Internet Explorer 9 includes a new tab view that displays the sites you visit most frequently. The view can be accessed by clicking the new tab button or by navigating to about:Tabs in the address bar. Frequent sites listed are limited to 2 rows (10 total sites) on the screen but this can be customized with a simple registry tweak. With a little help you will be able to expand the most popular...
Read MoreNew to Internet Explorer in version 9 is a tab view that displays your most frequently visited sites so you can jump to a site with just one click. By default this new screen is only displayed when you click the New Tab button. A simple tweak allows you to view this page every time Internet Explorer 9 is started by setting it as your home page.
Read MoreIn the latest version of iOS Apple included a new feature called AirPrint. Designed to bring native printing support to the iOS platform it can be found on version 4.2 or later on devices such as the iPhone, iPod, and iPad. At launch only a handful of HP wireless printers could be used but with the help of this article it is possible to AirPrint to any printer connected to a Windows computer, including...
Read MoreThe most annoying feature in iTunes 10 for many users is the new Ping social network. For those that have chosen not to use the service, Apple has made it difficult for users to disable the service buttons polluting the interface. In the latest version of iTunes 10, Apple took it a step further and displays a Ping button next to every...
Read MoreApple introduced a new social network in the latest version of iTunes called Ping that allows you to "follow your favorite artists and friends to discover the music they're talking about." If you are a music junkie that does not use Facebook you will love the service, for everyone else, almost all of the features already exist in the Facebook world. Although using Facebook may not be as elegant as...
Read MoreOn my PC the longest part of the sync process in iTunes with my iPhone or iPad is the device backup. Taking up to an hour at times I can live without a backup. Especially since I jailbreak my devices which makes ever restoring a backup after an OS upgrade a bad idea.
Read MoreEvery hard drive in a modern computer is connected to the system through a storage controller. This controller typically can communicate with the hard drive via a number of different interface protocols. For maximum compatibility many computers are configured in the BIOS to use the older IDE interface protocol to communicate with modern SATA hard drives. This setting is acceptable for the average...
Read MoreA long load time when a user starts Internet Explorer is one of the most common performance issues seen with Internet Explorer 8. The primary cause of this problem is third-party add-ons that were either preloaded on a new computer or bundled with other software and installed over time. These extra mini programs must be loaded along with the core Internet Explorer code every time Internet Explorer...
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To showcase the new touch technologies in Windows 7, Microsoft created the Windows 7 Touch pack originally just for OEM manufactures to ship with new computers with integrated touch hardware, the touch is now available to the public. Included are six programs that range from fun touch enabled programs to mini games.
If your computer has some RAM to spare, RAM drives are perfect for increasing the performance of any application that must read and write a lot of data. Using a special kernel mode driver along with system memory, a temporary RAM drive can be created that is significantly faster than traditional storage. Spindle based hard drives found in almost every computer have a maximum read and write speed...
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