How much do you depend on certain icons on your desktop? I'm talking about the icons from the likes of My Computer, My Documents, My Network Places and so on. Those are a few of the icons you probably use on a regular basis, so if they're not there, what are you supposed to do? Well, the best answer is, "Get them back!"

Now, there are a couple different ways you may have lost the icons. They could have disappeared when you installed a certain program or even when you upgraded to a new operating system. Either way, you need them, so let's find them again! To enable those icons and more, right click on your desktop and choose Properties. Click on the Desktop tab and hit the Customize Desktop button. Next, under the General tab, check any of the icons you want to appear on your desktop.

Once you do that, they daily cialis dose will all be returned to your desktop in full view. You can choose from the icons of My Documents, My Computer, My Network Places and Internet Explorer. Now, on the other hand, you may want to take some of those icons off your desktop. If that's the case, just uncheck them and they will then be out of your way. Easy enough, don't you think?!

December 3rd, 2008

Posted by Andrew Nusca

An interesting article in Slate by Jacob Leibenluft the other day asks a simple question:

Do you save more energy keeping your laptop plugged in during use, or should you use your charger only after the battery runs out of juice?

It’s a complicated question, with even more complicated answers, since different manufacturers give slightly different answers: Lenovo and Dell reportedly say your battery should be fine if your computer stays plugged in; HP says you should remove the battery if you are running on AC power for weeks at a time; Apple suggests you should unplug and run off the battery every once in a while.

So who’s right?

Assuming you use the same energy plugged in and not, you’re probably better off staying plugged in, because energy is lost in the process of charging the battery, storing the electricity, cialis purchase and then powering the computer from the battery, according to Leibenluft.

A report (.pdf) prepared by the Natural Resources Defense Council five years ago estimated that running a laptop from AC power is about 20 percent more energy-efficient than doing it off a battery.

But that was five years ago, ages in tech time. Leibenluft reports: “Even if battery charging systems have improved since then, common sense suggests that using AC power requires less energy.”

The article takes the green angle, noting that just by using a laptop (and not a desktop), you’re already saving money, since laptops are far more efficient and require less energy to manufacture than their boxy counterparts.

If you contend that keeping a laptop plugged in damages the life of the battery, it’s an even tougher call: Batteries require an awful lot of energy to manufacture, and there’s an environmental cost to recycling a spent one, so what’s worse in the long run?

But that’s the global view. What about the energy bill you pay for at the end of each month?

The final tally can also be affected by this caveat: most laptops are set up to use less energy when they aren’t plugged in, since battery life is at a premium, so as soon as they start receiving AC power, they’re more inclined to kick it up a notch, performance-wise (brighter screen and so forth). So if you’ve never touched your laptop’s power settings before, chances are it uses more energy when it’s plugged into the wall.

So who’s right in this debate? It’s still unclear, and the vampire suck of your computer’s power adapter only makes matters worse.

November 10th, 2008

Posted by Andrew Nusca

Probably, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal detailing how cable customers are paying the same amount for fewer channels.

The FCC has sent letters of inquiry to 11 cable companies asking why their customers are paying the same amount each month, even as the companies move channels to digital cable.

WSJ reports:

Some consumers are complaining that they are getting fewer channels now on their analog cable service, as cable companies move channels to more-expensive, digital tiers. Once a channel is moved to a digital tier, it is unavailable to analog customers, who still make up about 40% of cable subscribers.

Agency officials said the investigation stems from concerns that cable companies could be trying to use the transition to digital-only television broadcasts in February to lure their subscribers to move to these more-expensive digital tiers.

Cable subscribers don’t have to do anything to prepare for the digital transition, because that will affect only consumers who rely on TV sets using antennas. Cable subscribers aren’t required to upgrade to digital tiers of service, either.

 

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Cable companies are notorious for introducing fees and other assorted items on your bill without giving you much of a choice. (Just how the hell did I start “renting” a cable box and remote, exactly?)

What's a boot disk, you ask? Well, first of all, a boot disk is also often referred to as a bootable disk, so don't think cialis natural they're two different things. Basically, a boot disk is just a disk that a computer can use to boot up or start from. Normally, computers boot up from the internal hard drive, but there are other options, such as a floppy disk, a CD or flash drive as well.

For a boot disk to work, it needs to have an operating system installed on it. The only catch is that the computer must be able to recognize it. It can either be a complete and full copy of the operating system or just have the necessary utilities needed to start up a PC.

So, when would you use a boot disk? Well, they're mostly used when an operating system or a hard drive on a computer won't load properly. That occurs when there are faulty data blocks or any other additional errors on the original disk. You can usually fix the errors by running a disk repair utility or when you reformat your computer. And that's all I have to say about that!

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