Monday, May 2, 2011

How To Reset Windows 7 To Factory Settings

If you don?t have a Windows 7 Installation CD and forgot to create a System Restore point you can still make your Windows as good as new with a few steps. It’s better to reset your PC to factory settings than reinstalling in most cases because you won?t loose any User Files and also resetting [...]

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How To Find The Cost of Running Your PC or Laptop

Want to know how much you shell out daily for running your computer? If you are concerned about the electricity bills and� use your computer or laptop for more than 4 hours a day, then this is some thing for you to consider. Most people buy the computer systems without looking into the purpose of [...]

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Switched On: Honeycomb or the highway

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

During the holiday season of 2009 when netbooks were the hot commodity, Apple lost share in the PC market. It had nothing to compete with the sunken prices and shrunken sizes of those miniature laptops. PC vendors such as ASUS and Acer, on the other hand, did well in the netbook segment, as they could call on their expertise in building inexpensive Windows notebooks.

After the iPad's introduction, though, the tablets were turned. While many PC vendors loathed the low profitability of netbooks, they were now faced with competing with their own products. With the exception of HP, which shelled out billions of dollars for webOS, the iPad set PC vendors scrambling to choose which operating system might best compete. Is it Windows, the devil they know, or Android, where they have far less experience than competitors from the smartphone market?

Switched On has already taken on the role that Windows might play in future tablets, but what about Honeycomb? In contrast to the original version of Android, which was in the works prior to the introduction of the iPhone, Honeycomb arrived a year after the iPad. Android licensees, particularly smartphone vendors, surely beseeched Google for a tablet-optimized version of their preferred mobile OS. But Google may also be a victim of the iPad's jujitsu.

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How To Make Windows 7 Faster and Responsive by 2X

These days most of the computer system’s come up with loads of ram installed. 2GB is the minimum memory which people are currently asking for. Windows 7 is a much faster and stable operating system that the previous ones. But windows will use only a definite amount of memory even if we have much more [...]

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The iPhone Apps Everyone Should Have April 2011


The end of the month is here, and that means it’s time to do a little housekeeping on our list of the absolute best iPhone apps. Who will be inducted? Who will unceremoniously get the boot? (more…)

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