There are over 100 background services running in Vista. Most of them do nothing but slow you down!
Any frequent reader of my Hubs knows that I am far from Windows Vista's greatest fan. I may actually be one of the loudest and most persistent critics of this misbegotten excuse for an operating system (OS).
I am currently receiving a measure of vindication as more and more people are finding stubborn and often insurmountable problems with drivers, applications, and worst of all, the sheer sluggishness of this monstrous OS which requires a jaw-dropping 15GB of free hard drive space just to install. And if you ever want to uninstall it, you're better off just reformatting the disk or you'll be weeks just trying to put all the pieces back together.
There are well over a hundred services inside Vista's innards, and most of them do absolutely nothing for the common, average user other than slow down his PC to a crawl and require outrageous amounts of hard drive space, RAM and CPU cycles. If you are even remotely considering using Vista, you had better have an uncle in the PC business as you're going to require a system with some truly massive power. All the people who think that just because their Centrino 512MB RAM laptop has a sticker that says it's "Vista Ready" that you'll actually be able to do something with it. Lots of luck!
There is so much sheer unadulterated trash gumming up the works on Vista that the average, normal user is truly well off by just turning the vast majority of it off. The readers of my Hubs are not generally the top multinational enterprise administrator types, but regular men and women who just use their computers for everyday common uses. I can assure you that well over 99% of these readers do not have any need whatsoever for the following Windows Vista services running all the time and turning your speedy computer into a mud bog slogger:
KTMRM for Distributed Transaction Coordinator
Network Access Protection Agent
Peer Name Resolution Protocol
Pen Service
PnP-X IP Bus Enumerator Service
Remote Access Connection Manager
Remote Registry
Secondary Logon
SL UI Notification Service
SSDP Discover Service
Tablet PC Input Service
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
UPnP Device Host
Virtual Disk
WebClient
Windows Management Instrumentation
Windows Media Center Extender Service
WinHTTP WebProxy AutoDiscovery Service
and let's not even mention Aero! (Gag!)
Friday, September 5, 2008
Turn Off Vista's Useless Junk And Speed Up Your PC
Connect to Internet with Your BlackBerry without Paying For Data Plan
If you have a Blackberry phone you have asked this question at least once (maybe thousand times). The BlackBerry phone comes with many fancy add-ons, they have an eye-candy look but there is one problem with them. You have to purchase a data plan for internet access. (As far as GSM services tell) This sounded little weird for me because I could access internet even with my old nokia. The trick is GSM services push you to buy a data plan and BlackBerry also doesn't give information for internet access without data plan, but the phone is capable of accessing internet without a data plan.
I own a BlackBerry Pearl (so the details will be told for Pearl but I guess it applies to most of the models) and I am using internet with my Pearl without paying for data plan. To do this you have to make some settings with your phone. First of all you have to set up your tcp settings. In your BlackBerry menu go to => Options - Advanced Options - TCP and enter your APN information for your GSM Service. You can find TCP APN settings in the list below.
When you finish the settings you need a browser to surf the net. The best one is Opera Mini Browser. You download the Opera Browser to your BlackBerry and in the Opera Browser menu you go through automatic network setup. Once the Opera Browser finds out your settings you are ready to surf the net from you BlackBerry for free. (Excluding standart connection charges from your GSM service provider)
Way To Earn Minimum $5000 Per Month
Google Knol will Help You Make Money Online
Google officially launched a new web authoring tool called Knol on Jul 23. Google Knol is free and opened to everyone. It is a content sharing network where you can write and publish articles in most of the topics. Each article page or content page you created is called a Knol.
Publishing a Knol is quite similar to publishing a blog post except the tone is more formal. You can insert related picture or image to your Knol and once your Knol created, readers are allowed to comment and rate your article in the Knol.
What Benefits You'll Gain from Publishing Google Knols?
AdSense Ads is Allowed in Knols
Google said that the authors can choose to include AdSense ads in all their Knols. So, each of your Knols that attract traffic may earn you some AdSense ad revenue. But, if you are actively creating Knols that share useful content, it is possible to earn a nice AdSense income every month as you will have more Knols gaining traffic.
Get Free Google Traffic
The Google knol homepage http://knol.google.com gained thousands of quality backlinks in less than a week. It is expected that it will gain decent of backlinks just like the other two content sharing networks, Hubpages and Squidoo. Because of the huge amount of backlinks Hubpages and Squidoo have gained, they are now getting million of visitors from search engines like Google and Yahoo every month (I believe most are from Google).
This will happen to Google Knol as well. Google Knol will soon gain huge amount of backlinks and many of the Knols created by different authors will start ranking high on Google search engine and enjoy free Google traffic. Those who manage to get their knols ranked on a competitive keyword will receive steady traffic. They can include links in their Knols to direct these Google traffic to their website or blog or choose to monetize their Knols with AdSense ads so that these Google traffic can be converted into AdSense revenue.
Google Knol has their own content policy and term of service. You should read and understand them before creating a Knol to publishing your content. Google doesn’t allow spamming, any Knol that against their policy will be deleted.
Google officially launched a new web authoring tool called Knol on Jul 23. Google Knol is free and opened to everyone. It is a content sharing network where you can write and publish articles in most of the topics. Each article page or content page you created is called a Knol.
Publishing a Knol is quite similar to publishing a blog post except the tone is more formal. You can insert related picture or image to your Knol and once your Knol created, readers are allowed to comment and rate your article in the Knol.
What Benefits You'll Gain from Publishing Google Knols?
AdSense Ads is Allowed in Knols
Google said that the authors can choose to include AdSense ads in all their Knols. So, each of your Knols that attract traffic may earn you some AdSense ad revenue. But, if you are actively creating Knols that share useful content, it is possible to earn a nice AdSense income every month as you will have more Knols gaining traffic.
