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How to Choose the Right Netbook For Your Needs

With technology having advanced so much over recent years it is no longer necessary to have a bulky laptop to carry around with you. With manufacturing costs reduced and silicon chips becoming smaller and smaller there has now been a recent influx of small notebook’s, otherwise known as netbook’s. These new netbook systems come with [...]

Understanding Operating Systems

Every new computer that’s brought home from the store has an operating system installed onto it. But what most new computer users don’t realize, is that without an operating system, that computer would be a simple shell of possibilities. A powered computer lacking an operating system wouldn’t display anything more than a bunch of confusing [...]

Customizing Your Computer with Preferences : Making Your Computer Work with You – Not Against You

Although you did not design or build your computer, you can turn it into a device that responds to your way of using it as if you were its original engineer or programmer. This is because the computer is a mere platform – a blank canvas, if you will – waiting for you to direct [...]

Automating Stuff with Batch Files : They Work on Today’s Computers Too!

If you’re familiar with MS-DOS at all, you’ll recall that it’s a command-driven operating system that performs functions issued at the C:> prompt. The only way to get an MS-DOS computer to do something was to type a command at this prompt and if you can imagine, it was a rather cumbersome way to use [...]