Computers

Saving Bandwidth with Mobile Broadband

I have just moved and needed some kind of internet connection and the best choice was for pay as you go broadband.But as I have bought the dongle was still a little short on cash to buy a monthly top up so I had to work for some days with just the 100mb download limit.To save bandwidth I disabled Automatic updates and turned of images from being downloaded another thing was that I visit mostly the same sites everyday so it was not a good idea to clear the cache .It has done me for a few days now and I have managed to get the week from just the 100mb I had free with the Usb modem.

Best Linux Distro for Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo

Just some weeks ago I bought a new used laptop a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo because there was something wrong with the motherboard on my Acer. Although I tested the notebook before I bought it with with an Ubuntu and Linux mint live Cd which both worked apart from the screen resolutions being set to 1600×1200  which I thought was just an X-config probem that I could edit after I installed Linux,But this was not the biggest problem because after installing multiple linux based operating systems including PCOsLinux,Mint,Xubuntu,Lubuntu and DeliLinux.  Read more... (225 words, estimated 54 secs reading time)

Smooth Scrolling extension for Chrome

I find on my laptop that when I use PgUp or PgDn that the webpage I am viewing will jump too far down through the text that I am reading so I done a search for smooth scrolling in Google Chrome as there seemed to be no options for smooth scrolling for Chrome  in the now newly named under the bonnet unlike firefox.So I found this handy extension for chrome that helps you adjust how the PgUp and PgDn also the  arrow keys and how the behave  in the browser window.  Read more... (160 words, estimated 38 secs reading time)