Many weeks back after much deliberation, I decided to give CloudFlare a shot. As they describe themselves… CloudFlare protects and accelerates any website online. Once your website is a part of the CloudFlare community, its web traffic is routed through our intelligent global network. We automatically optimize the delivery of your web pages so your visitors get the fastest page load times and best performance. We also block threats and limit abusive bots and crawlers from wasting your bandwidth and server resources. The result: CloudFlare-powered websites see a significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks….

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Is your online business with a great website designing sucks? Well, it happens to most ecommerce owners in fact. If you really do have a beautifully designed website and high-quality products, and still the business sucks, then obviously you are missing some tricks to convert the leads to sales. Reports say more than 45% shopping cart abandonments prior to sales raises due to unpromising shopping cart designing. Of course, there are a lot of businesses that earn customers as well as incredible profits with ease in the marketplace. So, what exactly are they following in order to make their online…

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You’ve bought yourself a super fast computer with a tonne of RAM, running the latest processor and you’ve been happy about this. A few months later the super fast computer is no longer super fast. If you’re running 4GBor more RAM, this is where a software like RAMDisk can help. RAMDisk will help you create a RAM disk using your existing memory. A RAM disk, or RAM drive is software that creates a block of main memory made up of DRAM chips on DIMM modules (volatile memory) to unlock the full potential of your available system RAM.  The computer uses…

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Even though you may have a high speed broadband connection, you’d still want to squeeze out some extra juice from it, especially when browsing websites. Switching to a public DNS instead of your ISPs DNS can be extremely useful in achieving this target. As the Google Public DNS website explains some reasons to switch: Provide end users with an alternative to their current DNS service. Google Public DNS takes some new approaches that we believe offer more valid results, increased security, and, in most cases, better performance. Help reduce the load on ISPs’ DNS servers. By taking advantage of our global data-center…

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A while ago, I wrote about Ten Tools to Defragment your Hard Disk. Like your hard drive the windows registry is also prone to defragmentation because it is constantly accessed by programs. Fortunately, we have tools that help you clean up your windows registry and defragment the same. I’ve identified three freeware tools that will help you defragment your registry. You need to run these occasionally and get a completely compact registry. One more step to speeding up your computer. Auslogics Registry Defrag Auslogics Registry Defrag is fast becoming a useful and essential tool in keeping your registry defragmented. The…

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Yesterday, I covered five of my favorite multimedia players. Today I’ll cover ten Windows tools that you can use to defragment your hard disk. You need just one. So, take your pick! Contig Contig is a single-file defragmenter that attempts to make files contiguous on disk. Its perfect for quickly optimizing files that are continuously becoming fragmented, or that you want to ensure are in as few fragments as possible. Power Defragmenter The main problem with contig is that it is command line and requires you to have some knowledge of using the command prompt. This is where Power Defragmenter…

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Windows Vista® Performance and Tuning is a guide from Microsoft that focuses on performance improvements on a single computer running Windows Vista, but also takes a look at some of the tools used in enterprise environments to help make performance tuning manageable on a much larger scale.