Shouldn't OS X flush the caches on its own before entering sleep?

The table tells me as much as the tabs in the program, which is not enough: I want to see what tweaks each category actually contains.

Whoever makes this program isn't very smart. I want to see what tweaks are available, but the Free version doesn't even let me see them. Why would I buy the Pro version if I don't even know what I get? I try to install the Pro trial, and the first time I start the program it already says my trial has expired. What a…

All the tweaks in this program are available through registry settings. All it does is exposing them, but they were already available before.

It's not much, but if you still have your old phone you can trade the broken for a new one for a reduced price (although not by much unfortunately). But I agree a removable cable would be a very nice improvement.

I have the Etymotic hf5 (hf3 without controls), and the noise isolation even with the included tips is not 'close' to over-ear, it's better than any other headphone or earbud I have ever used. You literally do not hear any external noise *inside a subway train*. It's even kind of jarring at first, but now that I'm…

I said the time it saves is irrelevant for large installations like your own Visual Studio example, because the bulk of the time is spent on copying files and not on selecting options, and simply changing the installation interface won't help at all with the former, while it does help with the latter.

None of those are part of the *actual* installation, which means copying files and registering components if needed. In your Visual Studio example, selecting what to install takes a fraction of the time of the complete instalation, thus the method used to initiate it is mosly irrelevant.

Using the command line wouldn't actually make the installation any faster.

I had not found a skin clean enough or with vertical groups, so I had do some work of my own. Never got to finish it though, the top controls look a bit out of place.

foobar2000 claims to have 'full Unicode support', but I've never needed it personally. You should give it a go, specially since you dislike bloat (foobar2000 comes in a 'barebones' package that you usually costumize and extend through plugins and skins).

You can very detailed information by installing the Discogs plugin for foobar2000 and letting it tag the music for you. I'm not sure it's as detailed as iTunes, but I'd guess it's pretty close.

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Disabling the page file is not a smart decision most of the time. Even with plenty of RAM available, anything Windows should safely be able to store away in the page file will be kept in RAM, using space which would otherwise be used for even more aggressive caching.

It's not OCZ particularly, but Sandforce controllers, which are now being used by dozens of manufacturers, including Intel (but they seem to do stricter quality control and testing over everyone else). So just looking at the brand isn't sufficient: you have to figure out what's actually inside the drive to make…

You do not need to start Synergy's server and client in synchronization, the server on my PC has been running virtually all the time and everything works instantly as soon as I connect my notebook to the wireless network. But you do have a point with encryption, I'm not sure how Synergy is in that regard.

Synergy can lock your cursor to a screen, by default it is tied to Scroll Lock but you can edit a custom hotkey in the configuration file. And if you want to swap what computer is the server in Synergy you just have to go to the GUI and tick the right checkbox. You'll create the configuration for each endpoint once…

What are the benefits over Synergy?

Well Synergy does have a very easy to use wizard from version 1.4 onwards, and you can configure the screen options interatively.