Archive for the ‘hardware’ Category
Mouse USB Hub
In: hardware
13 Nov 2009I picked up this little guy at the container store…
He was $10. I was looking online for a usb hub but when I saw this I had to have it. The tail is the wire that plugs in the computer and the legs are the ports. One annoying thing is that the eyes glow green [...]
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- Tags: mouse, usb, usb hub
New Bamboo Tablets
30 Sep 2009Wacom has just recently released their new line of Bamboo tablets. There are six models that have different features. Most of the new tablets feature multitouch capabilities. This allows you to interact with your mac or pc using gestures similar to those on a macbook trackpad. At the beginning of the line, the bamboo has [...]
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- Tags: bamboo, bamboo craft, bamboo fun, multitouch, tablet, wacom
I was having issues with the front panel audio ports on my computer and someone recommended that I seek a solution through my MoBo’s software. I had not installed it because people described it as “useless” but I thought it would be worth a try. So I pop in the disc and when I try [...]
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- Tags: blank disk, gigabyte, motherboard, software
PC hardware firsts — The History of PC hardware
In: hardware
17 Aug 2009(I have been away this month and I will be for a while but I just want to put something up so you know that I am not dead.)
I stumbled upon this post at pingdom.com showing the history of pc hardware. The pictures show things like the first mouse, first portable pc, first laptop, and [...]
Defrag your Hard Drive
3 Jul 2009I always had a thing for computers but I only really started to embrace that. I have discovered many things in that time, one of them was Defragmenting your hard drive. If you do not know already, defragging your hard drive organizes information on your hard drive. For example, lets say you decide to work [...]
Laptop Finder — Microsoft
In: hardware
2 Jul 2009Microsoft has released an online laptop finder that finds you a “perfect” computer in your price range. It goes through some questions like “what are you gonna use this laptop for”, “what is your price range”, “will this laptop be moving this laptop around a lot”… those kind of questions. It does not go ask [...]
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- Tags: finder, laptop, laptop finder, microsoft, specifications, technical, windows
LightScribe — My thoughts
In: hardware
2 Jul 2009A while back, when I first built my computer, I picked out a DVD burner with lightscribe capabilities. If you are unfamiliar with lightscribe, it is a technology that lets you burn laser images onto the front of CD’s or DVD’s versus printing out labels and sticking them onto the disk. Somebody needed me to [...]
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- Tags: burn, dvd, label, laser cd, laser image, lightscribe
Bulding a Personal Computer
In: hardware
10 Jun 2009When I decided that I was going to build my own PC, I was overwhelmed with all of the descisions that I had to make. I was worried that some things would not be compatable and that I would order the wrong parts. Computer Building tutorials don;t really explain compatibility so that is why I [...]
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- Tags: build, build your own computer, building, computer, digimuta, hardware, newegg, own, parts, personal computer, pj221, tiger direct, your