Ways to improve Battery Life in Vista
Turn off Sidebar:
Turning of the windows Sidebar helps with performance and reliability of Vista. Some people tell me it is nice to have that up. I say this, it’s using system resources and isn’t going to help you out when you’re running on a battery. Here is how you do this:
Control Panel>Classic View>Windows [...]
Disable Windows “Unused Icons” Balloon
If you’re sick of Windows taskbar popup balloons prompting you about unused icons on your desktop, fear not—you can shut those down easily. The How To Geek explains that when you uncheck the “Run Desktop cleanup wizard every 60 days” box in your desktop items dialog, you’re good to go with one less irritating [...]
Skip Commercials in Windows Media Center with DVRMSToolbox
Windows only: Freeware application DVRMSToolbox analyzes Media Center-recorded files and marks the start and end point of commercials so you can quickly skip over commercials and go straight to the content. Similar to previously mentioned Lifextender in its commercial skipping capabilities, DVRMSToolbox keeps your files in tact and marks the commercials instead of deleting them [...]
PSP 3.90 firmware update with Skype available
Oh yes, Skype for your PSP-2000 (aka, PSP Slim & Lite) series is now a reality. At least outside of Japan. It’s only available via network update at the moment and adds expanded support for PLAYSTATION Network titles. You do have your $20 PSP Headset right? Good, so what are you waiting for punk, get [...]
Save Ink, Paper, and Money with GreenPrint
Windows only: Save money on ink and paper while helping the environment with GreenPrint World Edition. The freeware version of the otherwise shareware GreenPrint offerings, GreenPrint World Edition identifies and removes unnecessary pages or space—like images you don’t need to waste ink on or pages with lone URLs—from your print jobs. GreenPrint also keeps [...]
Restore Your Data with Time Machine
Of course you know all about Time Machine’s marquee feature—the ability to browse your files back in time—but Blogger James Duncan Davidson details Time machine’s equally-excellent-in-its-simplicity feature: restoring an entire system after a hard drive crash. The process is painless. Simply boot from the Leopard install disc with a fresh hard drive in place of [...]
One-Click Jailbreak for iPhone 1.1.3 Firmware
Last week I detailed how to jailbreak your iPhone to the 1.1.3 firmware using Windows- or Mac-based applications and walking through a fairly long process. If that process was a bit too daunting for you, the Jailbreak Dev Team has released a one-click solution that you simply install through Installer.app. To use it, you need [...]
Hulu Discusses Private Beta, Suggests Public Launch Time Frame
I had the chance yesterday to sit down with Eric Feng, the CTO of Hulu, to discuss how things have gone during its private beta and where the service is heading in 2008. Here are some of the things I learned:
Hulu currently has “several hundred thousand users” who have submitted “tens of thousands” of feedback [...]
First shots of Windows 7 leaked? And by 7, we mean Vista.
There’s no telling how legitimate these shots might be, and it’s quite clear that these screens won’t be giving us any juicy details about Windows 7 anytime soon, but we couldn’t pass on images that purport to be the first from a super-secret test build of Windows 7 seeded to “key partners.” So, anything [...]
Add Multiple, Address-Specific HTML Signatures to New Gmail
Firefox with Greasemonkey: If the upgrade to the new version of Gmail made you leave your HTML signatures behind, you’re in luck. The Gmail 2.0 Multiple HTML Signatures Greasemonkey user script (wow, that’s a mouthful) can associate rich text signatures to individual addresses in Gmail, and include them above the quoted text in replies. [...]
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