Written on 05.20 by girl oh tech
The revolutionary product that is the DVI cable. This cable has the capacity to improve picture quality to a great extent and provide a great viewing experience to the consumers. The results provided by these cables have made them popular among people for television viewing and watching movies at the home theatre.
DVI cables are great if you wish to improve the picture quality on LCD monitors, HD-TVs or Plasma-TVs. DVI cables have a dual link feature due to which they can transmit information very fast and it results in great resolution and better picture quality. The popularity of DVI cables is growing such that people are shifting from the analogue VGA system to this digital technology.
DVI cables are of three types: DVI-Digital, DVI-Analogue and DVI-Integrated. DVI- Digital is suitable for digital code transmission and DVI- Analogue can transmit analogue signals only. DVI- Integrated has the capacity to transmit both digital and analogue signals. DVI cables are available in varying lengths like six feet, ten feet, fifteen feet, twenty five feet, thirty five feet and fifty feet length.
Consumers can buy the cable according to their requirement from the various sizes available in the market. Previously these cables were available only for shorter lengths, but now you can easily buy this cable of the length of your choice. The aim behind DVI cables is to provide unmatched picture quality and a great audio viewing experience to consumers. Manufacturers have come up with best quality DVI cables to ensure that consumers have the best viewing experience.
These cables contain high quality cabling and jacket materials and they are also gold plated to ensure long lasting use. A gold plated dvi cable lasts quite longer than the normal cable and buyers will not have to keep on changing their cable again and again. Price of DVI cables vary between sizes and manufacturers. Usually a ten feet cable costs around £25 and a 25 feet cable costs about £60. Longer cables cost a little more and a 35 feet dual link gold plated cable might cost about £70. A six feet DVI cable costs around £10 whereas a 50 feet cable can cost around £100.
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Written on 04.58 by girl oh tech
With the ever expanding market and the growing craze for latest technology, the mobile phone market in UK is emerging as never before. The market is being flooded with numerable brands, latest handset designs and some very good service providers such as Vodafone, Orange, O2 etc.
The mobile phone industry is growing at an enormous pace with the trend expected to continue in the coming future.
Improved cameras, enhanced memory, sleek body and much more have become the usual characteristics of mobile phones these days. Now the quest is to create the thinnest of the handsets and the new mobile phones that would come in to the market would be termed as wafer thin. The term also suggests that apart from being very narrow in width, the mobile phone handsets will also be much lighter in weight than before.
The mobile phone manufacturers and designers have been successful in understanding well the needs of the customers and then developing hand sets around those needs with features that cater to each of those needs. For instance they realised that it is a tedious task for an individual to carry a digital cameras, an mp3 player, a mobile phone, and other similar devices while travelling. Keeping this in mind they embedded all these features in the mobile handsets which resolve the problems of carrying too many gadgets. Internet access and data transfers through infra red and Bluetooth enabled mobile phones have become a common feature in terms of utility for the consumer. Such integration of functions was one of the first step towards design development for mobile phones, the next step that is still being under taken in this direction is that towards enhancement of these integrated functions such as higher data transfer speed, higher mega pixel cameras to improve clarity, mobile phone compatibility with printers and so on. Such emerging trends come into picture after various mobile phone companies undertake research and development at a continuous pace. Newer technologies keep coming out at a result and mark improvements over the existing ones. Consumer remains the main beneficiary of all these efforts.
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Written on 06.01 by girl oh tech
Laptop mice have become very popular of late, they are small, light weight and provide a better option compared to the standard touch pad. There is however a problem, laptop mice suffer from the same problems as standard mice and then some.
While normal mice just have to contend with a table top and an average mouse pad, laptop mice also have to contend with multiple types of surfaces including airport bucket seats, coffee shop tables and many other weird and wonderful surfaces. To date there are very few mice that work well on multiple surfaces and the Microsoft Explorer Mini Mouse with BlueTrack is one of them. In fact BlueTrack is so effective that it works on every surface that we tried except glass. We tried it on a duvet, a towel, a plank of wood, a high performance gaming mat, a wall, and the IT tech's favorite-denim on a leg.
