How's Your CPU doing ?

Computers are a very useful tool in our life. Everything is automated nowadays. Due to them we are now working faster, better and innovations are streaming. There is an application of softwares for every field of activity. , so the software is actually doing all the hard work, some of you would say. But what about the hardware that keeps the software  alive ? Have you thought about that?It is actually the hardware components that make our work easier.Try working on the latest PhotoShop edition on a 950MHz CPU and you will understand perfectly what I am talking about.


The software  going to present in the next lines is an application that displays in-depth information about the goings on and goings on of your machine. CPU-Z is a free of charge program produced by CPUID that will provide you comprehensive info about important components on your computer. Although the software is called CPU-Z misleading us into thinking that it is strictly processor monitoring tool, the interface is equipped with five tabs, out of which only the first two are CPU related. The rest of them display characteristics of the mainboard and memory. CPU-Z as an invaluable tool that is must have for most anyone that owns a computer. CPU-Z can tell you quite a bit about your computer and not just information about your CPU as the name suggest, you can learn about your memory and motherboard as well. It also features a validation for overclockers out there, so if you’ve got a nice overclock that you’re proud of it can be officially validated so everyone knows you’re not faking it. One of the best features of CPU-Z is that it’s free


Interface


CPU-Z have a user friendly simple interface having 5 tabs. In the main window you can learn quite a bit about your CPU, the Technology,  Voltage, Family, Stepping, Model, Speeds, and the Cache sizes, along with other basic information. The next tab is Cache, which tells you a bit more information about the cache of your CPU.The next tab is Mainboard, which tells you information about your motherboard like model, chipset, BIOS and Graphic Interface.The fourth tab is memory, and you could combine both the 4th and 5th tabs as they contain information about your memory. The Memory tab though gives you the type of ram you have, size, and it tells you the speed along with the settings as well that you have your ram set at. The memory tab is very useful in checking to see if your memory is running at it’s rated speeds.The SPD tab goes into a bit more detail about your memory, telling your manufacturer and model numbers along with what speeds your ram is meant to run at. One note though is that not all memory will show all of the information, it depends on the memory if it will display it or not. If you’ve got more than one stick of memory in your computer, there’s a drop down box on the left side so you can view each stick separately.

Here's a list with the supported processors: Intel's latest i486,  Pentium, Pentium MMX, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Celeron (P2/P3/P4/PM), Pentium!!!, Pentium !!!-M, Pentium 4, Pentium 4-M, Pentium M, Xeon (P2/P3/P4), Pentium D, Pentium XE, Core Solo, Core Duo, Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Extreme; For AMD there are the Am5x86, K5, K6, K6-2, K6-III, K6-2+, K6-III+, Athlon (4, XP, MP), Duron, Sempron (K7/K8), Athlon 64, Athlon 64 X2, Turion, Opteron, Athlon FX. Transmeta's Cruso  TM3200, TM5400, TM5500, TM5600, TM5800 are also supported by the application, as well as VIA's C3 (Samuel, Samuel2, Ezra, Ezra-T, Nehemiah), C7 and C7-M. If you want to test it on older CPU's, you can try it on Cyrix's M1, M2

The Good part
1. Provides in-depth information of your computer hardware : CPU-Z provides in-depth information about your computer’s hardware. Information about motherboard, processor, memory, Cache information etc. You can notice in the screen shots below that how much information it has provided to us.


2. Fast and small in size : CPU-Z is a very small utility and is under 500 kb only. It loads up pretty quickly and collects the information and displays it to you. It just takes about 5 MB of the computer’s memory.


And the Bad 
1. May not show the correct information : CPU-Z may not show you the correct information because if it is not updated then it may not have the information about your latest computer’s hardware. With my personel experience i found information about my memory. I used 2 RAM cards of 256 and 128 MB each but CPU-Z reads the second as 256 MB and a total of 512 where i still have 384 MB perfomance.


I liked the software and the fact that it is free is more appealing. I think that more users should have it on their computers, computer lovers will discover a lot about their PCs. For them, CPU-Z is a must.


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ORBIT DOWNLOADER - Must have for Download Addicts. . .

Still waiting for an effective Downloader for media files you watch in youtube and online music sites where you can just listen to those ? Then Orbit is the rigt choice for what you are looking for.
Orbit Downloader 3.0.0.3 is a Download Manager product from orbitdownloader.com.Orbit can download a wide variety of rich media. It supports HTTP/FTP/HTTPS/RTSP/MMS/RTMP protocols and is thus able to extract streaming audio, video, flash files and lots of other embedded items from a site. Speed is the keyword when it comes to computers and Internet. Orbit downloads at a decent speed using p2p and multi-source downloading technology. Also it has pretty low CPU usage and the installation too is quite light thus making it least taxing for your system. It accelerates downloads by utilizing multiple connection streams and offers download management with custom categories as well as pause and resume of downloads. The software also provides an easy way to download video clips from YouTube (and other video sites). Orbit integrates well with all browsers and allows to download the media from your browser window itself. I found the Grab++ tool an amazing feature of Orbit downloader. It detects every downloadable media on an open website and lists them with details. One can select the items to download with the help of checkboxes present alongside.

