When buying a new monitor there are so many different displays it may become confusing which one to buy. There are LCD, LED, and Plasma displays and to make matters even more confusing there are three different monitor panel types to choose from. Below I’ll be explaining the differences in the different displays and panels. First we have the most popular display, LCD, or Liquid Crystal Display. This display is typically a flat panel display that uses a fluorescent back light with the video displaying on the liquid crystals. LCDs are used in a wide range of monitors such as…
Author: Justin Vendette
Have you ever wondered what those tiny 80 Plus stickers found on power supply units mean? Well in the following article I’ll be going over what each type of 80 Plus certification means. 80 Plus is a voluntary certification program set in place by Ecos Consulting in 2004 to promote efficient energy use in computer power supply units (PSUs). In the early days of desktop computers, many PSUs were very inefficient with a lot of energy being lost as heat. In 2004, Ecos Consulting created the 80 Plus program to identify energy efficient PSUs. The 80 in 80 Plus means…
In the days leading up to Google’s I/O event last week, their stock shares tipped over $900 for the first time in history. This extremely high stock price raised the technology giant’s market value to a $300 billion, yes billion, threshold. Google is among one of the richest companies in the United States so it’s no surprise that we may soon see a $1,000 stock price. The skyrocket of shares came from Google’s annual developer conference along with the new paid subscription music-streaming service. Google is a part of the NASDAQ group, with others such as Blizzard, Adobe, Microsoft, Apple…
About a week ago Google announced that Gmail, Google+ and Drive will be tripling their storage capacity from the standard 5GB to 15GB. The announcement was made just before their I/O Conference. This new amount of storage will give users who use Google’s services the most amount of free cloud storage capacity of any other cloud service out there. When Google Drive first came out it was one of a kind with no other competitors. With the increase of cloud based services such as Dropbox, SkyDrive, iCloud, Amazon Cloud and SugarSync, Google needs a way to, first, save their current…
Today (05-15-13) Google held its sixth annual Google I/O conference in the sunny state of California. The conference’s main audience was its 6,000 software developers where the company showcased many new products, services and software. In the days leading up to the event Google fans had high expectations as rumored features had spread across the web. Google first started the conference with its new Google Play Music, All Access which combines a user’s music library with a large array of playlists that Google has licensed for itself. Google’s engineering director had this to say about the new service: “It allows…
If you have ever owned or used a Window’s PC, you have most likely seen or heard about Safe Mode. Safe Mode is basically a stripped back version of the Operating System (OS) that enables only the key files that are necessary for the OS to run. All other programs and files are stopped from running to allow you to access the OS. Operating Systems have these safe modes to help fix a problem within the OS, whether it be a virus or corruption. Why would I need to enter Safe Mode? Android is a pretty robust OS but it…
If you’re like me and have been building computers for a while or have collected old computer parts, hard drives in this case, and they are just sitting around; then you may be able to put them to use! Below I’ll be speaking about all the different types of RAID levels as well as a general description of a RAID. What is a RAID? A RAID or Redundant Array of Independent Disks is when you take more than one hard drive and combine them into one larger device. For example, taking four 250GB hard drives and creating a RAID…
Introduction Today I’ll be reviewing my personal Asus VivoTab Smart 64GB (Model: ME400C-C1-BK) Windows 8 Tablet. I’ll be covering the operating system, performance, features, quality/design, etc., and making little comments here and there. Way back in December I was in the market for my very first tablet. Now since this was going to be my first, I wanted to keep the price low, but still maintain the quality of the tablet. I searched the web, watched YouTube reviews, and did what every other person may typically do. One major decider for me was the operating system. I wasn’t 100% sure…
Google Now has officially landed on the iOS platform. Today (04-29-13), Google released its advanced predictive personal assistant to rival its major competitor Siri. The search feature was already found in Google’s existing Search app, but the “Now” features, such as directions, weather and sports will be added onto the home screen. Apple was the first to start off the personal assistant era. At the time nothing came even close to Siri or had the same knowledge. Many big manufactures such as Samsung tried to create an alternative to Siri with their S-Voice, first shown on the Galaxy S III.…
If you’re reading this article on a Windows XP system then it’s time to upgrade. We have all come to love Windows XP, but Microsoft is now on its 8th version of Windows and using a 2001 operating system is not the place to be. Microsoft has stated that on April 8th, 2014 the 2001 operating system will lose all support. That includes service packs, updates and the most important thing, the loss of security patches. On the second Tuesday of every month Microsoft sends out periodic updates via the Windows Update service. Typically these contain patches for security holes…