Senin, 14 September 2015

10 Quick Ways to Speed Up a Slow Windows PC

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There is a very good reason why your doctor tells you not to consume your prescription drugs with grapefruit juice; it radically increases the potency of many drugs and 85 prescription drugs have been identified as being adversely effected by grapefruit.

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Thanks To Changes In 2015 French Bakers Can Now?
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Xcode's iOS simulator reports 2GB RAM for iPhone 6S, 4GB for iPad Pro

Apple doesn’t talk much about its SoCs beyond basic “chip X is Z percent faster than chip Y” comparisons—this is unfortunate, since Apple’s new chips are typically as fast or faster than the best high-end chips from Qualcomm and Intel when they’re released. One place where Apple has historically been stingy, though, is RAM. Even last year’s iPhone 6 and 6 Plus shipped with 1GB of memory, at a time when comparable Android phones were shipping with 2 or 3GB.

That may be changing for the new iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, according to some sleuthing by developer Hamza Sood. Using a custom app and the iPhone 6S simulator included with the Xcode 7.1 beta, Sood has apparently confirmed that the iPhone 6Ses will include 2GB of RAM

This RAM upgrade will make a big difference for multitasking and using Safari without having tabs reloading all the time. On my Air 2, which has 2GB of RAM, Safari works a lot more like a desktop browser since I can switch back and forth between tabs without having them reload constantly.

Absurd infinitum: Deliberately misunderstanding Steve Jobs

There's a stark difference between what Jobs was talking about and the Apple Pencil as evidenced from the iPad launch itself: The iPad didn't have a physical keyboard, but Apple offered a keyboard dock on day one. Apple felt physical keyboards were ruining mobile phones and had no place on a tablet, but they still shipped one because sometimes you might want it. Likewise, the iPad Pro doesn't ship with the Pencil because you don't need a Pencil to use an iPad Pro. You just may want a Pencil to draw.

The hysteria around the iPad Pro launch is pretty crazy. The reality is that Apple rarely invents completely new products — they take product ideas from others and refine and usually simplify them, while creating new technology inside the device to make them easier to use.

So yes, the stylus has been around forever. And it makes no sense to require a stylus to use a tablet. But if you need greater precision for a particular task, it also makes sense to have one.

Apple Pay: More banks roll out Apple’s pay-by-iPhone service

Customers of Lloyds Bank, Halifax, and Bank of Scotland will be able to use Apple Pay from today. The three banks make up Lloyds Banking Group, Britain’s largest current account provider. According to its research, one in three customers expect to be using a mobile device to make payments on a day-to-day basis within the next five years.

The vast majority of banks are supporting Apple Pay at this point, but it still has one big problem for adoption:

It’s impossible to figure out what places accept it and which don’t. Apple needs to do a better job with branding so when you are standing in front of the cashier with a line of people in back of you, there’s no question whether they support Apple Pay. Otherwise you risk looking like an idiot while trying to make your iPhone or Watch do the payment only to find out that they don’t support it. Yes, this has happened to me.

When you do find a retailer that supports Apple Pay, it’s an amazing experience that’s far better than pulling out a credit card, and a lot better than the chip and pin or chip and signature systems that are really quite slow. And using the Watch is even simpler because you don’t have to pull anything out of a pocket.

(On a side note I just realized that all three notes today were about Apple. Will try to do a better job of writing on a variety of topics going forward)


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Today's Tech Term

MPOE

MPOE (short for Minimum Point Of Entry) is the point where a telecommunications company’s wiring/cables cross a customer’s property line or enters a customer’s building.

What We're Reading from Around the Web

How to Enable Automatic System Updates in Ubuntu

By default, Ubuntu checks for system updates every day and prompts you when they are available. At that point, you can choose to download and install the updates immediately or have Ubuntu remind you later. However, you can also choose to have updates downloaded and installed automatically.

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How to Get the Most Out of Slack to Boost Your Group Productivity

Just as its name implies, Slack is a great tool to pick up any of the “slack” that might be leftover whenever you try to coordinate multiple people on a single project, website, or coding effort.

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10 Quick Ways to Speed Up a Slow Windows PC

Windows PCs don’t have to slow down over time. Whether your PC has gradually become slower or it suddenly ground to a halt a few minutes ago, there could be quite a few reasons for that slowness.

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How to Find Out Exactly When It Will Rain and When It Will Stop

Rainfall is one of the most useful pieces of information to know about the weather. Rather than “it will rain sometime today,” get weather forecasts more like “heavy rain starting in five minutes, for the next 45 minutes.”

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10 Quick Ways to Speed Up a Slow Mac

Macs can perform slowly, too. If your Mac seems to be running slower than it should, the variety of tips here should help you identify and fix the problem. As with a Windows PC, there are many reasons a Mac might be slow.

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How to Rip Audio CDs to Your PC or Mac

If you haven’t ripped your music CDs to audio files on your computer yet, it’s not too late. All it takes is a CD drive and a bit of time. When you’re done, your physical music collection will become your digital music collection.

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How to Find the Color Value for Anything on Your Mac's Screen

There’s a neat tool buried deep in your Mac’s Utilities folder that you may have never heard of, but it will allow you to find the color value (RGB, hexadecimal, or percentage) of anything on your screen.

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How to Convert a PDF File to Editable Text Using the Command Line in Linux

There are various reasons why you might want to convert a PDF file to editable text. Maybe you need to revise an old document and all you have is the PDF version of it. Converting PDF files in Windows is easy, but what if you're using Linux?

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How to Stop Windows 7 or 8 from Downloading Windows 10 Automatically

Microsoft hasn’t exactly been endearing themselves to tech geeks everywhere lately, with all the privacy concerns and other issues. And now they are automatically downloading all of Windows 10 to your Windows 7 or 8 PC, whether you asked for it or not.

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Firefox is About to Become an Almost Complete Copy of Chrome

Mozilla Firefox is due for some big changes soon. By the end of 2015, Firefox will move to a more Chrome-like multi-process design. And, in a year to a year and a half, Firefox will abandon its current add-on system for one largely compatible with Chrome extensions.

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