By default, Internet Explorer has accelerated graphics (GPU rendering) enabled. If you are using a low end/low power computer or laptop, you may experience some performance issues. By disabling hardware acceleration and using software rendering instead, your IE9 performance will be dramatically increased.
Internet Explorer 9 takes a page out of Google Chrome’s book and allows you to turn websites such as Twitter, Facebook, and others into their own web application. It does this by creating a site specific browser that transforms the site into a standalone web app that will be unaffected by actions that take place in the regular IE9 window.
By reducing your Favorites Bar to show only the icons, you can access more of them from Internet Explorer’s Favorites Bar. This works great for sites with recognizable favicons like Gmail, Google Calendar, etc.
The extremely popular Parallels Desktop is a virtualization solution that allows Mac users to run Windows applications. Every subsequent version promises performance gains. During our upgrade, we decided to do a little benchmarking to see if our performance saw their promised improvement.
With the iOS 4.1 Apple has re-enabled field test mode. This allows the user to see the exact cellular signal stretch instead of bars. This tutorial also shows how to trick the iPhone into staying in this mode.
With each new version of IE, people flock to download it. However, with each new version is a whole slew of new bugs as well. If you have installed IE9 and regret it, this tutorial will show how to remove IE9 and roll back to your prior version of Internet Explorer.
Google has just rolled out the new instant search feature which shows results as you type. However, this cool feature is only available on Chrome v5/6, Firefox v3, Safari v5 for Mac and Internet Explorer v8. Here is how to access it on Opera browser.
Before selling or giving away your BlackBerry, you should reset it to its factory-fresh state. This tutorial will show how to remove your personal information from your BlackBerry device in OS X. Wipe it clean.
When a shortcut is created, typically Microsoft Windows 7 will append the “shortcut” suffix to the icon’s text. This tech-recipe describes how to prevent Windows from adding that suffix when a shortcut is created.
If you are using a computer that isn’t running iTunes, or if your iPad isn’t associated with iTunes on that computer, you can still get your files onto your iPad using Dropbox. You can import PDF files into iBooks, Word documents into Pages, Excel spreadsheets into Numbers, etc.
This recipe is a much more advanced one. We will outline how to take your recorded TV shows from Windows 7 Media Center (.wtv files), convert them to an iTunes compatible MP4, re-tag the IDTAGS for iTunes and then have iTunes import the shows automatically. This recipe requires intermediate command line knowledge and 2 free utilities. In the end, we should have a solution that will let us convert our tv we record in Win7 MCE and then watch it on our iPod/iPad/iPhone AND stream it via iTunes to iTV 🙂
The new Priority Inbox feature in Gmail is great; however, it is not available officially for mobile phones yet. In this tutorial, I describe two unofficial methods for accessing Google’s Priority Inbox feature on mobile devices now.
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