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Your Fan is Your Computer?s Biggest?Fan
2007-04-20 14:23:00 There are several ways to keep computer fans in top running condition. Keeping your fans working well · Do not allow anything to block the venting holes or slots in your computer cases. Locate them and keep them where they can ?blow freely.? · Do not keep computers in dusty environments. You may have heard that dust can ... More About: Computer , Your
Keeping Your Computer Cool
2007-04-19 19:21:00 Some Like It Hot! But your computers do not. Exercise an extra level of common sense here: · Keep computers away from any external heat sources. These include heating equipment like radiators, heating registers and space heaters ? but also less obvious ones like TVs, microwaves, some refrigerators, large stereo components, musical instrument amplifiers and the ... More About: Computer , Cool , Your , Ping
Lightning ? Your Computer?s Mortal Enemy
2007-04-19 02:19:00 Lightning can of course cause fires, but this is comparatively rare. Lightning has a much more direct impact on electronics in the form of what are usually called ?surges.? A ?surge? is actually a number of different possible things ? let?s get scientific for just a quick second? including voltage surges, also known as over-voltage, ... More About: Lightning , Computer , Your , Light , Enemy
Kinds of Surge Suppressors
2007-04-17 17:18:00 The typical surge suppressor is a strip of grounded (three prong) outlets, with a couple of switches and as mentioned, these days often a set of ?in? and ?out? jacks for phone, Ethernet, and cable lines. The mechanism in most surge suppressors is a fairly simple ? reliable and repeatable ? circuit breaker, or a kind ... More About: Surge , Esso , Urge
Acts Of Stupidity ? Avoiding The Obvious
2007-04-16 20:16:00 Duh. Fire and lightning ? and earthquakes and terrorist attacks, which we?ll come to shortly ? these things are not your fault. Putting your computer under your desk between the space heater and your cat?s litter box, that?s just stupid. Then maybe light a fat stogie and let it burn two inches from your server?s ... More About: Stupidity , Stupid , Obvious , Avoid , The O
Food And Drink Can Harm Your Computer
2007-04-16 01:14:00 While smoking isn?t a very good idea in general, we realize you need to eat and drink, and probably like to do these things while you work. ?Mmm…delicious. Hello snack time, bye bye keyboard!? We all spend a of time in front of our computers, and as Internet marketers probably more than most (yeah, you?d rather ... More About: Food , Drink , Computer , Comp , Food and Drink
The 12-Step Program for your Drunken Keyboard
2007-04-14 19:12:00 OK, the keyboard isn?t drunk, it?s more like slightly soaked, and there aren?t really 12 steps, just a couple. If your keyboard does get wet under the keys, first stop using it because using it will just move the liquid around and possibly put it into deeper places. Next, and this is obvious but we?ll say ... More About: Board , Your , Drunk , Prog , Keyboard
Other Reasons To Not Eat Around Your Computer
2007-04-13 20:12:00 The focus of this article is on keeping your data and machines safe, but we might as take a moment and consider the well-being of you, the intrepid owner of said assets. You shouldn?t eat on or around your computer for its sake, but probably for your own as well. Studies repeatedly show that overexposure ... More About: Computer , Other , Comp , Your , Reason
Dealing With Mother Nature
2007-04-11 20:20:00 Earthquakes And The Resident Klutz For those on the West Coast, earthquakes are not as outlandish a possibility as they may sound. There have been 23 significant (about magnitude 6) earthquakes in California since 1933, and dozens of smaller ones. Tremors happen with some regularity along California fault lines and shaking your office building around is ... More About: Nature , Other , With , Mother Nature , Mother
How To Keep Your Online Business Safe From Server Interuptions
2007-04-03 21:28:00 As an Inter net marketing professional, one truth of the business is that when your Website doesn?t work, you have no business. Server interruptions can cost serious Internet Marketers thousands of dollars in just a few hours of down time. Funny enough, most marketers don?t have a backup plan in place when a server goes down ... More About: Business , Online Business , How To , Your
