Category: Technology

Not very long ago you could utter the phrase "my computer just crashed" and it probably didn't mean a whole lot. Maybe you would go a few hours without getting some of your work done, but you could work on other things until the problem was solved. Maybe you couldn't […]

A computer CPU is part of your laptop, desktop or tablet personal computer. It is even part of most cell phones such as a PDA. It is the part of your computer device that controls, operates and directs processing of information, data and instructions. Any instruction whether built into the […]

In a computing context, the term 'hardware' refers to the electrical parts and components inside a computer system which power it. The operating system (such as Windows 7) and other software (for example Firefox) are then installed upon – and make use of – the hardware parts and components. One […]

Personal computers have completely revolutionized the way the world, lives, works and conducts business. Strictly-speaking, computers arrived on the scene way back in 1936 when one Konrad Zuse produced what was then called the Z1 computer. This was a cumbersome machine that could perform simple calculations and also crunch simple […]

Looking for free computer security tools to use? Got Spyware? There is now a bill in Congress to make Spyware illegal. Good luck at catching the creators, in the mean time here are two links you can use to get started on your journey against Spyware. http://www.lavasoft.com Ad-aware http://www.safernetworking.com Spybot […]

What is a laptop and a personal computer? A laptop is also known as the notebook, because a person can bring this device anywhere and they can use it as long as they want. While the personal computer is a device that needs a Central processing unit which is the […]

A computer needs a certain amount of information to operate; for example, the date and time, the amount of memory installed, the number of drives and their configuration, and so on. In the early days of computers, either the user typed in this information each time the computer started, or […]

If you have an adware infection on your computer, you know it: the constant advertisements are a tell-tale sign. Nobody likes these things, so let’s take a look at what they are, how to get rid of them! How Does Adware Get On My Computer Anyway? Short answer: By using […]

Recently, a man asked me the following question: “Calle, can you tell me what’s going on? My wife and I have been married for 15 years and after the first year, the sex started becoming less and less frequent. My wife simply wasn’t in the mood for it…she didn’t feel […]

I still remember the excitement I felt when I wrote my first basic program on the BBC Micro at school. It was a simple four line program that drew a triangle on the screen. In the early 1980s we enjoyed playing games such as Chuckie Egg and the famous Granny’s […]