Plasma vs. LCD Television

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This is a much debated topic and a fun one. When choosing between plasma and LCD TVs, you’re actually selecting between two competing technologies, both of which achieve similar features (i.e., ,bright crystal-clear images, super color-filled pictures) and come in similar packages (i.e., 1.5 to 4 inch depth flat screen casing). To complicate the decision-making [...]

Apple’s newest mouse

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Features and Design Unlike the arch-backed gaming mice from companies like Microsoft and Logitech, Apple’s Magic Mouse takes a decidedly slim approach to hand support. It’s short. The stubby aluminum base of the mouse arches up like a Pringle on either side to meet a smooth, glass-like top plate, which depresses on the finger end [...]

3D Television: How it Works

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3D television technology is becoming increasingly popular with each passing day. Due to the rise of popular 3D feature films (namely Pixar’s Up and James Cameron’s Avatar), major television manufacturers began developing three dimensional home television technology in 2009. There are several methods that these manufacturers use to create 3D images on an LCD television; [...]

Windows Registry Errors

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How many times since you purchased your computer have you seen an annoying message like – “blah-blah” .DLL file is missing or corrupt, unable to open file/program. I’ll bet that if you’ve had a nasty virus, hardware crash, software crash or something similar – you almost certainly have had an error like this at least [...]

How to create a Tab Icon for your website

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Example: Without Icon With Icon We have all seen the icons that appear next to the address bars on some websites, and the logos that appear on the bookmark list when you bookmark the websites. If you use Firefox, you will see the icon appear on that tab bar. But have you ever wondered how [...]

Installing Windows Audio Drivers on older Operating Systems

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Perhaps you’ve done it before.  Are you familiar with how to efficiently locate and download a Windows audio driver?  But wait a second!; check out the following quick article – it’s likely to greatly transform everything you know!  It is the case that getting drivers from unknown or suspicious websites can sometimes subject your PC [...]

Office 2010

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Despite it being the second most used application on my work computer (behind the Mozilla Firefox browser), it’s still impossible for me to get excited about a new edition of the Microsoft Office suite. With the final release due in a couple of months, Microsoft have provided a beta test version of Office 2010 that’s [...]

HP’s new tablet a disappointment?

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Apple must be patting themselves on the back, as the Hewlett-Packard (HP) tablet unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Wednesday night failed to wow those expecting a true competitor to the mythical Apple tablet. At Microsoft’s opening keynote for the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the tech world braced itself for Ballmer unveiling [...]

Faster, safer, more reliable web surfing

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Google has launched its own public DNS system which it says can make web browsing faster, safer and more reliable. The Domain Name System (DNS) converts web addresses, such as cbronline.com, into a unique Internet Protocol (IP) number, which computers use to communicate with each other. Google believes that its own public DNS system should [...]

Top U.S. retail sales spot goes to…

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Apple products have topped the list of the most popular computers sold in U.S retail in October, an analyst for market research firm NPD Group told CNET on Friday. (Credit: Apple) The recently introduced 21-inch iMac was the top-selling desktop for the month, Stephen Baker, NPD’s vice president of industry analysis, said in an interview. [...]

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