Posts Tagged ‘Performance’

Adjust and Control the Fan Speed on Your Mac

One of the things that I really like being able to do on my MacBook Pro is monitor the temperature of various parts of my laptop, and also control the speed of the fans. Using the iStat Pro widget (review) I'm able to read the temperature of my hard drive, CPU, GPU, heatsinks, wireless card, and more. If you want you can take it a step further and even control the speed of your fans.

August 18th, 2008
Adjust and Control the Fan Speed on Your Mac

CyberNotes: Encrypt, Backup, and Recover Files on a USB Drive

In this day and age almost everyone has a USB drive that they use to transport data, and if you're like me you probably have more than one.

August 12th, 2008
CyberNotes: Encrypt, Backup, and Recover Files on a USB Drive

Halite: A Small BitTorrent Client

I've been a big fan of uTorrent for quite some time mostly because of its small size, but there are a lot of features it has that I've never really needed. For example, how often do you look at all of those fancy graphs in uTorrent? If you feel the same way then you might want to checkout the Halite BitTorrent client.

July 26th, 2008
Halite: A Small BitTorrent Client

CyberNotes: Performance Monitoring

I'm one of those stat geeks that love to know everything I can about what my computer is doing. It's not that I use the information to do much, but a quick glance at the CPU or memory usage has, at times, helped me figure out why my computer is going so darn slow. For example, a spike in memory usage is typically the result of an app that likely needs to be restarted.

July 8th, 2008
CyberNotes: Performance Monitoring

CyberNotes: Firefox 3 Review

It's been a year and a half since Mozilla shipped Firefox 3 Alpha 1, and what we saw initially wasn't very breathtaking. For this first milestone release Mozilla focused on backend improvements that would, in the long run, make the browser a better competitor in a world that is largely dominated by Internet Explorer.

June 18th, 2008
CyberNotes: Firefox 3 Review

Flock 2.0 Beta Released, Based on Firefox 3

About two weeks ago we gave you a heads up that Flock 2.0 Beta was coming, and there was a lot of excitement surrounding the release since it's based on Firefox 3.0. With that you get all of the Firefox 3 goodness including performance enhancements, advanced bookmarking, new address bar, and much more.

June 16th, 2008
Flock 2.0 Beta Released, Based on Firefox 3

Flock 2.0 Based on Firefox 3 – Beta Coming Soon

Mozilla is hard at work getting ready for the launch of Firefox 3, and another Release Candidate is scheduled to be available tomorrow. They are still planning for a June launch of the next major milestone, and there is a lot of hype and anticipation surrounding the release. One thing you don't want to forget about is the Flock browser that is based upon Firefox!

June 3rd, 2008
Flock 2.0 Based on Firefox 3 – Beta Coming Soon

Flock 1.2 Beta Includes Digg Integration

Win; Mac; Linux Flock 1.2 Beta is now available, and as hard as it is to believe this version is even more social. This Beta makes it possible to keep up with your friends' activity on Digg or Pownce, and get AOL email notifications instantly as new messages come crawling in.

May 13th, 2008
Flock 1.2 Beta Includes Digg Integration

Opera 9.5 Optimizes JavaScript; Beats Firefox 3

Win; Mac; Linux Opera is obviously not content with sitting on the sidelines when it comes to being the fastest browser out there. Back in February Mozilla decided that it was time to optimize it's JavaScript performance, and used a technique called Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) that gave it a nice boost.

Opera 9.5 Optimizes JavaScript; Beats Firefox 3

Another Windows Expose Clone

Windows only It seems as though Apple's Expose feature has really struck a chord with Windows users. There have been Expose clones for what seems like forever, but it wasn't until Switcher that I became really impressed with what a feature like Expose could offer to a Windows user. Unfortunately to use Switcher you have to be running Vista with Aero enabled.

Another Windows Expose Clone