January 5th, 2009
The whole reason you use an anti-virus software such as Norton or McAfee is to protect your system. However, how effective are these antivirus softwares available to you? From my experience, they greatly reduce performance of the computer, limit the ability and access and constantly need maintenance. In addition, they have proven to be quite ineffective in removing the infected virus or files infected. My advice for you is to just disregard the anti-virus software. In the end, either you pay for it or not, if your not updated, you still run a chance to infect your computer. I recommend you just browse the web safely and routinely clean up my own mess and when, I repeat again, WHEN it does get infected with a virus, be able to destroy it. After all, I am pretty certain you will... Continue Reading...
Tags: anti-virus, antivirus, computer, destory infections, fix computers, operating system repair, windows xp
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December 30th, 2008
Before I decided on how to complement my new television set, I did a ton of research on the perfect audio solution for it. I previously had a Sony receiver paired with a pair of Sony bookshelf speakers and KLH front channel speakers with a Sony subwoofer, but when my receiver became unusable, I decided to invest in a real man’s audio solution… while on a budget that is. (Note: It was a 5.1 system pieced together and worked well through my college dorm days.) Some of the solutions I looked at were those soundbar receivers such as the Yamaha digital sound projector or a regular home theater in a box solution or building it via components. Alas, I had a limited budget and felt that a sound projector like the Yamaha will never truly equate to true multi-channel sound and that... Continue Reading...
Tags: HD, hdmi, high definition, home theater in a box, ht-s6100, ht-s7100, onkyo, Onkyo SR-606, receiver, stereo
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December 30th, 2008
Time to decorate the new home and what better way than to complete it with a brand new Samsung LCD TV. I picked up a 46 inch LCD 1080p and it is fabulous. The model is the LN46A540 which is on par with the 580 and better than the 550. I believe it was exclusively sold at Costco but you can find it from another vendor on Amazon. I have to admit, I got a great deal on it since it still retails for about $1,800 brand new. The only downside is that it isn’t 120hz, but I can wait for that later on for my next home.
I am amazed at how well the Samsung works right out of the box. The QAM tuner to receive digital channels for HD content via the air is amazing. Unlike my older 37″ Olevia LCD 720p TV, the Samsung gives you a signal strength so you are able to point the antennae... Continue Reading...
Tags: 1080p, 46 inch lcd television, amazon, costco, ln46a530, ln46a550, samsung, samsung ln46a540 review
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December 29th, 2008
As I previously shared that my laptop motherboard had died, I needed to extract all the data from the hard disk drive in the unit. Without any way to power up the laptop, I needed to remove the hard disk drive in the laptop. Removing the hard disk drive is simple enough and many people do so to upgrade their capacity as one of the easiest laptop upgrades. However, since I just needed the important files from my hard disk drive, I needed an external enclosure. After reading many reviews, I found one that was cheap and simple. I went with this Rosewill RX234 IDE interface unit here. I can only say I am more than pleased by the unit because it is small like one of those passport hard drives and it uses USB to power up. It looks pretty slick since it is tiny and operates efficiently.
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Tags: broken laptop, get files, recovering data, reuse hdd, reusing hard disk drive
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December 29th, 2008
My new workspace...
As mentioned previously, my HP NC6120 laptop completely died. It did not power up at all; and I concluded that the motherboard died. Instead of looking for a new laptop, I decided to build a brand new tower. I still have my old tower powered with an AMD processor (XP2300 1.7Ghz) and a 64mb AGP GeForce 4 card, a limited 80GB hard drive and 1 GB of RAM; but alas, I needed to spoil myself and build myself since I haven’t used that tower for a long time and have been using my HP laptop.
I almost made the decision to pick up an Apple Macbook Pro or an iMac but after studying the specs on it; it becamce apparent that its just too ridiculously overpriced to me for the performance I would obtain. Instead, I figured for the same budget I would spend on either an iMac... Continue Reading...
Tags: 40 inch workspace, awesome new computer, dual screen, hackintosh, insanelymac, osx86, PC, pc running mac
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