Ulyssesonline

the tech surfer

  • Home
  • About
  • Archives
You are here: Home / 2015 / Archives for September 2015

Archives for September 2015

September 8, 2015

My ISP Wasn’t Lying After All

PCMag has an article entitled “How Fast Is Your Internet Connection – Really? If you suspect your Internet provider is lying to you, then visit this page provided by PCMag. The Internet speed test tool is provided by Ookla, which is owned by Ziff Davis. The funny thing is, most people already use speedtest.net to test their Internet connection. It’s the very same tool that PCMag is offering on their page. Anyways, here’s my list of speed test tools that I have used over the years:

  • speedtest.net – Ookla
  • comcast.net/speedtest – Comcast
  • att.com/speedtest – AT&T

Compare your results using the list above. My ISP wasn’t lying after all. The tests between 3 different tools seem accurate. I get almost the same reading from all three.

 

Filed Under: Tech Tagged With: internet speed test

September 8, 2015

Chrome 45

Are you ready for a faster browser? Chrome 45 delivers. There are a ton of improvements and it uses less power as well.

From PCMag:

The new Chrome does more than just browse the Internet, though. It now detects if your computer is running low on resources, and automatically stops restoring tabs in an effort to save memory. Just click to refresh later, if necessary.

Google has also trained Chrome to identify when a webpage isn’t busy, and use that free time to clean up unused memory.

“In practice we found that this reduced website memory usage by 10 percent on average, but the effect is even more dramatic on complex Web apps,” product manager Ryan Schoen wrote in a blog post.

Read the rest of the article.

Filed Under: HTML, Tech Tagged With: browser, chrome

September 2, 2015

Best Free Antivirus of 2015

Pcmag.com covers the best free antivirus software of 2015. Although, the latest Windows 10 version has a built-in antivirus, it just doesn’t do a good job. There are commercial versions, but why pay if the free versions are good enough. In my experience, I usually end up using several free antivirus tools to get rid of viruses and malware. Here’s the list based on rankings:

  1. Panda Antivirus
  2. Bit Defender
  3. MalwareBytes
  4. Ad-Aware
  5. Avast
  6. AVG
  7. Qihoo
  8. Comodo
  9. Forticlient

I use Avast, MalwareBytes, and Ad-Aware to clean up my PC. What’s your favorite?

Filed Under: Tech Tagged With: antivirus

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Next Page »

Copyright © 2003 - 2018