How To Keep Your Computer Bug Free
2007-04-02 19:12:00 Remember that science class gross-out moment when you learned that there are little critters living all over your body, in your eyelashes and stuff? Well they don?t bother you. It takes a bigger creature or one with a nasty agenda to really make life unpleasant. Your computer, while it is not a living thing, would ... More About: How To , Computer , Free , Comp
A Clean Computer Is A Happy Computer
2007-03-31 17:06:00 Cleanliness is next to Godliness, remember? OK, maybe you?re an atheist. In which case cleanliness is better than broke-down -computerness. You need to clean your computer, but you need to do it intelligently or the cleaning process will do more damage than the gunk and dust you?re cleaning off. Here?s a basic list of what ... More About: Computer , Comp , Lean , Clean , Happy
Rules For Cleaning Your Computer
2007-03-28 14:13:00 Never spray anything directly on anything. Put any liquid (water, alcohol, Windex, whatever) on a cloth, wipe or swab before applying it. Avoid solvents. Clean the case Wipe down all surfaces with a slightly damp (water) lint-free cloth. You should avoid using any solvents including alcohol on plastics if you can. If you have really ... More About: Computer , Cleaning , Comp , Lean , Your
How To Keep Your Computer Data Safe
2007-03-27 21:41:00 ?Backing Up Is For Sissies? That?s a funny slogan from the latter days of the ?insider? era of computing, an in-joke among computer geeks who were trying to assert that being a computer geek doesn?t mean you can?t be tough. Being a computer geek ? excuse us, Internet entrepreneur ? does mean that you shouldn’t be ... More About: How To , Computer , Comp , Data , Your
Using External Hard Drives To Backup Your Computer
2007-03-25 23:24:00 Let?s consider total system backups first. In the old days, you would back up from your hard disk, which was probably about 10 MB, to a floppy disk, which could have been as much as 1.44 MB. You could back up a whole HD to a handful of floppies in about a half hour, just ... More About: Backup , Computer , Drive , Comp , Your
Using CD And DVD Discs To Backup Your Important Files
2007-03-25 00:58:00 For portability, archiving, and in some situations backups, CD or DVD discs can be useful. The drives are ubiquitous, the media cheap and easy to deal with. Bear in mind however that the media are also more fragile than some people think and they do somewhat degrade over time. We?re all for saving dough but ... More About: Backup , Port , Your , Dvd , Back
Where To Buy Computer Protection Products
2007-03-24 20:51:00 Now that we?ve covered a lot of ground in terms of what you should be thinking about doing with your systems to keep them safe from threats large and small, let?s get practical and tactical and spend the next bunch of pages taking a much closer look at some of the equipment and services you ... More About: Products , Computer , Product , Comp , Here
Understanding UPS For Computers
2007-03-24 16:07:00 Know Your APCs As previously mentioned, the king of the heap in power products is APC ? American Power Conversion. Once premium priced across their lines, APC have delivered a huge variety of options that can meet the power needs of almost any individual or business. Based in Rhode Island, these guys have been around since ... More About: Computers , Computer , Comp , Understand , Standing
Power Related Products For your Computer
2007-03-23 19:53:00 If you are buying a UPS for all of your core equipment, you almost certainly do not need to buy suppressor equipment additionally. All UPS units are suppressors and some even have dedicated outlets for extra equipment that goes beyond the UPS power supply capacity. If you don?t have a UPS or you have only ... More About: Power , Products , Computer , Product , Comp
How To Keep Your Computer Cool
2007-03-23 14:50:00 In case your fans are not really doing an adequate job, there are several ways to help them out. The most popular units for office environments are liquid cooling systems, which work by adding a medium that draws heat faster than a fan alone can blow it. Hard drives generate a lot of heat ? ... More About: How To , Computer , Cool , Comp , Your
Buying Uninterruptible Power Supplies For your Computer
