Archive for March, 2006

Techies - Problem solving and searching discussed

By fiLi • Mar 30th, 2006 • Category: Thoughts

“You’ve been preaching for us to do all sorts of nasty to our computers, like telling us to disable the Automatic Updates service for our machine to run faster with your “tweaking post” and then write us about using Firefox that doesn’t even work well with the Windows Update site. See? we have to use [...]



Making REALLY cheap phonecalls

By fiLi • Mar 27th, 2006 • Category: General tips

I bet you use Skype (Link) for your international phonecalls to land/mobile lines, right? That’s pretty good, or has been, for a while now. But, I think you should be aware of a few recent choices that offer the same service for a lot cheaper.
Yahoo’s new messenger has outgoing Voice calls to land/mobile at [...]



Controlling system behavior

By fiLi • Mar 27th, 2006 • Category: PC

I can’t really blame those who are paranoid about what goes on in their computers. They have a good reason to be, as today’s hazards are endless. Applications installing silently, application and OS exploits, trojans and viruses, all combined with user ignorance brings about a suffering machine hosting various malware, sending out your vital information [...]



An old Windows XP machine optimization tweaks

By fiLi • Mar 26th, 2006 • Category: PC, Thoughts

It makes sense that not everybody has the money to refresh their specs every year or so. Seeing some of my friend’s machines I’m usually overwhelmed by how bad things are and how much time they waste because of a lack in knowledge as to how they could make things better. The major problems [...]