Category Archives: Computers

PowerBook G4 – Slow Youtube – PART II

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The saga continues – Many websites are becoming Flash 10 dependent, which is rendering my previous workaround useless:
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It seems corporations like Adobe, Google and Apple are not as environmentally friendly as we would hope – as their answers to the Flash 10 support for PPC question is, basically, UPGRADE! Out with the old, in with the new.

Not ideal when the Powerbook is functioning perfectly well on everything else BUT Flash! Plus considering the cost of such a venture, just to work YouTube smoothly.

So why not consider – a life without flash?????? Read on….

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A faster, smarter DNS service

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For those of you that are more technically minded amongst our readers you will already know what DNS is – for those of you that don’t it is what is known as a “Domain Naming Service”.

Effectively what this does is allow humans to type in www.john-willis.com for example into their web browsers. The computer cannot understand where to get this from as computers work best with numbers, this is where the DNS servers come into play. They convert the human readable name to a number which without the service would be impossible for humans to remember (for example 92.35.234.18)

Want to know more about how changing the service you use could speed up the internet, as well as keeping your network safe – then read on! Continue reading →