Friday, May 15, 2009

EVGA nForce 790i Ultra SLI Motherboard


With the new nForce 790i Ultra SLI mainboard, EVGA has gone to extreme measures to sate the primal desires of even the most bloodthirsty gamers. EVGA bills this super-advanced motherboard as “The Ultimate PC Gaming Platform” – and for good reason. Based on the NVIDIA nForce 790 Ultra SLI chipset and designed for Intel Core 2 Extreme, Core 2 Quad, Pentium EE, and Pentium processors this high-performance platform delivers incredible overclocking, works flawlessly with extreme FSB (1600/1333/1066/800) and DDR3 speeds (1333/1066), and supports true 2 x16 PCI-Express and PCI Express 2.0. Check out the specs – every gamer on this side of the galaxy will drool over them. To name just a few of the juicier details --- this ATX board supports dual-channel DDR3 memory up to 8GB and also supports up to 20000MHz SLi-ready memory, SATA II with RAID 0, 1, 0+1, & JBOD, 7.1-channel Azalia audio, Gigabit LAN, USB 2.0, and IEEE 1394. Additional features include NVIDIA MediaShield storage technology, 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports, Dual GigE with teaming, TCP/IP acceleration, and NVIDIA FirstPacket technology.
If you’re ready to conquer the world with your custom-built system, you’ll need a killer motherboard to help you do battle. And there’s no board you’d rather take with you into battle than the EVGA nForce 790i Ultra SLI. If you’re ready for the kill.EVGA nForce 790i Ultra SLI

NVIDIA 3D Vision Glasses


The latest in 3D gaming has finally arrived! The long-awaiting NVIDIA 3D Vision takes your gaming experience to a whole new level with true 3D graphics on all your favorite games. A simple USB port connects the transmitter to your computer. Have a Blu-Ray drive on your new computer? The NVIDIA 3D Vision also comes with a DVI to HDMI cable so you can connect a DLP HDTV to the NVIDA graphics card in your computer and view HD movies on a much larger screen. If you have a stand-alone Blu-Ray player, don't worry! The NVIDIA 3D Vision can also connect directly to a DLP HDTV via the VESA Stereo Cable Port.
The headaches and slow frame rates associated with old 3D technology are now a thing of the past. The NVIDIA 3D Vision produces a refresh rate of 60Hz in each lens, providing smooth gameplay and video playback.
The NVIDIA 3D Vision allows you to sit at a maximum distance of 15 feet from the transmitter and the glasses themselves have a battery life of up to 40 hours of 3D viewing pleasure before needing to recharge. Charging is simple. Just plug the supplied USB cable into the glasses and connect them to your PC. The driver software that NVIDIA supplies handles all the necessary synchronization.NVIDIA 3D Vision Glasses

Sparkle Calibre GeForce 9600 GT OC Green Dual Fly - 512MB DDR3, PCI Express 2.0, Dual Link DVI, SLI Capable



The Sparkle Calibre NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT OC 1024MB graphics card offers the same powerfully immersive entertainment experience as standard models, but is OC overclocked to deliver improved frame rates and better over all performance in the hottest Microsoft® DirectX 10 games. The revolutionary PureVideo HD engine plays the latest HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc movies with brilliant jitter-free clarity. Couple two Calibre NVIDIA® GeForce 9600 GT OC graphics cards together with an NVIDIA nForce motherboard for an optimal graphics platform, giving you the gaming horsepower to handle the most demanding games with NVIDIA SLI technology. With the Calibre NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT OC, amazing graphics performance is now within your reach.
The new Sparkle Calibre P960 Green Power comes with a 3-way BIOS, which allows the whole power consumption lower to 72.9W, users can obtain up to 28% power savings from GeForce 9600GT reference. As the world's only intelligent power saving DX10 graphic card, users help to save the earth every time they switch on their PCs! Calibre P960 Green Power is cooled by Sparkle's Dual Fly Cooling System, the exclusively multiform passive cooling device ensures powerful thermal performance with less noise, lower energy consumption, and stability. The Sparkle Calibre NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

Computer Data Loss Prevention and Recovery by: Richard McNeal

For most individuals and businesses, data loss happens. Even the most established technology companies with expert experience in network and laptop security, accidents and hacks happen and data is lost. With the right support and preventative measures, however, losing information doesn’t always have to end in disaster. By making information safety a priority of your computer IT staff and for the employees who use your equipment, data loss can become a rare occurrence.

