The Consumerist blog put laptops bought at Best Buy with a heavily marketed $40 “optimization” to the test against standard editions of those same systems. It turns out running a few apps yourself is, by far, the better solution.
via In-Store “Optimization” Is Usually Useless, Often Slows Down PCs – Optimization – Lifehacker.
Chrome Extensions or (Add-Ons) are used to extend the functions of the Google Chrome and the Chromium browser. The extension mechanism allows regular web developers with some experience with HTML and Javascript to add functions to the browser, either as a browser bar button or behind the scenes function, in three ways:
As a “Content Script“, [...]
The Chromium OS Project is an open-source operating system project started by Google to form the basis of Google Chrome OS. While Google will distribute it’s flavor of the OS primarily directed toward OEM netbooks, the Chromium OS project being open-source, can be used by anyone willing to join the developer team. The emphasis of [...]
The Chromium Browser Project is an open-source web browser project started by Google to form the basis of Google Chrome. While Google will distribute it’s flavor of the web browser, the Chromium project being open-source, can be used by anyone willing to join the project. The emphasis of the project is to build the fastest, [...]
One of the most persistent myths about Windows is that you need to reinstall the operating system regularly to keep it running at top performance. Lets take a look at the real problem and how to fix it.
Today were talking about the myth that Windows slows down over time, and how to solve the problem. [...]
With more and more applications running in the browser, like Google Apps, the browser becomes the center of activity. If your little $300 netbook runs a browser real well, you can handle most of your daily duties with it.
Browser makers, Apple, Mozilla, and now Google are making their browsers more efficient and speedier, therefore limited [...]
Currently the Mac Beta of Google Chrome doesn’t run extensions. It is promised very soon from Google, this week maybe. However the Open-Source project “Chromium” has a current build that does accept all the extensions from the Google extension gallery among a few other features still not in the Beta release. Here is how to [...]
Well-known European entrepreneur Tariq Krim just finished presenting the public beta release of Jolicloud, a new type of operating system for netbooks that we’ve covered a couple of times before, at Le Web.
As of today, you can install Jolicloud Express on most Windows netbooks out there easily by simply downloading the installation file and run [...]
Hey, you, your gadgets are disgusting. And wiping them with your greasy shirt sleeve isnt making things any better. Heres how to clean your gadgets, the right way.
via How To Clean Your Filthy Gadgets – How to clean your gadgets – Gizmodo.
The consumer electronics business, once the playground of large companies, has seen scrappy entrepreneurs charge in. But while the bar to becoming a hardware entrepreneur is lower than ever, it’s still not a gimme.
Indeed, there have been some big blowups along the way. The CrunchPad project, a stab at creating a $200 touchscreen tablet, ended [...]
Microsoft has begun a campaign to actively urge users of its 8-year-old Internet Explorer 6 browser to upgrade.
After launching IE 8 in March, Micosoft has concurred with critics that IE 6 is outdated. Many people have dropped the older browser, but the remaining users are often the tough cases–those who don’t have a choice because [...]
Blocked pages can still appear in Google. Before you step on your soapbox to rant about Google’s violation of robots.txt and the company’s abusive control of the web, take a little while to understand how and why it happens.
via Why Pages Disallowed in robots.txt Still Appear in Google.