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How to Improve Mac Performance without Upgrading System Hardware

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When it comes to speed up Mac performance, people wonder if they have to upgrade the system configuration. They might be correct, though; however, hardware upgrade is not the only step they need to take. In fact, many other steps, such as defragmentation, hard drive cleanup, and the like can also be taken in order to improve the performance of the Mac.

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Digging deeper inside the Mac makes you witness certain system hardware components, such as RAM, hard drive, Ethernet card, and more. However, upgrading them is not the only step you must take in order to achieve speedy performance and faster execution. Instead, following are the things you can also go for: Read more…

Top Mac Myths You Need to Know Before Buying A Mac

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The elegance, stability and the ease of use of the Mac OS X evokes a passionate response from the Mac users, whether using them for a longer period of time or those who have migrated from the Windows environment, quite recently. The Mac users and the Windows loyalists are into a rivalry and there are certain myths, around which such a competition is based on. Let us now discuss some of these Mac Myths.

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8 Tips to Speed Up Windows 7

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Over time computers seem to get slower, even with new processors like Windows 7 built in to them for speed and efficiency. This is due to the junk that accumulates on your hard drive and unnecessary programs that run in the background. Factory settings don’t do well as people use more of their computer’s memory and hard drive.

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There are eight changes you can make in your computer settings to speed up your Windows 7 processor. Read more…

What Happened to the Mobile OS Market?

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Every teenager knows that almost all mobile phones are divided into “iPhones” and “Androids”. Older people still remember the ordinary mobile phones, “dialers”, and perhaps Symbian and Windows Phone. And where did all the other mobile platforms go? Are there any devices available based on them? Thanks to the efforts of manufacturers, Android smartphones got a great screen resolution and looks like a “spade”. Since the race for the pixels is on, we will point out, what is the maximum resolution and the diagonal of the screen used in phones (tablets do not count) on one platform or another.

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Antivirus for Mac: Excess or Necessity?

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There’s a wide-spread opinion that the devices that run under Mac OS X are immune to viruses. Do Mac users need to install an antivirus on their devices? In this article I’d like to try and answer this question and also tell you about good antiviruses for Apple devices.

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Why iOS is Favorite Choice of Developer Over Android

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There are a lot of genuinely substantial reasons why iOS is a far better choice than Android. A number of these things will be highlighted here so that people can clearly establish why iOS is the favorite choice of a developer over Android. The battle royal that does exist between iOS and Android is profoundly apparent. Therefore, it all depends on which side of the fence a person does find themselves, and which of these two contenders they do happen to like the most as opposed to the other one.

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One of the big reasons that iOS is a favorite choice of developer over Android is that Apple does continue to come up with the kind of phone that most end users do request and want the most. This is something that is extremely beneficial as the end users are the ones who provide them the majority of their business in addition. Giving the people what they want the most is why iOS is the chosen favorite over Android any day of the week. Read more…