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Need a way to keep track of time when scheduling meetings at work or when calling family members who live in another time zone? Firefox add-on, FoxClocks is the perfect solution.

FoxClocks lets you keep an eye on the time any where in the world, including your local time, by putting small clocks that you choose, in your status bar.

With FoxClocks, you can choose from a set of useful time formats or create your own custom formats.

To install, go to FoxClocks add-on page at mozilla.org and click on the Add to Firefox button.

Then in the pop-up window, click the Install Now button and restart Firefox when prompted.

After restart, FoxClocks Welcome window will display. Make sure ‘Enable automatic updates’ check box is selected. You will see the database was successfully updated and will keep it updated periodically. (more…)

The Windows Experience Index Score was introduced in Windows Vista and used to give you a good idea of the capabilities of a computer. You can use a computer’s Experience Index base or sub score to help determine if it’s what you need when purchasing a new computer.

The Experience Index Score rates your computer’s components performance from 1 to 5.9 with 1 being the worst performing and 5.9 being the best. The score’s benchmarks were established when Windows Vista was released.

Base Score Explained

The base score represents the overall performance of your system as a whole, based on the capabilities of different parts of your computer, including RAM, CPU, hard disk, general graphics performance on the desktop, and 3-D graphics capability. (more…)