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How to reduce Firefox’s memory footprint ?

Posted by F. S. KAMAL on 8th August 2010

After using IE for several years, I switched to Firefox when I learnt about extensions. I enjoy using Firefox and I can’t imagine going back to IE or using any other browser unless they offer the same extensions that I currently use. For my research projects, I sometime have to open sessions with several tens of tabs. But there is a drawback: Firefox is a devourer of memory.

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A 128 GB USB flash drive from Kingston.

Posted by F. S. KAMAL on 18th June 2009

DataTraveler 200 is a cap-less USB flash drive that has been just announced by Kingston Technology. The flash drive will be available in various capacity: 32GB, 64GB and 128GB and features a built in Password protection software for data protection.

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Flash memory with extended write / erase cycles.

Posted by F. S. KAMAL on 2nd January 2009

The collaboration between Sun and Micron has resulted in the extension of the flash memory life allowing one million write / erase cycles, a figure higher than what is offered by other NAND technologies.

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Spy camera tie.

Posted by F. S. KAMAL on 29th September 2008

The tie pictured below would have no trouble finding a place in the toolkit of James Bond. It includes a camera that records images and transmits them wirelessly to a remote receiver.

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Samsung NC10 Netbook.

Posted by F. S. KAMAL on 23rd September 2008

The recent wave of mini notebook announcements is a confirmation that Asus had a clear of vision when they decided to introduce the Asus Eeee PC, a small portable computer with enough power to let it do what we ask our powerful computers to do on a regular basis: produce office documents, browse the web, take care of our messaging needs and basic multimedia. Now it’s Samsung’s turn to announce their Netbook: the NC10.

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Cheap MP4 players could be a health risk.

Posted by F. S. KAMAL on 17th September 2008

Shanghai Administration for Industry and Commerce has audited 20 batches of MP4 players and found that 75% of them had a pass rate of 25% only!

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iColorFolder

Posted by F. S. KAMAL on 10th September 2008

Do you want to beautify your file sorting process? iColorFolder is an Open-Source, you can use it for free, Windows XP utility that let’s you customize the colour of folders by simply right-clicking them. A quick glance being enough to identify the files that you are looking for!

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100 tools to bail you out.

Posted by F. S. KAMAL on 6th September 2008

If you take the smooth booting of your computer for granted, then  just keep in mind that sometimes things may go wrong and it can refuse to start causing you to scratch your head and search for a computer geek to help you.

Before you do so, prepare yourself by downloading The Ultimate Boot CD, a collection of around 100 tools and utilities. The package is provided as an iso file that you have to burn to make a bootable CD.

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Casio digital cameras with “Makeup function”.

Posted by F. S. KAMAL on 27th August 2008

Casio has announced the launch of high profile 9.1 effective megapixel EXILIM Zoom EX-Z250 and the 10.1 effective megapixel EXILIM Zoom EX-Z300 with outstanding functionality made possible by a new , EXILIM Engine 3.0, imaging engine for high speed image processing.

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