Resource Intensive Apps
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical
I tried using some new applications (new versions) this week. Foobar 2000 version 0.9 and Opera 9 final. Sad to say, my experience with both of them are, far from best. On one hand, I’ve got Foobar, which uses a hell lot of processing power (40-70%), just to play some mp3s. I would say that the problem probably lies in some of the components that I use with Foobar. Funny thing is, I never had such problems with the previous version.
On the other hand, I’ve got Opera 9. As mentioned earlier, it suffers from severe memory leaks when running on my computer. It happens everytime I use Opera. It’s memory usage simply keeps going up. Sigh.. I only manged to find Opera technology preview 2, but none of the betas. Anyone still have the installation file for Opera beta 2?? Read the rest of this entry »
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Windows Live Messenger
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical
I’m not about to write a lengthy review that documents every facet of the recently beta-ed Messenger 8 as there’s probably dozens of other review available online. I’m just gonna blog about my thoughts on it. And oh, my first complain: clicking Help -> Send Feedback would bring you to a Microsoft.com page that says that feature is still under construction or something. Read the rest of this entry »
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Recently
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Personal
Recently, I was beseiged with tons of work. I’m under this “School of Arts and Science”, which has a habit of piling up tests and assignemnts toward the end of the semester. Everything seems to come together. It’s sort of like hell, maybe a little better.
Recently, I tried MSN Messenger 8, or as it’s officially named, “Windows Live Messenger“. Well, Microsoft’s smart enough to block passports that aren’t beta testers. So getting and installing a copy of messenger 8 isn’t a problem, but you won’t be able to log in anyway. But I believe that you would be curious and start googling for warez, cracks, patches and so on. I did just that, and got a proxy that allows you to connect to MSN’s servers as MSN 7.5. Read the rest of this entry »
