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Author :: Deryck Richards  |
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| Article Title :: Selecting a Personal Digital Assistant |
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| A Computer in Your HandCarrying around an address book and planner is becoming a thing of the past. With new PDA developments, you can manage your contacts and schedule, use e-mail, and even listen to music. Personal Digital Assistants, originally called "Palm Pilots," previously were used just for retrieving basic information. Today, using some of the more advanced models could possibly replace the need to carry a laptop computer. Modern PDAs can play music, games, videos, write documents, and connect to networks and databases -- nothing short of a desktop computer.Although newer PDAs have the processing power of a computer, they still have some limitations. Inputting infor (read full article) |
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Author :: Stephen Bucaro |
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| Article Title :: Your Computer Can't Keep Time |
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| A computer needs a certain amount of information to operate; for example, the date and time, the amount of memory installed, the number of drives and their configuration, and so on. In the early days of computers, either the user typed in this information each time the computer started, or it was set using DIP switches and jumpers. Today, computers store this information in a CMOS chip that uses a small battery to retain the information when the computer is shut off.CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) is type of chip that consumes very little power; therefore, while the computer is turned off, the battery discharges very slowly. But the battery will totally discharge if (read full article) |
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| Category :: Personal Tech Articles |
Author :: Chris Bryant |
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| Article Title :: How To Become A True CCNA |
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| I've worked my way from the CCNA to the CCIE, and along the way I've conducted job interviews and casual conversations with dozens of CCNAs and CCNA candidates. Believe me, people who "sneak by" the CCNA exam by braindumps, memorization, and never touching a router or switch are QUICKLY found out in job interviews and on the job.The field will always need qualified CCNAs. The key word is "qualified". How can you make sure you're truly qualified? It's actually pretty simple.1. Use routers and switches in your study, not simulators. Simulators are OK to start with, but when you're in the interview room and you're taken to the network room, that simulator's not going to be (read full article) |
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Author :: Woody Bowers |
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| Article Title :: Lightning Season: How to Avoid Data Loss |
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| We have just entered the time of year that most electrical storms occur.Sudden loss of power, power surges, and electrical spikes are all very common causes of computer damage.There is no way to stop Mother Nature however; there are some precautionary measures that can be taken to save your computer from these types of damaging electrical storms.The staff at Eco Data Recovery, located in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida (the lightning capitol of the world) offers the following suggestions to keep your computer and hard drive safe from Mother Nature:1.) Plug your computer into a battery backup.If a power outage does occur, a computer plugged into a battery bac (read full article) |
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| Category :: Personal Tech Articles |
Author :: Adam Roper |
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| Article Title :: Repairing A Corrupt .RAR/.ZIP Archive |
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| Step 1:Open WinRAR and browse to the folder with your .rar/.zip file.Step 2:Highlight the file and click the Repair button from the tool bar.Step 3:In the pop-up window, select "Treat the corrupt archive as RAR/ZIP" depending on which type of archive you are trying to repair.Step 4:You may get a "Suspicious Entry" pop-up. If so, select All. This may happen several times while repairing.Step 5:After WinRAR has completed repairing the archive, click on Close.Step 6:To extract your file, highlight your new rebuilt archive.Step 7:Next select Commands>Extract without confirmationStep 8:The files will sta (read full article) |
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| Category :: Personal Tech Articles |
Author :: Jim Edwards |
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| Article Title :: Does Microsoft Show Hackers How To Attack? |
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| After another security hole recently surfaced in Microsoft's Windows operating system, the software giant released a patch this past Friday to plug the possibly devastating "back door" which allows hackers to potentially seize control of any pc running Windows.The latest threat, "Download.Ject," infiltrates computers after users surfing with Microsoft's "Internet Explorer" web browser visit websites infected with the virus.This newest security patch covers Windows XP, 2000, and Windows Server 2003.Several factors make this latest development more disturbing than past discoveries of security problems with Internet Explorer, currently the most dominant web browser on th (read full article) |
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| Category :: Personal Tech Articles |
Author :: Alexandru Marias |
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| Article Title :: The Importance Of Email Backup |
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| Viruses, software failures, power failures, human errors, hard drive failures are only a few examples of what could destroy the data on a hard drive, including all documents, pictures, emails and other files!Most home computer users don't need an expensive backup solution; as they only need to burn the folders with important documents and pictures to a CD-RW from time to time; this ensuring that in case of a disaster they can easily get them back.Togeder with documents and pictures, it's a critical operation to save the emails, attachments, address book and other important data from within the email client; otherwise in case of a computer problem the user will find himself i (read full article) |
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Author :: Rohit Tokhi |
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| Article Title :: 10 Tips to SPEED Up Your PC |
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| 1. Let your PC boot up completely before opening any applications.2. Refresh the desktop after closing any application. This will remove any unused files from the RAM.3. Do not set very large file size images as your wallpaper. Do not keep a wallpaper at all if your PC is low on RAM (less than 64 MB).4. Do not clutter your Desktop with a lot of shortcuts. Each shortcut on the desktop uses up to 500 bytes of RAM5. Empty the recycle bin regularly. The files are not really deleted from your hard drive until you empty the recycle bin.6. Delete the temporary internet files regularly.7. Defragment your hard drive once every two months. This will (read full article) |
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| Category :: Personal Tech Articles |
Author :: S. Housley |
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| Article Title :: Email Management |
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| If you utilize a computer at home or work it is likely that you use email. Email is an electronic message that is sent from one computer to another following a specific protocol (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol or SMTP). As email's popularity has grown so too have the inherent problems with email.In order to send email you must have the exact spelling of the email address. If there are any typographical errors in the recipient's email address then an unintended recipient could receive the email message. When creating an email address avoid characters that cause confusion, like the number 1 (one) and the letter l (el), computer fonts often cause those two characters to have similar ap (read full article) |
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| Category :: Personal Tech Articles |
Author :: S. Housley |
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| Article Title :: Be Prepared in the Event Computer Disaster Strikes |
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| ComputersBusinesses and individuals alike have all grown to rely on computers. The reliance is never more apparent than when something happens to the horrid little box that makes our lives easier. We expect computers to react a certain way, in certain situations. It nearly always comes as a surprise when the beloved little box, know as a computer, refuses to boot up. Probably even more shocking, is the dawning that we've neglected to backup or prepare for the unforeseen disaster that has just been thrust upon us.Regardless of the number of times you have experienced the dread of being unable to access the information trapped in the god-awful computerized contraption, we are (read full article) |
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