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Author :: Grant Pasay  |
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| Article Title :: Internet Basics: A Modem Is Like a Secret Decoder Ring |
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| Ever have a secret decoder ring when you were a kid? First you received a secret message from someone. Then you used your decoder ring to look up the secret message's numbers, letters or symbols and find their corresponding letters to "decode" the secret message. Finally, you had the secret message back in its original form so you could read it.So the secret message might come in looking like this:* Xyz gera9sor oe piue fjk owlpAnd after you pass it through the decoder ring, it might look like this:* The treasure is under the boatYou could even do the opposite - make your own secret message by using the decoder ring to turn a normal sentence into its sec (read full article) |
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Author :: Cameron Postelwait |
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| Article Title :: Does High Definition Mean Short Distance? |
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| Liberty, Justice, and High Def For AllThe conversation subject of high definition is no longer segregated to the dark smokey rooms of the cultural elite, the same rooms where gas price conspiracies, global domination rituals, and secret handshakes are created. No friends, high definition is now available to bond and free, to all races and creeds, to rich and, well, semi-rich.Pick Your PoisonHDMI and DVI are the two digital interfaces that are quickly becoming the prefered vessels of High Definition. Just as a quick recap...DVI: Short for Digital Video Interface, came into fruition to convert analog signals into video signals to acc (read full article) |
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Author :: George W. Cannata |
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| Article Title :: Printers-A Dilemma |
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| My recent article did not flatter computer manufacturers nor will this one.I’m a capitalist, and believe in free enterprise but I think the business philosophy of the printer manufacturers has been outrageous and certainly not consumer friendly. The cost of ink is horrendous.To an extent their practices have back fired on them. They’ve created a bootleg industry that they now have to compete with.
The cost of OEM inkjet cartridges has sky-rocketed and the competitors have followed suit.For example the price of a set of cartridges for a Lexmark Z51 Printer is $74.97 delivered from a leading online supplier. A set of refilled cartridges from eBay will cost $38.45. (read full article) |
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Author :: Willson Peterson |
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| Article Title :: Let's Resolve the Frequent Troubles of LCD Monitor Ourselves |
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| TFT LCD monitors are rapidly becoming shipped with new computers by default. On this page I explain you the frequent trouble of TFT monitor and how to resolve them.No display or white screen:If this is a new install make sure the refresh rate is not set too high. If you installed a new video card in your system make sure the refresh rate is not set too high. Under Windows, reboot the system and go into "Safe Mode" (Use F8 key on boot up) select safe mode and change the refresh rate under display properties to either 60Hz or Default. Then reboot the system and the screen will turn on. Maximum mode on 15" TFT screens is 1024x768 and maximum mode on 17" and 19" TFT is 1280x1024 (read full article) |
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Author :: Ro Russell |
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| Article Title :: Will IPods Change the Way We Watch Television? |
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| The industry was intrigued by Wednesday's announcement that episodes of the hit ABC shows "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost" will be available for Apple's new video iPod. Episodes will go on sale for $1.99 on iTunes the day after they are broadcast.For ABC and its parent Walt Disney Co., the bet is that the new technology will bring in more new fans of the programs than will be taken away from watching them on traditional broadcast television.The network's affiliates were not told the deal was in the works before Wednesday, and they're the people most likely to be concerned about its impact. Now the iPod will join digital video recorders and DVDs as another way of seeing tele (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hardware Articles |
Author :: Lance Winslow |
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| Article Title :: Super Computers for Our Earth |
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| If you stay up on the Scientific Magazines and Journals you will know that NASA has come a long way in their research to study our Earth. They now have more data than ever before and can use this data with the aid of super computers to process it. In the past computers could not crunch the numbers fast enough to handle the massive data sets and numbers of data sets. Now super computers have changed all that, now we can develop models to answer questions, which help us know the future. To many these models appear like magic.Such modeling can help us understand the effects of an asteroid or god, forbid a comet hitting the earth and what will be the most likely outcome of such. Which (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hardware Articles |
Author :: Leon Chaddock |
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| Article Title :: Depending On Email Servers? |
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| How many times has your email server left you out in the cold. It seems so simple, doesn't it? Someone sends you mail, you get it and read it. Then, you file it. Just like the standard postal mail that comes to your home each day. But, with email, things just get so jumbled up. Lost emails are a real pain because the email server always seems to eat the important emails that you send out. But, then again, maybe you just notice those and it's not sending out a ton of your other emails as well….Before you begin to worry, think about the large task that email servers have and you'll better understand just how important and difficult their jobs are.Okay, so we are not talking (read full article) |
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Author :: George W. Cannata |
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| Article Title :: Printers - My Pet Peeve |
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| The Cost of InkThis is my third article on the subject you can read my others on my web site www.caveatemptorus.com or at www.ezinearticles.com.I believe in free enterprise and all that but some things are beyond the pale. Ever since the advent of the inkjet printer I think we’ve been getting ripped offA set of OEM cartridges for the average printer cost just less than $75.00 a set of refilled units on eBay go for close to $50.00. I think that’s outrageous.It's often cheaper to buy a new printer than it is to buy a set of cartridges, which I frequently do.. Originally the printer manufacturers practically gave away printers; in fact a lot of t (read full article) |
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Author :: Alan Jason Smith |
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| Article Title :: Lapping It Up |
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| The idea of a laptop, or portable, computer was first conceived by Alan Kay, who worked for Xerox, at its Research Center in Palo Alto CA. He called it a Dynabook. He wasn't the first to offer a completed laptop computer for public consumption, however. That honor went to Grid System's William Moggridge in 1979. His brand new concept was housed in a magnesium case that was die cast. Its bubble memory was a total of 340 kilobytes. The laptop also had a luminescent folding graphics display screen.A vastly improved laptop computer was the 1983 brainchild of Gavilan computer. Their latest version offered DOS as well as their very own Gavilan operating system, 64 kilobytes of RAM, was e (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hardware Articles |
Author :: Steve Jones |
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| Article Title :: The Hard Drive Buyers Guide |
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| As home computers become more advanced, and our uses for them become more complex, the need for higher performance and capacity hard drives increases. It is now possible to choose hard drives with vastly different capacities and rotational speeds, making things more confusing for the consumer.Thankfully for consumers the hard drive market is extremely competitive and the price at which a high capacity hard drive can be bought is quite astounding. Now that broadband internet is common place, with more and more people downloading music and movies, the need for high specification hard drives has never been greater.When choosing a new hard drive it is important to consider What (read full article) |
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