My Life With IT

For the 1st time, I wasn’t even keen on going to the IT Show to check out the gadgets. I guess it isn’t as interested as Cebit that often showcases upcoming gadgets for the year. The usual limited space for walking and inconsiderate people attempting to chat up the babes including cashiers do turn me off.

While I won’t declare full avoidance of the IT Show in future, I’ll go if there is something that I want to buy. Not just to go there to browse and get stepped on my tall people who can’t see that there was already a jam in front.

At times like that, laptops and RAMs are good buys. They often sell the older versions of the laptops at cheaper rates.

Here are the list of contenders for th Ruffbook Tech prize to be given by The Thinking Blog. Vote for me, No 9

01. Jim’s Rants
02. Boredom Relief
03. Brain Ticklers
04. Bali Dream Home
05. Listening Learning Living
06. Blog Paradise
07. Search for Blogging
08. Writing From the Inside Out
09. My Life With IT
10. Tanny’s Blog
11. Web Extremities
12. Truth or Dare
13. Rugged Notebooks Blog
14. ROTUS
15. Widget’s Lab
16. The Pink C
17. Diet Pulpit
18. Bloggers School
19. The SOHO Quest
20. Everything and Anything
21. Great Giveaways
22. Blissful Travel
23. Rene O’Deay
24. Evangelical’s Anonymous
25. Drops of Blood
26. ORIGENA
27. Life Cycle Analysis
28. Learn To Earn Too
29. Easy Tech Talk
30. Contest Bytes
31. Love and Horny
32. What’s On My Mind
33. Wordout - Review 1, Review 2 and Review 3
34. The Electronic Replicant
35. The Pond
36. Trajcov Blog
37. Homespun Honolulu
38. Yakrib’s Weblog
39. Diet and Weight Loss Programs
40. Must Read Files
41. Ang Alamat ni Huanito
42. Adventure Bookshelf
43. In The Brink of the Mental Warzone
44. TechTreak - Review 1 and Review 2
45. Thinking Tunnel
46. Colour Blind
47. Bloggrrl
48. Wickedly Cool Bean
49. The World According To Candes
50. About Blog Contests
51. ProBlogContester
52. Cardiogirl
53. Blogging Made Devilishly Simple
54. Needless Productions
55. Where the Walls are Soft
56. Prince John Blog
57. Laura Williams’ Musings
58. John Chow Dot Com
59. Tim Christie
60. ITBBlog
61. Samuel Nova
62. Blog with Ric
63. Million Dollar Portfolio
64. Mini Billion
65. DOMTAN
66. Nakichiam
67. WebMoi
68. Decrepit Old Fool
69. Zero Hour Sleep
70. Milan Dinic’s Blog
71. Arimou’s World
72. Kissowa Insider
73. Quest To Write
74. TechZi
75. SpinningSilk Multimedia
76. My Blog Contest
77. Tech E Blog

Buying a computer for the first time can be daunting for some people as they may not know everything about computers. You can avoid the common mistakes once you know what they are. Examples like paying with a credit card, buying that cheap computer without realising that it doesn’t come with a monitor or buying the marvelous hardware while the software may not run on it.

Once you have your spanking new computer, you have to break it in. You want to be sure that it will work smoothly for years to come. Technology runs too fast these days but you won’t want to be buying a new set every 6 months, do you? This technique is called a burn-in test.

After using for some time, Windows users know that the OS doesn’t seem to load as fast as before. So, what can you do? You do a few fixes like removing drivers that are no longer used. Looks like I ought to start some spring cleaning on mine too.

Do you have any more tips on how to improve the performance?

To celebrate its 1st blog anniversary, The Thinking Blog is holding a free laptop giveaway and to participate, you just write about it! RuffBook Tech is sponsored by Ruff PC. It’s powered by the ultra low power consumption Intel Core Duo 1.73GHz processor, 512MB DDR RAM, 60GB Shock-mounted Hard Drive, and a CD-RW/DVD+RW (DVD Dual) Drive, this rugged portable is designed to give you reliability in environments where conventional laptops would fail.

In addition, it’s a water resistant laptop. Now, you don’t have to worry about spilling that water, not that you would want to anyway.