How to Keep Your Laptop Out of Thieves' Hands

Here are six guidelines to help you avoid seeing your notebook PC disappear!

Refurbished Laptops for Students - Do They Make Sense?

As a former college student, I remember the chief complaint that my friends and I had -which was lack of funds. Trekking to the computer lab late at night was not only inconvenient, but (especially for my female friends), not the safest thing in the world to have to do. Having my own laptop computer would make things alot simpler, but should I finance a laptop using money I didn’t have, or should I look at purchasing refurbished?

No Strings Attached – Panasonic Phones

Make your life easy and free of cords with new age cordless phones like Panasonic phones. These cordless phones also come with amazing features that make life easy and colourful.

How to Select a Laptop

Buying a laptop is very much like buying a new car. It is something that laptop users look forward to, but hate at the same time. For one thing, manufacturers are consistently updating their machines to keep up with competitors and to make what their customers tell them are needed improvements. Unfortunately, what seems like a good idea to one person may be a turn-off to another...

How To Buy A Laptop - 5 Basic Steps to the Right Laptop For You

How do you buy a laptop? Choosing the right laptop computer can be a daunting task. So many choices. Take some advice from someone who has helped a lot of people find just the right laptop for their situation. It's all boiled down to 5 Basic Steps that you can easily follow to determine what laptop is right for you.

Common Causes of Battery Failure - Part 2

All batteries will ultimately fail, stop working, and cease to operate, and or otherwise end their useful life. It is the reality of a consumable product. But sometimes batteries can warp, bubble, and even explode. Batteries can also fail due to incompatible designs or improperly selected hardware, and batteries can fail due to customer misuse or abuse. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission each year deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product incidents cost U.S. taxpayers more than $700 billion annually.

Common Causes of Battery Failure – Part 1

All batteries will ultimately fail, stop working, and cease to operate, and or otherwise end their useful life. It is the reality of a consumable product. The cost to operate a replacement battery in your device, however, is relatively cheap so it is not a catastrophe when batteries stop working (although certainly an inconvenience). Yet when batteries do fail have you ever wondered why? In my next series I will look more closely at the common causes of battery failure including battery degradation, batteries that that warp, bubble or explode, batteries with incompatible designs or hardware, and battery misuse.

Dissecting A Smart Battery – Part 2

In part 1 of Dissecting A Smart Battery I mentioned that smart batteries have contained within them specialized hardware that when working in concert provides the power necessary to run a device such as a PDA, digital camera, or ipod player. Continuing the dissection of a smart battery this article of the series will look at the smart battery's fuse, charge and discharge FETs, the cell pack, and the sense resistor (RSENSE) to discover what role they each play within the smart battery.

Discover New Uses For Your Sony PSP System With The New Update

Your Sony PSP system can be used for much more than just playing games. The Playstation can be used to play video clips, download and play music, store and view photos, and more.

Laptop Repair (Power Sockets)

Here we'll try to explain, some of the most common laptop repairs that we carry out, and hopefully from that you'll be a little more informed as to what to ask/enquirer about should yours go wrong in the future. I'll list them in not any particular order, but they all count as common laptop repair types.

Tale of Two Phones

Almost the exact opposite of the iPhone, the Neo1973 is a phone you've probably never even heard of, from a Taiwanese company called FIC, better known for making computers and PC motherboards. Relative obscurity isn't the only thing that sets the Neo1973 apart, however. Unlike the iPhone and most other mobile handsets in the market, the Neo1973 smart phone uses open source software developed on a platform called OpenMoko. In this sense, it is even more revolutionary than the iPhone.

Laptop Categories - The Differences

A quick insight into the different categories laptops may fall into. Mainstream laptops Your mainstream laptop category is made up of your average do it all system with a 15.4 inch widescreen display, weighing in at around the 3-4 kilo mark. It'll have a wifi card a few usb ports and about 512mb ...

The 5 Reasons For The LG Chocolate’s Success

Get the top 5 reasons for the tremendous success of the LG Chocolate Mobile phone, the current rage of the cellphone loving public