Steve Looi » Product Reviews http://www.stevelooi.com Tech, Gadgets, Reviews, How-to, Tips and more Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:07:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 High Speed Internet Broadband Booster Software http://www.stevelooi.com/2008/08/17/high-speed-internet-broadband-booster-software/ http://www.stevelooi.com/2008/08/17/high-speed-internet-broadband-booster-software/#comments Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:47:06 +0000 Steve Looi http://www.stevelooi.com/?p=51 I found the Full Speed software in the Internet yesterday that advertised itself to be able increase your Internet broadband speed. The software tweaks nd optimizes the Windows Operating System’s Internet and network settings for best performance possible.

I installed and tested it yesterday and noticed there was a significant increase in web browsing and file downloading speed.

The Full Speed software has free and paid versions. The free version is fully functional without time limitation.

Test your Internet broadband speed at SpeedTest.net before and after installing the Full Speed software.

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The Iris Browser developed by Torch Mobile is a web browser for Windows Mobile 5 & 6 that uses the WebKit rendering engine.

It is now available for download at Torch Mobile’s web site.

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]]> http://www.stevelooi.com/2008/07/07/iris-browser-for-windows-mobile-uses-webkit-rendering-engine/feed/ 0 Move IE7 Menu Bar Back to Original Location with IE7Pro http://www.stevelooi.com/2008/04/17/move-ie7-menu-bar-back-to-original-location-with-ie7pro/ http://www.stevelooi.com/2008/04/17/move-ie7-menu-bar-back-to-original-location-with-ie7pro/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:33:15 +0000 Steve Looi http://www.stevelooi.com/2008/04/17/move-ie7-menu-bar-to-the-original-location-with-ie7pro/ After I installed and ran the Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) for the first time, the first thing I noticed was the address bar located above the menu bar, while the menu bar was located below it.

IE7 layout is shifted from the stardard user interface found in most of other Microsoft applications.

I found that many people posted methods to move the menu bar back to its original location by editing the Windows Registry.

Editing the Windows Registry is not recommended for a novice because if someone accidentally edited the wrong setting, it might cause the operating system to crash.

I was searching around the Internet and stumbled upon IE7Pro. IE7Pro is an add-on for Internet Explorer which can move the menu bar back to its origincal position.

IE7Pro also has lots of sleek features and extras that make your browsing faster, more responsive and customizable.

Visit IE7Pro web site for more information and download the add-on.

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Many users find that the new placement of the navigation buttons at different positions in the web browser is not practically user friendly. They prefer to group these buttons together.

Quero Toolbar is a navigation bar replacement for Internet Explorer that you can download for free. It supports Internet Explorer 5.5 or later, including IE7.

The toolbar is also integrated with ad blocker, that will block intrusive web advertising.

Visit Quero Toolbar web site to read about its features and download the toolbar.

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The Windows Vista SP1 contains more than 300 hot fixes compiled since the launch of Vista. These hot fixes are designed to improve the operating system’s security, speed and stability.

Windows Vista Secrets
Windows Vista Secrets

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You can still buy registered domain names in the domain name aftermarkets. Registered domain name owners place their domain names for sale at these domain name aftermarkets web sites hoping for some buyers to pay a good price and make a profit from the sale. The price could range from several hundred dollars to tens of thousand dollars.

The most popular top level domain (TLD) is the .com, which stands for Commercial. Most internet surfers will type the .com TLD in the web browser instead of other TLD, such as .net, .org, and etc.

Domain name registrars established since the early days are pricing new domain names registration for $35 USD. Why do you need pay more while you can register a domain name and get the same or even better features for less than $10 USD?

If you plan to have Internet presence for your company or to create a personal web site, StayHost.com is one such portal that offers new domain name registrations and transfers for less than $10 USD per year.

StayHost.com is a one-stop portal that provides web hosting, e-mail accounts hosting, and SSL certificates. A web-based customer accounts interface allows you to administrate and manage the products and services you purchased.

If you are planning to setup an e-commerce web site, you need to purchase a SSL certificates in order to encrypt sensitive data such as credit card information that travels between your web server and your customers’ web browser.

Building a personal web site is also an easy task. If you do not have the know-how to turn text and images into nicely formatted web pages, StayHost.com offers a product that allows you to build your very own web site online with its more than 800 easy-to-use templates.

Register or transfer a domain name at StayHost.com and start building your very own web site today!

