Archive for June 4th, 2007

Windows Experience Index - Rate and improve your computer’s performance

Monday, June 4th, 2007

Microsoft Windows Vista allows you to rate and improve your computer’s performance using Performance Information and Tools. This is measured as Windows Experience Index.

The Windows Experience Index measures the capability of your computer’s hardware and software configuration and expresses this measurement as a number called a base score.A higher base score generally means that your computer will perform better and faster than a computer with a lower base score, especially when performing more advanced and resource-intensive tasks.

Shown blelow is my PC’s components score.

And you can notice that my base score is 2.5 and this determined by my lowest subscore which is recorded for the Graphics component. And there are ways to improve your computer’s performance by optimizing different tasks in your PC.

Now it is time for me to improve my Graphics and Gaming Graphics score.

My Foxmarks - online backup utility and synchronizing firefox bookmarks

Monday, June 4th, 2007

  Foxmarks is a tool available for synchronization of firefox bookmarks between browsers in more than one PC. Using Foxmarks you can access your bookmarks from any computer any time using my.foxmarks account. This is available as a firefox extension and you have to install the extension and create a new user account. The creation of new account does not take much time as you canfind it out from the below steps.

After you install the extension and restart firefox these are steps to be followed.

 

 

In step 2 you can sepcify whether you have an account already or you need a new account. When you are using  for the first time you will have to create a new account and later when you want to synchronize your my.foxmarks from another PC you can skip the creation of new account.

Step 3 -  This completes the synchronization of your bookmarks.

Now you should be able to access any bookmarks which you had created in another computer. You can also access your bookmarks online by logging in to the my.foxmarks account. The picture below displays a sample my.foxmarks account.

A neat, easy to install and easy to use extension and a much needed utility if you want to synchronize your firefox bookmarks between home and office PC.