Why use Orbit Downloader?


* Download Rich Media: Streaming Media, RTMP, Social Music & Video
Orbit Downloader supports HTTP/FTP/HTTPS/RTSP/MMS/RTMP protocols and provides a total solution to download rich media. So Orbit Downloader can be used as YouTube downloader to download YouTube more simply and easily. Additionally, you can download music and video from social music/video websites like YouTube.


* Great Speed: Up to The Fastest Download Manager
Orbit Downloader is based on p2p and multi-source downloading technology. More Efficient mirrors selection algorithm and faster download sources which allows you to download files up to 500% faster than before. Maximum possible download speed, up to the fastest download manager!


* Super Light: Micro-sized and Resource-friendly
Orbit Downloader is written with efficiency in mind, it typically uses less than 3MB of memory and 3% of cpu when downloading. Additionally, the installation package is less than 2MB.


* Support RapidShare
Orbit Downloader supports most of the file-sharing service websites, including megaupload, badongo, sendspace,  uploading, filefront, 4shared, turboupload, depositfiles, filefactory, and more.


* Easy to Use
Orbit Downloader has a simple and clear user interface. It is easy-to-use and configure for both newbies and experts.


* Free and Safe
100% free and no registration required. No adware!!! No spyware!!!

Orbit Downloader Main Features


Orbit Downloader, leader of download manager revolution, is devoted to new generation web (web2.0) downloading, such as video/music/files from Myspace, YouTube, Imeem, Pandora, Rapidshare. And to make general downloading easier and faster.


1. Download social music, social video and streaming media
2. Extreme download acceleration.
3. Super Light: micro-sized and resource-friendly
4. Support RapidShare download.
5. Support IE, Firefox, Maxthon,
6. Support Metalink download.
7. Support HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, MMS, RTSP and RTMP protocols.
8. Support Proxy server configuration.
9. Support download pasue and resume.
10.General download management.


 Orbit Downloader does not contain any adware or spyware the latest version is 3.0.3
The license of this internet software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this download manager software.


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TeraCopy - Copy your files with ease of hand

File copying or moving from one location to another is such a trivial activity that nobody talks about it. You just do it and that is it. Of course that sometimes we spend more time waiting for a large file to copy, but is there anything we can do about it? Generally, no, there is nothing we can do except wait.

File managers come with their own file copying system that sometimes really counts in the process. But most of us are using Windows Explorer it takes a while for Explorer to calculate the size of the file you want to copy, be it one of only a couple of KB. Tera Copy is designed to increase file copying and moving speeds.The interface is as simple as it gets and you'll have no trouble handling the application with ease. It's been used in dozens of systems and never had a stability problem .Tera Copy's expanded mode allows you to change the buffer size for a faster operation and also gives you information about the handled files. 


The first issue I bumped into while using the application was adding the files to be copied and moved. It proved that it was just a simple matter of drag and drop. You can add more files to copy to different locations while a copy process is going on, Tera copy will wait list the  files you add and finishes the job where Windows copier mess the work with two copier at same time forcing us to wait indefenitly. Its simple interface also tells the status of file being copied including size and percentage copied so far and the most intesting feature is that you can pause and resume while you copy.   For example if you are copying multi gigabyte files from a DVD and system encounters reading error, Tera copy notifies the error and tries to overcome that about ten tries in the time u can also pause the process and eject the disc from drive and insert it back to resume after a while.


Copying and moving files and folders from one location to another is all about speed and this is exactly what Tera Copy promises. To test the application's speed I checked  with what it had to offer. The result was satisfying: 3'49'' for copying a file of over 4GB from one location to another, on the same hard disk

So by using teracopy over your windows copier you are provided with features including

* Copy files faster. TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times. Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives.
* Pause and resume file transfers. Pause copy process at any time to free up system resources and continue with a single click.
* Error recovery. In case of copy error, TeraCopy will try several times and in the worse case just skips the file, not terminating the entire transfer.
* Interactive file list. TeraCopy shows failed file transfers and lets you fix the problem and recopy only problem files.
* Shell integration. TeraCopy can totally replace Explorer copy and move functions, allowing you work with files as usual.
* Full Unicode support.

The final conclusions show that Tera Copy is a lot faster than Windows Explorer on XP

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