Archive for the 'Hardware' Category

HDMI vs VGA

A Digital HDMI cable will carry video and audio, unlike analogue, VGA-cables video only. But things aren’t simple as that nowadays when pairing computers and consumer electronics. You may think that digital is always better but VGA and HDMI connections from two laptops yielded about the same visual quality on a 40in. And you could [...]

Optimized Hard Disk

Optimized hard disk the standard Windows way.
Windows has the suitable tools on board - right click the icon of your hard disk that you want to check and select ‘Properties’ from the menu.
In the ‘Tools’ tab, click the ‘Check Now’ button under the ‘Error Checking’ area (For XP user, you must log on with administrator [...]

Stop Laptop Theft

What steps could be taken to make safe your notebooks from being stolen or lost?
YouGetItBack.com reported that more than 70, 000 notebooks and personal digital assistant (PDA) haven’t yet be claimed and according to Accenture, 10-15% handheld devices lost are because of the owner’s carelessness.
There are certain steps we could do to reduce the risk:

USB drive as a portable pc

USB flash drive; despite being use as a storage to save and transferring files, could be changed as a portable computer or a portable office that will always accompany you. How’s that? Simple, get a flash drive with a good specification and a collection of portable applications.

CPU

The Central Processing Unit aka ‘CPU’ aka ‘processor’
Its not really that hard to understand how the cpu works.
The first thing to understand is - whenever we start a program, their instructions are stored in memory to be executed by the CPU.
It fetched the instructions, understand it and decode the instructions as well as to determine [...]