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Posted - May 14 2010 : 11:26:53
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Question: Barbara asks, "Will cleaning out my cookies help memory?"
Answer: Thanks for the question Barbara, and it's a good one. It underscores the admittedly blurry line between RAM and disk space, and their effect on your computer's speed. I guess I'd better explain cookies first. Cookies are small text files that websites save on your computer's hard drive. They are most often used for customizing your experience on a website. For instance, the Weather Channel will show your local forecast on their home page if you enter your ZIP code. That's because the ZIP code is stored in a cookie on your computer and read back when you return to the site. Other sites store similar information. If you sign up for an account at daconsult.com, when you return and sign in, I use a cookie to know that it's you who signed in. Cookies can be deleted without any harmful effect on your computer. In normal use, they can only be read by the website that created them. They can be used to track where you've visited, but only within a particular advertiser’s customer base. They only use memory while you are visiting a particular website, and the disk space they take up is minimal. So, the answer to your question is, not really.
Cool Site: OneForty: Find. Rate. Collect. Share. This is the basic motto of this week's cool site oneforty.com. It's a site dedicated to the collection of Twitter applications. The name comes from the maximum length of a tweet. If you need to use Twitter on your phone, you can find an application to do that here. If you have multiple Twitter accounts like me, you can find a dashboard program to help you use both accounts more effectively. There's Twellow the Twitter Yellow Pages. There are Toolkits that are just collections of Twitter applications. Rate and review the applications. Create your own toolkits or just look at toolkits made by others. Twitter applications are available there in any of several categories like Advertising, Business, Games, Music, Productivity, and Travel, but those aren't all. So, anything you need to use Twitter better, you should be able to find on OneForty.
Cool Gadget: ToastedNotes: You've heard of Post-It(r) Notes, well from our buddies at BimBamBanana comes ToastedNotes. It's a clamshell case that holds five pads of sticky notes. The case is shaped like a huge piece of toast and the sticky note pad, since it's yellow, looks like a butter pat on top of that piece of toast. It's way too expensive, at $58, but the idea is unique. It'd sell a lot better at $7.99.
It's All "Geek" To Me: Clipboard: This week's term is Clipboard. We're all familiar with clipboards in the real world. We use them to hold things we're about to use. Things like rosters and lists. We take things off our desk, clip them onto the clipboard, and use those things later somewhere else. This is the idea behind the clipboard used on the Mac and Windows. The clipboard is a temporary holding area that holds one item that you've cut or copied from somewhere, and which you plan to paste into what you're working on. The clipboard exists in your RAM and can hold just about anything: sentences you plan to move from one paragraph to another; pictures you plan to send in email; or even files you plan to copy to a flash drive or CD. Keep in mind that the clipboard can only hold one item, though. If you don't paste that item somewhere, it's gone the next time you cut or copy
Links
Cookie Information on Microsoft.com:
http://www.microsoft.com/info/cookies.mspx
HTTP Cookies on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie
OneForty:
http://www.oneforty.com
ToastedNotes at BimBamBanana:
http://www.bimbambanana.com/index.php?p=toasted_notes&side=visProd&prod_id=407
Clipboard at TechTerms:
http://www.techterms.com/definition/clipboard |
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