Did you know that a simple upgrade like adding more memory to your computer can sometimes boost performance substantially?  With the operating systems of today and the applications we run like any word processing applications or spreadsheets are demanding more memory. If you don’t have at least 1gb of memory, your not fully utilizing the performance of your computer.

I thought I would share a quick little favorite of mine that I always use. It’s called Google Browser Sync. If you are like me and have collected hundreds of bookmarks over the years, this is a perfect backup for your bookmarks. This little plug-in works using a Gmail account and backs up and saves all your bookmarks in Firefox as well as saves the tabs that you had open just before you close your browser. The next time you open your browser, Google Browser Sync asks you if you want to open the tabs from your prior session.

Another bonus is if you have multiple computers with Firefox installed and Google Browser Sync, your bookmarks and tabs follow you!

Here is a link to the site where you can download the plugin: http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/browsersync/

Check it out and let me know what you think.

I’m sure most people have a few websites that they visit on a weekly or even a daily basis only to find out that there is nothing new to read. Going from site to site, typing in each website address or clicking on your bookmarks or shortcuts. Instead of going out to 10 or even 100 different wesbites to see what is new and exciting, how about if you could see all your favorite websites all on one page and only one place to visit for all the updates on your favorite websites that you would normally be visiting manually?

Let me introduce to you a technology that you may have not heard of, its called Really Simple Syndication or RSS for short. Its everywhere, and most likely available on all your favorite sites.

Here’s how it works:

First get a RSS reader, this part is easy. Lets start of with some choices that are free and pretty effective. There is Google’s Reader application, Bloglines, and Yahoo. There are other free readers, many online versions and many that you install on your computer. I am only mentioning these three just to keep it simple and give you a general idea on how RSS works and how you can try it out without costing anything but a few minutes of your time. I already have a Google email account, so I mainly use Google’s Reader, its simple, quick and gets the job done. Plus I can view my RSS feeds via my Windows Mobile device, so I have it on the go if needed.

So you’ve picked one and signed up, now all you have to do is add your feeds to your reader or what the industry calls “subscribing”. You may have seen a logo like the ones below:

Click on an icon respective to the reader you have signed up for and your browser should ask you to login to your feed reader site. After which you can organize your feeds into categories or folders or anything that makes sense to you. Now when the web site author updates their web site with new information, that will automatically be displayed in your feed reader for your reading pleasure and all in one location.

Here is an pretty good video explanation on RSS feeds that I found a while back: