This is handy trick that I’m sure others have already come up with to speed up your iPhone 3GS on the fly. As many of you probably already know, the iPhone 3GS
is under clocked by default. There are numerous articles out there that already explain how to remove the under clock setting in your iPhone 3GS’s system configuration (this article will tell you as well). I just took it one step further and made bash scripts to automate the process.
Alright so first, you have to jailbreak your iPhone 3GS which is really easy to do, just go to the Wikipedia iOS jailbreak page and look up how to jailbreak the iOS version you are running on your iPhone 3GS. Once you jailbreak the device, you’ll want to install Cydia, which gets you all the other tools needed to complete this tech tip.
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It’s no secret that Google is basing search rank on the speed and quality of your website. This is something I’ve neglected for some time, but I thought analyzing and possibly increasing my site performance was something worth looking into. This article will explain how to speed up your WordPress site, which in turn should help increase your site’s search rank.
To start, you need to analyze your current site speed. I found a few free tools that I recommend, first is Google Page Speed. You can enter any URL and Google gives you a score from 1 to 100 – the higher the number, the better the site performance. Without making any changes, thechristhompson.com was scoring 78. If you use Google webmaster tools, there is a performance trending function that provides a nice historical view into how your site has performed over a certain amount of time. I posted my graph below for reference, one drawback to Google webmaster tools is you can only use them on sites you’ve added to your Google profile, not any URL like Google Page Speed. As you can see below, my site speed was trending up in load time and needed some attention.
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