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Oct 22, 2009 19:12

Okay, so... computer geeky types. I need your help ( Read more... )

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lucid_seraph October 23 2009, 20:07:30 UTC

Alright, I'll look into that.

sciguy98 October 22 2009, 23:25:29 UTC

AIM -> Trillian Astra Pro (It costs a few bucks, but I haven't had a single problem with it, including file transfers)

iTunes -> Winamp or Windows Media Player (I think Winamp interfaces with iPods now?)

Firefox, just avoid tabs and restart it often.

Or get more memory XÞ

lucid_seraph October 23 2009, 20:08:02 UTC

I can't really afford to spend money on it, and I don't really like Trillian anymore. :|a

A friend of mine explained how to get Firefox to run faster, so...

best_ken_ever October 22 2009, 23:30:55 UTC

I highly recommend Pidgin for IM purposes. It handles AIM and Gtalk, which is all I use it for, as well as some others. (Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, and a bunch more, I think). It also lets me use multiple screennames and the interface with which it does so is pretty comfy for me. It took me about 2-3 days to get used to it, and then I was fine. That was about 20 months ago, and I haven't looked back since. (:

lucid_seraph October 23 2009, 20:10:07 UTC

Argh it's kind of a weird interface :|a how do you add people to one IM list and not another? How do you join chats?

etaoin_shrdlu October 23 2009, 00:28:19 UTC

With Firefox, you've probably already heard it, but try disabling plugins -- they're often much more wastefully coded than the browser itself. I would try disabling literally all of them and see how you do resource-wise, then add them back one at a time, ordered by how desperately you need them.

Echoing the love for Pidgin. No help from me on the music-player front, I'm afraid, as everything I know and like there is Linux-specific.

riumplus October 23 2009, 01:10:53 UTC

Firefox tries to automatically determine how much memory it should use to keep things snappy, but it's not always right. Poke me on IM and I'll run you through a bunch of things to lower Firefox's memory usage. (also, contrary to popular belief, once you take into account shared/non-shared memory amongst the various threads and do a few basic tweaks, Firefox definitely uses less RAM than Chrome)