Every Sunday, I perform a set of jobs on all my computers. They help optimize the system, save hard disk space, increase security and privacy, etc.   Clean: Using CCleaner, I clean the PCs including all the browser caches and various other application caches. (Read my introduction to CCleaner here....

There are a lot of utilities that can be used to clean a computer. These do something more than the usual “Disk Cleanup� ($ cleanmgr), are easy to use with custom features and are faster too. Cleaning up your computer can improve its performance and ensure greater privacy. For a while now, I hav...

YousableTubeFix changes YouTube from a world of pain to a much nicer experience. The biggest improvements (IMO) are: * the video window is a reasonable size (not fullscreen, but not too small either) * any video is trivial to download * switching to high quality is easy It’s such a pain to tra...

Budgets are shrinking. Resources are tight or shrinking. In a recent post, I discussed how ideas that I had been a proponent of for 2-3 years suddenly became extremely valuable to companies during the downturn of 2001-2003. This downturn is a different beast. This means that you will need more than ...

This will come handy when you are trying to recover an accidentally deleted website or you need to retrieve a web page that no longer exists at the original location. You opened a web page on the Internet but the server hosting the site returns a 404 error meaning that either the web page has been r...

Another year has come and gone. Was able to get in a little more geocaching this year than in years past. I have found 1901 caches since I started in June of 2002. This year is my record, finding 692 caches. Would have been fun to hit 700, but now I have a goal for next year. It helped that I was ab...

Over just the past 24 hours, there’s been quite a hullabaloo surrounding the Wall Street Journal’s controversial front-page story on Google’s edge caching plan and whether it violates Net neutrality. (See Cord’s post and Bret’s). Lessig calls it a “made-up drama&#...

This article was culled from How to really speed up Web serving (and Plone) for your iPhone readers The other day, just for kicks, I attempted to browse this very site with my iPhone (via WiFi).  For those of you who don't know it yet, there is a third of a second in latency between my phone an...

Hard drive issues: Frequently when I attempt to open a folder on my Windows Vista partition I will have to wait 5 seconds or so for the drive to spin up (I hear it). Is there some way I can fix my cache or otherwise set up the drive so that it doesn't need to spin up every time I access files on my ...

The Firefox disk cache is usually located on the same drive that Firefox got installed. In Windows it is located in the Documents and Settings folder. It usually is a good idea to have temporary directories located on a fast hard drive. In this case the hard drive that Firefox was running on was a S...