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• Ipod to PC Transfer

  20Aug
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  Have you ever had a problem of having your iPod filled with just too much music or pictures? You’d hate to delete any one of them because they hold a bit of sentimental value to you. Well now you don’t have to. There is now a program that will allow you to transfer all your files from your iPod to PC.

  4Media presents a program that will transfer all multi-media files from iPod to PC and vice versa. The program is suitable for any computer, ranging from Apple Macs to Windows. There are similar program like this that overwrite the files of your iPod from syncing. You don’t have to worry about any overlapped or missing files while iPod transfer is getting started. Another amazing feature to this program is the ability for the files to be shared between the different kinds of iPod. If you have an iPod touch, iPhone, or even an iPod nano 5, it won’t matter because the file transfer is accessible to all kinds of iPods. Also, there is a photo management feature that allows you organize all the pictures stored in your iPod. You can choose to keep them in a folder or view them by thumbnails.

  There are a few questions raised regarding the type of iPhone models used regarding this iPod transfer program. One of the questions is if the iPhone 4 will be supported by this program? Actually, the iPod to PC transfer is regularly updated and its supports the latest updates in iTunes, iOS and iPhone technology.

• PC Tips : Cooling A hot PC

  10Aug
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  Nowadays every PC that come of the market are hot.. not hot in good way, but hot that is hot enough to fry an egg. Without proper cooling your PC can produce heat up to 350 C, as hot as an oven.

  Now to PC user this may seem fine, but in the hands of modders and over clockers that squeeze every ounce of performance power out of their PCs this may cause a problem as you modify your PCs factory setting you tend to increase it’s power output thus generating more heat. The traditional heatsink is will do for most PC users, but for serious PC afficionados this will never do, so they use cooling fans, and a much more tricky approach which is water-cooling.

  Heatsinks - these are chunks of high thermal conducting metal such as aluminum, copper, etc. As electric warms up the components it dissipates through the heatsink, that’s why heatsinks are more like fins as the heat spreads over the surface it dissipates through the fins which are surrounded by cooler air.

  Cooling Fans – these work like heatsinks but well they use fans to suck out the hot air and blow cooler air. Now the more cooling fans you add to your rig the more cooler it gets, but the more fans you add the noisier your Rig gets, so over clockers look for other cooling solution such as Liquid Cooling.

  Liquid Cooling – the best but hardest way to cool your PC, a liquid cooled PC moves fluid over hot components transferring the heat from those components to the liquid, then the hot liquid goes to its cooling block the cycle back again, a liquid cooled PC maybe the best solution but also think of the maintenance and the cost of leaked, or clogged tube which could damage the PC electrical component in an instant. Now there are liquid coolants out in the market that works better in cooling your PC such as distilled water and add them up with anti-corrosion liquids and non-toxic fluid additives to care for the environment, yourself and your PC. Maintenance of these liquid cooling system must be checked at least once a month, and the liquid coolant itself must be change annually to prevent algae buildup in your cooling tubes.

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• USB Thumb Drives can harm your PC too

  10Jul
  Categories: PC Info, PC Tips, Software Comments: 0

  

  Keeping you personal computer secure nowadays is such a hard thing to do because of the viruses around. Even your little USB thumb drive can be a victim of these viruses. In fact, these thumb drives makes the transfer of viruses from PC to PC a lot more fast if they are left unsecure. Good thing, there are still free anti-virus softwares out there just like AVG is quite reliable since updates are released in a regular basis. If you use USB thumb drives, be sure to have them scanned by your anti-virus software before accessing it via Windows Explorer. You should also turn off the auto-play function when you plug in USB devices.

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• PC Tips : Ventilation

  10Jun
  Categories: PC Maintenance Tips Comments: 0

  

  Find an opening in your case, or an air hole on the bottom. With the PC running, by placing a match or lighter flame close to the hole or opening you can check if the air hole sucks the flame toward the case or does it push the flame away. If the flame is pushed away then this indicates that you have positive airflow within the PC’s case and that will keep dust away from accumulating inside the case. Well if the flame is not pushed away but rather sucked in well i guess it’s time for a case upgrade.

