Use RAMDISK on 32bit systems with 4GB RAM

To all the power users out there who are running 4GB RAM or more on typical 34bit systems, you may realize that only about 3GB of that RAM can be used by the operating system efficiently. The remaining memory is pretty much wasted due to the nature of 32bit addressing making it a bummer if you have spent all that money to get so much RAM.

Only 3GB of RAM can be used by 34bit Systems

The reason this is a problem is due to the way 32bit systems allocate addresses. Back in the days, 4GB of ANYTHING was considered huge and as a result, the assumption that we would never need so much of anything was made. Well, fast forward a few decades and the problem is coming back to haunt us.

Computer RAM

You may also notice that the limitation is also apparent in hard disks still running FAT32 filesystems. On those filesystem, you cannot have a single file exceeding 4GB in size, otherwise the OS will complain about running ‘out of space’. Nowadays, people are running on NTFS which do not have such a limitation.

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MUJI Cardboard Speakers

Are you the kind of person that would love to pamper or surround yourself with songs and music when you are abroad? Imagine plugging your iPod into a speaker and blast it wherever you are, then when you’re done, fold your speaker up and go home. Wait a minute, did I say fold your speaker up? Yes, indeed I did!

MUJI Cardboard Speakers

Muji Speakers

MUJI Cardboard Speakers is a portable, lightweight speakers that can be folded away into the pouch when you are not using it. It is entirely made of cardboard and electronic components – all you need to do is plug and play! Now the best thing I like about MUJI Cardboard Speakers is the pouch they came in. With size of 3.25 (height) x 3.5 (width) x 3.25 (length), this speakers is convenient and easy to carry around!

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Twitterrific bring Twitter to the iPhone

The Twitter phenomenon continues to bury itself into our lives and the latest Twitterrific 2.0 app available for the iPhone and iPod Touch makes it even more easier for you to waste your time “tweeting” from anywhere.

The application is a slick upgrade from the previous Twitterrific and provides a host of new features making it currently one of the best Twitter apps for Apple’s handheld currently.

The moment you start the app and log in to your account, you are directed to the Sources main page showing you the latest topics (so called trending topics) currently being discussed in your Twitterverse. Once you have selected an account and viewed the list of updates, you can choose to view @username profiles, and also the option of marking tweets for later reading, although with 140 words for each tweet, it’s not exactly hard to read on the spot instead of saving it.

Twitterrific

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Create Collages for your Desktop Background

Photo collages are super-cool and it’s also a pleasing visual effect for use in creating photo albums, presentations, and now you can do the same thing for your desktop background! The best part? Automatic creation of the collages and background rotation makes this collage software a must have download.

What am I talking about? Why, Thetawall of course!

Powerful Wallpaper Management & Multi-Monitor Screen Saver

For those who don’t know what a collage is, it is simply a collection of many photos rendered together into one image. Picasa 3 made it simple to create collages, either rendered as if it’s a pile of photos thrown down onto the floor or as a mosaic of different sized images that form a perfect rectangle.

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Fonts and Typography

Little attention is being paid to fonts. Apple recognized the importance of having beautiful typography, which is why aesthetics play an important part of their product design cycle. Nowadays, people are starting to realize how fonts are important to generate quality in their work and have started to pay more attention to proper font selection.

Typography

There is no hard and fast rule when it comes to choosing fonts for an assignment. There are thousands of fonts out there, with multiple categories such as serif, sans-serif, monospace, etc. It is a mind-boggling selection that is simple at first look; after all, we just choose one that looks best to us and use it.

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Ultimate Windows Tweaker

Ultimate Windows Tweaker

Windows users should consider checking out this very useful utility; Ultimate Windows Tweaker. With over 150 options to change, it is indeed ultimate when it comes to tweaking Windows.

The tool works well for Vista and the latest Windows 7 RC1 for both 32 and 64 bit versions. Prior versions of Windows are not supported. No doubt RC1 have introduced some new features such as dragging windows to the edge to make it fill up half the screen (useful for widescreen monitors) and shaking an open window to return to desktop.

Ultimate Windows Tweaker

For some people who are annoyed by this, Ultimate Windows Tweaker allows you to turn it off. Customization options are split into 7 distinct categories, which are Personalization, UAC, System & Performance, Security, Internet Explorer, Network Optimization and Additional Options.

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Make Windows Vista 7 DVD Image bootable on your USB drive

With the release of RC1 for Windows 7 recently, many people have had the pleasure of experiencing the latest from Microsoft. After the awful experience of Vista, Win 7 is a refreshing update that looks a lot like Vista, but has been tweaked to be a lot more responsive and error proof.

The first thing you should do is head on over to this site, which allows you to download the 7127 build of Windows 7, the latest as of this date. Once you have the files, all you need is 7-Zip, which is used to decompress the file into the full ISO DVD image. The file is exactly the same as the one offered by Microsoft to download on its official site.

Windows 7

Once you got the image, you can simply burn it to a blank DVD and off you go. But for those who want to be able to have the DVD image bootable from their USB drive, read on.

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Multifunctional Twitter Toolbar

Twitter Toolbar is a handy application for Twitter users to connect and share their findings with their Twitter peers. For those who constantly log in to Twitter to manage their conversations, the process could be cumbersome at times. How would you like to have Twitter Toolbar installed on your browser instead, while having to explore numerous third party apps to enhance your Tweeting experience?

Twitter toolbar

What differentiates Twitter toolbar from Twitterfox is the multiple third party Twitter apps that come along with the toolbar. I will go through them briefly later on but first, let’s have a look at the installations.

Twitter toolbar option

Installations:

Twitter Toolbar could be installed on both IE & Firefox:

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Firefox Extension: Tree-style Tabs and Breadcrumbs

I stumbled upon these two extensions for Firefox a couple of days ago and it is one of the more interesting add-on to change the way you think of browsing. It turns tabs to a tree format and allows you to have breadcrumbs in your URL.

Tree Style Tab

Tree-style UI has been prominently used in Windows Vista and the upcoming Windows 7 that allows you to have an overview of your directory structure and navigate from one place to another easily. Its hierarchical structure makes it easier to see how your folders are structured at a glance.

Tree Style Tabs

The Tree Style Tab extension will place all your tabs on the left (ala Windows Explorer in Vista) and from here on, every time you open a new tab from an existing page, the tab created will be placed under the parent website, and so on. This allows you to see quickly where you came from, and also collects tabs from the same website into one group. This way, you can go on opening tabs and switching around different sites without getting confused in a sea of tabs later on.

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Twitter is more than just a social garbage dump

My friend said that Twitter is like the biggest garbage dump in the Internet. But then again, the same could be said about most forums and discussion websites (eg: Blogs). The trick is to know enough to sift through the manure for the little gems that can hide in between, and Twitter represents that same philosophy.

The first and most important use of Twitter is as a supplementary search engine. This is due in part to the sheer size and community of Twitter, which spans millions of users such that your searches can frequently bring you to important pieces of information that you need.

Twitter

For example, if you need to get the latest information on a particular news story, American Idol results or something of that sort, it can take some time for proper news websites to report the information. We can rely on blogs to get more up-to-date information but that way isn’t perfect. Twitter though fits this type of searches exactly as people hit Twitter just seconds after an event, with short snippets with exactly the information you need. Thus, as a way of following developing stories in “near real-time”, nothing can beat Twitter and the legions of people that make this possible.

You can also use Twitter to monitor important things that you care about.

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