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If you ask me, Internet streaming is one of the best advancements in web technology I’ve ever experienced, at least when it comes to user experience. YouTube has made some serious strides in online video over the last decade – strides which can easily be overlooked and forgotten. But streaming will always suffer from a [...]
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The Cloud is the answer to all the worlds problems, it would seem - a buzzword technology that sends computing full circle right back to where it started - with a thin client model and all the power in a remote server. Economic downturn? No problem - just put it in the cloud! World peace? There's a cloud app for that. I joke, of course - but there are actually some legitimate uses for this "new" technology.
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If you’re like me and you spend a huge portion of your day browsing the web then you understand how frustrating it is to have a slow, bloated browser that seems to be on its last leg. While some of that slowness can stem from issues unrelated to the browser, like ISP and computer hardware, there are some steps you can take to maximize browser speeds.
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For a long time now, Windows Explorer (the process on Windows that controls everything from the desktop to folder browsing) has had a poor reputation for being a clunky, slow, and arguably useless file navigator. More recent versions of Windows (namely 7) have improved upon it, but there are still a few options and features that are missing. Thanks to hobby programmers, there are a few options and tools that you can use.
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There was always some amount of lag in the game, especially when there were lots of players logged in. That's an experience you can have only so often before you realize that it's either time to optimize your PC to reduce lag as much as possible, or don't even bother playing at all. To really optimize for gaming, you'll need to take a very focused approach to fine-tune the areas of performance that really matter.
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Whatever you think of Windows 8 (at MakeUseOf, our opinions are mixed), it’s certainly speedy. Windows 8 boots faster than previous versions of Windows, has lower memory usage, and has a desktop that feels nice and snappy. Like all versions of Windows, Windows 8 has a variety of settings you can tweak to speed things up and make it even faster. Some of the tips here also apply to previous versions of Windows, but Windows 8 has some new tricks up its sleeve.
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Every time you view a webpage, install a program, move files around, or anything else, you’re gradually making the insides of your system more chaotic and unorganized. If you don’t clean it up, your system can be seriously bogged down. In the past, users would often have to download many individual programs: some that cleaned up memory, others that defragmented the hard drive, and yet others that repaired the registry. Nowadays, there are software suites that do all of these clean-up tasks for you with a single mouse click. Auslogics BoostSpeed 5.4 is one of those programs. We’re giving away 25 copies of Auslogics BoostSpeed 5.4 worth a total of $1,250 for FREE!
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Has your computer loaded this webpage yet? If it has, you’ll be halfway toward working out just why it seems to be running so slowly. There are many reasons for desktop and laptops to chug along at their own, slow pace, defying the system specs and performing more like a relic from the 1990s. Where you’re browsing the web, word processing or gaming, poor performance will cause problems.
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It’s no secret that computers slow down over time. No matter how well-maintained you keep your computer, it’s going to experience a loss in efficiency. No matter how well-maintained you keep your computer, it’s going to experience a loss in efficiency. Thankfully, there are tools for that. We’re giving away 25 copies of System Mechanic 11 worth a total of $1,000 for free!
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leanup and maintenance are hard tasks to be consistent with. In real life, you have to keep things tidy or else everything gets dusty, rusty, and outright unusable. Computer maintenance is even tougher. You often don’t feel the direct impact of computer junk buildup until it’s too late. Luckily for us all, Anvisoft has a program that solves the problem of quick and easy cleanup. This week, we’re giving away 25 copies of Cloud System Booster Pro worth a total of $500 for FREE!
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Auslogics BoostSpeed 5.4 is a one-stop PC optimization and maintenance application. It includes quick-scanning features that will easily optimize any user’s system, as well as a suite of advanced utilities that even experienced computer geeks can appreciate. The biggest new feature in Auslogics BoostSpeed 5.4 is full Windows 8 support. Interested?
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If you're using a Linux distribution like Ubuntu or Fedora, you're also using the Linux kernel, the core that actually makes your distribution a Linux distribution. Your distribution constantly asks you to update your kernel. Why should you do this when it's been running just fine?
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I don’t like Firefox. I think it is a monolithic, huge, heavy browser, and its XPI-based architecture feels slow and dated. Firefox is more flexible than other browsers like Chrome but it also gradually slows down and freezes. Let me show you some quick techniques I’ve used to get around this and use Firefox in relative comfort (and responsiveness).
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Is your PC running at a fraction of the speed it used to? Enter Auslogics BoostSpeed, a tried and tested method of breathing new life into an ageing Windows partition. Today we’re offering another chance for you to win one of 25 copies worth a staggering $1,248!
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Linux users are quite proud of the fact that Linux is pretty darn fast when compared to other operating systems. Not only that, but Linux doesn't seem to suffer much of the same "bogging down" effect that Windows gets when you have hundreds of applications installed on the system. However, the speed addicts who use Linux always need to find new ways to make their system go even faster.
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