My latest article over at Freewaregenius goes through the finer points of FreeMeter, a system resource monitor. FreeMeter keeps it lean so it doesn't negatively impact your performance as you're watching your resource usage. It also has a pretty nice interface which can efficiently convey information to you with a quick glance regarding memory usage, CPU usage, hard drive … [Read more...]
Archives for 2009
A Quick Fix for a QuickTime Problem
I ran into a problem in one of our labs recently regarding our good friend QuickTime. Now, I'm no fan of QuickTime and curse the .mov format under my breath every time I have no alternative formats available. Pressed for time, I tried to solve this problem using QuickTime Alternative but my users specifically wanted to use QTVR, which QuickTime Alternative does not support, at … [Read more...]
iGoogle Stops Supporting Secure Gmail?
iGoogle has won and earned its position at the healm of my browser experience by becoming my homepage. It's a useful location that can host many widgets that I'd want to check first thing: my Gmail account, my RSS feeds in Google Reader, a To Do list, the weather, and some news headlines. All-in-all it's very useful, but this morning I woke up to it becoming a little less … [Read more...]
Book Review: All-In-One CompTIA A+ Certification Exam Guide
At over 1200 pages, the All-In-One CompTIA A+ Certification Exam Guide, 6th Ed by Mike Meyers, is quite the tome. I read it cover to cover in preparation for the A+ exam and just completed it. For a little information on the CompTIA A+ certificate, it is a standard achievement proving basic competency with computer hardware and software. This should probably be the first … [Read more...]