Comments on: Presenting: The Global Geek Podcast Widget for Your Desktop http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/02/07/presenting-the-global-geek-podcast-widget-for-your-desktop/ Everything tech, from Web2.0 blogging, the internet to product reviews and software. Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:28:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: provokeit http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/02/07/presenting-the-global-geek-podcast-widget-for-your-desktop/comment-page-1/#comment-10554 provokeit Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:49:58 +0000 http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/02/07/presenting-the-global-geek-podcast-widget-for-your-desktop/#comment-10554 Dave / KW This is a really cool thing although over the past 18 months I found that there are 2 things that will grind your machine to a halt and make startup times so slooooooooow. 1. Nortons AV 2. Yahoo Widgets. 1. Norton just sux processor and memory. It just does 2 Yahoo Widgets and the Konfabulator engine that it was built (nee purchased) from is slow and the widgets often contain more spaghetti in the coding than Mama Luigi's best linguini. And that 18 month test came from my desktop machine running 2.8Ghz P4 chips with 2.0GB RAM. I love widgets until I sat down and analysed what internal bandwidth they sucked. Now that I have removed them my startup time has gone back to acceptable ( Dave / KW

This is a really cool thing although over the past 18 months I found that there are 2 things that will grind your machine to a halt and make startup times so slooooooooow.

1. Nortons AV
2. Yahoo Widgets.

1. Norton just sux processor and memory. It just does

2 Yahoo Widgets and the Konfabulator engine that it was built (nee purchased) from is slow and the widgets often contain more spaghetti in the coding than Mama Luigi’s best linguini.

And that 18 month test came from my desktop machine running 2.8Ghz P4 chips with 2.0GB RAM.

I love widgets until I sat down and analysed what internal bandwidth they sucked. Now that I have removed them my startup time has gone back to acceptable (

]]> By: Tim King http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/02/07/presenting-the-global-geek-podcast-widget-for-your-desktop/comment-page-1/#comment-9953 Tim King Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:02:29 +0000 http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/02/07/presenting-the-global-geek-podcast-widget-for-your-desktop/#comment-9953 Hey thanks Cameron! I'm glad you like it! Hey thanks Cameron!

I’m glad you like it!

]]> By: Cameron Reilly http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/02/07/presenting-the-global-geek-podcast-widget-for-your-desktop/comment-page-1/#comment-9738 Cameron Reilly Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:49:53 +0000 http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/02/07/presenting-the-global-geek-podcast-widget-for-your-desktop/#comment-9738 That is seriously cool! Well done Tim! cheers Cameron Reilly CEO, The Podcast Network That is seriously cool! Well done Tim!

cheers
Cameron Reilly
CEO, The Podcast Network

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