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• 8GB DDR3 RAM

 by Stanley, January 25, 2012

Last week I bought 2 sticks of 8GB DDR3 RAM for my desktop PC. Before this, all I had was 2GB which is the bare minimum these days. After a few hours of browsing, I’ll be close to the limit and I could sense the OS thrashing my HDD’s pagefile. My system slows down considerably when my RAM limit is hit.

RAM prices are very cheap nowadays. So most people who are buying a new PC wouldn’t think twice of putting 8GB RAM into their CPUs.

My system feels a lot smoother and slightly faster with 8GB. Especially with multiple programs running at the same time. Switching back and forth with no lag. I could browse for days without closing the browser and have tons of memory left. My computer feels good again, I should have bought them earlier.

• Firefox 9 beta still sucks

 December 20, 2011
I’ve been using Firefox 9.0 Beta 6 for a week now and I’m afraid the problems with browser locking up and crashing, is still bugging me. I’m now downloading Firefox 9.0 and will begin testing it tonight. But to be honest, my faith in Firefox is fading fast. By far the most annoying thing for me [...]
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• Giving Google Chrome a spin

 December 6, 2011
I’m seriously considering switching over to Google Chrome. Firefox 8.0 has been giving me some serious lagging problems. It lags when exiting. Occassionally failure to restore browser windows after minimized for some time. And more that I could care to remember. It wasn’t a pleasant experience browsing with Firefox in the past few months as much [...]
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• Starting Android casual game development

 October 20, 2011
I’m toying with the idea of developing a 2d platform game for Android mainly aimed at kids. After a short research, I’ve decided a 2d game engine would be the best way to start with. Commercial ones as opposed to open-source options. Some of the best commercial game engines for mobile gaming are also the [...]
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• Clean CPU fan

 August 5, 2011
Out of boredom, I decided to stress my unlocked AMD Sempron 140 with Intel Burn Test v2.5.1 yesterday night. The last time I stress tested my CPU was many months ago, the first week I bought it. Intel Burn Test cranks up your CPU temperature like mad. Within a minute, my CPU reached way above 60c [...]
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• Intel 320 series 40GB SSD

 April 25, 2011
After years of reading about SSD, I’ve finally decided it’s time to join in the fun. My first choice is Intel SSD Series 320, 40GB or 60GB model. I’m going with the lower capacity ones because they are cheaper. So I could only put my Windows 7 OS and softwares in it. Like most people [...]
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• My daughter and her iPad

 March 29, 2011
My daughter loves the iPad so much, she’s spending more time on it than I do. I’ve downloaded plenty of educational stuff, games, puzzles, interactive story books, drawing and painting apps for her. Some paid albeit mostly discounted apps. And plenty of free apps. Enough to fill more than 4GB, which is a huge chunk [...]
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