February 09, 2009 by
Jason
Setting up a wired or wireless home network has many benefits than just having Internet access for multiple computers in your home. Today, it’s almost a necessity to be able to plug in or connect via wireless to your network from any room in your house.
With many people who set up a home network, they end up under utilizing their home network and only use it for Internet access, attached to one computer.
Today, that kind of network setup is old school. Adding a router to your network, turns a home network into a LAN (Local Area Network) opening up many possibilities of what you can do on your network. Even if you have just have one Computer, many devices exist (other than computers) that are network capable, allowing interaction with other.
So what can you do with all this technology? Here are ten uses for what you can do on your home network. Read More»
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November 19, 2008 by
Jason Some music fans hide shameful little secrets in their basements, garages, and crawlspaces: pleather carrying cases and shoe boxes filled with audio cassettes the sad jetsam of the digital media revolution. I used to run across my own water-damaged box about once a month while I searched for places to stash the latest haul of diapers from the warehouse store. Whenever I tossed it around, my music tapes rattled in protest, and I felt a little pang of regret that I had let my high school memories slowly degrade on magnetic tape. Before my cassettes joined my black Chucks and suburban teen angst in 80’s slacker heaven, I decided to grant them immortality by converting them into digital media files.
You might have your own fading memories trapped on cassette tapes, but now there is something you can do about it. There are a variety of tools you can use to convert analog recordings to digital sound files external sound cards, encoding software, even USB tape decks. Before you begin, however, you should know that any conversion process you use will take some time and will ultimately sound, well, like an old cassette tape. It doesn’t really make sense to convert a commercially released album that you can easily buy on CD or download as an MP3, but if your old recordings have personal value to you, it might well be worth the effort to convert them. Read More»
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November 03, 2008 by
Jason You can transfer files and settings from one Windows computer to another by using a tool called Windows Easy Transfer. To use this tool, your old computer must be running Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Vista, and your new computer must be running Windows Vista.
To find Windows Easy Transfer, click Start, and then type Windows Easy Transfer in the Search box.
Before we start, let’s look at what you can transfer. You can transfer:
• User accounts, which include passwords and personalized settings.
• Files and folders, including documents, photos, and music.
• Other information, such as Internet favorites, e-mail messages, and program settings.
During a transfer, you won’t be deleting anything from your old computer. Read More»
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