You wanna speed up your browser? Get your browser into memory. I posted a couple of weeks ago about creating RAM disks on your system to offer some high-speed storage on your computer. Now the question is: what should I do with it?
RAM Fox!
RAMFox is an implementation of Firefox Portable which is based out of [...]
Entries from March 31st, 2009
FasterFox? Pfffftt! RAM-Fox!
March 31st, 2009 5 Comments
Tags: disk · fast · firefox · optimize · ram · ramdrive · speed · Windows · windows-xp
Nerd Dinners — Geekery and Good Eats
March 27th, 2009 1 Comment
Leave it to the big brains of Scott Guthrie and Scott Hanselman to come up with this simple yet super cool concept. Nerd Dinners — a way (by use of web technology) for a bunch of introverts to meet up with each other and enjoy a meal, and the kind of conversation that drives [...]
Tags: asp.net mvc · developers · dinner · Microsoft · nerd · nerddinner.com · social networking · Web 2.0 · web-based
RAM Disks – Storing Files in Memory
March 21st, 2009 1 Comment
Back in ye olde days of DOS Microsoft included a utility with the system called RAMDRIVE.SYS. This utility allowed you to carve off a few kilobytes of your system’s precious RAM to use as a pseudo hard drive that was highly effective for reading and writing large volumes of data to and from a drive [...]
Tags: fast · io · memory · ram · ramdisk · ramdrive · solid-state · storage · tip · tweak · Windows · windows-xp
Blackberry Pearl Flip Reviews
March 21st, 2009 1 Comment
I’ve been selected for a panel of five bloggers in my office to review the Blackberry Pearl flip phone. I will be re-publishing my posts, or selected portions thereof, on my blog in addition to what I’m doing for work.
In the interests of transparency I’ll say that I’m being provided with a test unit for [...]
Tags: 8200 · blackberry · flip · pearl · phone · review · series
Tycho’s Echos
March 18th, 2009 No Comments
This stunning image is a composite of three separate images of Tycho’s Supernova remnant.
The image is the remnant of a supernova first discovered over four hundred years ago. The composite is made up of an x-ray image, an infrared image and a telescope photo. Check out the APOD site for more info.
Tags: apod · Astronomy · calar · chandra · composite · spitzer · tycho · x-ray