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How to speed up buffering from your netbook
This year I don't need to stay in front of my television set to watch my favorite Indian Premier League 20-20 cricket matches. Since IPL has decided to stream it live from YouTube, I can watch the exciting moments of my favorite sports on my notebook while travelling . Before the proceedings start in March, I wanted to find a way to ensure smooth buffering of YouTube videos and discovered Autobahn to accelerate the downloads. Check out more.
I run a lot of web apps, browser windows and chatting applications on my netbook. Every now and then my netbook becomes really slow and all my applications hang for some time. I need to reboot to resume work. I was planning to upgrade the RAM to avoid this, but didn’t go for an upgrade as I found RAMBooster, a software to monitor and boost my netbook's RAM.
How to carry a digital dictionary online and offline
English is undoubtedly a universal language and according to Oxford English Dictionary, the language has millions of words though an average person like me has a vocabulary of only 20,000 words. I have often come across difficult words and needed my dictionary on the move. It's now easy to carry our dictionay online in gadgets like netbooks, thanks to Wordweb for integrating the whole paper dictionary into our computers.
Gmail has completely revolutionized web mails and my Gmail accounts work as a virtual hard drive on the cloud for storing attachments and contacts. However, it is really hard to manage your contacts and attachments in Gmail especially if you have multiple accounts. I did not want to depend on any of those web apps to manage my contacts and I opted for a simple browser plug-in to get the best out my Gmail accounts.
I had a tough time when I tried to take remote control of my uncle’s PC from my netbook. Although the process went smooth, the procedure of installing the remote assistance software on the PC was a painstaking process. It took me a long time to guide my computer novice uncle to install the remote assistance software. Later, I found LogMeIn Express, which made the process much simpler. Let’s see how this works.
Besides my notebook, I always carry my USB flash drive with my important work files during my frequent trips. Last week, I found myself in a difficult situation when I deleted my invoice from the USB drive by mistake. To avoid similar problems in future, I installed iBin, a recycle bin for my USB drive. Now I can easily restore my deleted files. Let's explore iBin here.
Twitter is not just another micro blogging tool, it has now developed into a professional marketing application. It is easy to make most of your multiple Twitter accounts through desktop apps like TweetDeck. However, I found that Twitter desktop clients consumed a lot of processing speed and space of my netbook. So I decided not to struggle with hefty desktop apps anymore as HootSuite offers better tweeting experience and great features right from a browser.
The launch of Chrome OS is just round the corner and I am quite thrilled with the beta version I installed a few days back. I loved the cloud support offered by Chrome OS, but missed my desktop apps a lot as it is completely browser based. If you prefer to have both desktop and cloud apps on your netbook on the move, check out Jolicloud OS here.
How to edit photos and videos on the cloud on the go
Last week, I had been to Mysore and Ooty with friends to spend my Christmas holidays, and had a great time. To capture those joyful moments, I had carried my digital camera and my beloved Samsung NC20 with me. I stored all my photos and videos on my netbook and when I came back home, I wanted to share them with my buddies. Before uploading them on the Internet, I wanted to edit them and add some stunning effects. Thanks to 'One True Media', I was able to do this without installing heavy software on my netbook.
I love to chat with my friends from my netbook while travelling. Video chat adds an element of fun to our group chats and we all really enjoy it. However, the sluggish chatting apps take so much time to load and run the video chats that we often limit ourselves only to text chat. But not anymore, as we now use TinyChat, an easy to use and fast to load group video chat application.
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