If you’re running on a particularly old computer, you may realise that it does take a while to boot your computer. There are some ways to make your computer boot faster though, it’s very simple to do and it will help you in the long run.

To start with, this can be a great tip. This will only work if you’re using a computer with a processor which uses more than 1 core, such as Dual Core or Quad Core. If you do, that’s great. Go into the Start Menu –> Run (on Windows XP) or on Windows Vista/Windows 7, go into the Start Menu and into the small search box at the bottom. Type msconfig into it and press enter. Click the Boot navigation button, and from there you will see something that says “Number of Processors”. Change the number in this field to the amount of cores you have. That’s all you have to do! When you boot Windows, it will boot using all of your cores now instead of 1, maybe it a lot quicker.

There are some usual computer tips that will help to make your computer boot faster too. The first thing is to clear out some disk space. Delete all of the files you don’t need, and try to make your computer have as less files as possible. This will make your computer boot faster and run faster in general too. You should also uninstall any programs that haven’t been in use for a long time.

Moreover, your registry could be one of the problems making it boot slower. There are lots of tools released which will clean your registry for you to make it cleaner and more efficient, but you have to be careful with these tools – Quite a lot of them are scams. Read the reviews and other people’s opinions about the tool you’re looking at before you commit to buying it.

As people will always recommend, upgrading your computer will help it boot quicker too. If you get a nice new Quad Core processor, 4GB of RAM and a big hard drive, your computer is sure to boot up quickly. This method does require spending quite a lot of money though.

Well I finally decided I would be kind – And now this blog is DoFollow

Of course I’m using my own plugin, JR NoFollow, to do this. I’ve also enabled another good plugin called KeywordLuv, which is another nice addition to the blog.

At least with this, you get something out of making a comment on my blog. Thanks a lot for everyone who has commented despite it being NoFollow previously.

Well this is just a small post that I wanted to make to inform you guys. I’ll get back to work on making more plugins and interesting posts for you guys to read

Thanks for reading!

Well I’m sure a lot of you will have heard about the story with the picture of Michelle Obama (President Obama’s wife, in the US) ranking 1st on Google image search. This however, wasn’t a normal picture of her. It was a fairly vile looking image, which made her look like a monkey – Quite racist, it seems. You can see it below:

Not the nicest image in the world, it must be said. As you can see from the image, Google’s answer to this problem was to run a few Google ads saying that some search results may be offensive. Does that really solve anything? Do people suddenly stop seeing this image? No. It solves nothing, and this picture is, according to Google, not “contradicting their Terms of Service”.

I’m not sure what President Obama thinks, or indeed Michelle Obama. Google did apologise for the image though.

What I find funny, as well as quite interesting, is how this image managed to rank so high on Google images to start with. For a popular person like Michelle, it can’t be that easy going straight to #1 on Google image search. The person who owned the image must have done some pretty good work to have pulled this off.

I’m sure which ever site is hosting this image is laughing right now, because they’ll be getting a lot of extra visitors from this. You know what they say, bad publicity is better than no publicity. Well, sort-of anyway.

I just managed to get a Google Wave invite from a kind person, so I can finally test it out!

I’m now giving out free Google Wave Invites! All you have to do is make a comment on this blog post, and I’ll do my best to send you an invite as of when I have invites available.

It would be preferred if you could include a name in the name field, instead of a keyword. That makes it better for me.

Also, Google Wave invites take around 1 – 3 days to arrive. This isn’t because of me, it’s Google Wave that sends them out like this.

Enjoy

Has anyone noticed these fade in effects on the Google website?

Sometimes I see it and sometimes I don’t. I’m not a big fan of it at all – It makes me have to wait for the effects to load, and personally, there is no point to it at all.

Apparently, Google are only testing these new effects, so quite a lot of people may not be able to see the effects (Lucky you!).

I really hope that they don’t release these fade in effects to everyone. I like the simplicity of the Google site, it doesn’t need anything extra. They should just stick to what they’re good at – Producing a great algorithm, capable of providing end users with good quality search results.

Do any of you have any comments on these new fade in effects? Feel free to comment and let me know.