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]]> http://www.stevelooi.com/2007/09/17/why-pay-more-for-a-domain-name-that-cost-less-than-10/feed/ 0 Let The Best Guys In The Business Manage Your Hosting Account http://www.stevelooi.com/2007/04/09/let-the-best-guys-in-the-business-manage-your-hosting-account/ http://www.stevelooi.com/2007/04/09/let-the-best-guys-in-the-business-manage-your-hosting-account/#comments Sun, 08 Apr 2007 16:49:35 +0000 Steve Looi http://www.stevelooi.com/2007/04/09/let-the-best-guys-in-the-business-to-manage-your-hosting-account/ When you are searching for a reliable web hosting service, you will come across many review sites in the Internet.

You can read about the different recommendations posted by people in those review sites. Many people tell you which are the best web hosting companies available in the market.

However, many people may not provide you with the actual fact because they may not have personally tried the hosting service that they recommend.

If you host your web site with one of those so-called “best” hosting service, but in fact, it may turn out to be one of the worst hosting services that eventually make you feel frustration when things don’t work out as what is being advertised.

Frankly speaking, most of the hosting services are technically the same. Hosting companies come up with these “fancy” packages that bundle with all kind of features to confuse the consumers.

Whichever package you choose to sign up, you will still get the same value for money hosting features in most of the hosting companies you can find.

So, what is the most important thing you need to take into consideration before you decide to sign up for a hosting account?

Technical Support. They Are Your Emergency Rescue Team!

A good hosting company should put its priority in providing a technical support team with fast response time. It is the key towards providing a high quality service to the customers.

I can say that, 95% of the time you will not need to get any support assistance from your hosting company.

When you need to ask for help, it will be a “lifesaver” to have the support staff responding to you in shortest period of time to help you solve the technical problems during emergency.

I believe most people, including you may not be a technical person. You will still be able to administrate your hosting account without much hassle with the administration tools that comes with your hosting account and online guide that answers to some of the most common questions.

Most hosting companies that I signed up before were poor in technical support. These hosting companies’ web sites were boasting about how superb was their customer service and technical support. But in actual fact, the support team either lack of knowledge in solving the problems or they responded to my e-mails late.

Some hosting companies do not provide technical support after office hours. I felt frustrated when I needed help but no one was able to assist me to solve the problem. By the time it was fixed, I’ve already lost many visitors to my web site.

Ever since I signed up for HostMonster, I have stopped searching for other hosting companies anymore. I was totally amazed with the high quality of support I could get from them. They showed their professional courteous support when attended to me.

  1. HostMonster offers 24×7 toll-free telephone support.
  2. It has a Live Support feature that I use quite often to get help on urgent matters. This feature benefits International customers by saving on International phone call charges.
  3. I use the Support Ticket System when I need help. I can also track the ticket history with the system.
  4. Most of the questions I sent to them were responded within 30 minutes.

Recently, I received e-mails from the support staff mentioning that they would be performing some proactive maintenance to enhance the server performance. So far, the server hosting my account is performing very well.

This shows that they do take care of their customer interest seriously by making sure all the servers are functioning well with 99.9% uptime guaranteed.

HostMonster won many awards for its high quality service. One of the awards was the Best Customer Service 2006 awarded by Hosting Review.

Cpanel – Makes Your Life Easier

All HostMonster accounts include Cpanel that makes your life much easier to administrate your hosting account. Some of the features you can perform in Cpanel are add, upgrade and delete domain names and e-mail accounts, MySQL database, and backup all the files in your hosting account.

Cpanel also allows you to install, upgrade and delete some popular applications, such as WordPress and osCommerce shopping cart. With the single-click installation feature, just sit back and let Cpanel does the rest of the work for you.

Here is a screen shot of the Cpanel administration interface.

Cpanel screen shot

HostMonster offers you a Shared Hosting package. You can host unlimited domain names all in the same Hosmonster account. That means you do not need to spend extra money to get extra hosting accounts to host your other web sites.

Every HostMonster shared hosting account provides you with the following services:

  • Free domain name forever as long as you are hosting with them
  • Free SiteBuilder with templates
  • Free e-Commerce shopping cart and scripts
  • 99.9% uptime guarantee
  • 30-days money back guarantee
  • Secure shell access

Your account will be setup within one hour of your purchase. You will receive your account information via e-mail.

Getting Started

It is just two steps to sign-up for a HostMonster account. You will be asked whether you want to register for a free domain name. If you have one already, you can just enter your existing domain name.

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