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| .:What are LCD, DLP, Plasma TVs? |
| .:Posted by BorgX on Saturday, October 20 @ 11:18:23 MST (313 reads) |
Now that the “big” 32” CRT television in your living room is fading fast, it’s time to deep six it and upgrade in style. But if you’ve been out of the television technology loop for the last few years, there are a number of unfamiliar terms and concepts (not to mention acronyms!) to contend with.
So where do you start, and what exactly is the best choice for you? You want picture quality, you want a long lifespan, you want a TV that is ready for the upcoming FCC-mandated DTV (Digital Television) transition in 2009 (or until they change the date again) and, most importantly, you want bang for your buck! But before you crack open your wallet, you should do some homework. First you’ll see a bunch of unfamiliar terms, like plasma, LCD, projection, DLP, and then you’ll have to decipher them.
Under the Hood:
DLP (Digital Light Processing) HDTV (High Definition Television) is a proprietary product of Texas Instruments. DLP is descendant of digital film projector technology which uses DMD (Digital Multi-mirror Device) chips, each containing millions of tiny mirrors. A projection light is passed through a rotating color wheelbefore striking the chip – producing up to 16 million different colorshades.
LCD televisions consist of two polarizing transparent panels with a liquid crystal solution in between. This technology uses florescent light, which is scattered by a white diffusion panel. In an LCD Television, each color pixel (picture element) is created by three sub-pixels with red, green, and blue color filters. LCD technology allows each pixel on the screen tobe activated individually.
Plasma screens are made up of hundreds of thousands RGB (red, green, and blue) pixels, which depend on argon, neon, and xenon gases (sealed between glass panels) to be electrically charged, which generates light and ultimately the picture. Plasma screens are more closely related to traditional television screens.
Pros and Cons of various display technologies:
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| .:Windows Vista |
| .:Posted by BorgX on Saturday, October 20 @ 10:52:58 MST (239 reads) |
Are you ready for a brand new day? You may have heard it, seen it fleetingly in neighborhood electronic shops, and it didn’t make big headlines like the debut of the Macintosh during Super Bowl Sunday or become the “End of the World as We Know It.” The “it” here is Microsoft’s successor to its hugely popular Windows XP operating system, Windows Vista.
Vista was finally released to the public on January 30, 2007, five and a half years in the making. The positives: Vista drastically improves upon security (sometimes to the point of annoyance) and sports a more intuitive look and feel. The negatives: As in any release of the Windows OS, you need to have relatively new hardware to run it, and running it on the “minimum” specification won’t get you anywhere but frustrated.
Of course, as was common in their XP software, there are multiple versions of Vista and not all versions come with the same features. All in all, it’s a worthy successor to its siblings, moving Windows closer to “Mac-like” proportions.
Here's a rundown of Vista’s features:
A New Attitude – Vista’s Improved Look and Feel
Vista takes a drastic detour from its predecessors by taking advantage of recent improvements in graphical technology and rendering crisp, smooth graphics – the Aero glass interface. Aero, available in all Vista releases except for Home Basic, is an acronym for Authentic, Energetic, Reflective and Open.
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| .:5 Ways to Block Spam… |
| .:Posted by BorgX on Monday, April 10 @ 00:19:54 MST (454 reads) |
Spam is one of those things that nobody wants, but probably has plenty of. If there happens to be anyone out there unfamiliar with spam, we are not talking about the luncheon meat, but the unsolicited, junk e-mail that clogs our inboxes. And in case you are curious, according to some sources, the junk mail version of spam earned its name from a Monty Python skit regarding the luncheon meat of the same name. Care to sing along? From offers for prescription drugs, to mortgage refinancing, to sexually explicit content, spam can leave us having to sift through mounds of trash to find the few messages we actually care to read. Although eliminating all junk e-mail may be impossible, there are several steps than can be taken to all but eliminate spam from your inbox.