2007-03-23 13:48:00 As previously mentioned, the king of the heap in power products is APC ? American Power Conversion. Once premium priced across their lines, APC have delivered a huge variety of options that can meet the power needs of almost any individual or business. Based in Rhode Island, these guys have been around since 1981 and ... More About: Buying , Computer , Inter , Comp
How To Create A Realistic Plan For Success
2007-03-19 22:41:00 Every one of us wants to be successful, but we often rely on luck and chance to achieve our goals. The best example in this case is someone who wants to get rich but only has one alternative: playing the Lotto. Of course, there are chances of becoming rich over night, but how likely is ... More About: How To , Success , List , Real , Plan
Why You Need To Worry About Malware
2007-03-17 15:23:00 As a successful entrepreneur you need to communicate all day, every day, with your customers, suppliers, partners, employees, and others. You need to keep records. You need to have reliable access to email and the internet. Nasty little software programs are out there which will slow, snarl or even stop your computer and your Internet ... More About: Malware , War , Ware , About , Worry
How Viruses Affect Your Computer
2007-03-16 13:03:00 First let?s take a quick look at the three major categories of malware. In the biggest categorical sense, viruses and spyware represent very different basic issues. The purpose of a software virus is to cause damage, either to your machine, or to use your machine in a coordinated attack on other machines or indeed, on the ... More About: Virus , Computer , Comp , Your , Viruses
AdWare Can Be Friendly Spyware
2007-03-14 21:07:00 Adware is the less-malicious cousin of spyware. Often ?adware? is designed to simply pay attention to your browsing habits at certain sites or kinds of sites and tell a server someplace what kinds of ads and other information to include on the pages shown to you. In this sense ? the most generous view ? ... More About: Adware , Spyware , War , Ware , Friend
What Are Computer Viruses?
2007-03-13 19:34:00 You?re probably familiar with viruses, as they have been around the longest and most people are familiar with ?virus software,? more accurately termed virus detection and removal software. A computer virus is normally an executable program that arrives on your computer hidden within something else, like an email, or an email attachment. The typical computer virus ... More About: Virus , Computer , Comp , What , Hat
Various Ways Viruses Can Affect Your Computer
2007-03-12 15:16:00 What viruses do varies but it is always bad, if sometimes amusing. Some will try to destroy your computer (on the software level, although some will actually ?physically? harm your hard drive disks). Some will simply replicate themselves, for example, sending copies of themselves to everyone in your Microsoft Outlook contact lists, then to everyone ... More About: Virus , Computer , Comp , Your , Vari
The Best Anti-Virus Software
2007-03-11 23:19:00 Norton is now owned by Symantec, a company that itself helped pioneer virus and other computer security software. Norton was a former competitor of Symantec?s. The Norton Antivirus, which is typically offered in a major version revision each year ? Antivirus 2003, Antivirus 2004, Antivirus 2005 and so on ? is one of the best investments ... More About: Software , Anti Virus , Virus , Anti-Virus , War
Why You Shouldn?t Rely On Your ISP?s Virus Software
2007-03-10 14:04:00 Many ISPs ? Internet Service Providers, the people you contract with to get your dial up, DSL, cable, or satellite connection ? currently offer some level of virus prevention that may be invisible to you, or may be optional but included software. This is great but it is usually not enough. For example, many of the ... More About: Software , Virus , War , Ware , Your
How Often Should You Update Anti-Virus Definitions?
More articles from this author:2007-03-09 23:54:00 Like any ?cat and mouse? situation, the smarter the antivirus software gets, the smarter the makers of the viruses try to be. Whether for the intellectual challenge of it or for other reasons, new viruses are continually being developed and sent around the Internet literally, every day, and many of these viruses are specifically designed ... More About: Anti Virus , Virus , Anti-Virus , Definitions , Update 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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