Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is an internationally published technology author who has devoted over two decades to helping users get the most from technology -- whether that be by learning to program, building a PC from a pile of parts, or helpin…g them get the most from their new MP3 player or digital camera. Adrian has authored/co-authored technical books on a variety of topics, ranging from programming to building and maintaining PCs. His most recent books include 'Build the Ultimate Custom PC', 'Beginning Programming' and 'The PC Doctor's Fix It Yourself Guide'. He has also written training manuals that have been used by a number of Fortune 500 companies.

All opinions expressed on Hardware 2.0 are those of Adrian Kingsley-Hughes. Every effort is made to ensure that the information posted is accurate. If you have any comments, queries or corrections, please contact Adrian via the email link here. Any possible conflicts of interest will be posted below. [Updated: February 23, 2010] - Adrian Kingsley-Hughes has no business relationships, affiliations, investments, or other actual/potential conflicts of interest relating to the content posted so far on this blog.

Latest from Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Don't like Evernote's new privacy policy? Here are five free alternatives

Now that Evernote will allow humans to sift through your data, it might be time to jump to a different provider.

December 14, 2016 by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in Cloud

Get the most from Google Chrome with these tips and tricks

Do you want to become a Google Chrome power user? Read on!

June 6, 2017 by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in Cloud

Nvidia Tesla K80 GPUs added to Google Compute Engine and Cloud Machine Learning

Google has added beta support for Nvidia Tesla K80 GPUs to allow Cloud Platform customers to get extra computational power for deep learning tasks.

February 22, 2017 by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in Cloud

Make Google Chrome faster, reduce how much RAM it uses, and be more productive

Google Chrome is my browser of choice, but it does have a habit of consuming a lot of system RAM. And sometimes it feels a bit sluggish. Fortunately, these problems are easy to fix.

February 6, 2017 by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in Cloud

Become a Google Chrome power user

Do you want to become a Google Chrome power user? Read on!

May 14, 2017 by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in Cloud

Gmail FAIL - What it says about Google and email in general

Following a two-hour outage yesterday, Google has now managed to get its Gmail service up and running. This outage follows two other well-publicized outages in February and May of this year. What do these outages say about Google, and email in general?

September 1, 2009 by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in Cloud

Microsoft needs to come clean over Sidekick/Danger disaster

So, it seems that a lot of T-Mobile Sidekick users out there have lost data thanks to the Microsoft acquired Danger data center going belly up. Sidekick users are, understandably, furious with T-Mobile, but let's put the blame squarely where it belongs - at Microsoft's door.

October 13, 2009 by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in Cloud