1. Protect Your E-mail Address
One of the best strategies for avoiding spam is to protect your personal e-mail address. Your best defense is for the spammers to not even know you exist, but this is a difficult task to accomplish. Many spam mailing lists are created by harvesting e-mail addresses from websites where your information may be displayed. Newsgroups, bulletin boards, and chat rooms are just a few examples of places where spammers may run scripts to collect anything that resembles an e-mail address. Many sites, such as bulletin boards, have safeguards to protect their members, but it does nothing if these members post their personal information in one of their posts, their signature, or somewhere else that puts the information in plain sight. In addition, signing up with unknown sources for online contests, mailing lists, and similar occasions where you need to provide an address as part of the registration process may also expose your address to spammers. Using your best judgment is your best defense. If you want to keep your mailbox clean, keep your address private, only giving it out to trusted parties.
2. Create a Spam E-Mail Account
Protecting your e-mail address is easier said than done, and if you find that it is impossible to keep your personal e-mail address completely private, a separate account may be the solution.
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| .:Securing You Wireless Network |
| .:Posted by BorgX on Saturday, October 20 @ 11:01:04 MST (223 reads) |
A home wireless network is an easy and convenient way to share an Internet connection and other resources among the computers in your home. While a couple of people that I know leave their wireless networks available to anyone and everyone, most of us want to keep our home wireless networks private.
The core of your wireless network is the router. By carrying out some easy-to-do configuration on your router, you can ensure that only the people who you want to have access to your network will be able to.
Note: The procedures in this story for configuring a router are for a Linksys WRT54GS router. You'll probably have to modify the specific instructions if you're using a router from another vendor, but the concepts are the same.
Passwords on Your Router
You configure most routers using a Web browser. When connect to the router, you need to log in. Every router has a default password, like admin. As this article points out, most people don't bother to change that password. Doing that is simple, though and should ALWAYS be done.
Log into your router. Then, click Administration > Management. Enter a password in the Router Password and Re-enter to confirm fields. You should rotate this password regularly. I generally do it every two weeks to a month. If you need to create a strong and secure password, then check out the Strong Password Generator Web site.
Locking Down MAC Addresses
All ethernet adapters, which enable users to access a network, each have a unique 12-digit identifier called a MAC address.
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| .:Internet Piracy |
| .:Posted by BorgX on Saturday, October 20 @ 10:41:00 MST (270 reads) |
Surely you’ve encountered the “Dear Valued Customer”, “Verify Your Account” or “If you don’t respond within 48 hours, your account will be closed” emails flying across the screen, threatening corrective action unless you take the time to respond. Worse yet, what about those pesky pop-up windows that sporadically appear when you visit your bank’s website, urging you to verify account details...
Welcome to the world of Internet piracy and malware, where phishing for dollars nets more prize money for fraudsters than Bob Barker could ever give away in a single Showcase Showdown. Acting as legitimate business entities, phishers flood your inboxes with emails demanding personal information (i.e., your username, password, social security or driver’s license numbers, banking or credit card numbers) in order to mollify some threat of dire financial consequence. They are responsible for the pop-up messages at legitimate websites, or they can spoof these same legitimate websites, employing official logos (hijacked directly from official websites) and other company paraphernalia as integral parts of their scams. They deploy Trojan keystroke loggers and viruses to your PC in order snatch what you type away from your fingertips. They may call by phone, using the same threats and tactics to collect tidbits about your life using “social engineering”. In fact, hackers may even take advantage of backdoor security lapses in broadband routers to change DNS settings that re-route traffic to their own websites, executing malicious JavaScript code to mimic legitimate websites and hijack your router. Hackers then have access to any username or password combinations you enter as you surf the web.
Armed with your private information, phishers can wreak havoc on your financial well-being – applying for credit cards and loans, enjoying shopping sprees at Internet merchants, and draining bank accounts at the speed of light faster than you can say “identity theft.” Just because something looks and sounds legitimate doesn’t mean that it is, and you’re not alone; even the most Internet-savvy users face the dangers of identity theft if they’re not careful.
According to a joint report issued by the US Department of Homeland Security and the Anti-Phishing Working Group, online thievery is a billion dollar industry and growing in sophistication as technology advances.
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