Selecting Speed Reading Software by Robert Kokoska
If you are interested in speed reading, it usually means that you are pressed for time. After all, who isn't? Students as well as professionals are sometimes overwhelmed by their work load, and it's easy to see why. Every year, it seems that more and more written information comes our way. ... Speed reading software seems to be the solution - it allows you to participate in a virtual course, but at your own speed. ... A speed reading teacher claims that he can teach some adults, and virtually all children (who seem to have a greater natural ability) to read up to 18,000 words per minute.

Compact Flash Readers: Considerations Before Purchasing by Helen Charleston
You may be on the market for a compact flash reader because you are a digital image editing hobbyist, a professional photographer, or simply are looking for an alternative to slower models of media storage. Compact flash certainly fits the bill with many of your high end media needs. ... USB 2, with fast read and write speeds if you use larger more bandwidth heavy media such as high resolution film and photography. ... If you do not care too much about that, then just get a compact flash reader that works with the format you use the most for example some may work with SmartMedia flash,...

History of the Computer - Data Handling Peripherals; Part 1 of 3 by Tony Stockill
We have discussed, in the History of the Computer series, the operation and development of the computer and changes in the technology. The other components of a computer system, the peripherals, or external devices have also changed over the years. Drums have more or less disappeared, as have... The cards to be read into the computer would be stacked in a card reader, which read the data on the card in a similar way to the paper tape reader, with sensors. ... They had to be capable of being read at high speed.

Virtual Reality and Computerized Projection Video Conferences with Holographic Images by Lance Winslow
In the future there will be VR Virtual Reality meetings using computerized holographic projection, as these technologies are all currently available and becoming more robust and soon will be mass marketed. Give it 2-5 years and we will see some pretty wide spread use of these technologies. ... The distance between each device would mean that only the intended reader could read it and the cold could not be broken, as it would have to be done in real "non-time" which is impossible. ... Each character could be a whole sentence or a word, imagine the speed then?

Advanced Tips on Speeding Up Your PC by Mark Berger
Other then keeping your HDD free of viruses, spyware, and ad-ware at all times, there are other methods for speeding up system speed which you may like to employ. One of these is overclocking. Overclocking is a method of increasing your system speed by increasing the frequency at which your CPU... Other methods of keeping your computer up to speed include: -Running defrags/scandisks on your PC once to twice a month -Upgrading your RAM by installing faster, or more memory -Formatting at least once a year Running a defrag is easy.

Linux-Speed Up Your Ide Hard Drive by Nick Krotov
Linux systems usually use conservative default IDE driver settings that could be significantly slowing down your system. By default they are set to most safe settings guaranteed to work. However you may reconfigure them to increase the read speed of your hard drive. ... Lets turn DMA mode on, this will speed up timing buffered read by a factor of two #/sbin/hdparm -d1 /dev/hda #/sbin/hdparm -c3 /dev/hda (I/O support set to 3 - turn on 32bit transfers on your first HD by typing ) #/sbin/hdparm -m16 /dev/hda (choose data transfer parameters 16 as MaxMultSect=16) #/sbin/hdparm -a16...

Standalone CD-ROM Copiers by Kent Pinkerton
The operational details of stand-alone CD-ROM copiers are similar to those of automatic CD copiers. The only difference between the two is the difference between the CD and the CD-ROM. CD-ROM means CD-Read Only Memory (ROM). No additional data can be written on these CDs once they are recorded. ... The CD-ROM drives are rated with a speed factor relative to music CDs: 1x or 1-speed provides a data transfer rate of 150 kilobytes per second in the most common data format. ... For example, an 8x CD-ROM data transfer rate would be 1.2 megabytes per second.

Hard Drives by Kent Pinkerton
A hard drive, or hard disk drive (HDD), is the storage device you use in your personal computer (PC). These are non-volatile storage devices used to store the data of your computer—meaning you can be assured that whatever data is stored in these devices, it cannot easily be erased. ... Inside the HDD, there are many mechanisms that move around to perform read and write functions. ... This data is sent to a read-write head, which sends an electrical charge, executing the transaction. ... These moving parts and electrical charges could possibly cause the breakdown of your HDD, but...

How to Choose a New Hard Drive for Your Computer by Peter Stewart
If you are running out of space on your computer or find that programs load a little slow, or that big files take a long time to open, it may be time for a new hard drive. Making a more careful decision about the hard drive can mean a much longer working life for the hard drive. ... The other thing that affects pricing is the rotation speed, which is the speed at which the big disk spins inside the disk drive. ... Just briefly, it orders the read and write commands given to it in such as way as to get the tasks done quicker and with less delay.

History of the Computer - Codes for Data Transfer, Part 1 of 3 by Tony Stockill
We have seen, in the History of the Computer series, how machine code is used to operate a computer so that it can use 1s and 0s to interpret a program's intentions. But what about a code for human communication with the computer? We can variously write and read to and from different media, such... This was later accomplished by first punching the tape, and then transmitting it by feeding it through a 'high speed' reader. ... Another character, Bel was used to ring a bell on the typewriter to alert the operator.