Archive for November, 2006
Have you tried FireFox?
By Fajja at 9 November, 2006, 4:32 pm
update: some BBC news articles which may be of interest..
BBC firefox article
another BBC firefox article
The benefits of the new Firefox browser
By Jakob Jelling
http://www.centernet.dk
You probably heard of the new Firefox browser version 1.0 recently released by Mozilla. If you are currently using Internet Explorer or Netscape, you are probably wondering if Firefox is better and why [...]
Processor, CPU, Information
By Fajja at 9 November, 2006, 4:30 pm
The Processor.
Also known as the “Central Processing Unit”, CPU for short. This component is the heart of your pc where all the calculations are performed. the performance of your processor can dictate the overall performance of your whole pc.
CD, DVD, +, -, R, W, RW Optical Drives !!
By Fajja at 9 November, 2006, 4:29 pm
DVD/CD Drive – These are “optical” drives. A laser scans the CD or DVD to read the information stored on the disks. CD’s can hold 100’s of times more information than the old floppy disk, while DVD’s can hold 1000’s more MegaBytes of information . DVD media disks come in single sided (4.7GB) and double [...]
Read More >>Graphics Cards
By Fajja at 9 November, 2006, 4:28 pm
Graphics Card – The part of your computer which processes the information to be displayed on your monitor.
You can find graphics card in two main formats. Namely AGP ( Accelerated Graphics Port) and PCI-E (PCI-Express). These two cards have different types of connectors to slot into your motherboard. i.e. one will fit and the other [...]
RAM, Random Access Memory
By Fajja at 9 November, 2006, 4:26 pm
RAM, Also known as Random Access Memory, this part of your pc store current information required by the CPU to do the calculations requested by the software.
Ram stores the data in binary format, i.e. 1 and 0’s. this data is transferred back and forth to the computers Central Processing Unit (CPU) to be processed by [...]
Hard Disk (Sata, IDE, SCSI)
By Fajja at 9 November, 2006, 4:23 pm
Hard disks are reasonably cheap now, you a wide variety of storage capacity (in Gigabytes, Gb) personally i wouldn’t go for anything less than 100Gb, its amazing how quick it fills up especially if you are working with graphics or other large files.
There are three types of HardDisk available today. these are IDE SCSI [...]










