Zero Hour Sleep

Thanks to MIR from Life Geeked for making this funny comic!

Yes it’s the BIG DAY! Today is Firefox Download Day! Firefox 3.0 is officially out and you still have few hours to contribute into helping the guys at Mozilla set a new world record!

I have already downloaded it and all I can say is WOW, I have noticed a lot of improvements and I’m loving it so far!

Click here to download Firefox 3.0

The Firefox team is calling the world to help them set a Guinness world record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. Pretty exciting! They’re currently getting people to pledge to download Firefox 3 within 24 hours of its release as a part of Download Day 2008.

The release date is still unknown, but it will be soon we guess, but by pledging you will signed up to receive updates on the Firefox 3 release, in addition you can stay updated on the awaited day via social networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc…

So, are you willing to contribute and be part of this big event? We already did here at Zero Hour Sleep!

Forgot to tell you that Firefox 3 has MORE THAN 14,000 improvement over its predecessor!!!!

If there’s one thing everyone seem to be eager to do, it would be saving the resources of their computers. Especially that people nowadays tend to run endless applications together although their resources, i.e. RAM and CPU power, are limitd at the end of the day.

One way of saving RAM and CPU power is stopping unnecessary services. Remember the indexing process you learned about in yesterday’s post? Well that was in Vista, but a similar process exists in Windows XP to also allow faster search results, but it is useless to us since we actually use Good Desktop instead, so that indexing feature just wastes valuable resources to us! Here is how to disable it.

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The searching engine in Windows Vista is a good improvement over its predecessor in Windows XP, did you know that it can also search into Microsoft Outlook 2007?

Anyway, we have lately encountered some problems with out search engine on Windows Vista while trying to search for some items, sometimes we were receiving errors, and sometimes we were unable to find the targeted items although we knew they were there on the computer, and we were able to reach them manually.

The best thing to do in this case is to rebuild the search index, this will clear the already existing index and will build a fresh new one. It could be a lengthy process but it IS worth it. Here’s how you can rebuild your search index in Windows Vista.

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When Microsoft released Windows Defender was we were all eager to install it on our Windows XP. But now as you probably know, it comes by default with Windows Vista. And guess what, people are looking for a way to uninstall it! It’s kinda funny, but it’s most likely due to the fact that people always want to try the “other” software. So if they got Windows Defender and a new version of Kaspersky is relaeased, they start running after Kaspersky! (We do that as well by the way).

So, in today’s post we’re going to teach how to uninstall Windows Defender since it’s a bit tricky.

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Do you that you can make your screen fonts more readable if you are using Windows XP? Well, there’s actually a possibility to sharpen the fonts on your display by smoothing their edges so they become more clear to the eye. Check the picture below showing the difference between a normal font and an enhanced one.

Want to know how you also can enhance your display fonts?

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Here’s how Firefox would look like with 200+ extensions!!

What everybody does right after finishing their Wordpress installation upon setting up their blog, beside posting, is to install some plugins to add more functionalities to their blog, and there are actually thousands of them out there that fit everyone’s needs.

In addition, we tend to try plugins that other recommend, no? But, our life gets harder as we have to upload each plugin and update it whenever necessary.

So there’s one plugin out there that will make our life MUCH easier whenever dealing with plugins, and we really mean it! Check it out.

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