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Apr
30th

How to change your Drive Icon

Author: luq | Files under hardware, software, tips, tutorials

Fed up of the default drive icon you see in every computer? Then change it! You can give each of your partitions on your computer a unique drive icon to denote what the drive stores or just a random icon if your partitions aren’t necessarily classified in any order and guess what? You can follow [...]

Popularity: 40% [?]


Mar
27th

Six Applications to have on your portable storage device

Author: luq | Files under hardware, security, software, tips

Today, most applications are very ‘portable’ friendly unlike in the past where applications were as machine dependent as an OS. Well, here I’ve compiled a list of six applications you should have on your portable device. All these applications are non-machine dependant and do not require installation.

Mozilla Firefox

It’s always nice to have your favorite [...]

Popularity: 27% [?]


Jan
27th

Pros and Cons of Laser Printers

Author: luq | Files under hardware, tips

Laser printers have proven to be the best type of printers out there but like anything that exists today there are pros and cons:

Pros

Laser printers are ‘page’ printers, which is the main advantage of a laser printer, its speed, page printing allows a fast printing [...]

Popularity: 15% [?]


Jan
25th

OMR Technology

Author: luq | Files under hardware, software, technology

OMR (which stands for optical mark reader or optical mark recognition) is quite an old technology which is extensively in use specially to process data entry forms in various institutes and companies. It is the ability for OMR hardware to identify predefined ‘marks’ on hard copy sheets of paper and produce an outcome based on [...]

Popularity: 13% [?]


Jan
21st

Webacall Voip Review | Overview

Author: luq | Files under hardware, reviews, software, the internet

Company – Webacall
Head office – Greece
Brief Description – Cheap, simple VOIP provider
Ratings:

Sound Quality – 3/5
Price 5/5
Software 3.5/5
Features
Connectivity – 4/5

Rating Description

Sound Quality

Sound quality is ok. Voice is just ‘hearable’ and that’s [...]

Popularity: 8% [?]


Jan
19th

How to protect your CD’s and DVD’s

Author: luq | Files under hardware, tips

As promised in this post, here I will describe some of the practices you should adopt to lengthen your optical disk’s life.

Use cases

While this is obvious, the importance of using CD cases cannot be stressed enough. Using CD cases cuts down a variety of damages that can result in your CD getting unreadable or corrupt.

Protect [...]

Popularity: 7% [?]


Jan
4th

Ways of retrieving data from unreadable CD/DVD’s

Author: luq | Files under hardware, tips

CD’s and DVD’s can get unreadable for a number of reasons, the most common reason being getting scratched or contaminated with dust or other particles.
Data on these devices could be critical and making sure they are in good condition is vital in data backup and storage. While the storage method of these devices play [...]

Popularity: 25% [?]


Jan
2nd

How data is checked for errors

Author: luq | Files under hardware, security, software, technology

Ever wondered how data is checked when it is transferred from A to B? When you download a file online, wondered how the downloaded file is checked to see if it was downloaded properly? Here’s how.
Parity
One way data is checked is by checking the bits in a byte, if you have a fair knowledge of [...]

Popularity: 7% [?]


Jan
2nd

EDGE Technology

Author: luq | Files under hardware, technology

EDGE technology stands for Enhanced Data rate for GSM Evolution It provides connectivity mainly for mobile device and could be called the enhanced version of GPRS (general packet radio service), EDGE technology provides much faster data transfer speeds, typically up to 200Kb/s because of the fast data transfer speeds EDGE connectivity could achieve, it belongs [...]

Popularity: 7% [?]


Dec
3rd

Q & A - Nvidia Geforce Troubleshoot

Author: luq | Files under hardware

Q. I just installed an Nvidia Geforce Graphics card and there’s a problem..each time i right click on a video file or the Nvidia control panel tray icon my monitor switched off and then on for about a sec. I tried googling the problem but found no answers and then i came across this Q [...]

Popularity: 6% [?]