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Tips for Longer-Lasting Laptop Batteries

August 13th, 2011 · No Comments · Batteries, Computer Products, How To, Tips & Techniques

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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About Optical Mice

June 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Electronics Products, Introductions, Optical Mice, Technology

An optical mouse uses a light-emitting diode and photodiodes to detect movement relative to the underlying surface, unlike wheeled mice which use a set of one rolling ball and two chopper wheels for motion detection. Early optical Mice Early optical mice, first demonstrated by two independent inventors in 1980, came in two different varieties: Some, [...]

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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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Understanding Your Keyboard’s Function Keys

May 13th, 2011 · No Comments · Keyboards, Q & A, Technology

Function keys are that row of keys along the top of your keyboard labeled F1 through F10 (or F12, depending on the keyboard). These keys have flexible definitions and can be redefined by an application or operating system. Function keys typically carry out popular or repetitive tasks, saving you from having to type (or remember) [...]

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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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