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  • Author: Cheryl
  • Published: Aug 4th, 2009
  • Comments: 13

External Hard Drives: How do I Choose Which One to Buy

Lately, I’ve realized that my computer is full of data and is close to its limit. Normally, I burn data onto a CD or DVD and then delete it off my system. The problem is that over time, the CDs have developed a few unreadable areas. So, I’ve pretty much lost a few chunks of [...]

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Categories: Hardware, ask the readers

Google Needs Standards Too

After taking a look at the latest set of devices and gadgets to make it to the market, one thing is becoming clear. We are in desperate need of some gadget standards. You know the type of standards we currently have for automobiles, such as every car uses between 12” and 20” tires. All have [...]

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Categories: Gadgets

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 12th, 2009
  • Comments: 6

Use Drive Manager To Manage And Identify Drives

Drive Manager is a portable software program for the Windows operating system that helps users managing and identifying connected drives. Drives in this regard is every hardware device with its own drive letter which includes hard drives, dvd drives, removable storage devices such as USB sticks or network drives.
The software program displays a list of [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 23rd, 2009
  • Comments: 7

Samsung LED 7000

I have to say that I’m very happy with my 42″ Samsung LCD TV although I’m not watching a lot of television. Samsung has shown off their new TV line LED TV Series back in January and some of the features look interesting. So interesting that I might consider ditching my old TV for a [...]

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Categories: Hardware

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 18th, 2009
  • Comments: 5

Things To Do When Your Motherboard OnBoard Lan Dies

The onboard LAN of my Gigabyte ep35-ds4 motherboard died just a few hours ago. Was surfing the Internet and suddenly connection errors showed up. That’s bad as the onboard LAN is located on the motherboard of the computer system. It could be that not only the LAN died but also other components. Now what can [...]

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Categories: Hardware

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 19th, 2009
  • Comments: 9

Device Driver Cleanup

It is sometimes not possible to remove all device drivers and Registry settings for a device in the Windows operating system. So called leftovers can cause a series of problems from slow boot times to performance and stability issues. Trying to cleanup the device drivers manually is a complicated long winded process as it does [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 1st, 2009
  • Comments: 5

HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool

There is no direct way of making an USB device bootable in the Windows operating system. Probably even more bothersome to some Windows users is the fact that USB storage devices can only be formatted with the FAT file system and not the NTFS file system. HP’s USB Disk Storage Format Tool (download) works with [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

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