will be converted. So, I'm considering buying it now.

Above is my experience, I share it with you and hope it can be of help to you. The software is so great for you to get one.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Five tips to help you speed up disk defragment

Are you boring that the slower the more you use computers? Are you boring the Windows Disk Defragmenter is cumbersome and inefficient? These five tips that can help us to accelerate the speed of disk defragment.

Close the application

As a result of the operation of certain programs may need to repeatedly read the data in the hard disk, normally it will affect the defragmenter work. If the system is instability, it will even lead to the blue screen of death. Therefore, in order to speed up the speed of disk defragment, the best way is to close all running programs.

Modify the registry to automatically shut down the screen saver

Before disk defragmenter work, we must first turn off screen saver, or disk defragmenter will start again, but if every time manually close the application, may be more trouble. Here tell everyone a small trick, that is, by modifying the registry to automatically close the screen saver. Specific steps are as follows:

First, use the “regedit” command to open the registry, navigate to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft \Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets", then find whether there is the "Defrag" key under this path, if there is no then create a new key. In the "Defrag" and then create a new key called "Settings" the main key, and then in this new one of a primary key named "DisableScreenSaver" primary key, and finally change the default string value to "YES". After each run the disk defragmenter, the screen saver will be automatically closed, run automatically after finishing of the defragmentation.

To change the temporary folder location

IE will generate a large number of temporary files in the directory of Temporary Internet Files, hard drives will also read and write frequently, resulting in a large number of fragments, thus slow down the speed of access. In order to avoid this, we can assign the same temporary directory to other partition.

Methods are: First, create a new directory in the other partition to storage the temporary files. Second, click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Internet Options. In the opened dialog box, click the "Settings" button, and then click "Move folder" button, select the directory created before.

Retain sufficient disk space

We will find when using computer, if the remaining space of hard disk is too small, the speed of running an application will be very slow, disk defragmenter is also difficult. Therefore, for the small disk partition, it is best to keep more than 15% of available space; for the large disk partition, it is best to keep more than 5% of the available space; for the boot partition, at least more than 200MB space.

In addition, when using computer, we should release the waste of disk space, such as frequent emptying the recycle bin, delete internet history, as well as delete the files of temporary folder.

Adjust the parameters or the use of professional software

If the size of hard disk partition or volume is very small, it will defragment a long time, but for a number of full data for large hard drives and partitions, you need to wait a long time. Therefore, for the large hard disk or partition, you can take the following two methods:

First of all, turn off the optimization parameters of the system disk defragmenter, so that defragmenter can accelerate the speed, but this approach effect may not be very obvious.

Another approach is to use a professional tool to defragment the hard disk or partition, for example, Smashing Defrag can defragment disk with a very high speed. If we use Smashing Defrag every day, the disk will be optimized in a little minutes, the system will be able to maintain the best condition. The suggestion is that you can use the windows task schedule to keep the defragmenter run automatically at least once a week.