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Author :: Jim Edwards  |
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| Article Title :: What Does That Error Message Really Mean? |
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| Surf the 'Net for about 10 minutes and chances rate very
high that you'll encounter an error of one kind or
another.Whether the error message pops up on your own computer or
on a website loaded in your browser, knowing what the
error means can help you solve the problem much faster
and avoid hours of frustration (especially in a situation
where nothing you do will solve the problem).The following represent some of the more common error
messages you may encounter while surfing the Internet and
what (if anything) you can do to correct the situation.Error: 404 File Not FoundThis means the web server cannot find the file or web
page you tried to pull up in your web (read full article) |
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| Category :: Personal Tech Articles |
Author :: David Schomberg |
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| Article Title :: Gain Control Over Your Screensavers With These Simple Steps |
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| We all enjoy our favorite screensavers but in the same time we all hate to see that they sometimes disturb our movies, presentations and all the things we do and do not like to be disturbed from. Just read carefully this article and you will never have this problem again.Screensavers will always prevent your monitor from burn-ins but their will be always moments when you want them to be disabled so they will not disturb you.Sure, the best solution is to be able to disable your screensavers before any activity like the ones that I mentioned at the beginning of this article and because many other peoples did encountered this problem before us, many softwares have appeared to h (read full article) |
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| Category :: Personal Tech Articles |
Author :: Vamseedhar Sane |
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| Article Title :: Advantages and Guidelines of Automated Testing |
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| "Automated Testing" is automating the manual testing process currently in use. This requires that a formalized "manual testing process", currently exists in the company or organization.Automation is the use of strategies, tools and artifacts that augment or reduce the need of manual or human involvement or interaction in unskilled, repetitive or redundant tasks.Minimally, such a process includes:Detailed test cases, including predictable "expected results", which have been developed from Business Functional Specifications and Design documentationA standalone Test Environment, including a Test Database that is restorable to a known constant, such that the test c (read full article) |
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| Category :: Personal Tech Articles |
Author :: Vickie Scanlon |
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| Article Title :: Your Affiliate Business - Peripherals, Software, Computers |
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| I have always been interested in computers, but in the beginning, I would not venture any further than to the software end of learning. However, learning only the software side, and knowing nothing about the hardware side, can open you up to some costly times at the shop.When I was selling peripherals, I happen to ask my immediate supervisor how he would go about learning the hardware side of computers. He looked at me and flatly stated, “Like I did -- learn by doing – build a computer from scratch”. Well, that is exactly what I did. And I’ll give you a tidbit of what I learned and the problems I encountered.Lessons Learned1. I tried to put a floppy drive (read full article) |
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| Category :: Personal Tech Articles |
Author :: Mircea Cojocaru |
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| Article Title :: iPod - Learn How It Can Solve Everyday Problems |
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| All over the world, people carry with them walkmans and other music devices so that they can play their favorite music as they move around from place to place. The latest thing in the portable music devices field is the iPod, which offers a higher quality of the music being played and one of the most compact design out there.The iPod allows you to play your music for an very long time (up to 12 hours for most of them) and have a huge amount of storage (some have 30GB). You can store thousands songs within a standard iPod and have instant access to them wherever you are at the moment. This makes them the perfect choice for your nowadays music necessities.With iPods, transferr (read full article) |
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| Category :: Personal Tech Articles |
Author :: Bonnie Archer |
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| Article Title :: Buying a Personal Computer (PC) |
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| For many people the computer industry is a seeming unsolvable jungle filled with mysterious words. Here is a guide to help you understand the personal computer and to give you the information needed to make a shopping decision you can live with so you can enjoy your PC for years to come.A few years ago the average cheaper personal computer cost was about $1500. - $2000. And this price did not necessarily include the power to edit videos, pictures, or play games. For that you would have had to spend more on upgrades. Now things such as video editing are standard on the newest personal computers. PC’s have become less expensive than ever before and they come with more capabili (read full article) |
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| Category :: Personal Tech Articles |
Author :: Jim Edwards |
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| Article Title :: Enhanced Web Browsing With Toolbars |
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| As the Web grows more crowded and just plain "noisy" with
information bombarding us from every angle, most people
welcome any tool, trick or shortcut to help them wade
through the mountains of data to find what they want.Since your web browser represents your main window to the
Internet, it makes sense for any tool which enables you to
find what you need and get around faster online should sit
right where you need it most.Introducing Web browser "toolbars," free little programs
that work with Internet Explorer and Netscape to put you
several steps closer to the information you need right now.~ Google Toolbar ~
The free toolbar from search giant Google offers the b (read full article) |
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| Category :: Personal Tech Articles |
Author :: Jim Edwards |
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| Article Title :: Top 9 Ways To "Speed Up" Your Surfing & Computing |
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| It seems like fast never quite rates fast enough.No matter how quickly something moves, especially on the
Internet, it could always move faster.Email, web surfing, downloading files (legally of course),
none of them ever go as quickly as we want or expect.Well, let me do my part to perpetuate this microwave oven
mentality (why must popcorn take 3 ½ minutes instead of 2?)
by giving you some tips and hints for making your online
experiences and overall computing as fast as possible (even
on a dial up connection).** Hit The Accelerator **Sensing a need for faster Internet access in markets where
broadband cable or DSL can't or won't go, Internet Service
Pr (read full article) |
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| Category :: Personal Tech Articles |
Author :: Lance Winslow |
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| Article Title :: Palm PC critique |
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| I met an entrepreneur who hole heartedly disagree with an article in Advertising Age by Bradley Johnson that Palm Pilot can keep their market share through brand name. We discussed RIMM Research in Motion and my stock in that company and I defended the wireless venue, but he went into a tirade, luckily I used a digital recorder and got most of it; basically here is his critique:“That grip has already eroded by Palm PC makers and clones. Palm PC will become the format of choice. The only way for Palm to survive is to be down side protected by making both systems and trying to somehow connect the dots and make them interactive. That is their only hope. Unfortunately with such a (read full article) |
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| Category :: Personal Tech Articles |
Author :: Michael Woodford |
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| Article Title :: Troubleshooting Computer Freeze (Lockup) Problems |
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| How familiar does the following sound? Your computer was working fine, but then suddenly started locking up (aka hanging or freezing), rebooting itself (crashing) or shutting down spontaneously? If you know only too well what I am talking about, then read on! Performing the simple steps below can fix the majority of lockup cases.1. Check for recently installed software or hardware.
If the lockups started to happen after you installed a new peace of hardware, new software program, or new drivers, uninstall it and see if the problem goes away.2. Run your antivirus program.
One of the first things to do in the case of sudden lockups is to run your antivirus program. Che (read full article) |
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