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How To Optimize SSD Speed & Performance
Although Solid State Drives can deliver break-neck computing speeds, most users don’t know a nasty secret - your drive might not be properly configured. The reason is that SSDs don’t come optimized out of the box. Before the drive reaches peak performance, the user must engage in a fair amount of tweaking and preparatory work. In particular, AHCI mode in BIOS/EFI must be engaged and the correct AHCI drivers must be installed.
Travel Postcards Are Dead: 4 Ways To Share Your Travel Stories With Friends & Family
Sure, we all have Facebook and Instagram to share some photos and the occasional update, but don't you wish your family and friends could really take part in your travels, while sitting comfortable on their own chairs? Below you'll find several awesome services fit for all kinds of travel and travellers, that will help you share your past, present and future trips with style.
Recordium Highlights & Annotates Your Voice Recordings [iOS]
If you're a student or someone who regularly records lectures, meetings, or music, a new feature rich iOS app called Recordium allows you to manage, highlight, annotate, edit, and share recordings right from an iPhone - the app runs rings around Voice Memos when it comes to what can be done with audio. Two years ago, I highlighted and reviewed Blue Microphone's Blue FiRe as the best audio recorder app for the iPhone, but Recordium now surpasses it.
Reporting From Tech Land: 8 Video Websites With The Best And Latest On Technology
You can complain about information overload or you can just enjoy swimming in the digital stream. Actually, we shouldn't crib about the fact that there is too much out there vying for our attention; we could instead look into our information diet and make a conscious effort to pick up the choicest morsels. Maybe, these ten technology video websites will help.
Should You Use AMD Proprietary Graphics Drivers & How Do You Install Them? [Ubuntu]
If you have an AMD or nVidia graphics card or chip in your desktop or laptop, you have some serious graphics processing power under the hood. However, these highly respected graphics vendors like to keep their secrets, which includes making their drivers proprietary software. Ubuntu and other Linux distributions use open source drivers to make them work. But what’s the difference between the two, and how do you install the proprietary driver in Ubuntu if you decide to use it?
Start Your Own Blog Effortlessly With Web Hosting Hub [Giveaway]
This week, I'm taking a look at Web Hosting Hub and their $5.99 per month service, which includes free domain name registration, unlimited disk space and bandwidth and a whole lot of other features you can read about here. Web Hosting Hub is one of the many recommended web hosts listed on our Best Web Hosting Services page. We're going to be giving away 10 accounts that include year's worth of free hosting plus domain name (valued at $720), so if you could use the webspace be sure to enter at the end of this article for a chance to win!
Say the Same Thing: The Next Big Word Game
Say the Same Thing (STSG) is a new game, available as a free iOS and Android download, which comes to us courtesy of the band OK Go. Letterpress made a splash when it launched last year, Pictionary-like Draw Something was a huge hit, and there's lots of popular iOS word games like 7 Little Words that will keep you busy for hours. STSG is a new word association game that brings a bit of vocabulary fun into your day.