Buying Laptop?

How to choose a laptop?

What kind of laptop to look for?
Basically it depends on the user itself. But below is an important checklist:

- Price
- Shape
- Size
- Weight
- Keyboard
- Pointing device
- Temperature (No overheat issue)
- Screen Size and Resolution
- USB 2.0, FireWire, Bluetooth connections
- Network Connectivity: LAN, Wireless networking
- DVD-RW player
- WebCam
- Antitheft device for security purpose.
- Warranty
- Compatibility with other hardware
- Faster CPU
- Better battery life
- Hard Disk (SATA)
- Memory
- 3D Graphic card

Anymore suggestion to be added in the checklist?

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May 5, 2008 | Filed Under Tech Tips | Leave a Comment

How to Become a Professional in Digital Photography

Reveals the Professional Tips And Tricks For Taking Awesome Photos With Your Digital Camera

(best for newbie and intermediate user)

Are you frustrated with not being able to take high-quality photos with your Digital Camera?

You’re just a click away from learning the simple and satisfying tricks used by professionals to take one amazing pic after another.

Guide to Learn Digital Photography

Enjoy!

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May 2, 2008 | Filed Under Tech Tips | Leave a Comment

View your Online Photos on a 3D FullScreen Wall with PicLens

Take a look at this picture carefully. This online photo album was generated by PicLens. It will display all the photos from the particular website on a full screen 3D wall. From there you can have a very relaxing and comfortable 3D experience feel. This is far more better and cooler than Windows Vista 3D feature. You can simply zoom in and out and scroll around with unlimited of pictures on it. I just can tell that this is so freaking cool. The photo album is so smooth and fast. It is very flexible to use.

Amazing? You now can view your favorite website in fullscreen 3D.

Supported site: Google Images, Facebook, Picasa, devianArt, MySpace, Yahoo images, Live Images, AOL Images and more.

Remember to check out their official site PicLens.com for more information on supported websites.

Download the plugin here for your browser:

Internet Explorer | FireFox

Do you know that you can even have them on your website and blogs too?

Check this: PicLens for websites and blogs

Live Demo from Piclens

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April 11, 2008 | Filed Under Tech Tips | Leave a Comment

Factor No.1 That Caused Major Slowdown in PCs

Computer experts researched that 90% PCs slowdown is due to overloaded with software in their computers. Basically this is the software running in the background and other software which is loaded in the memory all the time. New computers are very fast at first but after certain period due to some patches, upgrade of drivers and so on. Computer tend to slowdown day by day.

This is not due to lack of memory. So to overcome this problem, I suggest you guys to configure your startup and services properly. Remove unnecessary software, drivers and windows services.

This will certainly improve your computer speed and performances.

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April 5, 2008 | Filed Under Tech Tips | Leave a Comment

Fix Desktop White Dot Bug When Using Latest ATI 8.1 Drivers

Problem:

With the install of the 8.1 drivers, There is a white dot showing on the top left corner of the desktop. This is a bug caused by ATI CCC.

Quick Solution:

Go to ATI Catalyst Control Center, disable the tray icon.

And this will fix the annoying white dot bug.

According to ATI, the bug will be fixed in the next release of the latest ATI display driver. Please refer to ATI official website for latest updates of driver.

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February 18, 2008 | Filed Under Tech Tips | Leave a Comment

Dvd Copying and Ripping Definitions

Rip
To take off the audio or video from a CD or DVD. Often CD Audio is “ripped” to MP3 files or DVD video ripped to VOB files.

Compression
The process of removing redundancies in digital data to reduce the amount that must be stored or transmitted. Lossless compression removes only enough redundancy so that the original data can be recreated exactly as it was. Lossy compression sacrifices additional data to achieve greater compression.

Encoding
Encoding is the process of changing data from one form into another according to a set of rules specifiec by a codec. The data is usually a file containing audio, video or still image. Often the encoding is done to make a file compatible with specific hardware (such as a DVD Player) or to compress or reduce the space the data occupies.

Common video encoding methods are DivX, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. A common audio encoding method is MP3 although many others exist including MPEG1 audio, DTS, and Dolby Digital.

Transcoding
On this site generally another name for encoding.

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