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A Peek Into the Near Future of Electronics Technology

By On July 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment

How long do you think DVDs have around? 20 years? 10 years? Actually, they have only been around for about seven years, but it seems like they have been around much longer. Many of us can hardly remember life before DVDs. That can be attributed to how rapidly we can become acclimated to some innovations [...]

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Computer Geeks and Garden Gnomes

By On June 25, 2011 · Leave a Comment

First and foremost before I begin my ranting it is worth mentioning that there are many very helpful and considerate people out there in the cyber wilderness who devote much of their time to providing open source and free scripts of all variations from PHP, CGI and Java to name but a few. They provide [...]

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Windows Task Manager in English

By On June 25, 2011 · Leave a Comment

You use Ctrl+Alt+Del to see what’s running on your PC, to close crashed programs and processes, and to check performance. You probably avoid a few processes whose names mean nothing to you, but they’re essential to Windows. svchost.exe sure likes to appear all the time and multiple times at that. What’s taskmgr.exe? Oh yeah, it’s [...]

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EDTV vs HDTV

By On September 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Confused by EDTV vs HDTV? We don’t blame you. The number of acronyms floating
about with regard to digital TV is frightening. What’s even more worrying is that very
often they are used by people who have little or no knowledge about what they
mean. If the person selling you doesn’t know [...]

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The Many Benefits of Owning a DVR

By On September 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Has This Ever Happened To You? OK.. it’s Friday night, the kids are asleep, and a movie you’ve been waiting for is on Pay-Per-View for the first time. You buy the movie, grab a bag of popcorn, get all comfy on the couch, and ten minutes into the movie “RINGGGG” it’s the _______ phone!!! (you [...]

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Toshiba Wins Hollywood Support for the HD DVD format

By On August 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment

What led them to this choice, as all four studios stated separately, is better performance for the price and copyright protection.

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How To Safeguard Your Computer?

By On August 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The following practice, if done regularly, may help you to
safeguard your computer to some extent.

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Protect Your PC from Viruses, Worms & Trojans

By On August 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Each of the items in the checklist below is part of a broad and easy to implement security policy.

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How To Search Your PC With Google Desktop

By On February 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment

In this era of Internet, most people are frequent users of
computers. Many of us use computers through out the day,
accumulating morasses of information in various formats, which
include email, digital photo, word document, spreadsheet,
presentation file, ebook, article, other downloaded files,
music, visited web pages, and many others. [...]

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Are You Putting Off Productivity?

By On May 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment

I recently took a good look at what was keeping me from accomplishing what I needed to do. After all, I had my goals. I had them written down. I read my affirmations daily. And still, I was not achieving what I wanted to do.

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