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May 26 2009

Tip: Increase user process address space to 3GB (and other misc. tweaks)

If your gaming PC uses Windows XP (or Windows 2003) and you mainly use it for gaming (I have a “dedicated gaming PC” only for that and watching movies/listening to music), you can change one option in the boot.ini file to achieve two goals: Force detection...
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Jan 02 2009

Catching all Twitter replies to you, even if you do not follow the sender

Twitter is based on talking, either to "everybody" (who follows you) or to specific recipients (people you follow). This works fine, but has some nasty bugs: If someone mentions more than one twitter account ("@ person1 and @ person2 "...
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Dec 29 2008

Tip: Add Command Prompt Here in context menu to Windows 2003 [UPDATED]

Microsoft Powertoys used to be the best way to obtain a "Open Command Prompt Here" functionality to the folder explorer. But if you try to install them on a Windows 2003 (at least an updated one) you will find that it no longer works. So how...
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Nov 11 2007

Fighting with Windows XP

Last night, after coming early home I decided to install Windows XP Professional 64, to play the (growing) list of Vista-incompatible games and to not need to tweak DirectX (after Crysis , I've lost my faith in DirectX 10, it just slows down any game...
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Nov 07 2007

Messenger Presence API Exposed }:)

Today has been a great day, Messenger control for web plus presence API . The second one was a simple URL to query messenger.services.live.com and get a user's online status image. Not bad... but could be better! Playing a bit, I found that you can...
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Oct 30 2007

Tweaking the Crysis SinglePlayer PC demo

Now that the so expected Crysis SP demo is available , I've already finished it but, until the game cames out, I'll replay and fine-tune it as much as possible. Being one of the big "Vista & DirectX 10" showcases, I was eager to...
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Sep 12 2007

Tweaking Firefox

Today I'm a bit tired so the selected topic is "Tweaking", in this case the Firefox browser. Firefox is my favourite browser, but sometimes it takes too much RAM (more than 150 MB), and as I'm a bit maniac about computer performance...
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