The emergence of Google has changed the way users utilize the internet significantly. Most net users Google information via Google’s browser, check email via their Gmail account, locate their girl friend’s house with Google Earth, and so on. Besides these useful and common tools frequently seen from Google, there are a lot more Google’s products available. A fan of Google has compiled a list of useful but not commonly known tools. Probably you’ve never heard of these tools, but it is worthwhile to give them a try.

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Yahoo has released the plug-in of its popular social bookmarking web service, “Del.icio.us” (pronounced Delicious) for Internet Explorer browser. This Delicious Bookmark Add-on for Internet Explorer is in beta and the emergence of this Add-on will make the social bookmarking site much easier to use.

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The well-known Taiwanese company, Asus has introduced its new and stylish mobile device, named as Asus P320, which includes TI OMAP 850 200MHz processor, 2.6-inch TFT touchscreen display, GPS functionality, 2-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 and EDGE/GPRS connectivity, running on Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional operating system, seems perfect for the fashion-conscious who are constantly admired for their accessories. For sure, the pretty girl who showed the Asus P320 Mini GPS PDA phone is not comes along with a package.

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Lock Pages in Memory is a Windows security setting policy that determines which accounts can use a process to keep data in physical memory, which prevents the system from paging the data to virtual memory on disk, directly improves the response time speed of the process, especially data-intensive program such as SQL Server database management system, as access time from RAM is definitely faster than disk I/O.

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Intel introduced the 36-bit physical addressing mode called PAE (Physical Address Extension, read Wikipedia reference or MSDN reference) since Intel Pentium Pro processor to allow 32-bit operating systems to use more than 4 GB of physical memory. However, even with x86 or x86-x64 PAE supported CPU processor, in most Windows system, PAE is disabled by default, and user has to manually turn on the PAE support in operating system in order to recognize and use more than 4 GB of physical RAM memory, with the exception of Windows Vista.

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After installing Windows 2000 (Datacenter Server or Advanced Server) or Windows 2003, system properties shows that only around 3.37 GB of physical memory (RAM) is available for application and system use, although 4 GB or more RAM modules have been installed, and BIOS can correctly identifies the full installed size of physical memory, which means that the motherboard and x86 or x64 CPU processor can support more than 4 GB of physical memory.

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