Posts from 'Technology' category

It seems as though smartphones are getting more powerful by the month. Manufacturers continue to push the envelope, producing devices that dazzle on all levels. There are already multiple dual-core processor devices on the market, and by next year we could see quad-core smartphones. Yet this isn't a universal positive. While faster processor speeds will allow our devices to do more, they also drai...

In this article we’ll be reviewing the Belkin F5L028 Laptop Cooling Lounge, which is a laptop cooling pad (it uses active cooling methods, therefore powered by your computer battery) meant to drop hot temperatures produced by the CPU or GPU, in order to avoid sudden death of your laptop.Just like it’s predecessor (Belkin F5L001, reviewed here), the F5L028  is based on the air flow technol...

As a gamer, you have come to know the importance of everything, the peripherals, the PC and, nevertheless, the importance of the sound. The sound is what introduces you best into the atmosphere of the game and lets you immerse in it. Some like to hear it in the headsets, some may feel more comfortable with surround sound systems. This article is dedicated to those ones that appreciate the high qua...

Digital cameras on phones and smartphones that we use daily are getting more and more powerful, but at least for now the quality of pictures done with such cameras is not close to the quality of pictures done by professional cameras.However when buying a dedicated digital camera, most of us resort to superficially reading the specifications, which can easily confuse a buyer. Before studying th...

Let's start this article with explaining what WiFi channels are and why we need to select a good one to have a fast and reliable wireless connection to the router in our house. As you might know WiFi technology uses radio waves to communicate in the 2.4 GHz and 5GHz bands (less used).That doesn't mean routers and WiFi devices are all transmitting on the 2.4GHz or 5GHz frequency: all communicat...

When people are saying that today, the Internet is everywhere, they seldom stop to think whether Internet access is indeed geographically widespread. In truth, there are many cases one might find himself in, where Internet access is either very poor or non-existent, even in developed countries. In those cases buying air cards for laptops makes a lot of sense.As more and more applications are b...

Buying anything at all for a college student is pretty hard work. College life is diverse and crazy enough to subject even the most basic of objects to the maximum extent of its abilities. Just as well as books are used as door stoppers and Ping Pong balls used for playing Beer Pong, a student’s laptop needs to be flexible enough to run anything it is being thrown at it: be it Photoshop, hig...

We all know the hard drive is the slowest component in a computer. It's at least 100 times slower than RAM Memory, which means if you get a slow hdd the entire system will be slowed down significantly. It's imperative also to make sure programs are not accessing the hard drive too much and, most important, not at the same time.A few weeks ago I've noticed a lot of hard drive access on my work ...

Until recently laptops from the Asus U series were midrange both from the point of view of their price and of their hardware, which is why they were pretty successful.However, like in any other domain, the most famous are those who provide the highest technical specs, which is why Asus decided to go to the next level with the new U30s, a portable which introduces Asus to the niche market of po...

The way files and folders are organized in our computers determines the total time it takes us to complete a task. The easier we can access an application the better it is. On the other hand if information is not mixed up we will not lose time searching for it.I will give you some advice concerning the efficient organization of information so that you end up using your time in the most product...