I don’t know about any of you out there, but when I signed on as an avid Firefox supporter I haven’t had any reason to look back for several years now. One thing I have noticed though is that with each new Firefox release the memory (RAM) usage seems to keep increasing. At first I simply assumed it was because I was beating my poor browser to death with all the different tabs and plug-ins I use all at once.
Since my laptop came with 3 GB (yes I know that isn’t much anymore) it never really hurt anything else and I could still run my full Adobe suite, Outlook Express, iTunes, and McAfee AV program (another RAM hog) without much problem. Sure there would be some lag here and there, processor performance would peak for a few seconds when switching windows, but for the most part this little HP laptop has been an unstoppable beast. The problem seemed to come around when I finally upgraded to Firefox 3.6. » Read the Rest
Often times in custom solutions for clients I need the ability to quickly and easily implement an upload method without the built in capabilities most open source content management systems provide. I am also not in the business of charging extreme amounts of money to cover the costs associated with buying the licenses needed for the fancier “more robust” upload utilities so any savings I can pass on to my clients, the better. One thing I came across a while back and have been ever so amused with is the In-a-Flash Upload Utility. » Read the Rest
Usually most of the articles my colorful group of friends post about on Twitter and Facebook can be quite off topic however today I came across an article that made me just about fall out of my chair. I have spent many a night reconditioning troubled computer systems (laptops, desktops, netbooks, etc…) and my absolute favorite is when I need to re-install Windows but there is no optical drive to load the installation CD into. Normally I just bypass this through a couple creative tricks and load everything over the network. This of course makes my network a little crazy for a while not to mention having to tie up one of my other computers to act as the media host. As of today, I don’t believe I will have any more of these headaches as there is now a simply way to turn your USB memory stick (flash drive) into the equivalent of a Windows installation CD. Novicorp’s WinToFlash makes it all possible, and what makes it even better… IT’S FREE! » Read the Rest