Posts By: ਜੌਨ ਸਕਾਈਫ

0Android Market Google PlayUpdated list of favourite HTC Desire Apps

ਪ੍ਰਕਾਸ਼ਿਤ ਨਾਲ & ਤਹਿਤ ਦਾਇਰ ਕੀਤੀ ਹੈ Android. ਆਖਰੀ ਵਾਰ ਅੱਪਡੇਟ ਕੀਤਾ ਗਿਆ .

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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0Mozilla Firefox LogoEnable Full Firefox 4 Hardware Acceleration

ਪ੍ਰਕਾਸ਼ਿਤ ਨਾਲ & ਤਹਿਤ ਦਾਇਰ ਕੀਤੀ ਹੈ Web Technologies. ਆਖਰੀ ਵਾਰ ਅੱਪਡੇਟ ਕੀਤਾ ਗਿਆ .

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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0Mozilla Firefox LogoFirefox 4 — Final (but not x64)

ਪ੍ਰਕਾਸ਼ਿਤ ਨਾਲ & ਤਹਿਤ ਦਾਇਰ ਕੀਤੀ ਹੈ Web Technologies. ਆਖਰੀ ਵਾਰ ਅੱਪਡੇਟ ਕੀਤਾ ਗਿਆ .

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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1Internet Explorer 9 LogoInternet Explorer 9 — Better than many expected?

ਪ੍ਰਕਾਸ਼ਿਤ ਨਾਲ & ਤਹਿਤ ਦਾਇਰ ਕੀਤੀ ਹੈ Web Technologies. ਆਖਰੀ ਵਾਰ ਅੱਪਡੇਟ ਕੀਤਾ ਗਿਆ .

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.

0Media Player Classic - Home Cinema LogoMPC-HC 1.5.1

ਪ੍ਰਕਾਸ਼ਿਤ ਨਾਲ & ਤਹਿਤ ਦਾਇਰ ਕੀਤੀ ਹੈ Misc Media Software. ਆਖਰੀ ਵਾਰ ਅੱਪਡੇਟ ਕੀਤਾ ਗਿਆ .

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.

0Inside HDD LogoDisk Speeds

ਪ੍ਰਕਾਸ਼ਿਤ ਨਾਲ & ਤਹਿਤ ਦਾਇਰ ਕੀਤੀ ਹੈ Storage. ਆਖਰੀ ਵਾਰ ਅੱਪਡੇਟ ਕੀਤਾ ਗਿਆ .

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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0Media Browser LogoMedia Browser 2.3.0 (Draco)

ਪ੍ਰਕਾਸ਼ਿਤ ਨਾਲ & ਤਹਿਤ ਦਾਇਰ ਕੀਤੀ ਹੈ Media Browser. ਆਖਰੀ ਵਾਰ ਅੱਪਡੇਟ ਕੀਤਾ ਗਿਆ .

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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2AMD Radeon Graphics LogoProblems with Catalyst Mobility — Fixed

ਪ੍ਰਕਾਸ਼ਿਤ ਨਾਲ & ਤਹਿਤ ਦਾਇਰ ਕੀਤੀ ਹੈ Misc Software. ਆਖਰੀ ਵਾਰ ਅੱਪਡੇਟ ਕੀਤਾ ਗਿਆ .

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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0Microsoft Security Essentials LogoFree Microsoft Anti-Virus — now version 2

ਪ੍ਰਕਾਸ਼ਿਤ ਨਾਲ & ਤਹਿਤ ਦਾਇਰ ਕੀਤੀ ਹੈ Misc Software. ਆਖਰੀ ਵਾਰ ਅੱਪਡੇਟ ਕੀਤਾ ਗਿਆ .

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)