7 Questions You Need To Ask Before Buying A Notebook Computer by Sabir Rizvi
If you are planning to purchase a notebook computer, then there are seven key questions that you will need to ask yourself. Doing this will enable you to arrive at the kind of quality notebook that best suits your purposes and current budget. 1 - How portable, how powerful? ... You will also have to remember that the larger the screen the heavier and more difficult to carry your laptop computer will be. ... Processors based on Centrino technology consume less power and yield improved battery lifetime.

A Quick Guide to Wireless Networking by Gary Hendricks
1. Essential Equipment Right, let's move right along. The first thing to do in setting up a wireless home network is to get the correct equipment. These are the things you need: Wireless home networking kit This is your basic equipment for the network. ... Just connect the wireless router to power supply, connect the wireless PC card to your laptop, or USB adapter (or Ethernet cable) to the desktop PC. ... Some also bundle a wireless PC card for connecting laptops to the network, or a wireless USB adapter for connecting desktop PCs.

Setting Up AirPort Express Base Station For Wireless Music Streaming by Carlos Cabezas
Here’s your problem. You have a ton of music on your computer. Your computer speakers sound ok but music from your Itunes software would sound a lot better playing through your nice home stereo in the other room. If you run a cord all that way from your computer to your home stereo your house... Near your stereo receiver, connect the Airport to a power supply to give it power. ... If it’s a desktop machine or a laptop I recommend a Linksys WUSB54G - Wireless-G USB Adapter 802.11G. ... If you are more tech savvy and don’t mind opening up your desktop computer’s case, definitely go with a...

Maintaining and Troubleshooting Your Laptop Battery by Bill Platt
The actual life of a laptop battery will vary with computer usage habits. For most users, it is not uncommon to experience differences in battery life, of anywhere from just under one hour to over two hours in each sitting. If you are experiencing shorter battery life cycles, say 10 to 15... Then you must turn Power Management Off. ... Now let's take a look at the various usage habits to consider when troubleshooting your laptop's battery. ... Next, you must go into your BIOS and make sure that if there is a power management setting there, that you turn it off as well.

Personal Wireless with Bluetooth by Karen Wilkinson
If you already have a wireless network for your computers, you may be very interested in what's coming next. Would you like it if your PDA, your mobile phone, your mp3 player and almost everything else you connect to your computer could be wireless too? ... The idea is that, in the future, we'll all have laptop computers with their batteries charged and no more need to connect any wires to them at all -- you just place your Bluetooth device near the computer, and the computer sees it and can use it straightaway.

Personal Wireless Networking by Jason Keno
If you've got a wireless network for your computers already, well, you might get a bit excited about what I'm going to say next. How would you feel if your PDA, your mobile phone, your mp3 player and almost everything else you connect to your computer could be wireless too? ... If you have a laptop and a spare PCMCIA slot, you can get Bluetooth cards for that too. ... If you want to add Bluetooth to a computer that doesn't come with it pre-installed, you should probably use a USB to Bluetooth adapter, although internal Bluetooth devices to install in your computer are available.

How To Choose The Best Gaming Laptop by Titus Hoskins
The gaming laptop is coming of age! It is steadily increasing in popularity as performance quality goes up. Gamers now regularly consider laptops or notebooks when searching for that perfect gaming machine. With each new generation of notebooks we are seeing some novel breakthroughs: dual core... It will give you higher performance at a lower power level, saving battery power. ... Serial ATA hard drives uses less power and are ideal for notebook computers, they are also more advanced than PATA hard drives which uses multipe streams of data -- go figure!

A Technician's Toolkit: What's in the Bag by Alex Smith
If you fix computers regularly (or you're the type that often fixes computers for friends and family), you've likely developed a collection of software and tools to help you fix things more efficiently. Since I ocasionally play technician myself, I thought I'd share with you some tools that make... Here's a sampling of what you'll find in my kit: > Two boot CDs with diagnostics programs > Linux live CDs including Ubuntu and Knoppix > three versions of Microsoft Office (including 2003) > Windows 95, 98SE, 2000, XP Home and Pro (plus a special corporate licensed version) > Applicable...

How to secure your small business with a PIX firewall by Ron Jones
One of the more popular firewall products for the small business market is the Cisco PIX 501. Out of the box it requires just a few configuration entries and you are up and running. In this guide, we will walk through the steps for configuring your brand new pix at the network edge. ... Insert the power cable and you will be greeted with the startup monologue (it’s not a dialog in this case; it’s just informing you of what is occurring). ... Your PIX should have come with an AC adapter, a yellow CAT 5 cable, an orange CAT5 cable and a flat, (typically) baby blue cable with a 9-pin serial...