Tag : Performance

How To Make Your WordPress Blog Faster Using a Content Delivery Network (CDN)

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In this post, you will learn how you can speed up your WordPress blog using a content delivery network or CDN as they’re normally called. A content delivery helps in speeding up any website by serving its assets such as images, videos, JavaScript, CSS and more from the closest servers located to their location instead of just one central location. The data is replicated on each of the servers throughout the world so that every user will be served  the same but data from their closest server. Hence, using a CDN speeds up the delivery of content on your website considerably.

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Apple removes Smartphone Antenna Performance Videos from their Website. Is this the end of the ‘Death Grip’ Wars?

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According to Steve Jobs, the iPhone 4 antenna problem is not a unique problem and all smartphones suffer from it. Apple showed ‘death grip’ demonstration videos of RIM, Samsung and HTC smartphones in the iPhone 4 press conference and also uploaded these videos to their website and on their YouTube channel. Apart from showing video of these smartphones, Jobs also mentioned that Nokia , Motorola and other companies have the same problem in their smartphones. After some days, Apple posted a death grip video of Nokia smartphone N97 and Motorola’s latest smartphone Droid X. Apple has probably proved their point now and that’s why they have removed these antenna performance videos of other smartphones from their website.

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iPhone 3G Performance – OS 3.1.3 vs iOS 4

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Oh boy. This is one laggy beast. iOS 4 is slow in most things when compared to OS 3.1.3 on an iPhone 3G (non-jailbroken). Although I haven’t noticed that much of a difference in performance as evident from the video, it makes one wonder whether the upgrade to iOS 4 is really worth it or not. You be the judge:

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How to disable Multitasking and Background wallpapers in jailbroken iOS 4 on iPhone 3G to avoid Sluggish Performance [Guide]

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If you’ve already jailbroken and unlocked your iPhone 3G with iOS 4, you must have noticed that it gets really slow after some usage. This is due to the low amount of RAM in the device which isn’t suitable for multitasking. Plus iPhone 3G also feels a little hot after a while and not to forget, the battery takes a major hit. While, restoring the device and starting over the whole jailbreak process seems like a fix, here’s a simpler fix without losing any of your data.

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Stability and performance update available for Microsoft Office 2010 Beta

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Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Microsoft has released an update for Word and Office 2010 Beta which fixes a few issues related to stability and performance. Although now rolled up in a single update package, the Outlook 2010 Beta update was released separately back in January which fixes a problem in which the size of an e-mail is unexpectedly large. The update also provides some fixes for Word 2010 beta ( both 32 and 64 bit editions ) as well as stability and performance improvements.

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Fix uTorrent issue for Windows 7

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utorrent on Windows 7 It seems that certain Windows 7 users are experiencing problems when running uTorrent. Reports suggest that uTorrent is exceeding memory limits (sometimes reaching the 100% mark), download stops at 99.9%, false reports are produced and so on. In short, uTorrent performance is not up to the mark when running uTorrent with Windows 7. Well AddictiveTips has come up with a potential fix for this problem. We have listed the steps that will solve the problem

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iPod Touch price cuts, storage and performance increase.

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As rumored, the iPod Touch didn’t get the cameras due to some quality issues with the first batch that was shipped to Apple. The iPod Nano line did get video cameras though. The iPod Touch was touted as a great iPod, pocket computer and a portable game player at the event and got some good price  cuts. A 64Gb version was introduced too.

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Performance issues with iPhone OS 3.0? You’re not alone

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apple logoA lot of users have been complaining about their iPhone 3G getting slower in terms of performance after the update to OS 3.0 . Boot and shutdown take longer now than before and most apps also launch slowly. Safari has also been lagging a lot. This has been confirmed by users who haven’t Jail broken their iPhones 3G. Some have even reported a performance fix via jail breaking the firmware.

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