HDD vs SSD
The debate has raged on for some time now, which is the better option, solid state drives or hard disk drives? Just like every other new or exciting technology that comes out, manufacturers try to push it into the consumer realm, highlighting its features. But as everyone knows, advertisements hardly ever discuss weaknesses of the product [...]
eReaders vs. Tablets
Tablets are becoming more and more common and eReaders are taking the book, magazine and newspaper into the next millennium. That said, it is becoming increasingly clear that both devices are competing, though not in the traditional sense of the word compete. But still, with the push for digital media, one will prevail while the other fails or [...]
3 Causes of External HDD failures
External hard drives, whether desktop or portable, are a great way to back up important files or add additional storage to any connected devices. However, when such a hard drive begins to fail, the ramifications can be serious. Fortunately, if you know what causes external hard drives to turn on their owners, you can prevent [...]
8 Ways to Boost Your Battery Life
After a while, all laptop batteries will eventually lose their capacity to charge. However you can greatly extend the life of your laptop’s battery by following some simple tips. Defragmenting a hard drive is one way to keep your battery juice. When your hard drive is fragmented, needless to say, your CPU has to spend [...]
5 Reasons Your Video Card Overheats
one of the biggest hardware woes, specifically if you use your computer for gaming or other high graphic purposes is your video card overheating. Overheating can cause various pitfalls in terms of your computer’s performance the main consequence being permanent physical damage to your card. While in some situations the reason may seem obvious, sometimes [...]
Audio Not Working On Your PC?
If audio isn’t functioning, for most of us, our computer would be rendered useless as we rely on audio for most of our computer uses. Whether it is watching a movie, streaming media online or for Skype, audio is required. Your audio maybe malfunctioning for several reasons, lets look at some of the ways to [...]
Protect Your Portable Device with an Antivirus Software
Portability is easier than ever today with hard drive prices plummeting dramatically, thus maintaining several portable backups of files and sharing them among peers is common practice, the widespread use of portability has also led to several infected computers and portable drives. Today, if you take virtually any portable drive and perform a full scan [...]
Modes of Data Transmission
Talking about data transmission can get confusing sometimes, we talk of types, modes, ways, these terms maybe synonymous to each other however they do have very distinct differences and cover different aspects of data transfer, I recently covered ‘types’ of data transmission in a network, which consists of how they maybe transferred, serially or in [...]
Dell E6400 Laptop Review
Dell recently released the new E series corporate laptops. I’ve been deploying these for a few months to our employees and so far I like what I see.
The Samsung P2370L LED Monitor Review
The next generation of computer monitors are now beginning to take hold of the monitor market. These new LED computer monitors are replacing the older LCD technology. After reviewing a few new LED monitors I came up with my top pick – the Samsung P2370L.
