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1089 Home Entertainment on Laptops
Most people have become hooked to the Apple iPod Touch as their main entertainment media both at home and on the road. Imagine what a laptop can do instead. Of course, it will cost more and may not last any longer on the road than an iPod.
Posted on Dec-18-2009

1067 Extending your Laptop Battery Life
Laptop users know the horrors of low battery situations. It’s no different from cellphone low bat warnings you get just when you need to call or worst, intruding right in the middle of a call. For laptops, the consequence of low bat is even more sinister and disastrous.
Posted on Dec-18-2009

827 Maturing Technologies to Make Laptops more Powerful
While microprocessor technology has reached its lithographic manufacturing limits and is inviting nanotechnology to breach those limits, laptop processors still have some room to grow with the current technology. Intel has the current 45nm Penryn and Nehalm chip with a forthcoming 32nm Westmere project that Intel claims to contain 1.9 billion transistors scheduled to be released this year.
Posted on Dec-18-2009

811 What to Do With an Old Working Laptop PC
Two-year old laptops still in good working condition are a good candidate for disposal these days. You have increasingly powerful and cheaper laptops with widescreen displays, larger 1GB memory and more capacious hard disk drives that you begin to wonder why you still keep banging the keys on your poor old laptop or notebook PC.
Posted on Dec-18-2009

844 Cloud Computing Ushers in New Era for Laptops and Computers
The current computer buzzwords you often encounter in both print and online media is Cloud Computing. It’s because just a play of words that burrowed the “cloud” used as a metaphoric abstraction referring to the internet technologies in general.
Posted on Dec-18-2009

838 New Battery Developments for Laptops
The urgent need to have sufficient battery power long enough to last a day has never been more compelling. The increase in mobile computing using sophisticated office and multimedia applications and WiFi radio to access the internet, drains laptop batteries faster than anything before.
Posted on Dec-18-2009

1100 Using LCD TV as Your Computer Monitor
Yes, it can be done. In fact, many gamers and HD video enthusiasts use LCD TVs instead of standard PC monitors to views movies from their Home Theater PCs or HTPCs. 32” LCD TVS are quite common among HTPC users as they are a cross between the more preferred 42” plasma TV and the more modest 22” LCD computer monitors.
Posted on Dec-18-2009

761 Maximizing DVD Playback Potential on Your Computer
If you enjoy watching DVD movies on a DVD player, you’re missing a lot from playing the material on a PC instead. Videophiles have long known the advantages of playing digital video materials on a computer than on consumer electronic appliances like the DVD players.
Posted on Dec-18-2009

935 Green Laptops: The Way to the Future
Concerns over global warming and its effect to the environment have put pressure on every industry to clamp down on its energy consumption. For the computer makers and users alike, the “green” laptops are the future in mobile computing.
Posted on Dec-17-2009

729 Windows 7Advent: Which Laptop Fits Best?
Now that Windows 7 is out, your old laptop might be tad short of maximizing the features of Windows 7. Picking a laptop can be a complicated task. You have to balance features against price and portability. Rumor has it, as it goes everytime windows releases an newer more sophisticated version, that to be able to enjoy Windows 7 best, you need a laptop that packs a lot of storage space, a fast processor, bigger RAM, and so on.
Posted on Dec-17-2009

798 Your Laptop and YOU
What does your laptop computer say about you? A lot of people don’t realize it much but their laptops communicate a lot about who they are and what type of personalities they sport. These days, laptops come in all sorts of colors that pretty much match with your personality type.
Posted on Dec-17-2009

743 With Netbooks, Size and Connectivity Does Matter
For the modern man and woman who is constantly on the go, size does matter. Gadgets that offer the same convenience but are more portable than their conventional counterparts are of prime importance. The smaller and lighter they are, the more attractive they become.
Posted on Dec-17-2009

775 Tracing the Evolution of the Home Computer
The home personal computer as we know it today can be traced back to the computing architecture designed by John von Neumann back in 1945.
Posted on Dec-17-2009

758 Laptop Growth, Soon Everyone Will Have Them
There was a time when computer laptops were considered high ticket items reserved only to highly paid analysts and corporate executives.
Posted on Dec-16-2009

790 How to Secure Your Laptop When Traveling By Air
Airports and planes now come packed with people bringing their laptops along with them when they travel. Whether for business or pleasure, the laptop is now an important companion.
Posted on Dec-16-2009

844 Reward for IT Mentors on a Mission
IN what appears to be an expression of appreciation to a noble act, an investment organization is making a big dole out to a non-profit organization known for their rolling IT school.
Posted on Dec-16-2009

798 Net in Lieu of TVs and Newspapers
THIRTY years ago, television and newspapers were the most powerful media around, so powerful that investments magnates and business conglomerates would want to own and run their own media outfit.
Posted on Dec-16-2009

1286 Are Netbooks The Way to Go?
The technologies behind computing portability have found another successful mark on the new generation of mobile computers called netbooks.
Posted on Dec-16-2009

736 Evolving the Laptop to What It Is Today
Bill Gates may have envisioned all homes to have a PC, but someone else got a better idea to make it portable as well.
Posted on Dec-16-2009

707 Video on Demand, Computerizing the Film Industry
Video on Demand on VOD has been bandied around for years now and it wasn’t until the technology for it has matured recently that we are now seriously looking at it to revolutionize the way consumer enjoy their movies.
Posted on Dec-15-2009

726 WiFi Technology on the Road, Bane or Boon for Commuters
For many commuters taking public transport, getting from the house to the office can take anywhere from 45 minutes to more than an hour.
Posted on Dec-15-2009

745 Diagnosing Electronic Mailing System
YEARS back, a letter would take a minimum of three days before it reaches its destination. It also entails some dime for the envelope, the stamp and postage fees. What is even more annoying is when our letters don’t reach where it is supposed to land.
Posted on Dec-15-2009

718 Computers Make Work at Home and Telecommuting Possible
Computers at home make it possible for anyone to do at home what they often do in the office. Desktops PCs once reserved in the office are now affordable enough to become just another home appliance for the commuting office worker.
Posted on Dec-15-2009

740 Intelligent Gambling with Information Technology
GAMBLING has always been considered a vice. Most of us are brought up to a culture which describes gambling as a bad habit. It has likewise been something the Catholic Church has been consistently against with. According to the Catholic Church, gambling is evil, as it causes family break-ups, bankruptcy and immorality. Ironically, gambling is something that can’t be taken away from our culture.
Posted on Dec-15-2009

742 Computers Now a Part of Consumer Electronic Technologies.
The home is not a place for bulky appliances that take up expensive real estate space. It is not a place for complicated gadgets that require a PhD to operate.
Posted on Dec-15-2009