The Asus Eee PC 1000HA provides the power of a full-sized laptop in a compact body with an extra-large 10-inch screen, and is now powered by the latest Intel mobile processor. Designed specifically for mobile devices, the 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor uses a brand new design structure new hafnium-infused circuitry–which reduces electrical current leakage in transistors–to conserve energy, giving you more time away from the wall outlet. Coupled with the ASUS exclusive Super Hybrid Engine, you’ll also enjoy up to 7 hours of battery life with this Windows-powered laptop. more…

Are you running out of hard drive capacity? Do you need to archive some important digital documents, photos, or music? The Western Digital WDH1U10000N My Book Essential Edition 2.0 1 TB external hard drive, which takes no more space than a paperback book, is the perfect solution. Collect two or more and they nest neatly together like volumes on a shelf.

My Book Essential Edition 2.0 is easy to set up and easy to use. Installation is a snap because you don’t really install this drive, you just plug it in and it’s ready to use. This external hard drive also turns itself on and off with your computer. It’s ideal for anyone who needs instant storage for their important files or a digital photo collection. more…

The best buy for those who require budget-friendly performance, Acer V Series monitors offer a powerful display solution with an affordable price tag. Designed for word processing and graphics rendering, Acer V Series monitors conform to the highest safety and reliability standards for the most comfortable and productive viewing.

Clean, solid look V Series LCD monitors come in a black bezel that enhances any viewing environment, and an elegant, sturdy black base with a deep-cut Acer logo that represents quality without compromise. Control buttons on the front panel allow easy cleaning and intuitive use, imbuing this budget-friendly monitor series with ergonomic as well as aesthetic appeal.

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Acronis True Image Home 2009 complete PC protection: back up your entire PC, including the OS plus your data, applications, pictures, video, financial documents, settings and everything!

Acronis True Image Home 2009 is an award-winning backup and recovery solution for a good reason: it protects your PC after just one click and allows you to recover from viruses, unstable software downloads, and failed hard drives. Create an exact copy of your PC and restore it from a major failure in minutes, or back up important files and recover them even faster.

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When you buy a new computer you must protect your investment from malicious software programs such as viruses, worms, spyware, and trojans.  These programs can cause serious damage to your computer system by erasing data or providing your sensitive data to criminals. You can help protect your personal computer by installing antivirus software to remove and prevent nasty viruses and spyware.

There are various antivirus programs available on the market and while they all do the same job, there are several things to keep in mind when choosing a program. more…

USB flash disk or any other flash memory drive is basically an EEPROM that means “Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory”.

USB flash memory sticks are nothing but an assembly of EEPROM, a controller with a RISC microprocessor, RAM and ROM. All of this interacts with a computer using a USB controller and connector.

Because USB sticks are EEPROM these can hold data for as long as 10 years. As these memory modules are shock proof and as these don’t have a volatile memory are good enough to sustain shock and humidity to some extend that is casual abuse that includes run through a washing machine, or even dropped in coffee. more…

Most people understand that the “hardware” part of their computer is the real physical parts, like the keyboard, mouse, modem, hard drive and so on. They understand that the “software” is computer bits stored on the hard drive, CD-ROM, or other storage media. But most people are a little hazy about exactly what a “driver” is.

In this article, I’m going to reveal in plain English what a driver is, why we need drivers, and exactly where the drivers are hiding. To give you a basic understanding, I’m going to go back, way back, to the early days of computers. more…

Times are Uncertain - do you really need that upgrade or new PC?

Our customers and prospective customers frequently come to us and ask that we suggest either upgrades or whole new PC’s that will solve their current non-performance nightmare with an aging PC. It’s quite amazing how sometimes as the conversation and understanding of requirements and problems experienced proceeds we discover that actually the PC they already have may just still have a few laps around the circuit left in its tired chassis. In this article we will explain how you can diagnose your performance woes, streamline and tune them up. You’d be surprised just how much more you can get out of what you have. more…

Computers have become indispensable for professional work and for personal use. Be it Windows lower versions or high-end versions, the system after a long run tends to slow down considerably. It begins with throwing up many error messages followed by slow down of performance, ultimately resulting in the system crash. You frequently face with problems like certain software does not get loaded properly. Certain programs do not work at all. Frequent error messages pop up. The system takes a long time to load your programs. more…

A device driver is a software component that controls a device. A driver behaves like a translator between a program and a device, each device need its own driver to work with the operating system.
Many drivers such us keyboard drivers, mouse drivers, disk drives, and printer drivers, come with the operating system.

When you connect a new device to your PC, the operating system needs to recognize that device by its device driver. Most of the new operating systems like: Windows 2000 , Windows XP and Vista, have a plug and play system that recognizes most of the devices automatically. They try to install the device driver automatically from their driver database. If it can’t find the driver, it asks the user to provide it with the right driver for the device.