Tag: MEMORY

DieHard is a joint venture between Emery Berger at University of Mass. Amherst and Microsoft researcer Ben Zorn which is meant to prevent common memory management and allocation crashes. Its creators claim that it prevents errors known as "double frees", "single frees", "dangling pointers", and common types of buffer overflows, amongst others. Even though memory consumption may go up to 50-75% ...

I've been tinkering around with the Mac version of that new Photoshop CS3 beta Adobe unleashed, and I have to say that so far it feels like a more significant and worthy upgrade than CS2. Adobe has packed a lot of new goodies in CS3 which we'll be covering in our Imaging Tip series, and today's tip praises the return of true memory management to Photoshop. As you can see, the Performance tab of ...

Ever have a virus or other program that you can't get rid of because it won't die long enough for you to delete it? When Spybot, Ad-Aware, and others fail, turn to Killbox. This handy-dandy download will kill anything currently running on your PC, so you can remove it. Simply enter the path of the offending guest, and Killbox will go to town on it. Think of it like the in-memory mafia. Killbox ...

Firefox has its own memory issues, but once you've got a few dozen extensions installed (like yours truly), things can get really hairy. Leak Monitor is a Firefox extension that's intended to help developers keep an eye on their extensions, but even for non-developers it can come in handy to figure out which of your extensions is eating up more memory than it ough to. It doesn't really offer a ...

Josiah Cole at Oomny, a very odd little gem of a blog, has posted an interesting comparison of the memory usage of Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 ("Bon Echo") and Internet Explorer 7 beta 2, both of which were released this week? The results are a little surprising. Firefox consistently outperforms IE, using slightly more than half the memory for single pages. Cole notes, however, that IE's memory ...

PhotoRec is an open source multi-platform app intended to help you recover photos from corrupted media like memory cards and even hard drives and CD-ROMs. In addition to photos, PhotoRec can recover many other types of files, including video files, documents, and archives (e.g. zip files). PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it'll work even if your media's ...

As I've mentioned in previous posts, for the number of apps I tend to run concurrently, my system is starved for RAM. Yes, I know this could be easily remedied, but until I get around to it I'm really enjoying Cacheman, a Windows app from Outer Technologies that's "designed to improve the performance of your computer by optimizing the disk cache, memory and a number of other settings." ...