Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Fix and Optimise Windows XP and Windows Vista

Remember when your new PC with Windows XP ran fast and snappy? Now its slow and sluggish, programs take ages to open and it’s just not fun any more. Do you need to buy a new PC? Upgrade to Vista? NO!!! You can fix all this for FREE in 5 easy steps!!! This web page will show you how to make your Windows XP PC run “as new”.

Does your new Windows Vista installation run slow, you can’t seem to get your work done and you feel you need to buy a new PC? Downgrade to XP? Maybe … But you can fix Windows Vista too for FREE quite easily with the info on this web page!

Both pages do not venture into the ‘XP vs Vista’ ideological issues, but provide practical, simple and easy-to-follow advice.

Limited By Nothing - A Different Kind of Technology Blog

Do you have a taste for computers, technology, video games, or perhaps electronic music? You should check out this alternative, different kind of blog, entitled Limited by Nothing. There’s lots of valuable information on there, such as game reviews, graphic design ideas, and even talks about viral internet phenomena. In fact, take a look at their latest article, Top Five Great Reasons to Use Linux. It mentions some great points about why should everyone consider switching from an commerical operating system (Such as Windows) to the free, open-source alternative, Linux!

Get the Most out of Skype

For help with installing and using Skype, see the detailed instructions, hints and links on this web site. It provides many little-known tips and shortcuts and well a much hard-to-find technical info. This web page is provided as a community service to help with simple access to free/cheap phone/video calls. There is also a companion page for video conferencing.

Gadget Info - Ten Little Known Facts About Radio Shack

GizmoBlogger is a nice little site devoted to bringing you news and information related to gadgets and gizmos. Every once in awhile they do a post called “ten facts” where they come up with ten little known facts about something (a company or a product) that is common in the world. The latest one is Ten Facts About Radio Shack. Very interesting.

Search Engine Optimization Info

Search engine optimization (SEO) is a way of improving both the quality and quantity of traffic to a website from search engines through “natural/organic” query results for specific keywords. Usually, the higher a site ranks in the search results, the more searchers will visit that site.

Placement near the top of the rankings increases the amount of traffic to a site. However, more search engine referrals does not guarantee more sales. SEO is not necessarily an appropriate strategy for every website, and other search engine marketing (SEM) strategies can be much more effective, depending on the site operator’s goals. A successful Internet marketing campaign may drive organic search results to pages, but it also may involve the use of paid advertising on search engines and other pages, building high quality web pages to engage and persuade, addressing technical issues that may keep search engines from crawling and indexing those sites, setting up analytics programs to enable site owners to measure their successes, and improving a site’s conversion rate.

Helping others through life spent online

I would like to bring up a project. PCMAGCOM.com is a site being built with information gathered from the world of technology. We will have everything you ever need to know from Google Adsense to Hi-Def TVs, Digital Cameras and GPS to Video Streaming and Web-Design. I want to build this into a useful online resource guide full of everything needed for people to go to. We only have limited knowledge and ask people to write in themselves for free, so please join and post. If the category is not listed, we’ll build it.

Microsoft Surface Overview

Microsoft had recently announced it plans for the release of Microsoft Surface , It was developed as a combination of software and hardware technology that makes possible to an user, or multiple users, to handle digital content by the use of natural movements, hand gestures, or even interact with physical objects. It was announced on May 29, 2007 at all things digital conference, It will be available exclusively to microsofts commercial partners in November 2007. Initial customers will be in the hospitality businesses, such as public entertainment venues, retail outlets, hotels, and restaurants.

Many have pointed that this is not the one of its kind of technology, similar devices were there since ages.

Microsoft Surface is basically a Windows Vista PC put inside a coffee table base, mounted with a 30-inch multi touch screen in a clear acrylic frame. Five cameras deployed beneath the 30inch screen are used to track the movements, gestures, objects above the screen . Users can interact with the machine by touching or dragging their fingertips and objects such as paintbrushes across the screen, or by setting real-world items tagged with special barcode labels on top of it.Currently Surface will be able to respond to 52 touches at multiple points at any given instance. Not only does Microsoft surface recognizes finger movements, it can also identify real world physical objects like paintbrush, etc.

Specifications of microsoft: Screen of MS Surface is a 30-inch (76 cm) display in a table-like form factor, 22 inches (56 cm) high, 21 inches (106 cm) deep, and 84 inches (214 cm) wide. The Surface tabletop is acrylic, and its interior frame is powder-coated steel. The software platform runs on Windows Vista and has wired Ethernet 10/100, wireless 802.11 b/g, and Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity.

Initial Prices will be around $5,000 to $10,000 per unit. However Microsoft explains the prices may drop enough to make consumer versions feasible in 3 to 5 years.
The initial machines will arrive in November at T-Mobile stores and network of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. and at Harrah’s Entertainment Inc group.

Arguments about this technology can be done here