Free Music Downloads with We7

While there is no shortage of sites that offer mp3 downloads, both legal and illegal, the concept of a site for legitimate free mp3 downloads that is completely supported by ads remains elusive. The latest site to take a stab at making this model work is We7, a new site with a prominent backer in [...]

Use a Ramdisk to speed up Applications

Many modern computers have one, two or even more gigabytes of ram that can be put to good use by creating a Ramdisk that is a virtual drive that uses part of the computers ram. The Ramdisk can be used like every other hard drive, you can copy applications and files to it and start [...]

Show message count of all folders in Thunderbird

Thunderbird displays only the message count of unread mails of every folder by default. I tried to find a way to display the count of all messages instead which would help me get a better overview of the amount of mails inside a folder. I wanted to make sure that the unread messages number would [...]

Speedup Windows XP in Minutes!

It’s not always wise to upgrade your hardware every time you feel your computer is getting slow. Here are some easy tricks to get most out of your hardware (Originally posted in http://www.mobile-pedia.com)
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Speedup Windows XP in Minutes!
Originally from 361degrees by 361degrees

FreeShare - Free Image Hosting Service

FreeShare offers free image hosting service where you can upload and store pictures and images free. FreeShare allows anonymous image uploads up to 2 MB, and 5MB for registered users.
FreeShare also allows hotlinking images from their web server.

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FreeShare - Free Image Hosting Service
Originally from AdGlobe Tech Blog by Naomi [...]

Understanding UNIX Multitasks operations and process command

Yet another good article from Martin Streicher , Editor-in-Chief, Linux Magazine that explains UNIX Multitasks (many concepts applies to Linux as well).
From the article:
On UNIX systems, each system and end-user task is contained within a process. The system creates new processes all the time and processes die when a task finishes or something unexpected happens. [...]

Show 100 Search Results in Google per page

Google displays 10 search results by default which is probably enough for most users who statistically use the first ten results most of the time ignoring the rest of the results. I on the other hand tend to view more than one page normally and was looking for a way to increase my productivity by [...]

How To Convert iPod Video to Divx or Other Formats

I’m into podcasts both audio and video. Except for live things like baseball games I rarely even listen to the radio in my car any more.
One of the things that I don’t like that that most podcasters encode their video for the iPod. I don’t blame them. The iPod is the market leader and bandwidth [...]

Quick Tip: Use remote Linux GUI system, admin tools locally

Technology has changed dramatically in the last decade. OpenSSH is one the best project. It allows you to control remote Linux / UNIX server using command line or GUI tools.
Do you miss GUI configuration server management tools such as Debian network-admin or Redhat/Cent os system-config-* tools/utilities while administrating a Linux server? Do you want [...]

Quick Tips: Look for those space munchers

Ever wondered which files took out the biggest percentage of your hard disk? Use Windirstat. It shows you just how your hard drive is being used by which files. WinDirStat reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views:

The directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows [...]

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