Preventing Data Loss

Most causes of work station (laptop or PC) data loss can be attributed to human error, physical malfunctions and hardware failure. The Boston Computing Network characterizes data loss into four different types: human error (overwriting a major file), file corruption (virus attack), hardware (fried hard drive), and site-related (earthquake causes coffee to spill on laptop).

For an IT staff member, preventing data loss within a company means making sure employees are:

- using equipment with up-to-date antivirus software
- securing their laptops both physically and electronically with computer locks and good passwords
- backing up their work onto a secure storage device
- using a surge protector and uninterrupted power supply (UPS)

Additionally, computer IT staffers need to have a best practices document in place that employees can follow related to how to handle incoming email, working outside of the office, and traveling. The document should describe how employees can avoid data loss through phishing scams, when and how they should use other wireless networks and how to protect company laptops from theft. By giving employees the information they need to prevent data loss, companies can stop many problems from every happening.

Recovering Lost Data

So much information flows electronically now that it is likely some data loss scenario will occur in a business. Whether it is a major server loss or a small problem on a single hard drive, there are certain things that should be done to avoid making the situation worse.

- Don't: Use the system restore or system recovery setting on the computer. This will not bring your info back instantly

- Don't: Implement an off-the –shelf system recovery software on your own. If you use the incorrect type of software, you are likely to ruin your chances of recovering any information.

- Do: Contact a computer it specialist or tech professional to attempt to restore the data safely and correctly

Many IT and computer services offer continued preventative maintenance and care, but in the case you don’t regularly use an outside IT service, contact one as soon as you realize a problem has occurred.

In addition to dealing with data recovery, IT and computer services provide a vast array of additional preventative measures for combating data loss. For instance, many IT service providers will offer security and back-up solutions like electronic data storage, information security, server support, desktop support, and networking.

Recovering lost data is not always possible but there are ways to reduce the chances of complete loss.

~Richard McNeal, 2009

About The Author
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

In How Computers are Used Now and Today By Tom Feinberg

Computers today are used in a way people commonly are doing work on it. There is more to computer typing there’s programming, troubleshooting, communications, and many of more uses from them people and I go through. People and myself has me know that there is more to computers then just typing more of it comes where in how other specific devices are used to convert data. Troubleshooting things such as viruses, networking, data loss, putting computer together, etc. has taught me more in depth about computers today. Having to do all of this has shown me that computers are a source of reflection of how it used and done with.

Communications and new software development has made people has there life’s saved is now another things used for computers to talk and send mail/messages. It a new trend for people to have computers and to use them in communicating in a whole new way. So computers are used now are changed today with new things you would like.

Throughout now in computers were hard to describe in-depth in the programming as it was made in what people and myself thought. People use computers in a concept of doing work on it and nothing else that so interesting. It wasn’t an interesting thing back then when it was made. Everybody ignored it as a useless product that never existed in the world. When I used it was hard to use and understanding more in detail the entire major concept of how the programming was. People like myself had a hard time figuring out uses for it. It was like a machine in a hard way to describe in of all the technology/electronics they had made to a computer. Programming it in what to do on it was like typing, printing, and playing was the major thing that was done. It was nothing but just playing and doing working on a computer, which was made to do. Having it programmed for these kinds of uses are having people do these common things. When computers are describes as programming in special uses as work, printing, and playing has the first new beginning of computers.

Now troubleshooting is the next thing that occurs around computers such as viruses and other errors for different reasons. People today are having these encounters to these problems and have been evolving around them. They are a big problem because it destroys all data and makes the computer not load up. It’s like a disease spreading to all around the computers and has never stopped. Another problem is that a person and myself hate to loss data to the program you’re working on for any type of project/work you’re on. It’s a major hassle to loss a big thing on a computer that you save and worked hard on. This is something people go through everyday to have these errors occur overtime. Having to delete important files from your computer to work has made them lose their work and the computer it self. This is why people have trouble thinking that it gets them frustrated. It the common problem everyone goes through everyday in using one. So computers back than were a big hassle to the people who bought them and encountered so many problems.

Today now computers have made a communications and software cure for troubleshooting in the major problem people have in the computer system. In the communications they have a Chat line/E-mail to send about anything between you and your friend through a network computer. This is something people enjoy doing to communicate with anybody they know. It’s a lifesaver now to send anything across a computer network in the world. The next thing is that software that can destroy viruses in detecting and protecting your computer has made a cure for it. People whom have troubleshooting in their computers now have software on the market see it’s a big help. It’s a new generation people now are safe with any software program that can be protected. The different between the reflections of the computers had shown many of what people encounter in their everyday life. Everything from the past has now made a lot of big changes. Now people are starting to get computer in a whole new different way for them to use it. Now new things added to the computer systems today has better communications and new software that helps people not to lose anything.

