performance

Apple Accused of Intentionally Bricking iPhones

by Mike Mansell November 3, 2010

I’m sure you are all aware of the awesomeness that is iOS 4, the fourth generation of Apple’s mobile operating system. After all, the iOS is the true component that makes the iPhone 4 as amazing as it is, for without the software the phone itself would be somewhat useless. While iOS 4 shipped by default [...]

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Mushkin Io 128GB SSD Review

by Jeff Weisbein May 30, 2010

I recently got my first solid state drive (SSD) as a gift from my girlfriend for our 5 year anniversary. I picked out the Mushkin Io 128GB SSD and boy is it fast. You truly don’t realize how much of a bottleneck your hard drive actually is until you have replaced it with a SSD. [...]

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How To: Get Better Windows Performance

by Mike Mansell April 1, 2010

There are a lot of situations where you might want to sacrifice aesthetics for performance in Windows. Maybe you use older hardware or have a high workload. You may be running Windows in a virtual machine where resources are not easily available to allocate. In either situation, there are a few steps that you can [...]

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How To: Improve WordPress Performance

by Jeff Weisbein January 23, 2010

WordPress is an awesome blogging content management platform. Aside from its user friendly design and the fact it works very well, one of the great things about WordPress is the abundance of third party themes, plugins and support. However, as should be expected with anything that is third party, there may always be a few bad apples in the [...]

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