Bill Gates may have envisioned all homes to have a PC, but someone else got a better idea to make it portable as well. At that time, the computer geeks probably never had any clue that portable computers will one day rule the computing consumer landscape. If they did they wouldn’t have manufactured those bulky “portable” PCs that on hindsight were the early precursors of the laptop. The term laptop was a play of words to suggest that the computer can be operated right from your lap to distinguish it from regular PC that require a desktop. The term didn’t get into the computer jargon until sometime in the early 90s. Before that, computer makers made incursions into the portable PC. Here’s a snapshot of the laptop history before that time.
The First Portable Computer It was in 1981 at about the same time that the IBM PC AT and compatibles where just starting to make
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The most advantageous and compelling feature of the LTO media tape technology is that it is an open format. Openness of LTO ultrium provides users the benefit of having multiple product & media sources. The open nature of LTO ultrium allows compatibility among the LTO data tapes developed by different media manufactures. Four generation of LTO backup tape have been launched into the market whose native recording capacity ranges from 100 to 800GB. 100GB is the capacity of LTO1 tape while the LTO-4 tape holds up to 800GB. Ultrium format is LTO technology’s implementation that has been engineered keeping in view the demands and needs of automated environments, departmental servers, SMBs, standalone environments and data intensive applications.
Keeping the following cleaning tips in mind will ensure that you don’t need to face any problems with your printer.
Before cleaning the printer, unplug it and let it sit for an hour or so to cool down. Handle the toner cartridge carefully. Remove it from the printer and place it on a newspaper. Avoid tipping or shaking of the cartridge as this may lead to toner leakage.
Clean the interior of the printer with a dry lint free cloth. Preferably, use the brush provided with the printer itself. Clean the rollers with a slightly damp cloth to remove dirt build up.
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Shared computers can be a breeding ground for germs. A UK microbiologist recently swabbed shared equipment in an office environment and found levels of germs five times higher on the computer keyboards than on the office toilet seats.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, a 2007 outbreak of stomach flu that sickened more than 100 children in a Washington D.C elementary school was traced back to a contaminated keyboard shared by the class.
The CDC also says that flu viruses can live on hard objects, such as keyboards, for up to 8 hours, and can be spread when a user touches the keyboard and then his or her eyes, nose or mouth. The average adult touches his or her face 18 times per hour. Routine cleaning of surfaces will stop the virus from spreading.
With the threat of both seasonal and H1N1 flu strains and the upcoming
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All types of businesses, online or offline, or small scale or large scale, rely on computers to get things done. Malfunctioning of the computer may throw things off the track and cause substantial losses in the business. As such, business owners should identify in advance the right type of computer support they can access in the case of an emergency.
The way a computer is used today, it functions like the fulcrum of a wheel on which the user's entire business unit revolves. If the point is not kept well oiled at optimum functionality, the wheel will spin out of control, or in other words, the whole business may collapse. That is why timely computer support and computer services become so important in running a business.
In online businesses like Internet marketing or affiliate marketing, seller-buyer communications are carried out entirely through the Internet. If his computer becomes non-functional even for a few hours, the seller will
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Stereophiles used to dominate a small elite crowd of hobbyists who have come to appreciate and immensely enjoy the technical advances of the times when stereo first emerged and brought home listening to a higher degree of sonic realism and aural pleasures never before attained with monaural home playback systems. That was in the mid 50s of the last century. Over the years, the stereo sound has become the de facto standard in musical studio recording and playbacks systems. In the meantime, you have the television that brought moving pictures to the homes where it was formerly a movie house preserve. For a time, movie houses felt threatened by the new consumer technology, but in time, the two lived in symbiotic existence. Culminating in the colored TV and the VHS recording system, home entertainment reached an end of the road the way it was in the late 80s.
Put simply, a widget is a standalone application which is often embedded in third party sites. A web widget is a portable chunk of code installed and executed in a web page by the end user. It does not require any additional compilation and often provides information in a concise manner. Common widgets come in the form of tickers, clocks, boxes, and similar formats. With the help of a social web widget generator, almost anyone can generate a social web widget to link their social presence on the web.
End users use widgets to enhance their personal experiences of the web or to attract visitors to their sites. Working in a manner similar to that of an iPhone, widgets add stand alone applications to blogs, profiles, and community pages. Individuals often use widgets to link their personal blogs, photographs, websites, presence on social networking sites, and all other similar entries on the Internet.
The main road in the village, 19 sets of "electronic police" all-weather dynamic monitoring; villagers through home help send alarm signals, comprehensive management of police officers rushed to the scene in the first time; neighbors heard the alarm sound after rushed to his side, to alert the villagers to obtain timely relief ... ... Yesterday, reporters in Beilun Xiaogang Zhu Tamura saw this street known as the "invisible security door" law and order in the village dynamic monitoring system.
Laptop hard drives are the main storage areas of the device. There are many types of laptop hard drives available in the market. See some information here.
Laptop hard drives act as the main storage of this portable computer. This is where files, applications and data are stored. The normal measurement of the drive is 2.5 x 2.5 inches. It is lighter and more compact compared to that of a desktop. It also has various storage capacities.
Take note that there are many kinds of hard drives. Be sure that what you get is compatible to your laptop. It comes in different sizes and capacities. Laptops with lower specs might not work well with a very big capacity storage. Some computers also are picky with brands. Even if the size is right, if it manufactured a by a certain rival brand, it will not work perfectly.
It is sometimes recommended to get a hard drive
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Laptop computers are becoming more and more popular since they first appeared as an office tool for businessman.
There are many laptops on the shelves these days as demand for them grows. Of course, the main advantage of a laptop is that it is portable. Coupled with wi-fi capabilities this makes it an indispensable tool whilst on the move. Another advantage when buying a laptop is that it is usually preloaded with the latest operating system, currently Windows 7. Be careful though, if the operating system that is on the laptop is the one that you want to use as they are difficult to change.
It is worth paying attention to the CPU when purchasing a new laptop. Typically, the lower end price range might not have the best CPU. You really want a CPU that can cope with the rigors of mobile computing and won’t suck your battery life. Intel’s new Core 2 Duo CPUs perform exceptionally well, it has considerable processing
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