People from the past had problems with computers in knowing what it is. They would just use it as typing out work and other things. In that people occur with troubleshooting problems like viruses and errors. Now today they made new communication and software to help out people from their problems they have. So the reflection of computers has now shown new things has come to the future. Reflective Essay check what is wrong and sent it back full edit.
Tom Feinberg has spent more than 15 years working as a professor at the University of Maine. Now he spends most of his time with his family and shares his experience about thesis writing. Tom Feinberg is a right person to ask about thesis.

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Old Computers. Trash, Treasure Or Landfill? by: Tommy Gerand

With this ever changing world of computers, more and more old computers are being thrown out, rightfully so. The old computers just can't keep up with today's software, that has been designed for the fastest and latest CPUs, and the most powerful video cards. But what about all that data? Your credit card details, client lists, personal emails? Although chances are if their found at a landfill, they won't be used for malicious purposes, the ease of accessing that data is almost too simple.

Along side that, thousands of old motherboards, video cards, RAM sticks, get thrown out and end up with landfill every year. And even though I'm sounding like a new ageist, the incorrect dumping of computer parts can lead to all sorts of environmental issues, with the plastic used in circuit boards not easily broken down naturally. Monitors in particular have high lead content, which , while encased in the monitor isn't exceptionally dangerous, but when exposed in a situation such as landfill, can pose a danger to nearby waterways and the surrounding environment.

Enter computer recycling. Computer recycling comes in two forms. Destruction and reusing. The destruction of computers parts is done in a contained environment and the plastic is then broken down in a controlled condition. Yes, this means they get big machines to effectively crush and turn what was once your computer, into many thousands of little tiny bits of plastic and metal. They then get this computer mulch, melt it, stretch it, burn it and turn it into different forms. Most of the major computer giants, such as HP and Apple, have recycling centres for the safe destruction of old PCs, however, some are a paid service.

CRT monitors are particularly favorable for destruction with each monitor potentially having up to 3.6kg of lead contained within. The processes are relativity simple, after the recyclable plastic case, metal chassis, yoke, PC board, wire and metal strap are all tediously removed from the monitor. The lead- impregnated tubing is all that's left before it's crushing demise. Even the circuit boards are crushed and recycled, with almost all of the materials being extracted. The extraction process involves various degrees of smelting resulting in lead, tin, gold, and palladium commodities for re-sale, and re-use. The whole process results in almost a 100% diversion rate, leaving only a small percentage that ends up in landfill, and of course, all that potentially dangerous lead is kept away from water supplies.

Re-using PCs is a very viable option. Some PCs get re-used for scientific use (correctly networked together to create a supercomputer) or given to those that can use older technology such as libraries or education centres. Just make sure you delete all the data off the hard drive or, if you know how to pull apart a computer, destroy the hard drive. The thought of handing over your data to a computer tech could be less comforting then throwing it in the trash, even though to comply with privacy legislation, employees have to wipe all data before re-using any computers.

If your going to be pulling the computer apart yourself, be sure to be gentle with your computer parts, always use static free bags, and always discharge yourself of static electricity before handling (touching something large and steel will do the trick).

For places that recycle in Australia -> http://www.recyclingnearyou.com.au/

About The Author
Tommy Gerand is a techie with an attitude. With over 10 years experience in the IT industry, Tommy has a knowledgeable and interesting view on the world of computers and electronics.

http://www.tekfix.com.au

eBags Firewall RapidScreen Laptop Brief

This bag has a compartment sized to fit most laptops with up to 17″ diagonal laptop screens. And this is only one of the many compartments and pockets. From file folder compartments, mesh pockets, and numerous interior pouches to simply one of the best organization panels out there, the Firewall Rapid Screen definitely has storage.
One of the most ingenious features is the flip out laptop compartment. If you’re a business traveler, you not only know the hassles of going through airport security with a laptop, but you’re also probably familiar with how most checkpoint friendly laptop bags function. The Firewall Rapid Screen is different in that the laptop compartment flips out of the bag and can sit in its dedicated compartment for screening and then just as easily flip back into the bag when through to the other side. No taking the laptop out completely and putting in a bin. No fumbling around with a removable compartment. No need to worry about how you’ll store other necessities AND your laptop and still be “checkpoint friendly”. No leaving the computer behind.


Monday, May 4, 2009

Picking the perfect laptop

Media center pc review

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Windows 7