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Blog Posts

Untested buggy UEFI headed for prime-time

January 22, 2012 7:24pm PST

A leading Linux kernel developer says UEFI is big, bloated and bad for Linux.

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Blog Posts

The current (and poor) state of Firefox

October 4, 2011 6:35am PDT

Jack Wallen pulls no punches with his thoughts on the current release of Firefox. Will bugs and bloat bring the flagship open source browser to a screaming halt?

288 Latest comment by Vquest55@...

Blog Posts

Programming news: Google API changes, major Zend updates

November 19, 2010 11:51am PST

Read about ASP.NET MVC 3 RC, Google mod_pagespeed, a free WP7 development book, a comic about the bloat/speed conundrum, and more.

Blog Posts

Try the uzbl browser if you're tired of feature bloat

November 15, 2010 1:09pm PST

Is there a browser for users who dislike the monolithic bloat of the most popular Web browsers, but want more than the console-based minimalism of Lynx and W3m?

25 Latest comment by pgit

Blog Posts

Why software sales models hurt customers and vendors

September 3, 2010 10:49am PDT

According to Justin James, many of the problems in the software industry, particularly bloated, buggy, and insecure software, are a direct result of the business models.

41 Latest comment by AnsuGisalas

Blog Posts

Battle of the bulge: Will Linux 'bloat' begin to rival Microsoft?

September 23, 2009 10:58am PDT

Linus Torvalds simultaneously cheers the Linux development model and decries its bloat at LinuxCon. What is he up to? What's your opinion of the current Linux kernel? Take our poll.

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Blog Posts

How to trim down the size of your PowerPoint presentation

July 14, 2009 12:00am PDT

PowerPoint files can get bloated in a hurry. Here are a few remedies that can help keep their size under control.

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Blog Posts

Stopping the e-mail bloat: Are your business processes and e-mail the same thing?

August 10, 2008 2:17pm PDT

If your organization's inboxes are bursting at the seams, it could be that employees are using it as a substitute for more appropriate ways to manage business processes and handle exceptions. Read...

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Blog Posts

Will Windows continue to bloat or can it go on a diet?

June 2, 2008 8:37pm PDT

Some people are speculating that one of these days, Microsoft will do a radical overhaul of an operating system that has remained based on the same code since the mid 1990s. When it comes down to...

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Blog Posts

New software doesn't always mean better software

May 27, 2008 1:13pm PDT

New software releases are supposed to make things better. Often, things just get worse. Check out what to do about software bloat and take the poll to see which software has suffered the most from...

Q&A

Excel worksheet bloat

February 1, 2010 6:45pm PST

Excel worksheet bloat recover from file bloat Metadata The best way to cut down on Office file bloat is to set your default settings to reduce the number of changes that are stored and to remove...

Discussion Threads

File Bloat

December 2, 2009 7:30am PST

File Bloat File bloat is the key here for me. It's a great option but for me the question is how quickly might it get out of hand. How does one gage the amount of disk space voice notes will...

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Videos

RSA 2008: Sizing up security

April 10, 2008 11:50am PDT

At RSA 2008 in San Francisco, VeriSign Chairman and founder Jim Bidzos talks about new security innovations such as user device certificates, smart tokens, and biometric readers. He also discusses...

Image Galleries

Norton Internet Security 2008 - The Right Tool For New Users

January 18, 2008 1:32pm PST

In the early 90s, Norton products developed a strong reputation as delivering trusted antivirus solutions. Then the industry began producing bloated versions of its security programs, and Norton...

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Image Galleries

XTweak: The Right Tool for the Job?

August 27, 2007 7:53am PDT

By: Anthony SullivanI've been using Windows since Windows 3.11. With every new version, it seems that the annoying fluff and bloat has compelled someone to write an application to tweak and...

39 Latest comment by Raymond Danner

Articles

CSS: To hack or not to hack

November 17, 2004 8:00am PST

CSS hacks are the unfortunate reality of dealing with multiple browsers that have flawed or incomplete support for CSS. But using them exacts a price in the form of cluttered and bloated CSS code....

2 Latest comment by swashata

Articles

Find a memory leak that is bloating the Windows XP pagefile

July 7, 2004 7:00am PDT

A bloated pagefile could be the cause of memory and performance problems on a Windows XP machine. See what can cause this problem and how to fix it.

24 Latest comment by Lauravan

Articles

Limiting the size of ASP.NET ViewState to improve performance

June 22, 2004 7:00am PDT

ASP.NET's ViewState helps simplify programming in the Web's stateless environment, but at the cost of lots of added bandwidth. Here are some strategies to try and trim the bandwidth bloat.

5 Latest comment by hashishn

Articles

Admins work to control runaway e-mail boxes

September 12, 2001 7:00am PDT

Bloated e-mail accounts can definitely tax your network's storage. According to these Polling Place results, many administrators are enforcing limits on employee mailboxes. Check out the results.

Software

Podkicker Podcast Manager 1.0.2 (Mobile)

December 10, 2011 12:00am PST

An alternative to all the bloated podcatchers out there. It's FREE! Plays audio and videocasts. Handles RSS/ATOM feeds. Streams or downloads podcasts. OPML import/export. Google Listen/Reader...

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