BlueTrack is Microsoft's new proprietary tracking technology and is being touted as the new �~go-anywhere’. The idea behind BlueTrack is that instead of using a focused laser a diffused light source is used, this equates to the light being on average four times larger than that of the standard laser, and if more of the surface is lit then more light bounces back to the receiver. The wavelength of the blue light is supposedly better since it provides higher resolution and better contrast. This �~incoherent blue light’ is actually a rather clever idea, - in practice it has the ability to be sensitive to the movement of the mouse and yet be indifferent to dust either on the surface or the optic sensor itself, this is great for a mouse that will get used in numerous locations.
The Mini is comfortable, being a laptop mouse it doesn't have the size to support your hand but it does its best which we thought was good enough. The buttons barely make a sound when clicked, the wheel is super smooth and yet not overly sensitive and it is also equipped with horizontal scrolling. Microsoft have really gone wild, this is one quality little mouse and have given the mouse an eerie blue glow which comes and goes as it chooses, this does make a rather boring peripheral a little bit more exciting.
The Mini comes with a wireless receiver that snaps onto the underside of the mouse, and once clipped on the mouse shuts down to help save battery power. The mouse uses the standard 2.4GHz RF transmitter, although one has to wonder why Microsoft did not use BlueTooth instead, at the very least to carry the Blue theme.
While not BlueTooth, the mouse does have an exceptional range, making it ideal for presentations or pausing a movie from across the room. To top off the entire package Microsoft have once again put together a product of the highest build standards, from solid feel to a pouch with a magnetic lip which seals neatly.
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Written on 05.59 by girl oh tech
Technical Support is an essential need for every company. Any business owners are finding out that even though they might have the smarts when it comes to computers and software, the don’t have the time to keep up with the changes and they definitely don’t have the time to fix all the problems that can arise.
With a strong technical support team, the issues of hardware or software problems, creating specialized software or a custom database, or even where a company grows to the point that they need someone to manage and implement information technology, can be easily solved.
If you know the reasons why you need a technical support team, it will be much easier to find the exact team for the job. There are companies whom, even though they offer a wide range of services, specialize in certain areas. In this case, you may be able to find a particular company that best suits your most necessary needs.
Finding reputable technical support companies and IT service firms that can efficiently and effectively manage your technology needs can often be a daunting task. There are many small IT firms out there, but how do you know who is the best? How do you know which IT support company you can trust? Word-of-mouth is an effective way to find good candidates. Ask around to your peers or colleagues or ask the vendor of your specialty software.
With the need to know not only what you need from a technical support team but whom you can trust, you may find yourself feeling overwhelmed when faced with having to hire a company. In many cases, hiring a local technical support company is the best way to go.
Local technical support companies are usually smaller companies who have a better customer relationship. You will find that when gong with a local company, they often have more time to devote to you and your business and can easily develop rapport. Finding a local technical support company can be as easy as dong a Google search for say, Irvine tech support, if you happen to be in the Irvine, California area. Or, you could place a help-wanted ad in the local newspaper.
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Written on 05.58 by girl oh tech
1. LiveLOOK Never Writes to the Disk
LiveLOOK is an instant live help program that works solely from the browser - other programs must access a computer’s hard drive to show the screen of that computer.
Lots of other systems say they have no download, but that is not the same thing. For a web conference participant to join conferences and have the ability to show their screen in other systems, they temporarily download software written to the disk which erases itself after the conference ends.
LiveLOOK has no such requirement. The disk is never accessed.
2. Users Don’t Bypass Firewalls or Anti-malware Appliances
LiveLOOK Co Browsing and Screen Sharing are web-based services are designed to instantly establish visual sessions with no downloads or security warning pop-ups beyond the Java certificate ownership.
Most viruses, Trojans, BOTs and other harmful programs infect a system by getting into a computer’s hard drive. As a result, firewalls and other internet security programs are designed to prevent access to a hard drive especially, initiating warnings of potential threats and prompts asking for permission to continue. Security programs typically classify hard drive access attempts as Riskware: Hidden Install” or Invader”.
LiveLOOK runs over standard Internet ports 80/443 so IT networking and security teams do not have to open any non-standard ports that can potentially expose the organization to other non-web conferencing related malicious traffic.
3. Sessions are Conducted on Encrypted Servers
Sessions are established via a main server and then transferred immediately to grid servers utilizing 256-bit encryption.
4. Compliance-related Sensitive Information Can Be Masked
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