Monthly Archives: August 2010

How to Speed Up a Windows Computer

Free Up Space on Your Hard Disk Con­sol­i­date all of your large phở­tos, movies, and music onto a sep­a­rate drive, if pos­si­ble. Find and delete any dupli­cated, out­dated, or unused doc­u­ments from your per­sonal or shared fold­ers. Man­u­ally Archive/​​Compress Old Files I highly rec­om­mend using 7-​​​​Zip. Use the 7-​​​​Zip for­mat (.7z) with the “Ultra” com­pres­sion set­ting: it …

August 29, 2010 – 4:05 pm | By Matthew | Posted in Computers, Tips & Tricks | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)

Away to College

Howdy All!  I am now attend­ing col­lege as the loud­est and proud­est mem­ber of the Fightin’ Texas Aggie class of 2014! AAAAAAA!  I will con­tinue to update my blog… prob­a­bly more so than what I have done in the past, which is say­ing a lot (well, maybe not) con­sid­er­ing I haven’t said much prior to …

August 29, 2010 – 12:47 am | By Matthew | Posted in College | Tagged | Comments (0)

The Ultimate Hypocrisy

Remem­ber that post in which I described my absolute despise for Apple and all Apple prod­ucts (par­tic­u­larly the Safari web browser)? Well, God has a sense of humor: Not only has Safari become my favorite browser, but I have also adopted a Mac­Book Pro for my mobile com­put­ing needs. I was even using an iPhone …

August 2, 2010 – 10:33 am | By Matthew | Posted in Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (4)