One of the most annoying things about your general PC, whether Windows, Linux or Mac, is the boot time.  Things have become a little easier, but even so I still findmyself twiddling my thumbs for close to a minute while my laptop loads up. Fortunately there are a few ways to speed up the boot time of your PC, especially if you are using a Vista Machine, you can speed up vista boot time with easy simply by spending $30 on a usb flash drive!

So lets get down to basics, how can you speed up your PC?

First things first, the easiest, cheapest and quickest way to speed up a computer is by formatting and re-installing the OS, this does however bring in a few probelms, especially if you have hundreds of programs installed (Like me).

The second, more advisable way is to start uninstalling programs you do not use.  Many of these will have background processes, some which start on boot and then close back down, others will constantly run. Either way they all will slow down your computers boot time by a small but significant amount.

You can uninstall programs from the control panel, however this often leaves things on your computer which can still slow it down, for this reason I suggest using something like Perfect Uninstaller

Once you have uninstalled the useless unused programs off your PC the next step in speeding up your computers boot time is to clean up the registry. Registry cleaning is often considered insignificant, however a single registry clean up can cut your computers boot time in half! Registry cleaning is as simple as a single click with products like Registry Easy!

Once you have removed all these excess programs then your next step is to keep your computer clean, An Antivirus such as McAfee and some anti-spyware tools such as Adaware are pretty much essential here!

Once you have the basics out of the way you can look at more interior ways to speed up boot time on your computer. These small tweaks can massively increase your computers Boot time

Change your Bios to speed up boot time on your PC, make your Hard drive the primary boot device (Ususally CD drive as default) and reduce the time the boot program pauses to let you press the safe mood and system set up keys.

Remove the boot up splash screen to speed up Windows boot time, this can be done in MSCONFIG by checking the /noguiboot option.

If you are using windows vista you can massively speed up vista boot time by using the fantastic ReadyBoost system. This actualy turns a USB flash drive in to extra memory for your computer, and gives a huge boost to your computers boot speed in Vista!

And there you have it, some cheap easy ways to speed up computer boot time!

The smoking ban in the UK has touched many, so it’s not surprising that alternatives are being sought the country over.  Fortunately for thoseof you who have the nicotine dependancy I Want One of Those has just brought out the Electronic Cigar, a disposabledevice which evaporates a mist of a concoction containing nicotine and flavorings to make it similar to smoking the real thing!

And since there is no smoke, this is not affected by the smoking ban!

Good for 600 puffs of carciogen free heaven you will love this disposable electronic cigar!

Sometimes the simplest gadgets are the best, and this is certainly true with the ingenious digital photo keyring, giving you the photo or even slideshow you want to be showing on your keyring.This great little gadget can store a hundred of your digital camera phots and will let you carry them around where ever you go, whether you attatch it to your keys, bag or pocket!   

Olympus have been one of the leading providers of consumer digital cameras for the past decade.  For that ten years they have led the digital revolution and now they are preparing to finish the Mega Pixel Race.  Olympus have now declared that 12  mega pixels is more than enough for the average consumer.  Instead Olympus will be focusing on lense quality, features and sixe.  This will bring the consumer/SLR divide that much closer, providing home consumers with cheaper, higher quality digital cameras.

This amazing 1 Terabyte Hard Drive from   western digital is an amazing accesory for laptop and desktop users alike, the 1tb of space is enough for any computer user and its small portable exterior allows you to slip it into small spaces such as your laptop bag! The western Digital My Book Home Edition is a fantastic 1tb external hard drive with any connector you could ant, be it USB 2.0, Firewire or eSATA. eSATA holds many benefits, just to start with it is over 6 times faster than USB2, making it perfect for media streaming! You can buy the amazing 1TB external eSATA hard drive for only $139 if you order today from Amazon below! Western Digital WDH1CS10000N My Book Home Edition 1 TB USB/Firewire/eSATA External Hard Drive

Today we are proud to announce the official unveiling of the long awaited portable e-book reader the Amazon Kindle 2. The first inception of the Amazon Kindle was fraught with criticisms, from its price to its functionality. Today however amazon have decided to fight back by releasing this fantastic slimline piece of hardware!

Despite the Amazon Kidle 2′s price still being on the hefty side, $359, the new device comes with some amazing features, at 25% thinner and 20% faster these two basic features alone are stunning, and with a massive 25% extra battery life you can go for 2 weeks without a recharge.

The screen has been improved as well, going from the 4 color gray scale to an impressive 16 shades of gray. This allows the user to customize the Kindle 2 much more effectively for easy reading!

Though the Amazon Kindle 2 is thinner, faster and all in all better that the original Kindle it still lacks a lot to be desired. Despite its 3G downloading giving you a book in less than 6 seconds many people are still unhappy about the restrictions placed by Amazon with DRM software. This is especially frustrating when you can get cheaper PDF and text document readers out there for a lower price and with no restrictions whatsoever,

While the Amazon Kindle 2 is a nice device, and they have addressed a lot of problems, making this a truely sweet device to use I cannot help but feel that they really need to relax the DRM and lower the price to somethign just a little more reasonable.

As a long time windows user I have kept no secret of my distaste of Apple products. Unfortunately as the years pass it seems that the once restrictive controls of apple have begun to losen and I have found myself with less and less to crticize. They have brought out fantastic free software, they allowede a windows emulation for macs and they made some fantastic devices such as the iPhone and iPod, even if they still have some majorly pain in the ass restrictions on the music you place on them.For this reason I felt yet again disappointed as apple released yet another superb product, this time being the iLife ’09. iLife 2009 is an amazing piece of softwware for photo management with some impressive features and astoundinly well thought out designs.And while this great product has compatability with geo taggin on gps devices and improved events album management what really caught my eye was the Face Recognition functionality.Yes after tagging one of your friends you can not only set iLife ’09 to tage every other photo with your friend in it with one of those funky Facebook style squares but you can also upload them to facebook tagged. This means that there will be no more labourous tagging of facebook friends, you can simply upload your new photo’s to iLife ’09, it will tag all your friends and then you can put them straight onto facebook, with the tags and the location.This feature seems os brilliant to me that it may even convince me to take the plunge and by one of those overpriced incompatible mac things, or maybe not.