Benchmarking is a time-honored tradition among computer enthusiasts. It is supposed to allow a fair, unbiased means of comparing a piece of hardware or a system of hardware components to determine which one is the best in real-world applications. This can also be important if you're trying to improve your system and you want to compare one component to another and judge if an … [Read more...]
Canaware NetNotes: capture web pages then store and edit them within a local knowledge base
I guest wrote an article for the popular freewaregenius.com site on Canaware NetNotes. Canaware NetNotes is a free program that can capture web pages and stores and organizes them within a searchable, local knowledge base. Go read the full article at freewaregenius.com to learn more about this free program that will help you archive webpages as you browse and add your own notes … [Read more...]
Google Alerts – Constant Search Monitoring
Google Alerts is another tool from Google that can send you e-mails for any particular search query. Its usefulness is all going to depend on how well of a search query you can craft, but out of the box it has ton of potential. This might be very useful to the webmaster running their own site or the consumer looking to keep up to date on an awesome upcoming product (like the … [Read more...]
Wake-on-LAN @ Home
I briefly mentioned Wake-on-LAN (WoL) in a previous article, PC Power Management, and that's when I started to think about it seriously and how it might be relevant to my setup. Right now, I leave my home computer on for long periods of time, even when I'm not there just in case I need to remote control it or if I want to stream my media. This wastes a bit of electricity each … [Read more...]
Microsoft SuperPreview and BrowserShots – Your website in different browsers
Due to the way Internet Explorer is integrated with the Windows operating system and just the restrictions Microsoft puts on it in the first place, you can only have one version of IE on a machine at a time. Of course, I've covered Tredosoft's Multiple IE solution before, which does allow you to have more than one version, but Microsoft has just released (in beta) a solution … [Read more...]