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  • Author: admin
  • Published: Aug 11th, 2006
  • Comments: 1

Sony’s first PC Blue-Ray drive won’t play Blue-Ray Movies

This sounds a little strange at first, don’t you think ? I really had to investigate the matter further, let us check out what this is all about. The Australian PC World revealed the new Blue-Ray drive about three weeks ago on their website.

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Categories: Hardware

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 23rd, 2006
  • Comments: 5

Practical Tips to Decrease the Temperature of your Computer

One phenomenon can be observed every year when the summer begins. Many users report problems with their computers who behave strangely or even reboot unexpectedly. If you experienced this once you might already know what is causing this behaviour. Pc components become warmer than usual because the air is hotter which can lead to reboots and even damaged components.

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Categories: Advice

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 23rd, 2006
  • Comments: 3

Defeating Hardware Keyloggers

You probably read my article about the bank heist in London where the robbers used a hardware keylogger to recieve sensitive information that allowed them to perform wireless transfers. The bank made the decision to super glue every cable to the back of the personal computer making it impossible to add the keylooger between the keyboard and the computer

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Categories: Security

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 22nd, 2006
  • Comments: 2

Hardware Keylogger

This little device has apparently been used to pull of one of the greatest bank heist in history. You attach this device to the keyboard cable at the back of the pc and it´s able to record 130000 keystrokes. The bank robbers installed this device inside the bank and got access to Sumitomo Bank’s wire transfer capability. With all the information at their hand they proceeded to transfer more than 400 million $ to various foreign accounts.

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Categories: Security

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 24th, 2006
  • Comments: None

Computer Building Price Guide

Are you planning to purchase a new computer in the near future ? You are also someone who builds the computer on his own, someone who does not rely on retail computers that might have parts that are not the quality you demand ? The gotfrag price guide might be a good starting point if you answered both questions with yes.

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Categories: Advice, Hardware

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 8th, 2006
  • Comments: 2

Firmware Updates

I bought a Geforce 6600 graphic adapter last year from Asus and had the initial problem that the fan was to noisy. Even when I was surfing the internet or writing a text in Open Office. I was sure that this could not be correct and decided to search for a way to reduce the fan speed and thus the noise level when it was not needed.

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Categories: Knowledge

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Feb 19th, 2006
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How Computers Work

Most people use computers but don´t have the technical understanding how they actually work. How Computers Work: Processor and Main Memory is a complete book that explains the operation of a simple, but fully functional, computer in complete detail.

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Categories: Knowledge

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