Damien Oh

Damien Oh is the owner and chief editor of Make Tech Easier

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Why You Should Defragment Your Registry

By | January 29, 2008 |

The Need to Defrag the Windows Registry

If you monitor the registry of your system using a tool, you will see that it is accessed by your Windows operating system and programs installed on it more than a hundred times every second. Therefore, if your registry is fragmented and slow in responding to requests for information, it directly affects the performance of your PC and slows it down. This is the reason why it is important for you to keep your registry free from unwanted files and defrag it regularly to speed up your PC and maintain it at its optimal performance.

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How To Be A Better Mac User?

By | January 28, 2008 |

Owning a Mac is cool and I do feel proud about it, but seeing how some Mac users take their Mac for granted pissed me off. This post serves to vent my frustration and also as a guideline to teach others how to handle their Macs (and themselves).

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Changing Your Vista Boot Screen Graphic

By | January 25, 2008 |

Didn’t like the plain black Windows Vista boot screen graphics? Here is a simple trick to beautify your boot screen.

There is actually a nice boot screen call “Aurora” hidden behind the actual boot screen. To enable it:

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Things You Need To Install After Installing Ubuntu

By | January 24, 2008 |

ubuntu logoAfter much consideration, you have decided to switch to Ubuntu as your primary operating system.

You download the Ubuntu Live CD iso, burn into CD, boot it up and do a live install. When you finally boot into the new OS, start to use the browser and find that you can’t watch video on Youtube, or when you wanted to listen to mp3 and find that the format is not supportable, you start to wonder if you have make the right choice in switching to Ubuntu.

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Basic Bash Command For New Linux Users

By | January 22, 2008 |

One of the challenges that new Linux users face is the using of bash command on the terminal. Even though some Linux distro (such as Ubuntu Gutsy) has improved the user interface a great extent and reduced the need to execute applications via command line, there will still be cases where using the command line terminal is required.

As a Linux newbie, there are some commands that you may want to acquaint with.

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How To Use Free Vista For A Year

By | January 21, 2008 |

For whatever reason, you obtained a copy of Windows Vista without the license key, here is what you can do to use that unlicensed OS for a year.

When you install Vista, you actually get 30 days of trial before the OS requires you for a license key. Failure to key in the correct serial will lock the OS down till you entered the right key. With a simple fix, you can reset the 30 days trial up to eight times.

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Firefox 3 Beta 2 Review

By | January 18, 2008 |

Last December, Mozilla released their second beta of Firefox 3 for public testing. This version fixed over 900 bugs over the previous version and included many new features. I took the opportunity to download it and test it on my Windows VM.

Once the beta version is downloaded and installed in my Windows, I launched it from my Start menu, expecting to see a complete difference in the interface. I were disappointed, because the beta 2 interface looks actually like Firefox 2, and I have to double check that I did install the Firefox 3 beta version.

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Import Tab Features To Your Window Explorer

By | January 17, 2008 |

The Tab function is already a ‘must-have’ in all browsers, why not make it a feature in your window explorer too?

QT TabBar is a small program that allows you to add Tabs to your Window Explorer.

QT TabBar

Download the file.

Unzipped it.

Right click on the installer and select “Run as administrator“.

Once the installation finished, log off your account, and log on again.

Open your Window explorer. Right click on the menu bar and add QT TabBar.

Done.

[Poll Result]: What Is Your Favorite Browser?

By | January 16, 2008 |

Here is the result of a recent poll in MakeTechEasier (MTE).

browser poll result

Out of a total of 92 votes,

  • 79.5% like Firefox
  • 6.5% like IE
  • 6.5% like Safari
  • 6.5% like Opera
  • 1% like other browser

This result seems a bit of a surprise when the statistics taken from W3C shows that (in Dec 2007) Firefox users only account for 36.3% while IE users (inclusive of IE5, IE6 and IE7) take up 55.9% of the market share.

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Windows Vista Shortcut Keys With The Window Button

By | January 15, 2008 |

Experienced Windows users should already know that pressing the Window key on your keyboard brings up the Start menu. In addition to this, there is a whole bunch of shortcut keys that utilize the Window key as well.

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