clean up your windows pc startup

Startup Applications List

If you're frustrated with the time it takes your Windows PC to boot and then it seems to be running slowly you may have too many programs running at start-up - and have come to the right place to identify them.

via sysinfo.org

looking at MSConfig, Windows Defender, the registry

Make a Yearly Habit of Visiting Your Google Dashboard [Google]

Even those who work at Google are often surprised at what they find when they visit their Google Dashboard. It's a good idea to check in on what Google has on you regularly, for reasons both tinfoil-esque and practical.
Ars Technica's Jacqui Cheng visits Google's Chicago office and comes out with a newfound appreciation for just how much information, personal data, and settings Google offers to all its users—and how much we leave behind:

Who knew that I still had an Orkut account? I didn't until today. I also have a Google Health account from 2008 with no records (aside from my height and weight), 15 public maps in Google Maps, and 3,000 archived Google Chat conversations. If I had Web History turned on, I would also be able to see every single Google search I have ever made, line by line-and it's a good thing I don't, because there have been a lot of embarrassing ones.

It can be a bit overwhelming, for certain, but the Dashboard offers a way to get to all of it, either directly or through Settings page links. Beyond just making sure there's not as much of your past thoughts lurking online, changing things like your default Google Checkout address, and wiping out old credit cards, could save you some frustration down the line, too. Add a Dashboard appointment to your calendar and repeat it yearly.

What Google knows about you and how to tweak it [Ars Technica]

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via feeds.gawker.com

Open-plan offices sickening, unproductive

"All the studies we reviewed had the same conclusion - that the open-plan work environment is one of the worst environments in which you can put an employee.
"The only advantages of working in such an environment is that you can give people the opportunity to communicate better. It can be a much friendlier environment."
However, the cons far outweigh the pros

via brisbanetimes.com.au

Google Lets You Sign In to Multiple Accounts at Once

Google Lets You Sign In to Multiple Accounts at Once: "Google now lets people with two or three user accounts log in to all of them at once and switch between accounts easily. And yes, it works in Gmail.

Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

use gmail filtering not only to filter the spam away, but also to filter the important from the bologna...

Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

via Gmail Blog by The Gmail Team on 8/31/10

Posted by Doug Aberdeen, Software Engineer
People tell us all the time that they’re getting more and more mail and often feel overwhelmed by it all. .... It’s time-consuming to figure out what needs to be read and what needs a reply. Today, we’re happy to introduce Priority Inbox (in beta)—an experimental new way of taking on information overload in Gmail.
Gmail has always been pretty good at filtering junk mail into the “spam” folder. But today, in addition to spam, peopleget a lot of mail that isn't outright junk but isn't very important—bologna, or “bacn.” So we've evolved Gmail's filter to address thisproblem and extended it to not only classify outright spam, but also to help users separate this "bologna" from the important stuff. ....

.... we’re ready for more people to try it out. Priority Inbox will be rolling out to all Gmail users, including those of you who use Google Apps, over the next week or so. Once you see the "New! Priority Inbox" link in the top right corner of your Gmail account (or the new Priority Inbox tab in Gmail Settings), take a look.

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