HDMI has been touted as one of the best things to happen to the digital entertainment center.  The ability to carry video and audio over a high bandwidth cable means less clutter and higher quality.  The pace at which these things develop though can be a dizzying prospect, and with the addition of the HDMI 1.4 spec... it seems we add one more bit of confusion... or clarity, depending on if you read far enough through this article to get to the 4K section! (more...)

In the computing world, it can be dizzying trying to pick the right software for our needs.  Everyone knows we need to have anti virus software loaded on our Windows work stations but trying to find the right one out of hundreds can be daunting to say the least.  Luckily for us, some companies offer free alternatives that offer some of the features we are looking for.  Once in a while, we actually come across a piece of software, at no cost, that works the way we would hope it works.  Enter Microsoft Security Essentials, a Virus, Malware, and Spyware software package at NO COST! (more...)

So, after hitting issues left and right, solving them and posting them on various sites including this one. I had gone dry for a while, there were no issues... I thought to myself "This is too good to be true;" sure enough, it was. However, this is only a minor inconvenience, but one that requires solving none the less. (more...)

There has been great anticipation for Verizon Wireless customers to have an iPhone competitor in their pocket.  With the release of DROID, they will have a new love for WHS as well.  The DROID phone runs Google's Android OS and with the new release of SubSonic, they now have an app that can stream music to your phone... for free.  Still waiting on iPhone support. (more...)

There are times when simply doing a Windows restore isn't enough; you also may not have been provided with any operating system / restore CD's or DVD's for your Dell computer.  Luckily for you, Dell places restore materials on a separate partition of your hard drive.  If all else fails and your last resort is restoring your computer to "like new"; here are the instructions to do so. (more...)

Some people think that setting up a network in their home is a painstaking, agonizing, troublesome, technical task that they would rather not partake in. This simply is not the case anymore.

There are many reasons why a person would like to setup a basic network. These reasons range from sharing multimedia, playing games, sharing a single printer, or most commonly, sharing a high speed internet connection. (more...)

The Hard Drive

I think we can safely assume that the majority of our readers have a basic working knowledge of their PC. If not, let me acquaint you with the item with which RAID is concerned. This would be your hard disk drive or HDD. Now your HDD is where all of the software (operating system, spreadsheets, games, etc.) is stored. Without a HDD, you don't have a PC. Considering the ever-increasing size of HDD's today, pushing 320GB, this means a lot of data to be stored. I think we can also assume that you would like this data to remain on your HDD for an extended period of time. (more...)