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Whirlpool
Whirlpool.net.au
is a fully independent community website devoted to keeping the public
informed about the state of broadband in Australia. Since its inception
in 1998, it has become a premier destination for broadband Internet
subscribers. As well as its rich source of broadband news and
information, Whirlpool boasts one of Australia's largest
technology-related online communities.
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Internode ISP
Internode is
a leading services company who is changing the face of
telecommunications in Australia through the use of innovative, cost
effective and easy to use Data and Voice services.
Internode was founded in 1991 to serve the IT needs of Australian
businesses. We have steadily grown and now employ over 150 qualified
and dedicated people to provide services nationally to all types of
organisations and users.
As a large, stable and locally owned company, Internode is committed to
delivering affordable communication services nationally. We continually
re-invest in hardware, software and people to create a strongly growing
and satisfied customer base.
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ADSL2 Exchanges
This page is
designed to help you find out what broadband options are available to
you.
* The ADSL2+ providers in your exchange
* Automatic updates of each providers
status
* A map of where your nearest exchange
is located.
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LogMeIn
LogMeIn is a
leading provider of on-demand, remote-connectivity and support
solutions to small businesses, IT service providers and consumers.
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Hide My Ass
What Is Hide My
Ass?
... An anonymous free proxy service aimed at hiding your online
identity. Use our service to hide your IP address and bypass your
work/school web filter with ease. For example, is MySpace blocked at
work/school? It won't be any longer if you use our free service :)
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Black Viper WinXP Tweaks
Have you tweaked
your OS lately? - This site will help you decide which WinXP services
can be disabled.
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Jackie's Software Show
A blog listing
software that Jackie has found useful in the past.
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Vista Landscape Wallpaper
Do you like
Vista's landscape screen
wallpaper? Hamid Darwish, a photographer who produced two of
the
images used in the wallpaper collection, has put the rest of the images
he shot for Microsoft online, in hefty high-resolution formats.
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Microsoft Vista Community
Community
Support for Vista.
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Vista Forums
The support
forums for Vista 64.
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Lockergnome
The support
forums are an excellent source for help on a variety of topics.
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KRC Forum
Another
excellent source for help on a variety of topics.
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Speedtest.net
Speedtest.net is a
broadband connection
analysis tool with a huge selection of geographically dispersed testing
servers. Ookla provides this service free to hundreds of thousands of
people every day. If you are experiencing slowness with your Internet
connection or are simply interested in testing your speed,
Speedtest.net is for you.
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OZ Broadband Speed Test
Test your
upload speed and your download speed from either an
Australian ISP or an international ISP, plus check your IP address.
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DNS Stuff
Reverse DNS
lookup and more.
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Doteasy Australia
Dot Easy
Australia is a privately owned company and offers a wide range of free
and paid professional web hosting service, domain name registration,
design and development, audio streaming and web marketing.
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Nonags Software
At NONAGS we
try to sift through all this, we do the work of selecting what really
works, what's really free, what really is worth your time and effort.
So we have put together a large collection of 32-bit Windows software
that has no disabled features, nags, time limits, or any other tricks.
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The Firmware Page
Find firmware
for optical drives or use the Forums if you have any questions.
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Anti-Spyware Tutorial
A tutorial to
help you remove spyware.
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Windows XP Prefetch Clean And
Control
Launch it and
choose "Monitor boot file launch only".
Taken From Microsoft Website:
Windows XP monitors the files that are used when the computer starts
and when you start applications. By monitoring these files, Windows XP
can prefetch them. Prefetching data is the process whereby data that is
expected to be requested is read ahead into the cache. Prefetching boot
files and applications decreases the time needed to start Windows XP
and start applications.
This information is logged and stored on your hard drive taking up
space and requiring a process to be kept running monitoring which
applications are being run. This has a performance impact on your PC.
Disabling the Prefetch function or at least only enabling it for the
Boot Files will allow you to free up some system resources and preserve
some disk space.
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DLL Archive
Everyone has
uninstalled programs at one point or another, just to be presented with
that wonderful dialog asking whether or not we want to delete some
'shared' Windows resource... Do we? Does something else use that DLL
file it's asking about? Help!!! That's where AnalogX DLL Archive comes
in - it searches through all the files on your system and lets you know
if any of them contain references to the DLL's in question!
AnalogX DLL Archive is super-simple to use, just click search and let
it do it's thing - once done, you'll be presented with a list of all
the DLL's that don't have references in the system! Then just select
which ones you think aren't necessary anymore and archive them; it's
that simple! Make a mistake? No problem, restoring DLL's from the
archive is just as simple - nothing is deleted until YOU delete it.
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Tom's Hardware
Reviews of
hardware, computing news and tips on other computer related topics.
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Windows XP Tweaks - use at
your own risk
Put
the Start Menu in Order
1.
Open the Registry Editor
Click
Start > Programs, right-click any entry and choose Sort by Name.
Click
Start > Run, type regedit and press Enter.
Select
the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder.
2.
Tweak Permissions
Choose
Edit > Permissions, click Advanced and untick the "Inherit from
parent the permission entries..." box.
A
pop-up box will appear, so click Copy followed by OK to return to the
first screen.
3.
Make Read Only
Finally,
select your username from the list and clear the Allow tick box next to
Full Control (leave the Read tick box alone) and click Apply.
Repeat
for the Administrators group.
Finally,
click OK.
Always
Unload DLL's
When
programs close, they're
supposed to shut down the .dll files that are associated with them,
too. But this doesn't always happen, and the .dll detritus can cause
system instability.
Cascade
Menu Items
Add
expanded menus to My Pictures, My Documents and the Control Panel.
Copy
To and Move To
Add "Copy To" and "Move To"
choices to the context menu.
Enable
Super Prefetch
You
can boost your Prefetch files by enabling a feature that's packaged
in Windows XP SP2. You will need to restart your computer.
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