It seems like just yesterday CD burners were the latest craze and they had just hit the market. Now with prices dropping and DVD burners out on the market priced reasonably, you might be thinking of getting one. I’m going to show you how to install a DVD burner into your computer.
The first step is [...]

A while back, I helped a friend buy a computer.  It had a small form-factor, but quite competitive with the price point and features.  But mainly, I suggested the brand because of the warranty.  The company had a standard two year warranty on parts and one year warranty on labor.
I didn’t put much bearing into [...]

No, I don’t use the floppy disk anymore.  At least not in the way I used floppy disks before.  I’ve gone through different incarnations of floppy disks before and I could not imagine how “flimsy” the data was during those days.
First time I used a floppy disk, it was 8-inches and was for a TRS [...]

Whenever I buy a new computer the main problem has always been migrating the contents of one hard disk to the other.  In most instances, this is pretty straight-forward.  Even with advances in technology, there’s always some sort of backward compatibility to fall back on to do the job.
For instance, migrating to SATA from IDE [...]

Source:  Emotiv
This is the start of the road for the ultimate controller.  No mouse, no trackpad, no joystick, no trackball ever and no cable from mind-controlled controller to the PC.  This is the EmotivEPOC.
What it does is put together 14 sensors to the head and read your mind.  If you’ve ever watched “Back to the [...]

Since the 1980’s the personal computer has taken over the world.  And also, since the late-1980’s viruses have taken over the personal computer.
Strictly speaking, this is only true of PCs running MS-DOS (or PC-DOS) and later, the Windows operating system.  For the rest of the world, the minority, viruses have been practically non-existent.  As a [...]

There’s lots of talk about Vista problems, about how XP support is being extended further, and how Windows 7 development is being accelerated to replace Vista.  Around all of these, Apple is releasing a new round of notebooks and upgrades to their notebook line.  And added to the mix is the current financial crisis.
I am [...]

I have two computers at home, both with DVD burners, and everyone in my family has their own USB thumb drives (either a 2GB or a 4GB drive), and all of this storage space sometimes seems to be not enough.  With the cameras, mp3s, and CD-audio files as well as all those downloads, the free [...]

The USB flash drive has become the de facto standard for mobile data transfer.  The flash drive has effectively taken the place of the floppy disk.  One floppy disk function which the flash drive has not addressed (or at least users are not aware of it) is to use it to boot a computer.
For most [...]

A USB hub is a repeater, or an octopus connection for the USB port.  As such, it’s a non-managing, no maintenance piece of equipment you plug in and forget.  Most cases, a USB hub is used because the user ran out of USB ports, although sometimes the USB hub is there as a repeater because [...]