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Shopping for Laptop Computer

Wednesday 14 October 2009 @ 6:34 am

A Notebook, also known as laptop, is an ideal computer for you to carry out while you are travelling and it ease you to take your work with you when you are going mobile. Traditionally, a notebook cost more expensive than a desktop computer.
However, since a laptop designed for mobile use, it is also equiped with an advance technology and especialy wireless technology such as bluetooth, infrared, wifi adapter.

When you are shopping for a notebook, you should consider why you want to purchase a notebook and what you will use the notebook for. A notebook’s specification determines the price, the higher performance comes with the higher price. If you intend to use your notebook for work then the important issues will be the software that is already installed, the package that comes with the computer and the Internet access capabilities.

Thesedays, wireless technology has grown very rapidly and definitely all the user can enjoy the benefits. You can take your laptop wherever you go and easily access the Internet. This means you can send and receive files with very little difficulty and conduct your work on the move.

Notebook computers are greatly different in specification than desktop computers. If, you need to purchase a laptop, be sure to look at the type of processor, the speed of the processor, the size of hard drive, the type of RAM and the size of the RAM before you make your final decision to buy. Shopping online allows you to make some research on the type of laptop you are interested in, the online stores that can be trusted without feeling like you are being forced to make a quick decision.

There are also many online stores that you can find. Therefor, you can read the buyers review of the product and the service regarding the online store and the product that you are interested in. I believe buying laptop from an online store is the best way because we have more options and times to compare the product and the online stores that meets our needs.

So, hopefully this short article can increase your confidence to make an online transactions.




A Perfectly Complete Uninstall

Wednesday 16 September 2009 @ 4:18 am

Uninstalling a Windows program leaves multiple traces like abandoned registry keys, setting files and shared subroutine libraries that are no longer used by any program. When you are seeking for a perfect solution to your problem, you are typically downloading and trying out lots of different applications distributed on the trial base. After you finish your explore, you’ll determine on just one application, and will want to get rid of the previous application you’ve tested. But do you realize how many garbage they leave behind even after being ‘completely’ uninstalled?

If you install a large suite made by a big-name company, you’re having the best quality software that certainly experiences how to behave and how to clean up by itself, right? Wrong! Many of them leave behind multiple traces that are probably getting your computer behave odd, or even lead to troubles that are impossible to predict and difficult to resolve.

Need an examples? How about a firewall that forgets to move out a system-level driver that filters IP packets? After uninstalling the product, the driver just sits there, performing nothing except slowing down the performance of your PC. Try another one of those firewalls and stack an extra system-level driver on top, and you’ll get connectivity problems that are very difficult to resolve if you’re not an experienced network administrator.

Did you use any tools to create backups of your CDs and DVDs? There’s a lot of tools on the market that shamelessly leave behind the drivers they use to access the discs directly. Each of these drivers slows down access to optical discs and makes reads and writes less stable.

Simple utilities produced by small companies and independent software sellers are very prospective to leave traces behind in many places on your computer. Simply because they are free trial and time limited, they try to hide info about their installation date and usage in obscure places, making it on purpose difficult to trace and clean up. There’s nothing wrong with protecting intellectual property, but what happens if you try out a lot of applications, and decide on a single application to do the job? Do you actually have to bring all the garbage in “the house” in order to buy just one tool?

If you start thinking that the only way to keep on your computer clean is by not installing anything on it, think twice! There’s a great solution to these kind of problems made by some trusty vendors. One of them, which i have personally tried, is Registry Mechanic.
Developed by PCTools, this a strong tools to optimize windows registry.
You can try out by downloading the trial version from the official web site, only there are limited features with the trial version.




Tips on Keeping Your Windows XP Running Smooth

Wednesday 19 August 2009 @ 2:48 am

There are numerous matters that cause a computer to perform slower than before.
It can be from software to hardware.
It can be the storage is too small or not enough RAM.
It can be your BIOS, Operating System Settings or software that are eating up your CPU and RAM.
Or perhaps it can be your network.

Here are numerous tips that can help maintaining your computer perform faster:

1. This is so classic I shouldn’t need to tell it, keep clean which ever email software you use.
I have customers who are constantly complaining, but who will resist dumping years of accumulated emails.

2. Make sure you have a great anti virus program, apply only one anti virus on each computer, make it up to date and auto monitoring.

3. Make sure you use a strong anti spyware program, utilize only one anti spyware along each computer, have it up to date and automatic monitoring.

4. Run Disk Clean Up Daily by following these steps : Start, Pograms, Accessories, System Tools, Disk Clean Up – a box opens – be certain all box is selected, click ‘OK’ – a box pops up – Click Yes).

5. Delete Cookies and Cached Files Periodically by following these steps :
Start, Control Panel, Internet Options, Delete Cookies, Click OK, Click Delete Files – select ‘Delete All Offline Content’ – Click OK, then set your clear history to no more than seven Days – Click OK.

6. A really essential measure almost everyone misses Clean The Prefetch Folder :
Start, My Computer, ‘C’ , Windows, Prefetch Folder, Edit, Select All, File, Delete – Click Yes, Close Windows.

