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Feature Friday – Google Wave Preview – Rarst.net
I’ve been really apprehensive about posting my own review of Google Wave simply because I don’t see how the general public will be affected by it yet. Long term, I’m hoping Google Wave will become the method of choice for collaboration, but short term, it’s still too early to tell. Some people are gushing over [...]
Adding New Ram? Check the Numbers
RAM stands for Random-Access-Memory and it is what your computer uses to perform most operations. A lot of programs will “live in memory” that means while the program is running it will be utilizing your RAM. The more programs you have running concurrently, generally the more RAM you will need.
However, picking the right ram is [...]
32bit vs 64bit
Inspired by a friend who isn’t as big of a computer geek as I am, I decided to do a post explaining the differences between 32bit and 64bit when it comes to operating systems.
The 32 and 64 bit numbers actually refer to the maximum accessible address space that the OS and CPU can handle. In [...]
Website Profiling with Fiddler
Recently I came upon the task of measuring performance in a corporate website. Generally when profiling I just pop open Google Chrome and run the Web Developer Tools that come pre-installed. It has a built in profiler that works and as a bonus looks really pretty. However, since this is a corporate setting, IE6 is [...]
Microsoft WebsiteSpark
While I initially decided that Fridays would be posts from my favourite blogs, this was something that I realized not a lot of people are aware of. If you’re looking to get into ASP.NET I recommend you check out this great offering from Microsoft. There are a few stipulations, but definitely worth it if you’re [...]
Find and Fix DNS Errors with OpenDNS
For the last few months I’ve noticed that Google websites just seem to go down randomly for me. Not all google websites, but most of them – everything except gMail. It normally comes back up after an hour or two, but for someone who lives by being connected, that hour or two is pretty rough. [...]
Feedly – Upgrading RSS
I’m a huge follower of the RSS movement. I can’t imagine what it would be like if I had to visit all 100+ websites that I follow, to gather news daily. RSS Solves this problem for me. Although, it seemed to create a whole new one. Now instead of being able to follow sites daily, [...]
Remove Default Windows Applications
So you never use Internet Explorer, and the thought of using Windows Media Player never occurred to you. And lets not even think about using Windows Messenger.. Who ever uses Windows Messenger? But just because you don’t use those apps, doesn’t mean they’re not still on your system. However, you can completely disable them using [...]
