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Posted by Glitch on February 9th, 2010
I’m a Windows 7 user because some of the programs I use on a daily basis arent available under Linux (if so I would have switched to Ubuntu or Linux Mint a long time ago). Shortly after upgrading from Vista to Windows 7 I noticed that the operating system reported that there was a problem with my laptop battery and that I should replace it. I also noticed that my battery life was down to a mere one hour compared to the two and half hour of juice available under Vista. But I never gave much attention to it. Most batteries start to degrade after their first year and I certainly didnt link it to the upgrade to Windows 7. I thought my laptop battery was wearing out and since I’m mostly hooked up on the powernet I dont use it that much anyway. However only recently I read that a lot of Windows 7 users are experiencing the same issue and are complaining that their battery life is being killed by Windows 7. Microsoft has investigated this problem and has come with a statement.
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Posted by Glitch on January 17th, 2010
I have you have a home network like myself you will probably create network shares from time to time to manage all your data. Although this can be done within Windows itself this isn’t always as easy as it should be. I, for instance, had some problems with Windows Vista and remembering passwords for Samba share on a NAS (Synology DS-207+) after a reboot. Next to that, creating permanent shares may clutter your My Computer folder if you have a lot of them. Having a lot of active shares will also cause for extra bandwidth and resource usage because Windows monitors these active shares.
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Posted by Glitch on January 5th, 2010
I have been using MP3Gain for years now to adjust the volume of my MP3 collection. I often burn random selections of tracks to a CD for playback in the car and it’s really annoying if you have to change the volume with every song. With MP3Gain you can analyse and adjust the volume of MP3 files to the same level. The changes MP3Gain makes are completely lossless. There is no quality lost in the change because the program adjusts the mp3 file directly, without decoding and re-encoding.
Posted by Glitch on January 4th, 2010
For quite some time now widgets have been growing in popularity and are cluttering our desktops. I think widgets can indeed make your life easier and I have been using widgets since Vista was released. Widgets I have been using since that day are notes, RSS news and stock index. At that time I was using the Vista Sidebar widgets but I was unsatisfied with the often bloated and poorly designed widgets available in the Windows Live Gallery. I needed something that I could fully customize to my own needs.
After a quest around the internet I stumbled upon Rainmeter, which was an abandoned project at that time. Rainmeter is a Windows customization application capable of showing widgets (Rainmeter calls them applets) on your desktop.
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Posted by Glitch on January 3rd, 2010
I’m a great fan of a Windows application called ReNamer. The name of the application pretty much says it all. This nifty tool can batch rename files and folders. ReNamer offers various standard renaming procedures, including prefixes, suffixes, replacements, case changes, as well as removing contents of brackets, adding number sequences, changing file extensions, etc..
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