Speed PC Up from Slow Windows

Windows 7 Vs Windows XP/Vista

Microsoft claims that Windows 7 is a lot faster than Vista or XP, but is it really so? There are so many factors to getting a faster performance pc, especially considering hardware and the programs you run, but there are some simple tweaks you can use to get a better performance.

Two quick examples:

Cheers
Paul

Microsoft has shipped a security advisory with an urgent message for Windows XP users:  Update your Flash Player immediately!

Here’s the warning:

So, even if you recently updated or installed Flash it would be wise to go to Adobe’s site and get the very latest version now. You can also de-select the ‘Free McAfee Security Scan’ if you don’t want it installed on your pc.

HI,

I’ve just checked out this new (for me anyway)  Twitter tool . If you’re into Twitter and Social Media stuff and would like to have a quick and easy way to setup targeted tweets, then you should check this out.

It allows you to automatically follow and get followers based on your selected keywords, so can give you a good idea of who is tweeting within your chosen area. Another cool feature is you can set it to ‘unfollow’ people who don’t follow you back, and this is also done automatically based on your own settings.

Here’s a quick sample from their site – "Choose a keyword or phrase, select how many people to follow each day, choose when to drop lame friends, and you’re done. A week from now you will have hundreds if not thousands of new followers – and it never has to stop."

Imagine if you have a site on a particular subject and you want to get visitors to your site. You can use the normal methods of trying to get the Google’s of this world to push people to your site, but that is a serious amount of work. I reckon it would be great if you could setup connections with people based on your common themes (from the keywords) and you would surely get a good percentage of those visiting your site.

I’ve just joined up to give it a  good trial  so will let you know in a week or so how it’s going, but so far it looks pretty good here. http://www.evertweet.com/

Cheers

Paul

Microsoft Loses $290 Million Court Judgement.

Due to the way that Word was built using a special XML editing technology, the company that owns the legal rights to that technology won a court judgement that means Microsoft has to be extremely careful to make sure that other patents haven’t been infringed. 

What this means in the real world is that it’s highly probable that Word, and also possibly it’s mother product Office, will need to be revamped or rebuilt. To those individuals who use Microsoft Office, this could potentially mean having to pay a higher price for the software.

I  personally haven’t used Office (or Word, Excel etc) for some time now on my personal computers but instead I use OpenOffice which is Free and built by Sun Microsystems companies, so is very stable and reliable. It has a massive developer community behind it so is kept well up to date and can be used to open all those old Word or Excel documents that you have from before.

The latest version (3.2) is also just about to be released with the most recent version (3.0) having been downloaded over 100 Million times in a little over twelve months. Surely, that says something good about this product.

Anyway, give it a go if you haven’t already and you will be surprised at the performance pc users would tell you was not previously possible. You can get it here directly from OpenOffice.org.

Enjoy

Paul

Save Time And Have More Fun With Your Twittering!

There’s a great new application called TweetGlide which I have just tried out and found that it makes my tweeting a lot simpler and much more fun.  It’s free and you can customize it exactly the way you want it.

It also allows you to display an advert to all users so can be used as a great way to go viral and grow your traffic to your profile. You can also earn money with it, which is even better.

What’s more, there is an iPhone compatible version coming soon and I am really looking forward to being able to do this on my phone and my pc.

You can download it here and give it a go. 

Cheers

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