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 [...]

Categories: Gadgets

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 [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

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 [...]

Categories: Hardware

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 [...]

Categories: Hardware

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 [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

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 [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

A driver is a small software program that allows your computer hardware to communicate with the operating system installed on your machine. That means every piece of hardware right from the keyboard and mouse to your CD-Rom drive, video cards, etc. needs a driver if it’s going to function properly, irrespective of whether you’re a [...]

Categories: Gadgets, Hardware, Operating Systems

I was reading The Simple Dollar where there was an interesting post on the cheapest fully functional PC a person could use. The post was sparked by the author’s own experience of building PCs for people and just where you can cut costs. He says you can get a computer for less than $100. Here’s [...]

Categories: ask the readers, Hardware

Experienced users love choice. I’m talking about the choice to turn on or off certain features that come with a product. It does not really matter if we are talking about software or hardware, choice can become important almost everywhere. Most companies do not seem to think that giving the user choice is a wise [...]

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