Hard Drive

What is a Hard Drive? A Hard Drive is the device in your computer that stores all your information.  1. Why is it important? A Hard Drive is important depending on what kind of person you are. If you like to download a bunch of stuff!, you will need a hard drive with a lot of gigabytes. If you only use the computer for little things, you won't need as much. Usually an 80 gigabyte hard drive will fit most people's needs. 2. What Companies...

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What is the difference between a “static” and “dynamic” website?

A static website is one that is written in HTML only. Each page is a separate document and there is no database that it draws on. What this means functionally is that the only way to edit the site is to go into each page and edit the HTML - so you'd either have to do it yourself using a web page editor or we can edit the site each time you wanted something changed. A dynamic website is written using more complex code and can do a lot more. For instance, we can make an area where you can log in and change various parts of the website, such as adding information or products or changing existing...

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How to create your own free CD autorun for HTML and most file types

Assembling the CD Download and copy the files to your root directory of the CD.  These are: autorun.inf, autorun.bat and index.html.  You can put all sorts of files on the rest of the CD. They won't affect the autorun. You can test the autorun by burning the three files to the root directory of a test CD-R. Open the CD drive and close it again. Viola, you have just created your own autorun HTML CD. You should change the contents of index.html to whatever you need. The index.html supplied is only a test page. Changes you can make The autorun can open any type of file and display...

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Download the Windows Media Player MPEG-2 and DVD Video Decoder Utility

File Size 0.2MB  File Name dvdchecksetup.exe  Author/Supplier Microsoft [Click here to Download]  Description This free DVD and MPEG-2 utility from Microsoft is designed for systems running XP with Media Player 10 installed. Here's the low-down from Microsoft: 'The Windows XP Video Decoder Checkup Utility helps you determine if an MPEG-2 video decoder (also called a DVD decoder) is installed on your Windows XP computer and whether or not the decoder is compatible with Windows Media Player 10 and Windows XP Media Center Edition. An MPEG-2 decoder is software that allows...

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Monitor or HDTV

Bigger screen to go with your HD PC tuner. Do you go with a larger monitor or opt for a HDTV? And what is the difference between a monitor and a HDTV these days?  At first glance a LCD monitor and LCD HDTV look just about the same. An HDTV has a tuner of some sort (analog, digital or both), and perhaps extra input and output ports like composite, component, and cable/RF along with DVI, HDMI, and VGA.  Monitors as a rule do not have...

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What is a patch?

A patch can be an upgrade (adding increased features), a bug fix, a new hardware driver or update to address new issues such as security or stability problems. While most patches are free to download, ultimately the developer will determine which versions of their software will be updated for free (older releases of a program usually get fewer updates). In some cases, only registered users may get certain upgrades, and at other times the only...

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Site Map

A quick search on Google for advice on creating a site map initially threw up many links to software you could buy or download for free to create a site map.But why do you need a site map? Basically as websites get larger and more complex both the human browser and the search engine spiders need an easy to follow map to find all the pages within your site. A site map gives them a simple navigational tool. Site maps have 3 main benefits:1) A site map allows visitors to easily find what they are looking for by simply visiting your site map and clicking on the link to go directly to the page they...

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Meta Tag

A meta tag is a tag (that is, a coding statement) in the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) that describes some aspect of the contents of a Web page. The information that you provide in a meta tag is used by search engines to index a page so that someone searching for the kind of information the page contains will be able to find it. The meta tag is placed near the top of the HTML in a Web page as part of the heading. There are several kinds of meta tags, but the most important for search engine indexing are the keywords meta tag and the description meta tag. The keywords meta tag lists the words...

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PCI to IEEE-1394 Ports Adapter

This 1394 card has high performance Serial Bus based on IEEE 1394 chipset. It provides a high-performance IEEE 1394-1995 interface with the capability to transfer data between the 1394 phy-link interface, the PCI bus interface, and external devices connected to the local bus interface. The IEEE supported 1394 standard was born out of a need for a flexible and cost-effective way to share real-time information among data-intensive applications...

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Keep You PC Clean and Error Free with CCleaner - A must have Utility

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it’s fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware! CCleaner 2.11.636 Changes: - Optimized startup and closing of application....

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