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Movement of our office calls for a better computer display to match the new environment. LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) screen is a good choice for computer display as it provides unmatched crisp, clear picture. What I like in LCD Monitor is not only it provides better picture, but it also protects your eyes! […]

Laptop computer are getting cheap. The recent IFA 2008 which is the world’s largest Consumer Electronics trade fair have revealed very cheap prices with laptops quoted less than 100$. The international exhibition attracts visitors from all over the world and it show case electronic entertainment, communications and home appliance products.
Currently there is a confusion on […]

Transferring to a new office is not an easy task. A week have passed and the time seems not enough. Moving tables, chairs, cabinets, books, CD’s, and a lot of other things. The last thing we moved was our telephone, desktop computers, printers, and other computer related stuff. If you could just see the pile […]

Our Information Systems Unit office was moved to another building. We have lots of things to transfer to the new office. One of the things we need to move is the HP Deskjet 1200 printer together with HP Jetdirect 175x Fast Ethernet print server. I was worried that upon transfer we could not print anymore […]

Once lost things would never be the same. This is somehow true with the valuable data and information stored on a computer. A monthly or weekly data back up depending on the importance and frequency of update on your working files should be considered. But this is one of the most commonly overlooked things at […]

Many unsuspecting people have been a victim of a simple way of getting their precious information when using public computer terminals. There are ways for to capture information like password or account username and others with the use of a keylogger software.
A keylogger is a program that is installed on a computer and it […]

One of the things that is unavoidable when using computer is the case of virus infection. I received a call from a friend who have her Dell OptiPlex 745 shutting down every after 3 minutes. I advised her to bring the machine for checking. During the weekend she came and brought only the CPU. Anyway, […]

Photography hobby have evolved through the years. My wife have a Nikon D40x digital camera. Most of the time she brings it along with her to make use on every opportunity that comes. The photos taken are normally packed with cute kids, celebrations, party, special occasions, and more. Thus, she have a big collection of […]

I am looking for some powerful desktop computer to replace the aging Compaq Evo D510 small form factor machine at home. The machine have been with me for like 4 years and it’s maybe time to replace it. I never have played computer for long, but on weekends I find time to play to relax. […]

Compaq Evo D510 small form factor computer at home needs some upgrades. I have this computer for quite sometime already. This is running a bit slow now. Aside from the shrinking disk space available the memory is not just enough for the application software that I am using. Normally, photos from the digital camera goes […]

Computer aided drafting is a rising in demand job. That’s the reason why my friend is considering a computer aided drafting career. Architecture drafting and design is what he likes and he’s eying to have a good job in the some construction firm. Computer aided drafting school will take about 3 - 4 years of […]

There’s lot of bustle right now in the campus where I live. Students from across different countries in Asia, Australia, Europe, US, and more are coming back due for the start of a new semester. Students carrying laptop everywhere from the coffee shop, library, class rooms, cafeteria to almost anywhere would be a common sight. […]

I have been having this Motorola L6 Mobile phone and the charger was broken. Buying a new charger is not an option as the phone is already old. The cost of the new charger would be about half of the salvage value of the phone.
A solution is to use USB cable and charge the Motorola […]

Portable storage drives like the Universal Serial Bus or USB Flash drives are very useful. They are a replacement for the floppy disk that existed long ago. The only difference is this small thumb size device could pack up data from 1Gb and even up to 256Gb. I could not imagine an office without this […]

In today’s high-tech world, education have also grown together with technology. Learning could be done through the Internet on programs like what we call Distance Learning. It shows that computers are rapidly becoming a necessity of life. Computers have played an important role in communicating with employers, paying bills, and completing work assignments are all […]

Computer Networks are having an important role in the Information Technology infrastructure of a business. Small businesses that are having a trouble with their computer local area network (LAN) suffers loss in productivity. In times when connectivity is vital to the performance and delivery of business. Setting up a backbone for the computer network should […]

Visiting Zeer IT Mall, Rangsit, Thailand is a pleasure especially for geeks like me. I have been looking for a new blogging companion. One that is light for my travels and specially packed with enough power to do the things I like. What caught my attention was this Acer Aspire One A110-Ab (Sapphire Blue) and […]

The daily things that I see are a cause for over sight. Imagine my computer room at home dangling Computer Cords, mixed with telephone cables, extension cords, power cables and more. Sometimes I am tempted to leave it just as it is; as the saying goes “don’t fix it when it’s not broken”.
Everything is running […]

If you are looking for a low cost and no hassle computer desktop for Internet and basic office use is here. The paperback book size CherryPal™ C100 desktop is one of the latest entry in the market of low cost desktop computers. You could get the regular features of the full-size desktop computer at an […]

Installing a new Windows XP Professional into an old AMD K6 VIA Motherboard get me into trouble. It was only later that the USB failure was due to the USB host controller driver which doesn’t support Windows XP Professional. A VIA USB Filter Patch version 1.10 is from VIA Technologies, Incorportated is required to have […]

Printing is one of the computer paraphernalia that we least used in our office. We have this campaign of using lesser paper to help save the environment and reduce cost. One day I encountered this smear on the print from an HP LaserJet 1200 Printer. I was really wondering what is causing it as the […]

I have read of some big computer names like Samsung, Sandisk, and others of releasing their own version of high capacity Solid State Drive (SSD). Solid state data storage computer devices should have been here many years ago, especially for laptops, which uses up a lot of battery resource. Nobody wants moving parts that sounds […]

It’s a sunny Saturday, and I was greeted early in the morning of some computer work for my neighbor. An old AMD K6/2 60 MHz needs to be checked and serviced. I end up upgrading the 88 Mb SDRAM memory to 163 Mb, replaced the CD ROM drive,  formatted the 10 Gb hard disk and […]

Computers and laptops for designers have been a great tool at work that has revolutionized the graphic design industry. Special graphic design computers brought about things like creating abstract and morphing images which are not possible before. Some graphic designers don’t embrace the computer technology as they argue that it is reducing the quality of […]

Having a laptop computer when getting a higher education like master or doctor degree is a must. Laptops are basically helpful when doing research and thesis. This will allow students to have easy access to the data gathered for analysis. Colleges also, offer college laptops that are discounted for their students. Some even have free […]

IBM are one of the great manufacturers of computers. Early this month, I have read about IBM’s Roadrunner, judged to be the world’s fastest computer…
which provides more than 1 quadrillion calculations a second for nuclear security and scientific research at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The supercomputer also was found to be one of the […]

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD), is a major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. I was surprised to read the news that AMD have been facing financial trouble considering that it’s one of the giants in the microprocessor industry next to arch rival Intel […]

Specialized label printers for easy and fast printing of letter address or labels makes a difference in bulk prints. Like my friend is getting married and they are planning to send invitations to all their family, relatives, and friends. The usual thing is to layout it on some software like Adobe Pagemaker, Corel Draw, or […]

New computer model comes every month and year; it’s difficult sometimes to keep up with the updates in technology. Desktop computer at the office having a 2.0 GHz processor speed and 512Mb RAM is slowed down by the increase of memory usage from the latest application software. Adding Computer RAM would easily extend the computer’s […]

ASUS have released a newer version of their light weight and cheap mobile laptop called EEE PCs. This new EEE PC 900 have a bigger display screen of 8.9 inch which is same as with HP 2133 Mini-note. When it comes to weight ASUS’s EEEPC laptop is still the best at less than 1 kg […]