Thursday, February 23, 2006
High Resolution Audio
When it comes to your computer monitor, the term high-resolution is easy to understand. 1,600 by 1,200 pixels on the screen have a lot finer detail than the old 640 by 480. 24-bit color has millions of shades, where primitive color PC displays had only a total of 16 colors.
Audio, be it for music, music videos or movies, can benefit from high-resolution also. Digital audio has higher or lower resolution too, though the difference is a little harder to explain. We’ll go though it here and soon you’ll be the expert on high-resolution audio in your crowd
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Thursday, February 16, 2006
Take the PCI Express for Great Video
One of the hot new technologies is something called PCI Express, a new I/O (Input/Output) bus architecture that is the first big step in this direction in at least a decade. The most evident performance measure of our computers is the speed that detailed graphics are updated. PCI Express, also known as PCIe, gives this performance a boost way past anything that was available before.
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Thursday, February 09, 2006
Geek Gadgets for Your Sweetie
Let’s put aside hard-core blogging with HTML and talk of the intricacies of Pentiums and Athlons to talk about something more fun. Gadgets! All geeks like gadgets. Even Bill Gates has a multimillion-dollar house full of gadgets that he and his wife love to show off when they entertain.
With Valentine’s Day coming soon, we don’t have to spend that kind of money to show someone we care. And we don’t have to stick to gadgets only a geek would love. There are plenty of goodies that a geek could give to someone who doesn’t even like computers. It doesn’t matter if it’s Valentine’s Day or the anniversary of your first kiss, a personal gift is something special.
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Thursday, February 02, 2006
Customize Your Blog With Some Easy HTML
We have been exploring how to read a blog, how to start your own blog, and how to make your blog more attractive with some simple formatting tricks. I’m already getting comments on my blog about readers who are motivated to start their own blog. Blogs, or Web logs, are designed to be super-simple. Anyone can master a blog.
But, that doesn’t stop us from getting our hands dirty with customization. Now, it’s time to bring out the Geek in us and dig down to the guts of the thing - the HTML code. Sure, we could drive a stock sedan straight off the showroom floor, but why do that if you can add some fancy wheels or a hood scoop to make your vehicle really stand out from the crowd? In this case, your vehicle is your blog and attracting attention with a snappy screen presence is the name of the game.
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