PC Maintenance Tip 2: Keep your PC clean

Many times, people complains that their computer runs slower than it has been running before. And here are a few common reasons:

1. Disk fragmentation
2. Bloated registry database

So, today I would like to introduce a few tools which I personally are quite useful in fixing these problems. No guarantee though :P

• Auslogics Disk Defrag
  A defragmentation tool which is better than the default one that comes with Windows.
• Auslogics Registry Defrag
  Yes, it is right. Registry can be defragmentationed, too :D
• CCleaner
  This helps you clean temporary files and also the registry.
  WARNING: Backup before you clean your registry.

By the way, I think the best sequence to run these software is: CCleaner -> Registry Defrag -> Disk Defrag.

Enjoy.

PC Maintenance Tip 1: Connection Boosting

If you are interested in the technological terms, check out Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU), Time To Live (TTL) and TCP Receive Window (RWIN). Of course you can tweak these settings in Windows registry, but it is not recommended to edit the registry unnecessarily. Therefore, download a tool like TZ Connection Booster and let it do the tweaking for you.

It is generally believed that good connection can be achieved by setting MTU to 1500, TTL to 64 and have a reasonably large RWIN value. However, you should experiment with various different values, for example, I think I get the best performance at MTU:576, TTL:64 and RWIN:130000+.

The above settings would affect the overall network performance of your system. But some firefox tweaking might help in improving your web browsing experience, too.

Suki - SUper K Iconizer - Release 1.0

First of all, Happy new year!!!

It is so fast that 2007 is here. Let's hope that this will be a better year for all of us.

And the first good thing in year 2007!!! Suki - SUper K Iconizer - is released!!!



Suki - SUper K Iconizer - is a small tool that helps you convert any supported image files(*.jpg, *.png, *.bmp, etc.) into icon resource files(*.ico) which you can use as favicon in your website or as shortcut icons in MS Windows platform. Besides converting existing files, it also lets you capture part of your screenshot and convert them into an icon.

You can download it from my static website here.

See you again! (^ ^)

Keep On Budgets! 0.1 Released!!!

Have been thinking of making a software which can help me to keep track of my spending pattern. I know there are many good softwares which can do many amazing things out there, but I have the following reasons to write my own:

1. Getting used to the wxWidgets API.
2. Make it as simple as possible so lazy folks like me can manage to continue keeping record.
3. Just for fun.

So, here you are: The Home Page of Keep On Budgets! and the Downloads link for Linux and Windows.

Thank you for your attention :D

Let me know if you have any problems using them.