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  • Perpendicular Hard Disk Drive  By : Sean Nicholls
    Hard Disk Drives store all our most valuable data, our contacts, email, family photos and the like, but increasingly space is getting cramped in drives. Where once a 5~Mb disk drive was far beyond the need of the common man, 120Gb and more has become common.

    Perpendicular Hard Disk Drives aim to stem the theoretical limit of disk capacity, and this article aims to explain how and why.
  • Router - How It Works  By : Michael Russell
    A simple introduction to how routers work to transmit information from one network to a user in another network and how without them the Internet, as we know it, wouldn't be able to exist.
  • History of Hewlett Packard and Ink  By : John Sollars
    Hewlett Packard’s tryst with ink took off when it acquired a company named F.L Mosley based in California in 1958. Mosley was manufacturing recorders and plotters for industrial applications such as continuous process monitoring systems, data loggers and the like in the 1950’s.
  • Getting Started With Your New Printer  By : John Sollars
    If you have recently bought yourself a new printer, follow the directions in the manual for setting up cables. Put the installation CD into the CD drive and follow the set up instructions.
  • Tips for Perfect Prints (For Beginners)  By : John Sollars
    Tips for Perfect Prints (For Beginners)
    Undeniably, photo prints still remain the most popular way of sharing memories. With the right printer and a handful of simple techniques, your pictures can look as sharp as the lab-processed ones. Read on for some great tips for getting the best prints possible.
  • Find your laptop drivers easily!  By : Mohammad Abdullatif
    Many people, especially beginners, struggle in finding drivers for their laptops. In this article, I will illustrate two ways to help you find your laptop drivers quickly, and easily.
  • Laptop Batteries and Laptop Battery Care  By : Angela Oliver
    There are a number of ways to properly care and maintain a laptops main power source, the battery. Battery construction of laptop batteries is very different from other traditional electronic device batteries. A brief overview of the construction of laptop batteries will help provide insight into factors that affect th
  • Upgrading a Notebook  By : Sezer Bozkurt
    Desktops have been long known to be upgrade-able in terms of memory and hard drive space but little is known about upgrading notebooks.
  • Notebook Battery Life  By : Sezer Bozkurt
    Notebook battery life is an important for the mobile computer user. There’s nothing worse than really needing to access you notebook only to have it switch off due to low battery. There are certain things that can help to prolong battery life.
  • Here's How To Get Sound From Your Speakers  By : Sintilia Miecevole -
    This article was written to answer many of the most frequently asked questions on this topic. I hope you find this information helpful.

    You have tried and tried to get your speakes to work. You have the sound card and the speakers; so what is the problem? The first step is to check the connections. Most people accidentally plug the speaker jack into the Line-in Jack of the sound card. Check to see if this is what you did. If you have amplified speakers, make sure that the ...
  • Understanding Laptop Batteries  By : George Royal -
    Types of Laptop Batteries:

    Nickel Cadmium (NiCd) Batteries: These were the first rechargeable batteries manufactured for laptops. They were relatively inexpensive, had high output and versatile, because they could be used in a wide variety of products. However, NiCd batteries have now been abandoned by laptop manufacturers with the introduction of more efficient and lighter-weight batteries.

    Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) Batteries: NiMH was a big improvement concerning po...
  • Why do we defrag the Hard Disk?  By : Stephen Orgill
    Why do we defrag the hard disk? Defragging your hard disk can improve your systems overal performance and keep the access speeds of your hard disks down to a minimum.
  • How to replace a power supply  By : OCT
    A bad or failing power supply can cause many problems such as your computer rebooting itself randomly or not coming on at all. Here we will explain how to replace the power supply and what to look for in a new one.
  • Today's Advanced Laptop vs. the Desktop PC  By : Sam Carlton
    How does today's laptop compare with the desktop PC?
  • How Platespin Server Consolidation Works  By : Jennifer Hanson
    It is no secret that servers can take up a lot of floor space, and power. As a result, they can sometimes seem inconvenient. One way to save space and power is to consolidate servers. Server consolidation is very important in order to ease some of the frustrations of overdue consolidation processes.
  • Discount Ink Cartridge  By : doglover
    Consumers say "no" to high-price replacement cartridges. Discount ink cartridge picks up market share.
  • USB Flash Drive  By : Edgar Lee
    USB flash drive or any other flash memory drive is basically an EEPROM that means "Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory".

