Firefox Cache URI

Here is another good tip for FireFox. Type in about:cache as the URI in Firefox or Mozilla and you will get a summary screen with options to list what is in disk cache and what is in your memory cache.

Faster ATI Video on Mac OS X

If you bought OS X Tiger thinking that Apple’s new Quartz 2D Extreme would accelerate your Powerbook, you were surely disappointed when you found out that Apple had shipped Tiger with Quartz 2D Extreme disabled!

Perhaps some day in a future 10.4 update Apple will eventually enable it, but for now, even if I enable it, the accelerated video only lasts a few minutes and then my Powerbook locks up solid. However, I did try a different form of video acceleration that does work. If you have an ATI video card, you can try overclocking it with ATIcceleratorII.

I have tried it on both my Powerbook and G4 desktop and the results are very stable and the boosted video speed helps with almost every application, including the Mac OS X Finder, which is very much needed.

Since this is a form of overclocking, you will want to make sure that you overclock only in small increments and that your computer is adequately cooled and not operating in high-temperature environment.

ATIcceleratorII can adjust both video memory and gpu speeds. You can find multiple user reports on Xlr8yourmac.com.

Redirect Your index.rdf

I was looking through AWStats and seeing quite a few requests for https://www.webkeydesign.com/index.rdf which is resulting in 404 Page Not Found errors as I do not have this file and WordPress does not create the RSS feeds at this location. The solution is of course to either create the index.rdf file or simply redirect it.

In cPanel you simply use the Redirects panel to have any url for your site redirect to another page. In this case the redirect ends up going to www.webkeydesign.com/feed/, which is where I actually have RSS feeds for the site.

There is some debate as to why index.rdf is being searched in the first place, but the concensus is that GoogleBot may be defaulting to this location for various sites simply looking for RSS feeds.