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Tired of slow sites? Google gets creative yet again

coldstorm — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:53:45 +0000

Obsession of continuous improvement through innovation, efficiency and technology has always been Googleâ€™s mantra to success. It also shows the companyâ€™s interest towards its customers by offering them a product which delivers. We have seen a considerable efforts made by them in recent times like the super-minimalist homepage which is easy to browse, loads quickly and is not cluttered with advertisements which is nasty. A complete transformation in their search algorithms which gets you your search results at a super speed, and not to mention their Web-centric operating systems.
The company is growing, so are its products.
Recently, it launched a product which would increase the speed of slow loading sites. Its known as Google Site Performance tool which is made available at the Google webmasters tool lab section. Its jam-packed with so many features like website analyses which would get your accurate data on average load time of the site, graphical demonstration of the sites performance before and after the use of the tool and how you could improve it, report generation on specific pages of the site and the tips and suggestions on how you could enhance your browsing experience are some of the coolest feature.
How would Google benefit by doing this? You may want to know. Its simple, when a website loads quickly, it helps in the loading of Google ads which gets them the revenue. Keep in mind, slow loading pages does affect the ads being loaded and minimizes the clicks drastically. Google would develop more tools in a future, one of them being sites ranked according to their speed, we are not sure how webmasters would react to this but we should not forget that from a viewers point it would be of great use.

Glarysoft released Absolute Uninstaller 2.8.0.636

Guest Editor — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:54:53 +0000

Glarysoft Ltd. ï¼ˆhttp://www.glarysoft.comï¼‰launched the freeware Absolute Uninstaller 2.8.0.636 recently, a single tool out of the predominant package of PC maintenance software—Glary Utilities. As the uninstall tool is extremely popular and widely-praised for its completely uninstall function, it is extracted out as an independent freeware and includes many unique features to help you stay on top of your software installations.

Absolute Uninstaller is a much more powerful and faster alternative to “Windows Add or Remove Programs” applet. Through the standard Add/Remove program you never uninstall applications completely ,but always leave junks behind such as associated desktop icons, start menu entries, broken registry keys, unnecessary files on the hard disk. The more junk files your computer has, the slower it runs. Absolute Uninstaller can wipe off all the junk files clearly during seconds of an uninstall process.

Completely Uninstall
Whenever you uninstall a program either with its own uninstaller or “Windows Add or Remove Programs” applet, there may leave leftovers behind. These broken registry and large number of unnecessary files would gradually burden the system and make it slower and slower. Absolute Uninstaller can remove any remnants of programs in seconds while uninstalliing!

Fast and secure
Launching the program and displaying the list of installed programs is much faster than that of the control panel. You can uninstall one by one manually, or choose batch unintallation or search a program through a handy search function. Absolute Uninstaller supports backing up the uninstall information in case you change your mind, thus, any uninstallation is restorable.

Intuitive interface
Absolute Uninstaller not only lists all programs with all information about appropriate icons, publishers and install date, but also marks recently installed program with a red “New”on the right upper side. You can list the programs by either their names or installation date and easily find out the applications you want to uninstall.

About Glarysoft Ltd.
Glarysoft Ltd., established in 2004, is a renowned system optimization utilities provider. Glarysoft has been commended by the consumers for the high quality of its products and considerate technical support. We are committed to provide easy-to-use, robust, and highly reliable software that increases computing productivity by keeping PCs running smoothly and error-free. You can directly execute the all-in-one utility to optimize and maintain your PC for best performance. A CNET editor categorized Glary Utilities as one of the”Must-have Utilities for your windows toolkit”.
Learn more at http://download.cnet.com/2797-2018_4-276.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody.

8 Top Nokia N97 Themes – Free Download

Webmaster Blog — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:36:39 +0000

We’ve been looking though some Mobile phone themes today and thought we’d share some of them with the readers of Microments, Today we are going to start with the Nokia N97 since it seems to be one of the more popular phones around at the moment.

Please use themes with own caution and make a full backup of you device before trying , Microments takes no responsibility from any damage these may cause.

Nokia N97 themes

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More themes can be found at http://www.symbianthemes.us

List of Best Free Digital Image Stitcher – Download Freeware

Webmaster Blog — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:28:01 +0000

I use an impressive $59 commercial product called PhotoVista Panorama to stitch together my digital images into panoramas. I’m very happy with it but must admit to feeling a little despondent when I discovered this utility that works just as well and is free. It’s called AutoStitch and is the product Matthew Brown, a PhD student at the University of British Columbia. No, it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of PhotoVista but the stitching to my eye, is actually better. The way it automatically aligns haphazard mosaics of photos without any human intervention borders on the miraculous. The author is currently looking for a commercial backer but in the interim, the product is free for personal use.

