Having recently had my HTC Desire replaced due to a fault, I’ve had to reinstall the entire device. I took this as an opportunity for a bit of a clear out, and have updated my previous [intlink id=“57” type=“post”]list of favourite apps[/intlink] accordingly.
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Enable Full Firefox 4 Hardware Acceleration
I’ve found that Firefox 4 doesn’t seem to have complete hardware acceleration enabled by default and by using the following tweaks have improved performance.
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0Firefox 4 — Final (but not x64)
So, Firefox 4 has finally launched! Sadly Mozilla have dropped their promise of an x64 release of Firefox 4.
If you’re a Firefox user I recommend upgrading, if you’re not then I suggest giving it a try.
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Internet Explorer 9 — Better than many expected?
Just a quick post, it seems that Microsoft have finally made a reasonable web browser, or at least the folks at Tom’s Hardware seem to think so. I’m still looking forward to Firefox 4, and hoping Mozilla will deliver a 64bit version as promised, but a bit of competition from the (still) dominant player in the browser market can’t be a bad thing.
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MPC-HC 1.5.1
It’s been a little while since I checked, and since then the MPC-HC developers have released 3 new final releases. The current release is 1.5.1.2903. As usual there is an x86 player, x64 player, x86 standalone filters and x64 standalone filters.
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Disk Speeds
Since a post about a year ago where I compared the speed of several flash drives (for Speeding up Media Browser) I’ve been keeping a track of the speed of various drives / devices. As I’ll soon be obtaining quite a few new drives it seemed a good time to organise all the benchmarks and start a post with the data I’ve collected.
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Media Browser 2.3.0 (Draco)
Media Browser has been updated to version 2.3.0. There are quite a number of updates, including a service for updating metadata which dramatically improves performance.
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Quicklinks to a list of utilities for fresh installs of Windows
Below is a list of all the little things I install on a fresh install of Windows.
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Problems with Catalyst Mobility — Fixed
I own a Dell Studio 1557 laptop with an AMD (formerly ATI) Mobility Radeon 4570. Whilst Dell provide a driver, they don’t keep up-to-date with AMD’s monthly release cycle so in the past I have installed newer versions from AMD directly.
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Free Microsoft Anti-Virus — now version 2
Microsoft have released version 2 of Security Essentials. As [intlink id=“93” type=“post” class=“intlink”]noted previously[/intlink] in this blog, version 2 will install on Windows Server 2008 R2 (and presumably other Windows Server versions too)
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