Category | Hardware

Jelly Click - Breath life into your computer mouse

Posted on 08 June 2008

Most people prefer to have a mouse in their laptop bag, as they are not very comfortable with the touch pad on their notebook computer. A regular sized mouse in your laptop bag feels awkward and the smaller ones, designed for portability, aren’t very convenient to handle.
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Optimus Maximus - The most customizable keyboard

Posted on 27 January 2008

The Optimus Maximus keyboard is unlike any other keyboard you have ever seen.

The Optimus Maximus, developed by Art. Lebedev Studio, is the world’s first keyboard where each key is a full color 45×45 pixel display capable of moving images. So the letters aren’t painted on the keys, they’re displayed. And they change according to context. [...]

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10 most common reasons why PCs crash

Posted on 11 June 2007

Fatal error: the system has become unstable or is busy,” it says. “Enter to return to Windows or press Control-Alt-Delete to restart your computer. If you do this you will lose any unsaved information in all open applications.”
You have just been struck by the Blue Screen of Death. Anyone who uses Microsoft Windows will be [...]

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Tweaking PS/2 mouse performance

Posted on 17 March 2007

Sometimes the mouse does not function properly due to a peculiar hardware problem. There could also be the possibility of the mouse being either too sensitive or slow, causing some misbehavior. There are some basic settings by which you can tweak the way Windows handles the mouse. Most of the tuning is particular to the [...]

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BIOS Beep Codes and what they mean

Posted on 14 March 2007

When your computer has a problem that won’t let it start up properly, the first thing you will hear is warning beeps. This could be because of hardware or sometimes due to the BIOS itself.
Knowing what these beeps mean can help a long way in identifying the problem. But unfortunately, these beeps codes are not [...]

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Precautions to keep your Laptop/Notebook computer safe

Posted on 07 March 2007

Laptop theft has become very common. It is estimated that over half a million laptops are stolen every year, not to talk about the financial losses which run into millions of dollars. It is not just about losing the physical machine - you also lose the information stored on it which at times could have [...]

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A $10 pan works as good as a $20,000 Satellite Dish

Posted on 01 March 2007

Why pay $20,000 for a commercial link to run your television station when a $10 kitchen wok from the Warehouse is just as effective?
This is exactly how North Otago’s(New Zealand) newest television station 45 South is transmitting its signal from its studio to the top of Cape Wanbrow, in a bid to keep costs down.
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