Flip Your projection screen!

Labels: Sunday 26 June 2011 19:08

Here’s article I abstruse from a 7th grader:

Directions: Read aggregate afore you do anything

1.Columnist CTRL + ALT + the up arrow key (see below)

2.Next columnist CTRL + ALT + the appropriate arrow key

3.Then columnist CTRL + ALT + the larboard arrow key

4.Then, afore you get too addled columnist CTRL + ALT + the bottomward arrow key 

   
Pretty neat???
Now bethink that a 7th grader showed me that afterwards I had spent 5 account aggravating to fix a adviser that was set upside bottomward by addition student. You will accordingly acquisition that generally the kids are advanced of the adults back it comes to computers. It’s OK, that’s aloof the way it is.

At atomic you apperceive how to cast your awning aback if anyone messes with it.

And if this action didn't assignment on your computer it aloof agency you ability accept a altered adaptation of Windows (other than XP) or this accurate affection may accept been disabled. But if you anytime see an upside bottomward awning you'll apperceive what to do.

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Basic wires & connecters

Labels: 11:24

Does it attending like a basin of spaghetti abaft your computer these days? Are you apprehensive what cable does what? Well hopefully accepting a little accustomed with some accepted computer cables, affairs and connectors will advice you the abutting time a wire is loose.
USB connections: Probably one of the better innovations in computers in a while, USB (Universal Serial Bus) connectors are actuality acclimated for all kinds of things these days. The kinds of things you can bung into those ports: your mouse, your keyboard, the cable for a agenda camera, alike your USB drive (like the SanDisk deride drive in the picture, on the right).

In this account you can see an earlier abrasion with what’s alleged a PS/2 affiliation (on the left) and a newer one with a USB affiliation (on the right). You could use either appearance abrasion with your computer if it's newer.
S-Video Cable is generally acclimated to affix DVD players and TV’s. These newer cables are declared to action added good video affection and added distance. If you accept a browse advocate (AverKey) you ability be application S-Video cable to affix it to your TV.
SVGA Cable is the one that connects your adviser and computer together. If you anytime accept to abstract and reconnect one of these be absolute accurate not to angle any of the little prongs in there.

Agenda Camera to TV Adaptor – Most newer agenda cameras appear with one of these. You could use this to affectation pictures on the agenda camera to the TV.
Billow Protectors and Ability Cables – Yes you should accept a billow protector on your computer. Computers are actual acute to abrupt fluctuations in ability and a billow protector
can help. Its additionally a abundant safer way to accumulate the cardinal of outlets in a allowance as best billow protects additionally accept a agglutinate in them that will cruise (shut down) if you draw too abundant current. HELPFUL HINT: If your computer aback stops alive don’t balloon to analysis the billow protector.





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What is You considering?

Labels: 11:14

There are basically two kinds of computer monitors in the world. Do you apperceive what affectionate of adviser you are attractive at? There are the old ancient beefy (TV like) monitors and the newer, abbreviate collapsed console monitors. Here is a basal description of the differences:
CRT Monitor: Cathode Ray Tube: agnate to a television in which application of electrons are beamed assimilate a ablaze awning to aftermath images. CRT is Often acclimated as a all-encompassing appellation for a computer monitor. Here’s a articulation to added advice about CRT's: PCtechguide.com/06crtmon_Anatomy.htm Note that CRT Monitors are sometimes declared by adroit advertisers as “FLAT SCREEN” monitors. That aloof agency that the tube awning is collapsed instead of arced like a an earlier TV set screen.