  Now with the dust accumulating inside the case even with the said “tested” positive airflow, it’s still prone to dust accumulation in time, which can lead to overheating and other problems. It’s best to periodically, take the PC outside, remove its cover, and with can of compressed air from 8 to 12 inches away to blow out the dust, and also clean out the fans too…

• Avast: Free Anti-Virus Software for your PC

  10May
  Categories: PC Info, PC Maintenance Tips, PC Tips, Windows Vista, Windows XP Comments: 0

  

  To ensure the top quality performance rendered by our personal computers, we should make sure that we have the most up to date anti-virus softwares. Our anti-virus softwares installed on our computes will be the one to protect our precious computers from threats and viruses. We all know how expensive premium anti-virus softwares can be these days. But don’t fret anymore because there are free anti-virus softwares out there just like Avast Home Edition which I am using for years on my personal computer. The free version of Avast is very much reliable as updates are released often and the software auto-updates itself. With this software, you are sure that your computer is safe from viruses that can degrade the quality of performance your computers is rendering.

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• PC TIPS : Using Power Protection

  10Apr
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  There are levels of protection that you can apply to help protect your PC, your data from loss or damage as a result of power problems. And yes you have to shell out cash in order to have better protection, the more you spend the better protection you get, with costs ranging from near zero to several hundred dollars or even more. A Decent Surge Protector, and an Uninterruptible Power Supply(UPS) starts in around $40 to $60 bucks to about $80, so better save up, it’s worth it.

  And Yes, keep in mind that a higher Joule rating generally means more protection, and also it does the filtering, enhancing or modifying the utility power, special circuitry and batteries are used to prevent the PC from losing power during a disruption (blackout) or voltage sag (brownout). These units are called different names depending on their exact design, but all fit into the general category of backup power.

• Possible Causes of PC Failure

  10Mar
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  � Excessive heat or cold
  � Excessive dust buildup on the PC parts,
  � Magnetism interference;
  � Viruses, Spywares, Malwares either downloaded from the Internet, shared via email or from storage media shared between different computers;
  � Static electricity shocks or power surges;
  � Spilling liquids onto the PC
  � bumping or dropping the PC
  � Wrong or forceful insertion/ removal of hardware
  � Wrong hardware driver installed
  � Outdated or faulty hardware

• Tips to Prevent PC Failure

  10Feb
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  • Do not place a PC directly near a heating or cooling source. Excessive temperatures can damage a PC.
  • Do not connect power sources directly into wall outlets but connect them to a surge protector which prevent and protect the PC from electrical surges.
  • Be extremely careful when moving a PC from one location to another. Even small jolts can dislodge chips and expansion boards.
  • Always keep a set of rescue disks for the operating system.
  • Keep a copy of original software, on CD and keep it handy.
  • Compress your hard drive may lead to corruption of data so if possible avoid compressing you harddrive.
  • Make backup copies of important data and file on a CD, DVD or removable drives.

• Mac Or PC

  10Jan
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  If you come about to have both Macs and PC (or a Mac and a PC), you can also connect them together in a network, although there are a few other considerations to bear in mind. It is highly recommended to install additional software either on the Mac or the PC. This will help for communicating clearly.

• Your Keyboard is Worse than Your Toilet

  12Dec
  Categories: Hardware, PC Info, PC Maintenance Tips, PC Tips Comments: 0

  

  I have to admit, I haven’t cleaned my keyboard since I opened the box. No, don’t ask me how many months ago that was—it’s in years.

  After reading this article I got scared pretty quick.

  A desk is capable of supporting 10 million microbes and the average office contains 20,961 microbes per square inch, according to research.

  The key offenders are telephones, which harbour up to 25,127 microbes per square inch, keyboards 3,295 and computer mice 1,676.

  By contrast, the average toilet seat contains 49 microbes per square inch, the survey showed.

  Immediately I googled the web like crazy until someone was able to show me how to PROPERLY clean my keyboard (that is if I ever bother to clean it at all). What? You thought your keyboard was self-cleaning? Time to get on your knees boy and start some scrubbing. Read this article