This website contains articles that are intended to help you learn more and make better use of the computer and the Internet. The computer and the Internet are mankind's most significant discoveries of the 20th century. With the computer, man's brain had been extended tremendously, giving him an extra ordinary mental processing power. With the Internet, mankind's vast accumulation of knowledge had been placed at everyone's fingertips.
How to Safeguard Personal Files on your Computer
As computers become cheap and affordable, more and more personal files are being created world-wide by millions of individuals. While not all files that are created are important, some of these may be critical to one's personal well-being, profession or business. We cannot just be complacent and rest assured that our personal files will be available to us anytime that we need them. Unexpected things might happen that can make us lose our personal files or render them inaccessible. Here are a few ways by which you can protect your data from being damaged, lost or become unavailable.
Tips for Staying Safe on the Internet
The Internet reflects the real world where we live in. There are a few people out there who may take advantage of your openness and do malicious things that can harm you. Here are a handful of steps that you can take to make yourself safe when traversing the mysterious world of the Internet.
Free Useful Programs that your Computer should have
You don't have to spend much to make your computer a useful tool for simple data processing needs. There are free programs that you can download from the Internet.
Ways to Improve your Blog or Personal Website
You might be thinking of how you can make your blog or website more effective. Here are some suggestions that you may want to consider. A more effective website satisfies the needs of your readers and at the same time make your site friendlier to search engines. You may also want your website to become an investment that may generate some income in the years to come.
Letting the Unconscious Mind Take Care of Search Engine Optimization
This is just an opinion about how search engine optimization (SEO) affects the readability of a written work. There is a danger of an article sounding artificial when search engine keywords are used to replace the words and phrases originally written by the author. It may be that on-page optimization should be made only on the HTML elements of the web page and not on the actual text of the written work. The actual text should already be optimized in a natural way when the author's unconscious mind supplies the keywords in the most appropriate places in the text.
Creating a Personal Web at Google Sites
There's a new and better place where you can create your own personal web site and that is at Google Sites. The good thing is that you can create an actual web site and not just a blog. And as true with Blogger, you can also monetize your site with Google AdSense.
Have Gmail Will Write, Compute, Present And Store Files
Not everyone may know it but if you�re a Gmail account holder, you can compose documents, prepare a spreadsheet or make a presentation using the productivity tools made available by Google.
How To Design A Web Site Using CSS
I just completed a small project making a small web site using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). It was a learning project designed to help me learn in practical terms how to use CSS to design a web site. The best way to learn something is by using it, which I did and I was able to learn a lot from the project.
How You Can Set Up Access Control In Your DIR-300 D-Link Wireless Router
How you can Set Up Access Control In Your DIR-300 D-Link Wireless Router details the procedures for setting up your DIR-300 wireless router so that only authorized computers are allowed to connect with the router and thereby allow only those computers to access the Internet.
Make Your Wireless Home Network More Secure
So you now have a wireless network in your house. Thanks to the wizards in the wireless router�s software you were able to easily setup your wireless network. You can now enjoy the convenience of having a wireless access to other computers in your house and to the Internet.
Pointers For Going Wireless At Home
My home network consisting of two desktops one on the first floor and one in the second floor of the house had been doing well for the past several years on a wired connection using CAT-5 cables.
Pros And Cons Of Disabling The DHCP Server In Your Home Wireless Router
A DHCP server is a very useful tool for network administrators and it can magically banish a tremendous amount of work for them. However, it also has its cost in terms of less network security and a potential point of failure when something goes wrong with the computer acting as the DHCP server. That is why in a network, there is always a backup DHCP server that can be used when the main DHCP server fails.
How you can Increase the Volume of Your Vista Computer's Microphone
New users of Microsoft's Vista operating system may not be aware of it but there\'s a way of increasing the computer\'s microphone volume in the newly designed control panel.
A Few Ideas On Solving Computer Related Problems
Everybody experiences computer problems. Some are serious while others are not. It pays to have enough know-how to solve simple computer failures because you never know when trouble will come. If you believe in Murphy�s Law, then expect trouble at a time when you�re finishing a report that has been past due and that you need to email immediately to your boss.
A Few Helpful Tips When Fixing Your Computer
I have written some helpful note on buying and repairing home computers but I missed out some points that also need to be addressed. Here they are.
Savvy Home Computer Buying
How did you buy your last computer? Did you buy the most expensive one thinking that it is so expensive, it must be the best? How is your computer now? Are you suffering from acute lack of storage space or sluggish performance when using data intensive applications?
Three Trends To Consider When Buying A New Computer
f you're in the market for a new computer for your home, it pays to always keep one step ahead of technology. This is so you can avoid the threat of obsolescence that can abruptly render your equipment a worthless piece of junk. I present here three trends that you should pay attention to so you can avoid the obsolescence pitfall.
A Cheap CD Player For Your Kid�s Room
Everybody is on a budget these days and with the cost of electric power going up further, we need to make some sense of the appliances we are using in the home.
A First Step in Using Windows Movie Maker
Here is a first project for you if you want to learn how to use the Windows Movie Maker, a program for creating simple movies on your computer.
Guide to Making a Video Tutorial Using Your Windows Computer
A video tutorial is a movie that teaches how to do something on a computer by showing the student how the computer screen looks while the teacher is explaining what he is doing. It\'s an effective way of teaching a computer skill because it shows how actually the task is accomplished in a computer. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a moving picture could probably be worth millions.
Tips on Using Paint for Making Video Tutorials Slides
Slides are one of the best ways of presenting and explaining ideas, requirements or procedures for use in your video tutorial. You can use slides to stress an important point, list down the items that are needed to undertake a project or detail the steps required to complete a task. Slides provide the visual cue that can aid a person immensely in understanding and remembering the concepts, issues or methods being discussed.
The Future Shape of The Desktop Computer
OK, I am making a wild guess here. I am trying to visualize how future computers will look like. I may be 180 degrees wrong but I think it is a useful mental exercise.
Anticipating The Demise Of The Hard Disk
This is just a viewpoint regarding computer technology that I wish to expound on so that computer buyers may have a perspective when acquiring computer resources.
Is Windows Here To Stay?
I have been using the Windows Vista operating system for more than three months now and I just can\'t keep wondering why it gets sluggish when doing file operations involving FAT files. Back i n my mind is this idea of testing how the operating system will handle Unix based files by dual booting my Vista laptop with a version of a Linux distribution.
Turn your old Desktop Equipment into Peripherals for your Laptop
Everybody in the house is now using a laptop. No one it seems want to go back to the bulky desktop PC that is now in the attic and ready to be donated to people engaged in providing assistance to those in need. But wait, what can be done with that old desktop that could potentially save money and make it useful again?
Surf the Internet Safely with your Firefox 4.0 on your Vista Laptop
Surfing the Internet safely ultimately comes down to a balancing act between convenience and safety.
Must Have Free Software for a Writer\'s Windows Computer
Save Money by Using Free Resources in the Internet. Avail of Wonderful Opportunity to Publish your Work at Minimal Cost.
The Harmful Effects of the Computer and the Internet
The advent of the computer and the Internet had sharply shaped the lives of people in most parts of the world.
How Economic Disparities are Reflected on How Things Work in the Internet
The Internet has long been regarded as the great leveler of communication opportunities. But in practice, does everyone have an equal chance of reaching their audience based on how actually the Internet operates?