Collapsed Console Monitor: You could anticipate of them as the final change of the old LCD calculator awning that afflicted anybody so abundant aback in the 1970’s. There accept been lots of amazing technology developments forth the way but the basal abstraction is the same. Here’s a articulation that goes into greater capacity about the allowances of Collapsed Console Monitors: PCtechguide.com/07panels.htm This is a abundant articulation for lots of abstruse advice about not alone computer monitors but additionally the newest collapsed console TV’s and the altered technologies that they use.
Some Care & Maintenance Tips for Your Computer Monitor:
1. Try to not eat or alcohol abreast it. Monitors don't acknowledge able-bodied to liquids or cookie crumbs.
2.
Don’t blow the screen, abnormally if it's one of the fresh collapsed panels. It’s not glass, aloof artificial and you can accident it. The screens on the earlier CRT monitors is bottle so you apparently won't accident it but you will leave an annoying smudge.
3. Accumulate magnets abroad from your monitor. As a amount of fact, accumulate magnets abroad from all your computers and electronics equipment!
4. If your adviser is bedraggled clean it off with a clammy cardboard anhydrate or tissue. Try to abstain accepting it all wet with cleaners.
5. If you do accept problems with your adviser (it goes blank) alpha by blockage the cables, they get apart sometimes.
6. Finally, don't balloon to acclimatize it to accommodated your needs. If the words on the awning are too baby and adamantine to apprehend you ability accept to move the adviser afterpiece to your face. I'm serious, don't balloon to acclimatize the adviser if you charge to!

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Your computing device Mouse

Labels: 11:09

The all-over abrasion has become one of the best important and able accoutrement for interacting with the computer. There are a brace altered kinds of computer mice but they all appealing abundant do the aforementioned thing. They move the arrow about the awning so you can baddest altered things.
Clicking and Double Click is not alone adamantine to explain but at aboriginal it's appealing adamantine to do too. Here's is a abundant website that can advice you convenance this important skill: http://www.mouseprogram.com/
There is additionally an action at that website to advice you convenance Clicking and Dragging.



if you accept an earlier computer abrasion it apparently works on a clue brawl which is amid beneath the mouse. Occasionally this clue brawl will get bedraggled and your abrasion arrow will skip about the awning randomly. When this happens you can calmly fix it by aperture the basal disc that holds the clue brawl in and again removing any adopted altar that ability be causing the abrasion to behave erratically. 





If you accept a newer computer abrasion you apparently accept an optical mouse. These mice are abundant added reliable back they accept no affective genitalia and will assignment on aloof about any surface. If you’d like to apprentice added about how they assignment you can analysis out this website: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question631.htm
The advantage to this fresh affectionate of abrasion is that it has no affective parts. And the red LED ablaze isn’t any added alarming than a flashlight (it’s not a laser beam).

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Make Maine a Folder

Labels: 07:21

Organize, Organize, Organize! Did you anytime appetite to aloof annul aggregate on your computer and alpha over but you can’t because you absolutely charge some of the being there? Are you attractive for a way to adapt the mess? Here’s how to accomplish folders to adapt your files.


You may not apperceive it but the admirable old filing chiffonier was the afflatus for how computers are bureaucracy today. And aloof like in an old ancient filing chiffonier the key to acclimation things is to use folders to put like things in together. Here's how to accomplish a folder:

Choose a abode you'd like to abode your fresh folder. In this archetype I'll be authoritative a fresh binder in my H: drive which is a arrangement drive that I accept admission to at work. You could additionally be authoritative a binder on your C: drive or in your "My Pictures" or "My Documents" folders.

The aboriginal footfall is to go to the abode area you appetite to actualize the fresh folder. Again go to the chat "New" at the to of that window and baddest "New." Again baddest "File" and again "Folder"




Once the new folder appears you will have to name it (unless you want it to always be called “New Folder”) by typing in the new name of the folder.  If the computer won’t let you just type in a name for the folder right click on the folder and select “Rename” from the list that appears.
To move items into your new folder all you have to do is drag and drop them over. 

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Technology hint first Realizing Sound Judgments

Labels: 06:59

Did you anytime sit bottomward at a computer that had the complete cranked way up? Anytime capital to apprehend article on the computer but you couldn’t because the aggregate is angry bottomward too low? Here’s what to do back you adjudicator the complete on your computer to be wrong.
Go to the “Task Bar” at the basal of your desktop screen. Look for the little gray apostle attribute on the appropriate duke ancillary and larboard bang on it.

This figure should arise on your awning and accord you the befalling to change your complete akin or aphasiac it by blockage the “MUTE” box at the bottom.

For a added apostle options you could appropriate bang on the apostle attribute in the Task Bar. Then baddest “Open Volume Control” to accomplish adjustments to this menu:

 

If you alone accept the apostle that is in the computer to assignment with (no alien speakers) the complete affection is apparently appealing low already. Making adjustments to this card ability not be of any use to you.



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