shadekh

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Apple's Boot Camp pwns Mac OS X (Download Squad)

Apr 13th 2006 4:57PM exactly, its beta. The problem is, google has somewhat elevated beta to far above its normal quality standards. beta's are supposed to be buggy. very few actually work well. Take office 2007 for instance, which even in its current beta 1 tr state has some rather major bugs and extremely slow applications with broken compatibility.

We are talking about a rather extremely sensitive program here (though thankfully from apple running on specific hardware...imagine the mess otherwise..) and a large number of users having little to no technical knowledge. its no wonder they encountered bugs.

Google Calendar is live and it rocks (Download Squad)

Apr 13th 2006 8:22AM While google calendar is rather good, its inability to sync with outlook or exchange servers is a liability. I have a pocket pc, a phone and an ipod all synced to my outlook, exsuring i never ever miss an appointment. Google calendar synced as well would seriously rock......

Tweak the Firefox leak - Today's Browser Tip (Download Squad)

Apr 11th 2006 5:34AM a common confusion that is prevalent with the firefox memory leak is the "its not a leak, its a feature" routine. As it so happens, many people have got two completely different issues confused.

Firefox 1.5's fast back/fast forward feature catches the last visted pages, which is what causes the "its a feature" leak, and can be tweaked by the browsercache element in about:config

Hopwever, the tab memory leak is completely different. What happens is that firefox refuses to release memory from closed tabs (and not because of the catching feature, this big has existed since 1.0 and possibly earlier).What it supposedly does is reuse the memory and does not release it to the OS. However, that dosent work quite well, ot seems, as there is always an upward progression and never a downward one. Which means that firefox is still demanding more memory instead of reusing the old memory fully.

That in effect means heavy tab users like me very quickly use up availiable memory, specially when combined with firefox's uncompressed images bug.