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Why the PC May Win in the Mac vs PC Fight

July 4, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

There is a major push for people to toss their PC’s out the window and make the switch to a Mac. Before you take your home computer and join in on the revolution of Mac computers, you may want to consider why you purchased the PC in the first place. The media and bloggers might [...]

Filed Under: Advancements, Evolution of the Internet Tagged With: Macintosh, Operating system, Personal computer

The First Computer Virus

June 28, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Image via Wikipedia Computer viruses are the plague that every computer user fears. To inoculate ourselves from data oblivion, we purchase increasingly more sophisticated anti-viral software.  We owe it all to Richard Skrenta, who, in 1982 at the age of 15, created the first wild computer virus to infect home computers. Why would he do [...]

Filed Under: Advancements Tagged With: Anti-Virus, Computer virus, Elk Cloner

How do you know when it’s time to redo your site?

June 18, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

A business website is not meant to be a static entity, but rather, it is supposed to change along with the developments of the business itself. While your entire site doesn’t need to be updated as frequently as its content, it should be retooled–from the layout to its functionality–every so often to keep up with the company’s progress [...]

Filed Under: Web Design Help

Birth of the Web Browser

June 17, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Image via Wikipedia Web browsers—we all have our favorites whether it be Internet Explore, Opera,  Firefox, or Bing.  Yet few of us know who started it all.  Who were the people who gave us the capability to have information literally at our fingertips twenty-four hours a day? The web browser was first conceived in the [...]

Filed Under: Evolution of the Internet Tagged With: Mozilla Firefox, Netscape Navigator, Tim Berners-Lee

Computer Mice–A History

June 6, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Image via Wikipedia Mice—if we have a computer we probably have at least one.  Unlike their mammalian cousins, computer mice are helpful mechanisms that control the coordinates of our cursor on the computer screen. What you may not know is that the computer mouse is nearly 60 years old.  The first, top-secret computer mouse was [...]

Filed Under: Software Tagged With: Douglas Engelbart, Mouse, Royal Canadian Navy

7 Beginner Tips for Web Design

May 23, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Designing an appealing website is a great way to attract customers and readers to a site promoting anything. With individuals able to access the internet anywhere, a company without a website can’t compete with those that maintain an interactive and informative site. Here are seven tips that can help new web designers. 1. Keep a [...]

Filed Under: Interface Design

Simple ways to fix Computer Errors

May 22, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Computer may get repaired and even get many errors because of so many reasons. Sometimes, the errors may look very simple and sometimes it looks very difficult to understand. But, most of these errors can be easily fixed on own by following simple techniques. Here are few simple ways to fix computer errors on own. [...]

Filed Under: Usability Tips Tagged With: Dynamic-link library, Personal computer, Windows Registry
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