    USB flash memory sticks are nothing but an assembly of EEPROM, a controller with a RISC microprocessor, RAM and ROM. All of this interacts with a computer using a USB controller and connector.
  • How I Selected The Best Notebook Computer For Intensive Number Crunching And Stock Market Analysis  By : Peter Lim
    In buying my own personal notebook computer, I was faced with a myraid of questions. Just what make and model will meet my number crunching and stock market analysis needs? What are the considerations from portability, accessibility and upgrading of the notebook computer?
  • How to prepare surfaces for Asset Tags and Asset Label Tags on Computers & IT equipment  By : Stuey
    A quick guide to surface preparation and application of asset label tags and asset labels so that they have an optimum bond and won't let you down.
  • Buying a Refurbished Laptop Computer  By : David Perlmutter
    This article discusses tips for buying a refurbished laptop computer.
  • Simple Ways to Keep Fax Machine Clean and Your Documents Clear  By : Gilbert Rawlings
    Maintaining your fax machine is easier than you think. Keeping your office equipment maintained will help your organization keep costs down by extending the time between repairs and eventual replacement.
  • Partnering: Achieve Your Goals By Creating a Prospecting List  By : Joshua Feinberg
    Partnering is a business relationship that requires planning. Think of some potential partners and services that might benefit your company and put them on your prospect list for partnering.
  • Computer Consultant Skills: Do You Have to Have 20 Certifications?  By : Joshua Feinberg
    Computer consultant skills don't have to be bleeding edge. Since most small businesses don't keep up with cutting edge technology, various levels of expertise can be possible for a computer consultant.
  • Xerox - Its Journey with Ink  By : John Sollars
    Chester Carlson inventor of xerography founded the Haloid Company on April 18, 1935. The company manufactured and sold photographic paper! It was based in Rochester New York.

    In the year 1942 Carlson received U.S. patent No. 2,297,691 on Oct. 6 for electrophotography, later called xerography, the technology that revolutionized the world of imaging.
  • The History of Canon - From an Optical Lab to a Multimedia Giant!  By : John Sollars
    Canon, according to the dictionary means is a general law, rule, principle or criterion; church decree or law; member of cathedral chapter; body of writings accepted as genuine.

    Now what I am talking about is a company that manufactures user-friendly products! Canon the camera making company that now gives varied other products and services to the world such as printers, inks and fax machines and copiers!
  • Four Power System Problems Common in Colocation Facilities  By : RobertAIS
    To make sure that the power system at a colocation facility is robust enough to handle both power and equipment failures, two words should be remembered: capacity and redundancy.
  • Epson Yesterday and Today  By : John Sollars
    Epson started as watch making company Seiko Epson Corporation, Japan. Epson was established in 1961 to manufacture precision parts for Seiko watches, back then it was called Shinsu Precision Manufacturing Company.
  • Konica Minolta  By : John Sollars
    Konica Minolta, the name usually brings to mind their camera or their photographic materials. However, it is also one of the top players in the printing and ink manufacturing business. The lines below will take you through a brief history of the company and touch upon their all-new environment friendly polymerized toner.
  • Lexmark - Relatively new to the market but already on top!  By : John Sollars
    Lexmark does not have the advantage of the proverbial long history in its kitty of printing and imaging solutions like its competitors to bank on; however it has managed to make a mark on the imaging and printing industry. One of its important technologies is the Photo Cartridge and PrecisionSense Technology.
  • Computer Consulting: Use Your Time Wisely  By : Joshua Feinberg
    Computer Consulting businesses require you to make effecient use of your time. Journal all your projects and give your techs training projects to grow your expertise in the business of computer consulting.

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