7. Empty Recycle Bin. I believe everyone knows how to empty the recycle bin.

8. Scan drive ‘C’ :
Start, My Computer, Right Click ‘C’, Click Properties at the bottom, Click Tools, Click Check Now.
Be certain both ‘Automatically fix file system errors’ and ‘Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors’ are selected, Click Start.

9. Defrag Computer :
Start, software, Accessories, System Tools, Disk Defragmenter, Select ‘C’ Drive, Click Defragment.

The last two steps, step 8 and 9, can take a while if they haven’t been done recently.
I complete this entire routine on my computer before I finish working for the day everyday and the total steps requires no longer than twenty minutes.




Hard Drive Defragmenting for Greater Performance

Tuesday 7 July 2009 @ 3:45 am

Doing a computer maintenance is something that is often overlooked by computer users. One of the easiest ways of doing computer maintenance is to perform defragmentation. This is one of the basic thing that not known by the owner of the computer.

Defragmentating your hard drive is one important thing if you don’t want your computer’s performance decrease along together with the increasing of your data on hard drive.
Windows operating system users should not be worry about this matter. As windows has been package with this handy features.
It’s as simple as clicking buttons because this feature is very user-friendly. This tools can present the exact evaluation for user whether the hard drive needs to be defragmented or not.

Eventhough the user interface is different between each windows versions, they all have the same function. You can simply click on the Start menu, choose Accessories, System Tools then click on Disk Defragmenter.
Once the interface is open, you may choose to analyze the hard drive that connects to your computer.
The analyzer will soon present an evaluation whether you need to perform disk defragmenting or not. If the analyzer recommend you to perform defragmentation, all you need to do is select the hard drive from the list and press Defragment button then this tool will do the rest.

Over time computers scattered data across the whole length of hard drive, this makes accessing data become slower and takes more time to accomplish.Disk defragmenter tool does an important task.
It’s “regrouping” all files that are scattered across your hard drive into one “block” of the hard drive which makes it easier to read and write on your hard drive.

Defragmenting a hard drive usually takes a long time depends on the size of your hard drive. The speed of your processor and the amount of RAM you have also plays a role. When performing disk defragment, it could take up almost all of the resource of your computer, so you won’t be able to do any operations until disk defragment process is completed.
So, i suggest you to do this operation while you are not using the computer.




Computer and Internet Glossary

Sunday 5 July 2009 @ 4:10 pm

Computers and everything related to it tend to have their own language, and sometimes the words make you confuse. Even if you don’t want to know all of them, it will come accross sooner or later. Here are some of the important and commonly used words.

Bandwidth.
Bandwidth is the amount of data, which is counted in bytes, that your website can send each second. It is also the amount of data that the visitor can receive from your website. If your website is hosted in a limited bandwidth or doesn’t have enough bandwidth, then the website will appear slowly.
For that reason, you should choose a web host that meets your needs, of course a good and complete service web host also comes with a higher price.

Browser.
Browser is a computer software that you use to visit a website.
There are several browser released by different vendors, such as Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome. Most of this browsers are distributed free of charge, you may download it from their official website.

Cookie.
Cookie is a file contains information about visitors of a website. Cookie can be saved automatically into your computer without you even notice about it. Sometimes a webmaster or website owner needs information on their website’s visitor about when did the visitor arrived in the website and some cookies have an expiration date depends on the website owner.

Download.
A process of transferring data from a website, or webhost to be exact, to a computer. This usually counted in bytes.
To download a file you can use a browser software, download managers or FTP softwares.
Some download managers are user friendly and easy to use, even for a user with less knowledge about computer software.

FTP.
File Transfer Protocol. This is a common method of uploading and downloading files to your website.
Filezilla is an example of user friendly FTP software, it is distributed for free.

Javascript.
A common language used to write ’scripts’ on websites. It is a script that can make a website more interactive.

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group).
This is the most popular picture format for the web, named after the group that invented this format.
If you want to upload your pictures on your website, i believe you should save them as JPEG.

Hardware.
Hardware is computer equipment that physically exists. Hardware is the opposite of software.

Hosting.
If you have a website and you want everyone from everywhere to see your website then you should have a web server that is capable of 24/7 online, so everyone can see your website. If you are unable to provide a 24/7 online web server then you should buy a service that is specially provide such service.

HTML. HyperText Markup Language.
A simple code used to indicate how to display a web pages, using a small ‘tags’ system.
As an example, a “b” tag displays text in bold, and the ‘img’ tag displays a picture.

Hyperlink.
A hyperlink is a text on a website that can be click and take you to another site, or to another page within the same site. A hyperlink usually created by using anchor tag “a”.

Software.
Software is a program that runs on the computer or a program make your website work.
For example, Firefox is a software, Apache is also a software.

Spider.
Spider is a program or a code used by search engine to scan your site, by crawling your site it would help them decide where it should appear when people search.
Getting visited by web spiders it good, these means your website will appear in search engine in a short time.

Upload.
Uploading is a process of transfering data from your computer into your website or web server. As an example, you can upload your company logo, post an article to your website or blog.

URL (Uniform Resource Locator).
This is a simple way of saying ‘web address’. This is what you have to type in your browser’s address bar to get directly to your website.




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