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Notebook or Desktop Computer, What is the Best Buy?
The idea of purchasing a personal computer may be appealing to a lot of people, however they may feel undecided as weather to go for a traditional desktop computer or for a light weight portable notebook. Several aspects should be taken into consideration as for the purposes of such acquisition....
Buying Guide to Graphics Cards
The graphics card is a vital performance component of your cuter, particularly if you play 3D games, or work with graphics and video content. The graphics card sits in an expansion card slot in your PC and it is specifically designed to process image data and output it to your monitor...
Guide to Buying Hard Drives
Apart from being one of the most essential parts of your computer, hard drive storage is constantly updating, in terms of both capacity of disk space and in physical size. When it comes time to upgrade your disk storage, there are a number of factors for you to take into account...
Understanding Mp4 Players
Mp3 audio format became available back in 1993. Shortly after it became the standard internet audio format, and it is still very much used world wide. Recently another format has been introduced, the mp4 audio-video format which allows video capability, so that users can watch movies...
What Is VoIP Security?
Security is an obvious concern when it comes to any sort of technology, but even more so with any technology that is run through the Internet. Because VoIP (www.tech-faq.com/voip.shtml) runs through the Internet any information can be intercepted by anyone at any time...
How to Build a PC
Do you know what could beat the exciting feeling of having a new computer? Make your own PC! Making your own computer from scratch is not only fun to do but cheaper as well. You can get to choose the parts you want to use on your PC. This gives you the control in balancing the price and the quality of your newly assembled PC....
Simple Steps - Protect your Computer Online
So you've bought your computer and want to get online? It's not as simple as connect the wire and off you go these day's. The internet is a weird and wonderful place as long as you can control what you do. That's why you need to protect yourself...

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Free Software Picks
Top 10 lists are sooo subjective, but still, I read them just to see what other people are interested in, and I just read one from InfoWorld that is just so lame I can't imagine the dude that wrote it. Well, that's not quite true, I can, and there's the rub.....
Buried Virtually
I know someone who absolutely, positively, unwaveringly refuses to own or condone a smart phone. And I get the point. To a degree. The argument goes that the smart phone is just another way for already overburdened and harried individuals to be forced to carry more workload....
Speech Recognition
Okay, I admit it, I'm weird. I watch documentaries over dramas, prefer history over fiction, and would just generally like to learn something whenever I can. Don't know when or how that started, but I can remember as a kid being taken to historical sites and being fascinated....
The Pile On My Desk
Responsibility. There's a word that has changed connotation a whole lot since I was a kid. Used to be a great thing, 'she's responsible' was a pat on the back. A good thing. Made you want to be responsible. That's something I still strive for, staying on top of things...
Leverage
I used to love watching "Hustle" on AMC, but alas, the powers that be pulled the plug. Granted, if you missed two seconds you could lose track of the whole deal for that week. Now we have "Leverage"" on some other station, similar but slower paced, takes less concentration...
Best Practices
Best Practices is a term for using your computer in the safest way, the least chance of loss to either you or it. There are so many scams and cons out there, some coming in through email and some in other forms, that adopting a safety first attitude should apply to all you do...
World Wide Web or Wild Wild Web?
I am sometimes astounded myself at the sheer level of malevolence in the world. The scams, greed, and sheer nastiness toward others that some forms of life are capable of. I have recently witnessed complete computer meltdowns due to an attack that came through a cute little widget that some people just really enjoyed using...
Just For Kicks
There's a new free PC game! Steam, an online game platform, good graphics and many fans, has lots of games out there for pay. Alien Swarm is their newest release, and this one is free. From their site: "Alien Swarm is a game and Source SDK release from a group of talented designers at Valve who were hired from the Mod community...
Security
Jaunted down to a security conference in Denver and finally started hearing the things from a security provider that I have been thinking for a long time should be pretty standard. Trouble is, it just isn't. Or hasn't been if you don't have the manpower and money to monitor it 24/7...
Firefox
Recent events have reiterated to me the greatness of Firefox. What is Firefox, you ask? Well, I am sure out there is some sort of track of the lifeline but I can't really find it anywhere. Not that I really looked all that hard, mind you. But anyway, a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away...

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