We’re all used to it. Our parents, non-tech savvy friends, (some) girls, your kids. These are the people who often cry out for help when something is not quite right with their computers or when they hit a hurdle and they have absolutely no idea what just happened. Instead of Google-ing for the solution online or calling a technician, they normally call you – the only person who can help them.

For me, this is happens quite often. I usually try my best to help everyone I can, but sometimes there’s just so much you can do for someone over the phone or through instant messaging. At those time, I either tell them that I should view the problem in person or if they’re too far away then I can’t do anything for them, unfortunately. There are some solutions to remotely access their computer, but can you imagine trying to ask your parents to set up Remote Desktop and open the related ports of their router? I’d rather throw they the laptop against the wall.

Luckily for Mac users, there’s a simple solution.

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Researchers working on the next generation of Internet Framework: Internet2 are experimenting with a means to provide high point to point application dependent bandwidth using a technology called Dynamic Circuit Network. The technology is an enhancement on the concept of circuit switched networks – essentially setting up a direct link between two nodes so that packet routing delays are negated in the transmission of data.

What this means is that, put simply, the technology will rapidly increase the data bandwidth available on internet, which is a must for all the bandwidth guzzling media downloads that is becoming the norm.

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Of course there are numerous ways you can do to tweak your Windows Vista system to make it run faster. You could do the following:

• De-fragment your hard disk
• Apply windows updates
• Uninstall unnecessary software
• Do a through scan and remove viruses and trojans
• Clean up the Windows Registry
• Optimize the RAM and virtual memory settings
• Disable and reduce unnecessary startup programs

Of course you could also add more RAM and stuff like that, but this is a little more costly. Out of the above checklist, I believe the easiest way to make Windows Vista run faster is to defrag the hard disk, and to disable and reduce unnecessary startup programs. These days, seems like every program I install wants to start automatically when Windows Vista starts. Most of these programs unnecessarily insert themselves into the Windows startup process so that they can have their very own system tray icons from whence they can spam us with annoying messages. Each of these startup applications wastes memory and slows down Windows Vista’s startup process.

To configure or disable startup programs in Windows Vista, we need to use access the System Configuration tool. Follow the following steps to do that.

Click on Start > Run…

Enter “msconfig” in the Open text box. Click on OK.

You’ll need to give permission for the program to start unless you’ve disabled UAC, and then you’ll see the System Configuration utility.

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In a nutshell, Digg is a social bookmarking website, with a twist. It’s a place to share stuff which you have found online with others, and to discover what other’s have Dugg. Everything and anything can be Dugg (except those which are NFSW) so long as it is submitted. So how does this affect us?

Well, as readers, you can see the interaction between Digg users. For a social bookmarking website, it’s pretty uncommon. Digging an article makes it more popular, and hence more people will notice it. They will tend to start to write comments about that article which may or may not agree with everyone, creating a little bit of controversy. And since there’s no such thing as bad publicity, that article will probably reach the front page of Digg.com, and handing that site what is called the ‘Digg effect’ – which essentially means that it is so heavily Dugg until the server crashes.

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If you find yourself visiting RapidShare everyday and are spending a good amount of your time waiting every time you download files from it, you might want to get yourself a premium account. Yeah, I know, when talking about paying for a RapidShare Premium Account, you would rather wait and download slowly.

However, that’s about to change because you can use RapidPremium to download files from RapidShare servers for FREE! Still remember two hugely popular websites to download unlimited files from RapidShare, namely RapidGrab and MegaDL? RapidPremium is similar to these two websites, it uses its own RapidShare Premium accounts to download from RapidShare servers, after that you can download from RapidPremium.

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