March 4, 2010
Fine Tune Your PC
The next time your change the oil in your car, think of your personal computer. You flush the oil in your car to get rid of the gunk and sediments that have slowly been deposited over time. Your PC tends to have many of deposits that come from a variety of sources. Each time a file is modified it may be moved or become fragmented (spread across different areas of the hard disk instead of remaining one intact whole). “Temporary” files are created that remain in the system, potentially forever. Keys and entries are added to the Windows Registry that are never removed. It all adds up to one slow computer, but there are some things you can do to fine tune your PC into top performance.
The quickest and easiest thing to do is defrag your hard drive. All Windows systems come equipped with Defrag.exe, a powerful little tool that rearranges the files on your hard drive for optimal performance. To “defrag” your drive, open up Windows Explorer (not to be confused with Internet Explorer) and right click on the drive you want to defragment (usually the C: drive). Click on Properties at the bottom of the drop down menu and then click the Tools tab at the top. Click the middle button that says “Defragment Now…” to run defrag.exe. Click the Defragment button and your off and running. Cclose all programs before doing this and don’t plan to do any work on your compute for a while. Running defrag could take up to some hours or even overnight.
You should also open the Start Menu and click “Run…” Enter “msconfig” (do not use the quotes) and click OK to run the System Configuration Utility. Click the Startup tab and you will see a list of all the services and programs that load automatically any time you start Windows. Keep your antivirus program and every programs you use regularly, but if you see programs you don’t use, simply uncheck the box. When you restart Windows, you will be asked if you want to run the utility again, so you can undo any changes if you made a mistake.
It’s also very important to clean the Windows Registry. This is not something you want to try one your own, since one mistake could prevent your computer from booting or functioning properly. Several software companies offer programs to do this for you, each with its own strengths and capabilities.
One website that reviews and compares registry cleaning software is Answer Registry Reviews at The site offers relevant posts on the Windows Registry and compares various registry cleaning software products. The website even offers good links to directly download and purchase products such as RegCure, Registry Mechanic and Registry Easy (among others) online. If your Windows system is running slowly or you suspect a virus, Answer Registry Reviews should be the first stop for information on what might be causing the problem and to download a product that would meet your needs to correct it.
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February 11, 2010
Games With A Woman’s Touch: Women In Telecasting Amusement Expansion
My first experience on a game development team was truly eye opening to the situation at hand. “First we were multinational, now we’re multigenderal.” That boggled my mind, and lead me to investigate what the demographics truly were in the game development industry. While it has been a slow change, women have been gaining ground in this fascinating industry, and changing the field for what I hope is the better.Currently both workplace and market are dominated by males ages 21-35, but with the release of mass appeal games such as The Sims or Animal Crossing, more women begin to wonder how the games are made and developed, and pursue information on the various jobs available in the industry.Programmers, artists, writers, designers, and composers all have a place in the development field, and some paths to becoming involved are less intimidatingly and male dominated, mainly the creative ventures. Both technical and creative sides require a determined, influential, and motivated team player, aspects that fit many women that are interested in such fields, and make it a point to learn more, even against the problems inherent in dealing with a male dominated environment.
Women of like wits hold banded together in a kind of organizations, from the casual web site such as Sport Girls Unite. Both offer information, and more than that, the noesis that on that point are others that hold walked this route, and it is not as strange or foreboding as it power hold seemed at first, that this is a subject that women could become caught up, and be too much successful in.In several Austin and Portsmouth, women’s group discussions on amusement development are being held, departing over a kind of issues distinctive to the woman in this industry, gender issues in games, and other topics of interest to the predominately female participants.In usual amusement group discussions, on that point hold been panels on women in gaming and amusement expansion, however the panels were invariably headed by adult males.
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