Adam Myers
Defrag Your Registry to Improve Performance in Windows
Most of you are familiar with the notion of disk defragging. Briefly, a disk defragging utility will scan your harddisk and reassemble all the various bits of a file so that it is written in one continuous flow across your harddrive platter. The end result is a quicker read and write access because the heads [...]
Syncing Your Contacts from Gmail to Thunderbird
At the office I’m forced to use Outlook as my main communication and scheduling tool. Outlook gets a lot of bad raps and while at one time I’m sure most of it was justified, nowadays it really isn’t that bad of a product - at least Outlook 2007. However, that doesn’t mean I use it [...]
Repairing Corrupted or Incomplete Zip Files
Back in the day .zip files made the Internet go ’round. Cluster of files could be compressed and packaged together, allowing for easy distribution and speedy, relative to the time, downloads. When 5MB files would take half an hour to download, it wouldn’t be unheard of to have your dial-up modem boot you in mid [...]
Have Some Privacy with the Firefox Referrer Control
Every visit of yours to every website includes a whole whack of extraneous information. Most of us are aware that our IP address is one of those bits if information. As a webmaster, that information is handy but the more useful information is the referrer. The referrer variable is actually the URL or website that [...]
Where Has All My Harddrive Space Gone
It wasn’t long ago that most computer users were extremely conscientious as to what went on their hard drives. You see, when you only had a 1GB hard drive, you didn’t have quite the luxuries that you do today. In a decades time of computing we’ve progressed from a few hundred megabyte hard drives to [...]
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