Tag Archives: software

How to prepare for an astro-night. A geek’s guide

A good astronomer prepares for an upcoming starry night by studying astronomical maps and noting the stars and planet’s ascensions to get an idea of when the targets will be visible at his/her sky. The geek astronomer today though, uses software to do this faster and easier. While it is not recommended to learn observational… Read More: How to prepare for an astro-night. A geek’s guide »

Slow startup and shut down for your PC? Tips on how to quicken them

According to Microsoft, Windows XP was designed to boot up in 30 seconds, and if you add several additional services, this can take up to a minute. The time taken usually depends on additional functionalities you add to your system. The time of startup and shutdown also depend on the speed of your CPU and… Read More: Slow startup and shut down for your PC? Tips on… »

Improve your Internet connection speed

Are you getting frustrated with your Internet connection and its speed? The first thing you need to know is that the speed of your Internet surfing is not dependent on the speed of your computer hardware at all. Minimum hardware requirements are enough to surf most sites. Although Internet speed is largely affected by external… Read More: Improve your Internet connection speed »

Holding off on Firefox 3

If you’re one of those who haven’t downloaded Firefox 3 and planning on doing so, you might want to consider holding off for a while. Firefox 3 seems to have some issues and maybe more to come. You might recall the mania preceding the Firefox 3 Download Day; I haven’t even downloaded Firefox 3 to… Read More: Holding off on Firefox 3 »

Edit an MP3 song to add extra silent time

If you’re like the millions of audio buffs out there, you’ll find that quite often, certain mp3 songs end too quickly. That means, they have little or no period of silence after the ending of the song. It could be due to sloppy editing of the song copy by the person who edited and saved… Read More: Edit an MP3 song to add extra silent time »

Fixing DLL errors

DLL files are one of the most important components of your system files if you are using Windows as your Operating System. There are many DLL files within a typical Windows system, but most of the time, you don’t really bother about them. That is, until something goes wrong with them. DLL stands for Dynamic… Read More: Fixing DLL errors »

Ati2dvag problem

If you ever experienced your computer freezing/crashing without warning all of a sudden, with a blue screen on your monitor saying your computer was “caught in an infinite loop”, plus there is a mention of the word – “ati2dvag”, it means your computer has caught the ati2dvag bug. This bug seems to affect ATI video… Read More: Ati2dvag problem »