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Hewlett Packard manufactures several different lines of laptop computers targeted at different user groups and price points. When ordering directly through HP, the company segments their offerings between “Home & Home Office” and “Business Class.” The main differences lie in the pre-installed operating system, security features, chassis design and cost. Home and home office laptops offer higher performance for the dollar while business class laptops have a host of features designed for the mobile professional....

Computer systems are made up of hardware and software that work together to perform a multitude of computing tasks. All of the components of a computer system, including the actual data stored on the system, require periodic maintenance to operate at peak efficiency. Failure to perform maintenance on hardware, software and data will eventually result in slow performance and eventual failure of the system. Writer Bio

The process of setting up home entertainment equipment often forces consumers to choose between different types of hardware. One of these choices is selecting between directional and multidirectional antennas. Both have advantages and disadvantages. Writer Bio

Most audio transformers are integrated into an audio system such as a high fidelity or power amplifier. Many DIY kits use high-technology circuits to deliver a near flat response over the audio spectrum. A DIY audio transformer is a challenge. The addition of an audio isolation transformer with a 1:1 transformation ratio will provide wide-frequency bandwidth, low distortion, and high-noise suppression. An audio output transformer for a tube amplifier can be built for under $5 with an evenings work....

A digital subscriber line, or DSL, uses the same copper path as an existing phone line to allow Internet connectivity while simultaneously using phone lines dedicated to incoming and outgoing calls. In most cases, the same phone lines connect to various automated machines, such as fax machines, answering machines and automated building or home alarm systems. The phone line and DSL service can utilize the same path simultaneously, provided you separate the two signals properly....

A Wi-Fi signal amplifier, a device that extends the range of your wireless network, is easy to install and has an immediate impact. The effectiveness of a booster depends on the individual device, but most products on the market will have at least a marginal impact on the range of your Internet signal. If you set it up correctly and adjusting the position to suit your environment, a signal amplifier can extend the range of your network up to twice its original size....

Mint is an online budgeting application that lets you enter and track expenses, income and debts. The application is free and includes a user-friendly interface for entering your financial information. Mint does not work with QuickBooks – a standalone small business accounting application for Windows and Mac systems. Mint cannot transmit your financial data to QuickBooks, nor can it retrieve information from QuickBooks. Writer Bio

With its instant global reach, email has revolutionized the way we communicate with each other. As the technology makes its way to more devices, such as mobile phones and tablets, its influence continues to grow. It’s the pen and paper of the 21st century, but offers so much more.

Legitimate Activity If you forget your Facebook username or password, you can use online tools to request a password reset. Facebook will send an email to the address you have on file and allow you to click a link that will reset your password and let you log in again. If someone else enters your email address, thinking it’s his own, then you would still get the reset email from Facebook....

Microsoft Office is a software package that features productivity programs such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Because these programs are used commonly in the home and the workplace, learning how to use the programs is beneficial, especially when describing your computer skills for employment positions. Microsoft provides free online training courses that can help you learn how to use each office program without needing to sign up for a class or pay training fees....

Updated September 15, 2017 Default Languages The default language is determined by the location the GPS device was sold in. In North America, the default language is English. It’s German in Germany, French in France and so forth. Language Options Different versions of the Garmin have different language options, but Garmin Connect, the online community for Garmin users, supports a total of 20 languages. As of 2010, those languages were English, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Spanish, Norwegian, German, Danish, Slovenian, Czechoslovakian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Croatian, French, Hungarian, Finnish, Russian, and Greek....

Updated September 18, 2017

Technology seems to have invaded every area of modern life. Farming is no exception to this rule. Just as tractors replaced draft horses as the main energy source to drive planting and harvesting equipment, global positioning systems have replaced human eyes and experienced guesswork in tractor guidance, field location, leveling and a number of other tasks. Writer Bio

Facebook does not provide a direct way to decorate your photos on the site. Instead, you will have to use a third-party Web app to decorate your Facebook pictures. One such app is Picnik, which is free for the basic editing features it offers. The free features are enough to import your pictures from Facebook, decorate them with text, stickers and borders, then save them in one of your Facebook photo albums....

Attempting to locate the owner of a website can often be tricky. Free services such as Whois allow you to search by domain name for the registered owners information; however they do not give you the option to search for all websites owned by a particular email address. To search by email address, you will need to perform a reverse Whois search. Writer Bio

In one 2013 incident alone, about 250,000 Twitter accounts were compromised when someone broke into Twitter’s database. While such massive exploitations are uncommon, hackers routinely break into accounts every day. Often, the account owner does not even notice for days or even weeks. Once you know what to look for, you can take measures to ensure you get back control of your account and take precautions to minimize the chance that it happens again....

A secured digital (SD) card can hold a great deal of information, including music files. The memory size varies from card to card, and is written on the unit. Any SD card over 1 GB can hold a significant amount of music. Downloading music from your computer to this card is no different than downloading music onto a flash drive. Warnings Writer Bio

The native Font Book library in OS X Mavericks includes default Arabic language fonts, including Al Bayan, Al Nile, and Al Tarikh. You can type Arabic characters into any text field by first enabling Arabic as an input source under your keyboard settings. You can also add additional third-party Arabic typefaces to the Font Book library, so that you can select them from the font menus in your word processing applications....

Updated February 09, 2017 Printing a CD Cover Select any album or playlist in iTunes. By default, iTunes downloads artwork automatically. If there is no artwork for a song or album, right-click it and select “Get Album Artwork” from the drop-down menu. Press “Ctrl-P” or select “Print” from the File menu to open the Print preview window. Select “Jewel Case Insert” to print a CD cover. Click the “Theme” menu to select how you want the CD cover to appear....

Whether you use a major online email account or email client application to read your email, you have access to an option that enables you to add a person’s email address to a blocked list or create a filter to block an address. Placing the email address from an undesirable sender in the blocked list or a filter redirects the sender’s incoming email from your inbox to a junk or spam email folder....