UltraDefrag Makes Windows Disk Defragmentation a Joy

UltraDefrag is a small open source defragmentation tool for Windows that let you defrag disks blazing fast. It runs on Windows NT family (Win2000, XP, 2003 and Vista) for both 32 and 64bits editions. And what makes UltraDefrag so special is that it defragments disks incredibly fast.

Once Installed, all you need to do is click on Defrag button. It will take no more than a few minutes to finish.

I've tested it on different occasions, and one of them was a 160 GB heavily fragmented disk. It took UltraDefrag 20mins to finish. Using Windows built-in defrag tool will take at least 1 hour. I've done also a test in a Virtual Machine to see how it performs; UltraDefrag took less than 2mins to finish a 3GB of data.

Defragmenting is necessary for Windows file system, but the tool included with Windows is so inefficient that it makes it useless. One of the solutions is to use a commercial software like Diskeeper, but no home user will spend extra money just to fix a problem that shouldn't be in the first place.

Also, UltraDefrag is portable, which means you can carry it around in USB thumb drive wherever you go.

UltraDefrag makes defragmentation a joy, no more wasted hours, no more slow disks and it's free. Thanks UltraDefrag Team.

Links:
UltraDefrag Downoad Page.

How to Allow Google AdSense Text Ads Passing Through Adblock Plus Filter While Blocking Image-based Ads

Placing a lot of advertisements on a web site can be annoying and distracting, which pushes many to use an ad-blocker to get rid of them. However, these advertisements can be the only way for a web site to cover hosting and bandwidth costs or can be as a way to support the web site for providing the content free of charge.

I don't mind seeing text based ads but image or video ads can be annoying, CPU time and bandwidth consuming.

So, I decided to look for a way to allow Google Adsense text ads passing through AdBlock Plus extension for Mozilla Firefox and block image based ads.

All we need to do is add a few filters to Adblock Plus. First, click on Adblock drop-down button and select preferences. A window will appear containing all the filters. Then click on "Add Filter" button and add these four filters to allow text ads:

@@|http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js

@@|*.googlesyndication.com/*&ad_type=text&*

@@|*.googlesyndication.com/*&output=html&correlator*

@@|http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/abglogo/*

Then add this to block image ads:

*.googlesyndication.com/*&ad_type=text_image&*

That's all. From now on you'll support web site by allowing text based while blocking bandwidth and CPU consuming ads.

Update #1: Today, I noticed that the "Ads by Google" notice don't show up, so I added a filter to allow to appear.