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How to Configure Network Printers

Network printers offer many practical benefits for business offices and homes as well. They allow you to share a high-speed Internet connection with your family and co-workers, edit your documents, view your photos, and listen to your favorite music from any room that has a computer. Purchasing a network printer will also save you valuable money and space, since you won't need to buy a device for every PC. Basically, any person, home or office that has more than one computer has good reason to consider buying a network printer.

I recently heard of a neat hardware hack that involved converting an old game console into a functioning DVD player / home theater system; with a very retro appearance.

Being the geek that I am--and having 2 of these old game consoles just sitting in my gadgets closet--I quickly began to Google for information on how the hack is performed.

One of the first results I got was for a video presentation of the hack being made. What a treat! It's one thing to have instructions and a few diagrams to work with (which were also available on the same page as the video), but to also have an actual video to refer to for guidance made my own attempt at building the Retro DVD Player a breeze.

Planning a website is like designing a house - isn't it?

by Andrew Plimmer

If you want your website to appear smart, lively, and interesting to attract customers, you should employ good website planning and architecture.

Website planning and architecture is a very important step before setting up the site. This will ensure success and profit to your website since everything that needs to be taken will be tackled through planning. Similar to the process of building a house, the owner would need the expertise of the architects and draftsmen to draw the plan for every corner of the building. Through planning, important aspects of the structure would be considered, especially the amount that would be needed for the whole construction and the right positioning of every part of the house.

How to Detect Registry Errors

by K. Purdenn

Before we are able to detect registry editors, we have to understand how the registry works. Whenever we install an application on the computer, a certain data is written in the registry. These data are being accessed by the operating system every time it starts up or once you open a program to locate a specific file destination or to perform a task.

Once you uninstall a program, the ideal thing is to have the application's registry entry deleted. However, this does not happen all the time. The program usually leaves behind unnecessary and unwanted files that are usually corrupted. These are often referred to as orphaned registry files.

How Do Software Spiders Work?

by Pamela Upshur

A software spider is an unmanned software program operated by a search engine that surfs the Web, visits a Web site, records (saves to its hard drive) all the words on each page, and notes links to other sites. As the spider visits each page, it follows each and every link and will read, index, an store the other pages that the link might lead to. Google, however, sometimes will reference a site without actually visiting the page. (Google knows that because several sites link to a page, that page exist). This is a simplistic view of what happens form 60,000 feet above the action. The actual process that converts the site from a Web page to an entry on a results page is a highly sophisticated data warehousing and information retrieval scheme, which will vary from engine to engine. In fact, it is this process of retrieving documents from a database that is one key point of differentiation for most search engines. The other point of differentiation lies around the other services offered and partnerships formed by each engine..

Use a Video HTML Course to Learn HTML for your Blog or MySpace Page

by Peter Nisbet

Why should you bother to learn HTML? If you have page on MySpace, a blog or a Squidoo lens, a video HTML course can give you the knowledge and tools to design the hottest pages that will make them go WOW!

For a quick answer, let's have a quick peek into the world of advertising. Advertisers can use press adverts and radio adverts, and many of them use both of these. Each is effective in its own way, one being visual and the other using the voice to get the message across. If such low-cost methods of advertising are effective, then why do many of the advertisers that use them also pay for expensive television slots? Simple!

Top Computer Services

There is no need to conduct surveys just to figure out what are the most sought after and popular computer services available. Computers are machines. As such, they are prone to crashing, over usage and breakage. The worst problem could be in the form of data loss. Many other setbacks and conditions happen. It is in this regard that it is most appropriate to look at the most popular computer services available.

Check ups - Computer services experts recommend standard computer check ups more especially when there are traces of possible adware, keyloggers, malware, viruses, pop-ups, Trojans and browser hijackers. If you do not regularly do so, do not be surprised when there are occasional errors and troubles running in the PC. Regular check ups could also help prevent serious problems in the future and could be a great way to put up a prevention and contingency measure.

Innovations In HP LTO-2 Technology

by Shawn Paul

The ratio of compression of the LTO-2 tape drives is same as that of 1st generation LTO-1 ultrium tape drives. The LTO2 tape drive has 8-channel mechanism for data recoding which is similar to the LTO1 drives. The average speed of the LTO-2 ultrium drives is faster but its media length is same as that of the LTO1. The users of the LTO 2 tape drives have the flexibility to read & write data on the LTO1 data tape cartridges so the investment made by the companies is secured.

The top transfer speed of LTO2 tape format reaches 40MB/sec. LTO 2 media technology is best reliable for restore, backup and archiving applications. The unique and innovative design of the HP LTO tape gives exceptional results. HP LTO2 has the advanced exclusive features of HP. These HP cartridges have internal memory, active cleaning head (internal) and capacitates for self-diagnostic that gives them longer life and outstanding durability. HP LTO 2 is perfect choice for the companies that want faster backups with low cost of operations.

Cool LCD USB Monitors on the Rise

by Gen Wright

Some PC enthusiasts find it hard to believe that it's actually possible to run a monitor using just an USB cable. In our daily lives, we have gotten used to using USB cables to connect to almost any other external device - printers, digital cameras, mobile phones, speakers, keyboards, etc. But it is just amazing how this tiny cable has evolved to providing support for mini monitors.

Actually, it would be more accurate to say that this is made possible due to the evolution of both USB and monitor technology. Nobody really paid much attention to this possibility until someone mentioned that it would be nice to have an LCD monitor that is also a photo frame. So ASUS came up with the UFOTO.

The Best Way To Compress Video

by Ken Parker

MPEG-1 - the father of the MPEG family - was a revolution in video formats over 15 years ago. It offered a comparatively good quality video with a low bit rate. Satellite broadcasting grew fast and MPEG-1 had to be changed. The improved version of MPEG-1 was introduced in 1992 and called MPEG-2. MPEG-2 had a better compression scheme yet the resolution and the number of frames per second was higher than in MPEG-1. How was that possible?

The developers of MREG group found out that 95% of the video data is often more than once repeated in other frames. Such data was thought redundant and was cut off and replaced by one source piece. This replacement can be done without prejudice to the video quality. Besides, MPEG-2 had improved audio compression scheme.