Hardware budgets are feeling the pinch of our tepid economy, and many companies are making employees use their laptops longer. If you are starting to tell your folks to keep plugging along with their laptops for four or five years instead of just three, you might be running into an unexpected expense: dead laptop batteries. [...]
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Tips for Longer-Lasting Laptop Batteries
August 13th, 2011 · No Comments · Batteries, Computer Products, How To, Tips & Techniques
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How Webcams Work
May 19th, 2011 · No Comments · Electronics Products, Webcams
The Basic Idea Webcams, like most things, range from simple to complex. If you understand the essence of a simple Webcam setup, increasing the complexity is only a matter of adding functionality through software, custom code and/or equipment connections. A simple Webcam setup consists of a digital camera attached to your computer, typically through the [...]
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Understanding Your CD-ROM vs. Your DVD-ROM Drive
May 15th, 2011 · No Comments · Comparisons, Concepts, Optical Drive, Optical Drive / Media, Technology
The cd-rom is an external support for memory, with superior characteristics than floppy disk drives. Cd-rom stands for Compact Disk Read Only Memory and has special facilities, because of the updated fabrication techniques and the way of organizing and data accessing. The stocking and data accessing is easily obtained using high speeds optical techniques, that’s [...]
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Adding a new video card to your computer
March 1st, 2011 · No Comments · Tips & Techniques, Video Cards
The first thing that you will want to do when adding a new video card to your computer is shut your computer down and make sure anything that you have connected is disconnected but leave the computer plugged into the surge protector. You will then want to remove the cover and put on the grounding [...]
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Important Laptop Heat Warning – How Heat Can Hurt You And What To Do
October 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Cooling, How To Maintain
Most people use a laptop almost every day now. They have become so affordable that most people have a few around the house or one for their school work while away at college. For the most part, things are fine with your laptop. One problem that does occur is that the heat from the bottom [...]
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