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
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What Is Computer Software?
Friday, March 19th, 2010 - By Ask Deb
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. The second part, what we call
What Is a Hard Drive?
Thursday, March 18th, 2010 - By Ask Deb
What Is a Hard Drive? A hard drive is a crucial element of our modern computer systems. The hard drive is the aprt 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. The hard drive is so crucial to the computer that If the drive is somehow damaged, you will lose everything you have
What Is a Software Patch?
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 - By Ask Deb
What Is a Software Patch? A software patch is a piece of code designed to fix glitches, bugs, or compatibility issues between the software and commonly used hardware or operating systems. When a piece of software is released to the general public, it gets put through its paces. People with all different computer systems and hardware start to use that piece of software and discover little
What Is Wireless Internet Access?
Monday, March 15th, 2010 - By Ask Deb
What Is Wireless Internet Access? The ability to access the Internet wirelessly is provided by a local area network, or LAN. This network allows Internet access using radio waves rather than wires. Traditionally, the Internet was accessible only through phone lines or cable — but wireless Internet access is fast becoming the standard. Wireless Internet access starts with a central hub
What Is an MP3 Player?
Sunday, March 14th, 2010 - By Ask Deb
What Is an MP3 Player? An MP3 player is a wonderful piece of technology that’s taken over the world of personal music players — the next generation of the LP, the cassette, and the CD. An MP3 Player, put simply, is a device that plays files called “mp3″ files. What Is an MP3 File? An MP3 is a form of digital audio file that is compressed into a portable and
Where Can You Find the Cheapest LCD TV?
Monday, February 15th, 2010 - By Ask Deb
Where Can You Find the Cheapest LCD TV? LCD TVs have been around since the late 80s when Sharp introduced a relatively small LCD TV — a fourteen inch screen described as more of a “boutique” item rather than a TV for everyday use. LCD technology used to be very expensive (hence the small size of the 1988 LCD TV screen) and with the rise of plasma screens in the late 90s and
Where Can You Find the Cheapest Laptop?
Friday, February 12th, 2010 - By Ask Deb
Where Can You Find the Cheapest Laptop? Shopped for a laptop computer lately? If you’ve visited all the computer retailers in your area pricing laptops, I’m sure you’d like to know how to find cheap laptops. Laptops are great — convenient and cool — but if you are unable to drop thousands of dollars in one go, you may feel left out. Laptop prices have dropped a
How Does Soap Work?
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 - By Ask Deb
How Does Soap Work? There’s a complex chemical in our homes that we use daily with little regard to what it is or how it works — soap. This substance seems simple. Just rub it on your hands or pour it into a washing machine and instantly make something clean. But using soap can be important, for example, if you want to prevent boils. The Basics of Soap Soap is the name we give any
How Does E-mail Work?
Monday, February 8th, 2010 - By Ask Deb
How Does E-mail Work? According to the nerds at Google, people on Earth send 183 billion e-mail messages a day. As far as most of us are concerned e-mail is magic. You type into a box, click a button on a screen, and a message is immediately delivered anywhere in the world free of charge. More than a technological innovation, e-mail is a breakthrough in interpersonal communication. Imagine