Computer And Technology Blog

Viruses, house fires, theft, lightning strikes, hackers and more — it’s a list of potential computer disasters that would stop a hyena from laughing. You cannot be absolutely safe, because the bad guys and the fickle finger of fate are always cooking up new ways to turn your life into a cyber-hell. Fortunately, a few simple steps will prevent most physical and virtual threats to your system and your data.

Physical Security:

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An all too common experience in dealing with computer printers is to go out and buy an inkjet printer for forty or fifty bucks, thinking that you’re getting a great deal. Then when you get the printer home and install it on your computer, it still seems like a great deal. You can print in color, print in black and white, and even print photos. Life is good for a month or two. Then one of the ink cartridges runs out and when you go to the store to buy a new one, you find out that you’re going to have to pay thirty dollars just for a black ink cartridge. Then you start to think that if the color cartridge, which costs thirty five to forty dollars is about to run out too, it would be cheaper to just buy a new printer! Besides being wasteful and expensive, this experience is just frustrating!

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Sometimes one of the best things that someone who really loves gadgets can do to improve how they use their gadgets is to get an upgrade for them. That’s exactly what you can do by downloading a web browser for your mobile phone. While smart phones have been able to browse the web all along, they’re really in a different class than the normal mobile phones. Smart phones have larger screens, more keys for more possibilities of communicating using text messaging or email. The screens are really what make smart phones better than normal mobile phones for browsing the Internet because they make it easier to see text and various kinds of graphics. Of course there are a number of secondary features that make surfing the Internet and sending text messages and emails easier. As mentioned above, most smart phones have much more sophisticated keypads (or in the case of some of the newer ones like Apple’s iPhone and the Prada phone, a touch screen) that make it easier to type messages for either text messaging or email. But smart phones are also better connected to the Internet with their ability to take advantage of the G3 network.

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Today, the options for creating a home entertainment system are many and varied. In the not-too-distant past, though, the typical home theater set-up consisted of just a VCR and a TV. It’s hard to believe, but just about the only alternative for audio was the speaker in the television set.

Now, re-creating the movie theater experience at home is easier than ever. Sound quality and TV screen size are perhaps the two most important factors in replicating that experience. For ultimate home viewing, you’ll need a big-screen TV, a minimum of four speakers, gear to split up the surround-sound signal and transmit it to the speakers, and a VCR or DVD player that utilizes surround sound.

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You will find that getting good quality printing means buying ink cartridges which have been designed to provide for this need. While there are many different brands of ink cartridges that you can buy some of these will be more expensive than others. Of the many different ones you will find that buying discount printer ink cartridges to be a good money saving investment.

There are different varieties of ink cartridges you should make sure that you are buying one that is compatible with the computer and printer that you have. The best way to see if you have chosen the correct cartridge is to look at your printer to see the needed number for the printer cartridge.

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WILL the next computer crash put your small business out of business, or are you ready for it?

A small business recently lost their hard disk and spent $3,000 in an attempt to restore their business data, inventory, receivables, financials, emails, everything. They were unsuccessful. In the last six months we have heard many similar stories. Does hardware now have a shorter life?

Platypus Websites has been fortunate in surviving a recent major storm (the one that caused a 40,000 tonne bulk carrier to shipwreck on our beach) and a previous bush-fire evacuation. You usually have warnings for storms or bush fires, but not for computer crashes. One morning your computer just won’t start.

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It seems like the world is going wireless these days, including the banking and trading industries. Wireless banking and trading is still in its infancy stage, and one must keep up with new products, new technological breakthroughs, and developmental aids to help with transitions from the old to the new. Standards are changing for APIs (interfaces), gateways, security methods, screens, operating systems, browsers, handheld devices, and different bandwidth requirements. All these changes reveal risks to systems and consumers. Wireless banking and trading can be risky, lengthy, and complicated to develop and use. Interfaces must be able to connect backend systems already in place, and application servers have to accommodate all protocols and devices.

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