Get Free Google Traffic
The Google knol homepage http://knol.google.com gained thousands of quality backlinks in less than a week. It is expected that it will gain decent of backlinks just like the other two content sharing networks, Hubpages and Squidoo. Because of the huge amount of backlinks Hubpages and Squidoo have gained, they are now getting million of visitors from search engines like Google and Yahoo every month (I believe most are from Google).
This will happen to Google Knol as well. Google Knol will soon gain huge amount of backlinks and many of the Knols created by different authors will start ranking high on Google search engine and enjoy free Google traffic. Those who manage to get their knols ranked on a competitive keyword will receive steady traffic. They can include links in their Knols to direct these Google traffic to their website or blog or choose to monetize their Knols with AdSense ads so that these Google traffic can be converted into AdSense revenue.
Google Knol has their own content policy and term of service. You should read and understand them before creating a Knol to publishing your content. Google doesn’t allow spamming, any Knol that against their policy will be deleted.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Google Chrome
SITTING halfway in between a traditional browser and an operating system, Google's new Chrome web browser has been built with a big emphasis on online applications.
Google has latched on to the popularity of tabbed browsing
Users can drag, drop and reshuffle tabs in whatever order they wish in Chrome
Users are warned of a potentially harmful website in Chrome
Type in your search query in the address bar and it automatically suggests related queries and popular websites.
Google claims Chrome -- www.google.com/chrome -- beats its competitors' offerings in speed, stability and search. On the speed front at least, Google has got it right. There’s no drag when loading web pages or additional Chrome browsers and when tested for page load times against Mozilla’s Firefox and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer it was able to outpace both of them. Google has latched on to the popularity of tabbed browsing, a feature made popular by Mozilla's Firefox browser and also incorporated in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Tabbed browsing enables users to open multiple screens in one browser window. Google, however, has taken tabbed browsing a step further. Not only can users drag, drop and reshuffle tabs in whatever order they wish, but they can also pull a tab out from its existing window to create a new browser window all to its own. Although impressive, it’s not Chrome’s secret to stability. Previously, tabs had been treated by browsers as shared resources that have the tendency to dramatically suck away a computer's CPU resources and slow down computer performance. But Chrome has upended this process to allow a computer to treat each tab as an individual and isolated process. The benefit of treating tabs as individual processes means that if an application running on a website unexpectedly crashes, it won't take the browser down with it. Instead, Chrome isolates the crash to the affected tab and ceases operation of the troublesome application. Chrome’s other trump card and Google’s big area of expertise is search and search features strongly in the browser’s design. The address bar has been integrated with Google's popular search engine to simplify the browsing experience -- type your search query in the address bar and it automatically suggests related queries, popular websites and the option to search for that particular query using the search engine of your choice. Although both the latest versions of Firefox and Internet Explorer have similar functionality built in, they don’t execute it with the same level of success -- especially if Google is used as the search engine of choice. Even though Google says Chrome is application agnostic and has no tie-in to any other Google service, it’s a no-brainer that the browser works best with the search giant’s web applications. In particular, its integration with Google Gears (software that enables offline access to online services) means you can download desktop icons for several Google apps including Gmail, Picasa and the Google Docs online word processor and spreadsheet. At the moment Google Chrome is only available on Windows XP and Vista, however the search giant says that making compatible versions for Mac and Linux operating systems is a high priority.
Google has latched on to the popularity of tabbed browsing
Users can drag, drop and reshuffle tabs in whatever order they wish in Chrome
Users are warned of a potentially harmful website in Chrome
Type in your search query in the address bar and it automatically suggests related queries and popular websites.
Google claims Chrome -- www.google.com/chrome -- beats its competitors' offerings in speed, stability and search. On the speed front at least, Google has got it right. There’s no drag when loading web pages or additional Chrome browsers and when tested for page load times against Mozilla’s Firefox and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer it was able to outpace both of them. Google has latched on to the popularity of tabbed browsing, a feature made popular by Mozilla's Firefox browser and also incorporated in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Tabbed browsing enables users to open multiple screens in one browser window. Google, however, has taken tabbed browsing a step further. Not only can users drag, drop and reshuffle tabs in whatever order they wish, but they can also pull a tab out from its existing window to create a new browser window all to its own. Although impressive, it’s not Chrome’s secret to stability. Previously, tabs had been treated by browsers as shared resources that have the tendency to dramatically suck away a computer's CPU resources and slow down computer performance. But Chrome has upended this process to allow a computer to treat each tab as an individual and isolated process. The benefit of treating tabs as individual processes means that if an application running on a website unexpectedly crashes, it won't take the browser down with it. Instead, Chrome isolates the crash to the affected tab and ceases operation of the troublesome application. Chrome’s other trump card and Google’s big area of expertise is search and search features strongly in the browser’s design. The address bar has been integrated with Google's popular search engine to simplify the browsing experience -- type your search query in the address bar and it automatically suggests related queries, popular websites and the option to search for that particular query using the search engine of your choice. Although both the latest versions of Firefox and Internet Explorer have similar functionality built in, they don’t execute it with the same level of success -- especially if Google is used as the search engine of choice. Even though Google says Chrome is application agnostic and has no tie-in to any other Google service, it’s a no-brainer that the browser works best with the search giant’s web applications. In particular, its integration with Google Gears (software that enables offline access to online services) means you can download desktop icons for several Google apps including Gmail, Picasa and the Google Docs online word processor and spreadsheet. At the moment Google Chrome is only available on Windows XP and Vista, however the search giant says that making compatible versions for Mac and Linux operating systems is a high priority.
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