Thursday, August 31, 2006

Information on Installing Windows XP

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In this Tech Tip, we will give you some information about installing Microsoft Windows XP on your computer. Most Windows XP products including Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Home Edition install the same way. If you are using an older version of Windows, or even one of the other versions of Windows XP, the steps will probably be a bit different.

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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Installing Computer Peripherals

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In previous Tech Tips, we covered how to choose and install your computer components and how to install the internal system components for your computer from the motherboard to the CPU and heatsink/fan combo. In this tip we cover the installation of peripherals including monitor, keyboard, mouse and so on. Installing peripherals is just about the easiest task you will tackle when building a computer. Check the list below for the peripherals we will be covering in this Tech Tip.

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Installing the Motherboard, CPU, Heat Sink, Fan and RAM

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Now that we have chosen the components for building our computer, we will now go through the steps for putting it all together. Some steps have been covered in previous Tech Tips; such as installing the graphics card, power supply unit, CD/DVD drive and sound card, so we will not go into those again.

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Thursday, August 10, 2006

An Insanely Great Thirty Years of Innovation - A Brief History of Apple Computers

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One fine day in 1976, 21 year old Steve Jobs quit his day job at Atari and convinced computer engineer Steve “Woz” Wozniak to quit his job at Hewlett-Packard. Together, in the garage of Jobs’ Cupertino, CA home, they founded a new company which they christened “Apple”. Their goal - create an inexpensive and simple to use computer. On April Fool’s Day in 1976, they introduced their first system, an encased circuit board known as the Apple I (previous computers consisted of circuit boards and switches which produced flashing lights) and sold for $666.66 at the local electronics store. By the time the Apple II and the Mac rolled around, Jobs and Woz had popularized the personal computing revolution, and the rest, as they say, is history.

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