At first glance it may appear as if all we do around TechMiso is post story after story about Apple, Security and Social Media. Well, how is this for something different – nine essential tips for speeding up your Windows 7 experience to help make Microsoft’s latest operating system feel a whole lot lighter:
The Microsoft Windows 7 operating system has been designed for delivering better speeds than its predecessors. However, as time passes by, the laptop/PC might tend to get slower. This is not exactly the fault of the OS. As the matter of fact, it is a common problem faced by many operating systems.
The major reasons for this are accumulation of junk in the system or a highly stuffed hard drive or running of too many unnecessary services and programs. Here we shared a few essential tips that can help speed up Windows 7 performance on laptops or computers.
Many of the tips are quite easy to implement, no matter whether you are a computer novice or major geek. Some of the tips, such a disabling sound, are things I do on just about every operating system I install because I find them to be far more trouble than they are worth. Others, like disabling unnecessary services may require a little more mojo to work out but can still be taken care of with relative ease.
While I do still use Windows, I currently do not have a single workstation running Windows 7. At work I am forced to use Windows XP and at home I use that same operating system because I have not found a truly compelling reason to upgrade my somewhat ancient HP AMD/64 desktop. I primarily use my MacBook Pro so upgrading XP to W7 is not a priority.
If you find any of the tips particularly useful, or if you have others not listed, please feel free to share them with our readers in the comments.
Have you been at a job where you admired a successful IT colleague of yours? Someone you were amazed by? Maybe even blown away by their level of proficiency?
Did that person seem to complete work effortlessly? Were they ultra-productive in the work environment?
Could you accept this person into your personal realm? Or did you feel threatened? Were you ready to develop this new relationship or did you quickly throw up your defenses?
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We all know that the internet was created by Al Gore as the world’s repository of porn and cute animal pictures, but I don’t think anybody saw the internet evolving into what it is today – a tech-wonderland where you can find anything, everything, and everyone. The applications of the internet seem to be endless as new technology continues to find new uses for it to be applied in everyday life, and yet I fear that many of the most applicable and powerful uses of the internet have yet to be fully exploited.
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Google does a disservice to its Gmail users by not turning on HTTPS by default — as doesn’t Facebook, MySpace, Hotmail, Twitter and other websites that require you to log on with username and password.
These and other sites not using SSL for their logon page could almost be called negligent in their [lack of] support for user privacy.
So why is the ‘S’ in HTTP’S’ important?
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It is always a shame when IT projects fail because of a lack of the ‘7 P‘s.’
Positive Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance are words to live by. You can use them in just about every aspect of your life, but we’ll focus here on how they apply to IT projects.
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In most media organizations, content producing staff maintain something called a ‘story budget.’ It’s a running tab of ideas that allows you to document and track content being prepped for your publishing pipeline.
Like major media organizations, blogs too can put a good story budget to use in organizing posts. Whether you’ve prepared eight paragraphs for an upcoming story or just have fleeting thoughts for your next 20 stories, a story budget can help put it all in order for you.
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The most obvious aspect of a successful blog is exceptional, timely, relevant content. Your readers visit your blog or read your RSS feed because they are interested in the quality articles you post on a presumably regular basis. However, content production is not the only feature of a successful blog, especially when a team of writers is generating the blog content. One of the often under looked yet essential facets of team blogging is communication. Failure for the team to effectively and regularly communicate can lead to the destruction of a thriving venture.
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One of the hardest things new bloggers have trouble with is finding their blogging voice – that is, how a post “sounds” to the readers and ensuring it accurately portrays who you are. After all, you are an interesting person with motivating experiences which will help enrich your readers’ lives. So not only is finding your voice tricky, it is the chief ingredient for a successful blog.
Until you find your voice you are going to find yourself playing around with the wording and phrasing of your posts, perhaps spending considerable more time tweaking the way your posts sound rather than focusing on the truly important aspect of blogging – just writing. In fact, your early blogging efforts may find your voice sounding bland, too robotic, too much like Tom Brokaw on the evening news or even worse; you may have no voice whatsoever.
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Get ready to open a grand can of worms with Trackle.com (now in beta). You haven’t experienced information overload until you’ve visited their site and started receiving updates from their free subscription services.
Pavan Nigam, CEO and Founder of Trackle, has already proven that he can ramp up and rake in millions of new project revenue. His most recent venture, Cendura, was sold to major software vendor, Computer Associates, for [what we're sure was a hefty] undisclosed amount. And this is the guy who gave us the mega-health site, WebMD — part of a monster e-health company that Pavan’s bio on Trackle [says] is on its way to a billion dollars in revenue.
So will Trackle be Pavan’s next successful monster start-up? With his experienced serial entrepreneurship behind the eight ball, the chips are likely stacked in Trackle’s favor. But an interactive look into Trackle may say otherwise.
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Surveys often indicate strong positive sentiment towards IT training and certifications — proving again and again that being qualified on IT products is not only beneficial to the individual holding the certification, but that certs also substantially increase value to a company and their IT teams.
Microsoft and Apple alike back their proven business applications with extensive industry-approved IT curriculum aimed at certification in both end-user and system administrator roles.
In Part I here of ‘Microsoft Training vs. Apple Training‘ we’ll take a look at Apple’s version of a professional certification lineup.
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