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html (1mb)

List of Best Free PDF Writer – Download Freeware

Webmaster Blog — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:27:24 +0000

The top choice here is PDFCreator, an open source program from SourceForge that works by setting up a pseudo printer in your system. To create a PDF you just select the PDF “printer” and write to it. This means you can create PDFs from Word, Excel or indeed any program that allows you to print. A good second choice is CutePDF Writer a which is cut-down version of the commercial CutePDF product. It works in a similar way to PDFCreator and it’s free for both personal and commercial use.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=57796&package_id=53473 (2.6MB)
http://www.cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf/writer.asp (1.04MB)

List of Best Free File Comparison Utility – Download Freeware

Webmaster Blog — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:26:46 +0000

WinMerge is a free Windows utility that compares two files and identifies the differences. The differences can then be merged from one file into the other. This is the sort of product that is ideal when you have several different versions of a file and are not sure of how they differ. The product is geared to text files so it won’t be much use to you with Word Processing or other complex formatted documents But for text reports or computer programs, WinMerge is ideal.

http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/ (514kb)

List of Best Free Paint Program – Download Freeware

Webmaster Blog — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:26:08 +0000

Although they overlap in function, paint programs are really a different class of product from digital editors such as Photoshop and The Gimp. Paint programs are specifically designed to facilitate freehand drawing. They are ideal for sketching, painting, creating animations and special effects. Most folks have dabbled with Microsoft Paint (aka Paintbrush for Windows), which comes free with most versions of the operating system. In fact MS Paint is probably responsible for the generally bad reputation of paint programs. Early versions could only produce crude two dimensional drawings with jagged edges and no color gradients. Its free availability also encouraged untalented amateurs to produce works that could only be described as abysmal. Past reputation aside, the latest XP version of Microsoft Paint is actually a very capable and resource efficient product and deserves to be more widely used. In the hands of a good pixel artist it can give excellent results.

My favorite free paint program is however, not Microsoft Paint but Project DogWaffle. This is a commercial product but the developer offers an older version (V1.2) as freeware. The free version is surprisingly full featured. It has a comprehensive set of tools including fully customizable brushes, lots of filters and effects, multiple color selection options, a good set of color gradients, animation aids and more. On the downside the program runs slowly on older PCs, has limited layer support, has a clunky cut and paste mechanism and only handles .BMP and Targa files. Like all graphics editors, you’ll need to invest a bit of time to learn how best to use DogWaffle but those with artistic skills will find the effort well rewarded.

http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/free/index.html Freeware, all Windows versions, 4.5MB.

List of Best Free Time Correction Utility – Download Freeware

Webmaster Blog — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:23:53 +0000

A lot of folks have difficulty getting time correction software to work on their PC. If that’s you then you should try Dimension 4, a free utility that gives you the choice of connecting to a time server either by standard TCP protocol or by the more common (and more problem-prone) SNTP protocol. If you haven’t yet
got a time correction utility, this is the one. It’s free, itâ€™s easy to use, and it has every function that you could conceivably want. Because it works from both the
command line and Windows, it’s ideal for batch files, too.

http://www.thinkman.com/dimension4/ (294kb)

List of Best Free Startup Manager – Download Freeware

Webmaster Blog — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:23:13 +0000

Everyone needs a startup program utility so they can exercise control over what third party programs start automatically with Windows. There are several fine choices: The first is Mike Lin’s Startup Control Panel [1]. Itâ€™s small, and easy to use yet has powerful features including the ability to edit or add entries. A second and equally good choice is Nir Sofer’s StartupRun [2]. Unlike Startup Control Panel it lists all startup programs in a single list rather than in tabs according to location. It also has a lot more information on each program and has extensive editing features as well which means that it’s definitely not for Newbies. Then there’s Starter [3]. It combines many of the strengths of the other products and additionally includes a first rate process viewer. As a bonus, it can be run directly from the executable without installation which makes it a handy item to have on your toolkit CD or flash drive. Folks you are truly spoiled by choice here, each one of these products is a winner. NOTE: It appears Starter has become so popular that the author’s website has exceeded its download limit so I’ve given an alternative [4] download link.

[1] http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml (59KB)
[2] http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/strun.html (68KB)
[3] http://codestuff.netfirms.com/products_starter.html (466KB)
[4] http://www.snapfiles.com/get/starter.html (468KB) <= Alternate Starter download site

List of Best Free Wi-Fi Network Finder Utility – Download Freeware

Webmaster Blog — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:22:12 +0000

NetStumbler is a free packet sniffer utility used to locate Wi-Fi networks. It’s one of the first tools of its kind and arguably still the best. So much so that it is the standard product used by war-drivers in their perpetual search for free bandwidth via unsecured Wi-Fi networks as well as road- warriors looking to connect their laptops back to the office. Basically it’s a wireless packet sniffer that lists all networks available at a given geographical location. For each network it displays over 20 different parameters including the signal strength, noise level, encryption method used, GPS coordinates and more. It’s a great product with a couple of caveats: first, it only works with specific wireless card chipsets and if yours is not one these then you are out of luck. However, most Centrino-based laptops work fine including many Dells and IBMs. Second, the program won’t connect you to a network; you have to do that by other means. That said, NetStumbler is a valuable product for any laptop user who accesses Wi-Fi systems while on the road. It’s also a standard tool in trade for IT security workers who need to audit Wi-Fi security.

http://www.netstumbler.com/downloads/ Freeware, all Windows versions, 1.3MB