Digeus Registry Cleaner is a great program that cleans out all the little bits and pieces of useless information from your computer’s registry.  A registry is like a closet, with information stored in it. It’s not really like a closet, but let’s just say it is so I can continue with the next line. As is common with most Windows machines, it’s a closet that has been long overdue for its spring cleaning.  Many computers that run slow have massive registries, and because careless programs running in Windows frequently forget to clean up after themselves and the operating system needs more time to scan and interpret all the information. MORE »

A judge recently ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word, one of their flagship products. Microsoft is guilty of infringing i4i’s patent on XML software.
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CCleaner-  This is one of the best PC unclogging utilities out there.  It cleans all of your cookies, garbage in your recycle bin, unused registry keys, and much much more.

1. Download it
2. Install it
3. Run the program.

The default settings usually are perfectly fine for beginners, but if not, tweak them to your desired settings.

Now to begin the process,

1. Click “Analyze”.  After its done scanning, it will point out the amount of space that it will clean out and what it will clean.
2. Hit “Run Cleaner” and it will work its magic.

It is now time to clean the registry

1. Go to the “Registry” tab on the left.
2. Click “Scan for Issues”-wait for it to scan
3. Click “Fix Selected Issues”
4. Answer yes or no (personally I don’t back up but that’s not necessarily the right thing to do.  I’ll leave that up to you)
5. “Fix All Selected Issues”.

Voila, you’re done.

A bonus feature to this program is their Uninstaller feature (Click “Tools” on the left).  It is a easy-peasy way of uninstalling useless programs.  Another plus, is the ability to tweak your computer’s start up programs which is located underneath the Uninstall button.  Look up the program in Process Library, and determine if you really want that program to start up.   Please don’t disable any anti virus programs and/or firewall.

CCleaner makes PC cleaning easy and painless.  If you like it, consider donating.

This little 630 kb file is a life saver for people with OCD.  It allows you to drag and drop the programs that are running on your taskbar for quick reorganization.

Before:

After:

Reorganized in a few seconds.  Doesn’t this look more appealing?

This type of functionality should be defaulted with every version of Windows.  The only downside is that it does not work on my second monitor’s taskbar, which is power by Ultramon.  The makers of Taskbar shuffle wrote in their 2.5 release notes that Taskbar Shuffle does function with Ultramon, but that is not the case for me.  Oh well.

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Digsby IM Client is down at the moment.  Their site is also down.  So it’s not just you =)

Update From Digsby:

We are having server-side issues that brought down the service.  We are working on the problem now and will be back up shortly.  If you want to be notified when we come back online, send an email to bugs@digsby.com.

After a year of almost perfect uptime, this is the second outage in the last week.  This is completely unacceptable and we will make sure this does not become a regular occurrence!

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Digsby is now back up.

As many have noticed, the iPhone’s GPS is a convenient way of looking up maps but is nowhere close to being a replacement for your TomTom. The main features missing are turn by turn instructions as well as the voice system, both of which are very important when on the road. Several big GPS companies are interested in making the software…but they’ll have to wait for Apple’s blessing.

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DotSyntax has released the new test build of Digsby, with numerous fixes to memory leaks. On some systems, RAM usage would reach up to 150mb, and the new architecture reduces it by over 50%. Memory usage should now range from 20-50mb.

Menus and buttons now run up to 2-3 times faster, which is a really good. (It used hang my system whenever I hit the menu to change fonts by accident)

Bugs are still being worked out, of course, and a new build for the public will be released very soon. This should build should provide a huge performance gain over previous build. It’s a shame this isn’t out for Mac and Linux yet. (You can, however, sign up to be notified when it is.)

via Digsby Blog

Is 64-Bit here to replace 32-bit operating systems for good? I noticed recently that Costco has begun to sell more computers with 64-bit operating systems. According to Microsoft’s Chris Flores, “Another view shows that 20% of new Windows Vista PCs in the U.S. connecting to Windows Update in June were 64-bit PCs, up from just 3% in March.”

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Music Rescue by KennettNet Software Limited backs up your iPod’s music, videos, podcasts, and other media painlessly, all the while showing off a smooth and mac-like interface. Music Rescue works for all iPods, even the iPod Touch and the iPhone, allowing you to salvage your music even if it gets deleted from the computer.

It quickly detects the connected iPod after starting up, after which you are shown an iTunes-like interface with all the tracks shown.

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SUPERAntiSpyware – makes you think, “What a cocky name – it probably doesn’t do much at all.” Fortunately, however, it lives up to its cockiness. It effectively removes a multitude of tough bugs, such as the Vundo trojan and winspyware. While the free version lacks real-time protection, the full version does include it. SUPERAntiSpyware, in combination with AVG 8.0 Free, is sure to give those viruses quite a nasty experience.

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