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How to Manage Email
July 21st, 2010 | 1 Comment »How to Manage Email Effectively
When you learn how to manage email accounts, you’re learning how to manage time and building your communication skills. If you’re like me, you get a lot of emails coming to you any given day, from friendly e-mails, business notes, spam, solicitations, advertisements, blog replies, your favorite hobby updates, and from countless other sources. Eventually, your email inbox becomes a monster. Some email systems require you to constantly manage your inbox, so messages don’t start bouncing off a full e-mailbox.
If this sounds like your life, follow the tips below to better manage your email…
Are Light Bulbs Bad for the Environment?
May 11th, 2010 | No Comments »Light bulbs are a necessity for us if we want to light up our world. Let’s face it, not too many of us are willing to go without utilities if we have the option. Moving back to the dark ages isn’t on our list of things to do.
We’d prefer to live in an environmentally friendly way if it were possible. In some cases, using efficient light bulbs is an option for us, while in other cases, the technology that allows us to save energy is, in itself, cost prohibitive.
Are light bulbs bad for the environment? The answer is…
What Are PDA Computers?
April 16th, 2010 | No Comments »What Are PDA Computers?
Calling a device a “PDA” seems a bit outmoded. The name is short for “Personal Digital Assistant” — there are no three words in the English language that remind me more of the 90s. We now call these devices “palmtops” or just refer to them by their brand name. You could argue that today’s “smart phones” are kind of like PDAs with a phone attached . . . and you wouldn’t be far off.
PDA computers are handheld electronic devices that can do what most laptop computers can do — basic computing with telephone and even…
What Are Social Networking Sites?
April 8th, 2010 | 2 Comments »What Are Social Networking Sites?
Social networking refers to the act of building “networks” of people on specific websites. Social networking takes place among people who share something — a political leaning, an interest in a particular movie or musician, or an activity like yoga or gun collecting.
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A social networking site is just a means for building these social networks. These sites are made up of some web representation for each network member (a “profile”) a list of their links or interests, and some kind of ‘hook’ or gimmick to set that particular…
How to Choose a Modem
April 6th, 2010 | No Comments »How to Choose a Modem
The market is flooded with wireless modems — if your ISP didn’t provide a wireless modem when you ordered your wireless service, choosing the right wireless modem can be a serious headache.
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A wireless modem is a device necessary to access the Internet via a wireless network on your computer or electronic device (like a PDA). A wireless modem gives you the ability to “unplug” from your modem and use your Internet-enabled device anywhere…
Kindle For Mac
March 24th, 2010 | No Comments »With the March 2010 release of “Kindle for Mac“, Apple users can enjoy e-books downloaded from Amazon.com. The MacIntosh version of the Kindle e-book reader means that most every major computer, cellphone and mp3 player on the market is compatible with Amazon’s Kindle.
Amazon came out with the first generation Kindle e-reader in late 2007, the device sold out 5 & 1/2 hours, and wasn’t in stock for nearly 5 months. Demand for Kindle readers, as well as improvements to the original design, led Amazon to release the Kindle 2 in February of 2009, then Kindle DX, which was released…
What Is a Pay as You Go Cell Phone?
March 24th, 2010 | 1 Comment »What Is a Pay as You Go Cell Phone?
A “Pay as You Go” cell phone is pretty much the opposite of a standard cell phone plan.
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Most cell phone plans require long-term contracts (at least a year, normally two years) that must be secured using a credit card or bank card — don’t forget about the monthly fees and expensive phones.
The cheapest standard cell phone contracts offer somewhere around 300 minutes of talk time per month, and since most people will use more than this,…
What Is an External Hard Drive?
March 20th, 2010 | 5 Comments »What Is an External Hard Drive?
If you aren’t familiar with what a hard drive is, check out our previous article What Is a Hard Drive?.
Every computer needs a hard drive to store the operating system information, programs and other peices of user input. Most hard drives are internal — built into the body of the computer — but since our personal computing needs have outgrown the basic hard drive installed on most computers, the external hard drive has become popular.
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What Is Computer Software?
March 19th, 2010 | 4 Comments »What Is Computer Software?
When you think of a computer imagine a machine made of two parts. The first part is the computer hardware, the physical parts of the computer that you can actually touch. Some examples of hardware are disks, monitors, boards, chips, etc. Hardware does all of the physical work of the computer, from memory storage to display.
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The second part, what we call “computer software”, acts as the brain of the computer, telling the hardware what to do and when and how to do…
What Is a Hard Drive?
March 18th, 2010 | 1 Comment »What Is a Hard Drive?
A hard drive is a crucial element of our modern computer systems. The hard drive is the part of the computer where all of your programs and files are stored. Think of it as the file folder of your computer. A hard drive is also known as a hard disk drive.
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The hard drive is so crucial to the computer that If the drive is somehow damaged, you will lose everything you have stored on your computer.
How Does a Hard Drive Work?
Strangely enough, a hard drive uses memory…