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Who doesn’t know the very famous Winamp? If you’re still using Windows Media Player to listen to music, we recommend that you try Winamp for two reasons: simplicity & clean interface.
Anyway, for those of your Winamp users who are at the time addicted to Youtube, here is an easy trick to embed YouTube into your Winamp Online Services.
One of the good features I like in Firefox is its ability to save your session if for any reason it had to restart due to a crash or after the installation of a new add-on. But what’s annoying is that you cannot save your session on demand, so if you choose to close Firefox, your tabs will not be restored next time you open it.
To save your session, some suggest that you end Firefox process using the task manager, by doing so you will be forcing Firefox to restore your session since it will think it has crashed. Still, this is not efficient because Firefox automatically saves the session every certain period of time, so your recent opened tabs will not be restored. Here a couple of easy alternatives you can use
Here’s a good software that might probably be the substitute for using USB sticks whenever you need to carry around your important files and documents.
Gmail Drive is a software that you can use to store your files right on your Gmail account. However you do not need it to do it the classical way, i.e. attaching the file and send it to yourself. Instead, an additional drive will be created in your computer so that you can drag and drop files into it as shown in the picture below.
Following our previous post about Firefox, we will continue today to provide an additional tip to enhance your experiene with it.
Believe it or not, Firefox is optimized for dial-up connections by default, that means it is set to deal with network connections in a conservative manner. And we find this quite logical, since developers at Mozilla don’t know if Firefox users will be on a slow or fast connection (dial-up or broadband). So it is up to you now to unleash the beast inside your browser to make a full use of your connection.
First, and before we talk about today’s tips for Firefox, we would like to address those who are still using Internet Explorer (we know there are still some IE users by looking at our blog statistics). Seriously guys, you really should give up on Internet Explorer and move to Firefox. It is much faster and it lets you personalize your browsing experience at least!
Alright enough promoting… back to our main subject, here are some easy tips that will make your life easier with Firefox.
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Have you ever noticed whenever you buy a new hard drive that you will never be able to make use of its whole capacity? For example if you have a 100GB hard drive, you will be able store no more than 92GB of data.
That’s actually the case of laptop’s hard drive. I have a 100GB hard drive with two partitions, C drive is 85.5GB while D drive is 6.5GB, total is 92 GB! So where’s the rest?
Here’s the explanation:
DNS caching can be very useful and will considerably speed up your name resolution experience for domains that you visit frequently.
However the time will come when, due to an IP change for example, you might need to clear your DNS cache before it expiry time! Of course you could just restart your machine 
but here is how to do it in a faster way !
We, here at Zero Hour Sleep, are big fans of wordpress. An you of course have read our previous posts for wordpress users. Today we’re going to provide a nice trick for Blogger users so that they don’t feel left out! 
This trick will actually help you remove the NavBar on top of your blog in case you find it annoying like we do! Here are two easy ways to do it.
Doesn’t really suck when your computer keeps on getting slower every single day? I have actually seen computers that require more than 10 seconds to open the Start menu alone! And it is common to encounter people thinking that their computers are getting slower because they’re getting older. I believe this is wrong, there are a lot of tweaks that you can apply to make your computer run faster! Give me 5 minutes and I’ll let you know how you can speed up your PC.
