Printers - A Practical Buyers Guide by Iggy Quazi
Buying a printer can be a complicated business, there are more shapes, sizes and types of printers available to the home and small business user than ever before. Printers have also become specialised for their intended purpose. It is no longer a case of "a printer is a printer". ... A quality inkjet printer can produce very near photo-quality images using specialist photo coated paper. ... Dye-sublimation printers lay down color in continuous tones one color at a time instead of dots of ink like an inkjet, because the colour is absorbed into the paper rather than sitting on the surface,...

Choosing A Multifunction Printer by Frank Bolsom
Multifunction printers have become extremely popular over the last several years. These printers generally include copying and scanning functions, as well as sending and receiving faxes in some cases. Some of the newer models also include photo printing capabilities, with digital memory card... The same goes for the printing capabilities. ... If you're planning to scan old photographs or negatives and want the highest possible resolution, you probably won't get quite as good a result from a multifunction printer/scanner as you would from a dedicated scanner.

Adobe Software Discount Scheme for Registered Students of UC by Brenda Fleen
Applications, particularly those that specialize on a specific field of modern information technology, are usually expensive. These applications have the necessary set of functions and features on a single aspect of IT, and users rely heavily on these applications for their day to day activities. ... Among the applications included in the set of Adobe graphical editing products, the Photoshop program is probably the most widely used photo editing application in the market. ... Newer versions of this product integrate the finest set of functions and features necessary in a photo editing...

Buying an Office Photocopier - Digital Means Diversity by Jimi St. Pierre
Whether you are looking for a low-cost but reliable photocopier for a home office, a networked copier for an office workgroup, or a heavy-duty full colour photocopier for a print-hungry corporate group environment, black-only photocopiers black and colour photocopiers, the choices these days are... Digital copiers work by scanning the original document to be copied and creating a digital image. ... These days, because digital technology means even an entry-level copier is capable of operating as a printer when hooked up to a PC or network, it pays to consider ease of use and convenience...

DVD The Ultimate Consumer Digital Media by Jay Corrao
Digital Video Disc or as it is sometimes referred to Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) has for the last several years been Hollywood’s primary video delivery method and with good cause. This inexpensive, compact media delivers excellent video and audio quality. ... For archiving DVD is the ultimate digital media not only because of its compact dimensions and ample storage space; 4.7 GB single sided & 9.4 GB double-sided or 8.5 GB dual-layer respectively. ... This article is only intended to be an introduction to this incredibly diverse digital media and not to be considered a technical thesis.

Selecting a Personal Digital Assistant by Deryck Richards
A Computer in Your Hand Carrying around an address book and planner is becoming a thing of the past. With new PDA developments, you can manage your contacts and schedule, use e-mail, and even listen to music. Personal Digital Assistants, originally called "Palm Pilots," previously were used... If you plan on taking digital photos, your main concern should be the quality of the digital camera and the screen. ... Windows Mobile devices run an operating system very similar to Windows on desktop computers.

Tips for Buying a New Computer by Michael Cottier
A computer is perhaps the most important part of our daily lives. We see it everywhere from our homes to the places we work. Since it is used so much in our lives, we want to make sure that a PC we purchase is a good computer that will be able to do everything we want it to, and last a long time. ... If you are a photo hound, and use a digital camera a lot, then you definitely want a high quality printer that can print out all of your photos. ... These are very handy and should be considered especially if you have a digital camera.

Go Digital and Groovy... and Save Trees! by Kathy Heslop
Have you inherited your Dad's trading card collection - ie.  pieces of printed cardboard that come with a piece of gum that looks like it tastes like cardboard too? Well today's trading cards have evolved to include, wait for it... (cue bells and whistles), holograms and foil..! ... Serious are the ever so clever and extremely contemporary people behind CD and DVD Trading Cardz TM - the hip, digital descendents of your dad's deforestating and now dust- collecting baseball cards! ... you name it!

How to Choose Computer Peripherals by Alex Fir
When buying a computer you must consider not only the quality of the internal components, but also the external ones that make the entire multimedia experience possible. Computer peripherals, from printers to web cams, are an important part of our lives and activities, if not the most important... If however we want a home printer mostly to get copies of our digital photos then considering a color printer is a must and maybe we should think about making it a laser one. ... There are many types of computer peripherals out there: external hard drives, sound speakers form tiny to extremely...

What Can You Do With A Mac Mini? by Jeff Heaton
If you have not seen the newest addition to the Macintosh line, it is worth taking a look. It is a very small computer that is only 6.5 x 6.5 x 2 inches. The Mac Mini is about the size of one of those internal CD-ROM drives you install into a PC. By far one of the smallest computers you can buy. ... If you have a digital camcorder you can transfer your movies directly into the Mac Mini. ... Digital Video has become very easy with the Macintosh. ... If you have a video camera you can use iPhoto to download and organize your digital photos.