Smartphones are becoming more attractive and packed fully with superb features. HTC’s Touch 3G is one of those most attractive Windows Smartphones on the market. Touch 3G comes with WiFi and GPS capability. The phone has 2.8 inch QVGA touch screen display and it weighs only 96 grams.
HTC Touch 3G Specifications:

Processor Qualcomm MSM72255, 528MHz
OS […]

Sharing resources across different location is the beauty of networked computer. The Local Area Network (LAN) is very useful in file sharing. We have a Microsoft Windows 2000 file server where our client server applications, working files and other source files are stored. This allows consolidated storage of all the files.
Network drive mapping is a […]

The best things that I like in Acer’s Aspire One is the processor which is 1.6 GHz compared with HP’s Mininote 2133 which only runs at 1.0 GHz. The price also is a lot cheaper. There is a minor problem regarding the display. The 8.9 inch LCD led backlit is a good feature. One of […]

The computer is piece of technology that allows storage of data and information. The usual input device of a computer is a keyboard and mouse. People heavily rely on keyboard to enter data, but that one is going to change slightly.
The sweeping technology have made some people think that hand writing will be an extinct […]

Virtual Private Network (VPN) is an important way for securely connecting to an office or work network. I have experienced a problem during installation of the VPN on a Windows XP SP3 running computer. The problem was that the New Connection Wizard at Network Connection stage has a disabled or grayed choice for Dial-up connection […]

A working desktop should be a clutter free area. One will be seeing only occasional things on the desktop which are very important and not for long. In my experience this is not always the case. In my office working computer, I like 10 or more icons on my Windows desktop.
I spend time trying to […]

In most offices the working desktop computer does not have any back up. When we talk of back up, people think of the big computer servers that needs a tape and a tape drive to store the data. Thus, when power failure hits the office and the UPS fails this is what I call a […]

Mobile phones are not just phones they are smart gadgets that helps in communication and productivity. Not only that add the wealth of applications you can install and run on it. Windows Mobile is a compact operating system for runs on different hardware platforms including SmartPhone, Pocket PC, Portable Media Center, to name a few.
I […]

File sharing is one of the widely used services that we have at work. The file server is running Windows 2000 operating system which is part of a domain. Using the file sharing service requires the user to login first to the domain. This kind of solution opens some other non-standard port on the file […]

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 […]

Sluggish Windows XP system performance makes one think of the reason. I could only imagine of virus infection and those unused files littering on Windows system. If virus is not the reason then the most probable cause are some of the files which are temporarily created when using browsers for online activities are created and […]

I was looking for a software that will put some extra sparkle to my Windows XP desktop. I have seen some window flipping function with Mac OSX’s and thought that it would be cool to have on Windows XP. A key combination would make one flip through desktop application window in a 3D view. I […]

I have been comfortable using Windows XP SP2, but some users in our office runs Windows Vista already. I did not changed my operating system (OS) to Windows Vista are it’s using lots of computer resource. My old machine would be crippled if I use Vista.
Anyway, I was surprise to work on Windows Vista and […]

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, […]

Home video creation from photo images is one of my rewarding experiences. It takes some degree of computer creativity and combines photo, music, audio, and video editing skills. Video creation might sound a difficult task to do, but actually it’s fun. The only thing is it takes time to master the craft.
The process starts with […]

MSSQL database is one of the Windows system based back end database that we are using for some of our in-house Visual Basic Applications. I have encountered some situation that requires me to check if some data from the one table (Alumni table) that is missing from another table (Student table). Logged in to the […]

Digital photography is a new technology fad. Almost everyone’s getting crazy of having the most advance digital camera. It really makes taking photos very easy. Digital camera have brought about tons of photos which might not be possible before. I could not just imagine the time taken to make a perfect shot before as it’s […]

Disk fragmentation is one of the common cause of slowing down of computer systems running Windows. As programs are installed and uninstalled, data files copied and deleted from the hard disk a “hole” is left on the disk. Meaning the sequential data arrangement on the hard disk are not anymore continuous as a result of […]

I try different software before investing some bucks on it. The best way for me to secure test software are through BitTorrent peer 2 peer sharing. My favorite lightweight, feature rich and high performance Windows BitTorrent Client is uTorrent. Recent stable uTorrent upgrade version is 1.8.
The upgrade version of uTorrent supports Windows Vista operating system. […]

Internet is really growing and to catch up with the demands of web hosting; I could observe that hosting companies are sprouting everywhere. A database is a typical basic requirement for modern dynamic websites that are data driven. I could observe the popularity of open source databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, and others are usually the […]

Microsoft have released their latest database product the SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition. If you are looking for a data storage platform which could be used for important applications then MSSQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition could be an option. This offers reliable, secure, scalable and easy to manage database.
Making a choice in database systems is […]

Every year the festive mood of the Halloween catches on and everyone. People are busy having the trick or treat around the neighborhood. Halloween invitations are never easy to ignore especially when family and friends are the ones inviting. People join in the festivities by displaying pumpkins, jack o’ lanterns and many more in the […]

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 […]

Many homes and small business users have broadband routers like SMC, D-Link, Netgear, Linksys, Kasada and other cable/DSL routers between their LAN and their Internet connection. There are times that one desires to know the IP address of a computer, but the usual IP address utilities show only the LAN IP address.
For instance, when behind […]

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 […]

A few days ago my friend called me regarding a strange sound from the HP Pavillion a2698 and a persistent warning from Windows system of the hard disk having some physical error. I recommended that the hard disk be checked using some error checking software like a check disk which comes with Windows. Checkdisk has […]

As one of the Systems Analyst in our Information Systems Unit; I have the chance to be a member of the panel to interview new applicants for our department. There are many applicants of varied background. We have Windows NT, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, but we are looking for is someone with skill […]

In MSSQL 7.0 manual update of records are sometimes done to initialize data in a table which is normally done in a Query Analyzer window. I’ll take for example a table called StudentHistory which has new field FullName and LastNameFirstName which was added to concatenate values from two other fields FirstName and LastName. Since, the […]

In Windows environment, there is this feature to export to Microsoft Excel the data in tables that are shown from the browser. I was hoping to use this functionality, but I could not find the “Export to Microsoft Excel” command when I right click the table shown on the browser.
I have noted that this works […]

Installing Oracle database on a test machine is one of the things that I do at the office. I have encountered one error when installing Oracle® Database 10g Release 2 (10.2) on a Microsoft Windows laptop computer offline.
It’s looking for a fixed IP on the computer, but what I have is a DHCP provided IP […]