Big Buck Bunny tells the story of a giant rabbit with a heart bigger than himself. When one sunny day three rodents rudely harass him, something snaps… and the rabbit ain’t no bunny anymore! In the typical cartoon tradition he prepares the nasty rodents a comical revenge. 

Video Produced by Blender Foundation using Free & Open Source Software, check their website out for more details.

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License: BSD

Source Code: Google Code / github / Gitorious

Addon: Manual

Addon: Sample Quiz – Films Part 1

Addon: Sample Quiz – Films Part 2

Test Version: Q&A 3.3 Beta with basic multi-lingual support

FAST is currently BETA Software and also slightly clothing specific.

Addon: FAST Sample Template

FireFTP Button

License: BSD

Phone Dialer Plus

Addon: Manual

License: BSD
Source Code: Google Code / github / Gitorious

VCD Cover Renamer

License: BSD
Source Code: Google Code / github / Gitorious

Miscellaneous

DreamTracInstall v0.1
DreamTracInstall v0.92
Secure Email Address Book
StartMenu Webmail

Computer Tower

Hard Drive

First up, a Hard Drive isn’t another name for your computer.  A Hard Drive is a component that goes inside your computer, it’s not the computer itself.

Also a Hard Drive isn’t the same as RAM, or vice versa. Your Hard Drive acts much like our brain’s long term memory in that it provides permanent storage.

RAM on the other hand is a completely different kind of beast.

RAM

Since it’s a temporary memory, when the system is shut down the memory is lost (this is called volatile memory).  This makes RAM much like the short term memory of our brain.

Every application and every document you load up on your computer is loaded into RAM first before your computer starts its work.

When you open that Word document on your desktop or in an email, both Word and the document are loaded into RAM. When you have very little RAM you can see how things can start to slow down due to the amount of things being loaded into RAM for your computer to access.

This brings me to the next aspect of RAM.  Sometimes you might need more memory than what the RAM installed can offer during intensive application cycles. During these sessions, the computer will conduct a task known as swapping. This is when the computer temporarily uses the hard drive space in place of the memory.  ”Thrashing” is the term for constantly swapping, but as the name’s connotation suggests, constant thrashing can decrease the overall system performance. More RAM being added can reduce the swapping rate.

A quick way to remember the difference would be :-

• RAM = Fast & Temporary
• Hard Drive = Slow & Permanent

Like all things technological, lines start to become blurred as new technology incorporates the best of old technology.  This is where SSDs come in, but I think I’ll leave that one for now.

Simply put, tags are keywords that help you find information which have something in common.  If you wanted to find more articles on this site relating to Kilmarnock, History, and Fun, you can, thanks to tags!

Another common term that refers to tags is tag cloud, a tag cloud is a stylized way of visually representing occurrences of tags. The most popular  topics are normally highlighted in a larger, bolder font. Visitors to a blog or site using a tag cloud, are able to easily see the most popular tags within the page — making it easy to discern the topics covered in one quick look.²

An example of a Tag Cloud can be found here.

Be sure to send comments or use the contact page if you have any questions you’d like answered, I’ll endeavour to answer as many as humanly possible.

Today I’m going to talk about Internet Browsers.  What they are. Why they are so important today.

What is an Internet Browser?

An Internet Browser is the application you’re using right now to view these pages.  When you’re viewing websites, checking your webmail, reading the BBC online, and searching Google, you are using an Internet Browser or Web Browser.

Why is it so Important?

It really comes down to access.  Your Web Browser provides access to the World Wide Web. Without it you wouldn’t be able to check your bank account, watch your favourite show you missed last night, buy that latest gadget/pair of shoes you’ve always wanted.  Granted, you can do those without the internet. However, could you do those at 3am in the middle of the Atlantic ocean? With the internet you can (internet connection permitting ), but only if you have a Web Browser.

As our lives become more and more entangled with the World Wide Web the more important the Web Browser becomes.  Now we need to choose the right one.