It has been months since the new Mozilla Firefox 3 version came out of the shelves. I was awed when I first run it — it was so fast — and prior to the release of Internet Explorer Beta 2, Microsoft’s and other company’s web browsers were out of my mind. However, I noticed significantly now that Mozilla Firefox 3 is getting slower each day I use it — and I still use it each day. So, tell me — where is the speed it once boasted? It’s gone, and it’s a shame.

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No matter how fast the hard disk drive technologies are improving and no matter how you imagine about how big your hard drive now, time will always come that you will feel your disk space is not enough. If you are into collecting music, photos, video files and movies, and computer games, you’ll definitely eat your hard disk’s free space more rapidly than anyone who does only chatting and working with office programs. Plus, if you have a mobile life, a regular secondary hard disk won’t do, or a typical USB flash drive — they’ll not be enough. In this case, I recommend that you assemble an external mobile SATA hard drive. It’s big, it’s fast, and you can take it anywhere.

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If you’re like a video and audio freak like me — LOL — there’s nothing more convenient than having a tool to play with different audio and video formats. In my university days, I’ve been an active participant of Technographix competitions in our city and having those experiences gave me a wide-range perspective on video editing, 2D animation, and 3D animation — which involves a lot of understanding of different video and audio files including how they are converted from one format to another.

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Oh, it has been months since the last time I visited a computer shop to buy something. I am pretty sure that my computer system, my devices and gadgets are now behind the new releases. The pace of technology indeed is very frustrating and costly to chase as newer devices proliferate with better lineup of features in just a number of days or months since you last bought the latest product.

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Like what I promised in the previous post concerning Vista Codec Package, I’m going to show you some nifty features not-enabled-by-default that comes with it to beef up your lame Windows Media Player 11. Unlike Media Player Classic, which comes subtitle loading features in-built with it, Windows Media Player 11’s default subtitle functionality is too limited. It can only load subtitle files placed on same directory as the video file — likewise there’s workaround! On this post I will teach you how to show custom subtitles (i.e., using SRT subtitle file format, among others). This tutorial is effective to other compatible media players installed in your system as well. So here it goes…

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Without third party codec support, Windows Media Player 11 (and even Windows Media Center) that comes in the default installation of Windows Vista operating system is truly lame. And even though it deserves merits for its sleek design, it still lags behind even to opensource media players. I once hailed Media Player Classic to be the best media player in Windows Vista, but since I  pity much Windows’ media player home court, I sought a way to beef it up functionality-speaking –  and here’s how.

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In my old Pentium 4 computer, I already experienced all kinds of problems in my hardware units from my hard disk getting unusable and files corrupted, to CD-ROM drive and RAM failing. However, just recently my external hard disk enclosure, which I used to extend the capacity of my hard drive storage, failed. I found out that it wasn’t the enclosure electronics that was failing, but the power cord! This kind of problem happens less often, but somehow still bothersome.

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Not much, really. On my previous post I’ve told you that I am planning to boost my Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit system from 2 GB to 3 GB – and so I did it yesterday without second thought just when my funds got enough to buy a 2 GB memory stick for my laptop. The result: there was a measurable increase of responsiveness on most applications – but not really much to awe.

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