Optimizing system performance used to be about defragmenting every so often and limiting the number of applications you’re running. Unfortunately, today’s modern PC needs a whole host of support applications doing their own thing in the background in order to maintain a usable system. TuneUp Utilities 2010 attempts to corral your PC and whip it […]
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If you’ve been using Mozilla’s Thunderbird email application over the years you’ve no doubt noticed that it hasn’t been substantially updated in, well, quite a long time aside from the usual bug fixes. Thankfully they’ve launched a release candidate for Thunderbird 3.0 which improves on several aspects of the email client which should, hopefully, fix […]
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Distributed computing is a fancy term for splitting up computing work between internet capable computers. It’s not a new technique as distributed.net and seti@home can attest to and it harnesses the processors in millions of home systems today.In fact SETI@home…
CPU-ZDeveloper: CPUIDUsage: System Information GatheringCPU-Z WebsiteCracking open a computer to take a look at what’s inside is a tedious task and completely undoable for most people. The majority of operating systems offer a basic amount of information on how much…
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Platforms are built by developers, not so much by the ones hired by companies for the initial design but by the devs that decide to write programs for your brand new operating system or fancy gadget. Apple’s iPhone has been…
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