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| COMPONENTS | PROCESSORS | STORAGE | MULTIMEDIA | INPUT/OUTPUT | COMMS | MOBILE COMPUTING |
| Motherboards Evolution BIOS CMOS RAM EFI Form factor BAT LPX ATX NLX MicroATX FlexATX BTX Riser architectures CPU interfaces |
Architecture |
Hard Disks |
Graphics Cards Resolution Colour depth Components Video memory Driver software 3D acceleration Geometry Rendering FSSA Digital cards DVI HDCP HDMI DisplayPort UDI DirectX OpenGL Direct3D Talisman Fahrenheit SLI technology CrossFire |
Input Devices |
Serial Comms Modems Modulation Speed Serial ports Fax modems Voice modems Standards 56Kbit/s V.90 V.92 |
CPU Technology Mobile MMX Tillamook Mobile Pentium II Cyrix MediaGXi Mobile Celeron AMD Mobile K6 CPUs Mobile Pentium III SpeedStep XScale Crusoe Mobile Duron Mobile Athlon 4 PowerNow! Mobile Pentium 4 Centrino Sonoma Centrino Duo Intel Core 2 |
| Interfaces Bus terminology ISA bus Local bus PCI bus AGP Internal interfaces summary PCI-X PCI Express IDE EIDE Ultra ATA Serial ATA SCSI SCSI evolution Fibre Channel SSA I/O standards USB IEEE 1394 USB 2.0 FireWire 800 |
Pentium CPUs Pentium Pentium Pro MMX Pentium II SEC Deschutes Pentium Xeon Pentium III Tualatin Pentium 4 Northwood Hyper-Threading technology Prescott Processor Numbers Multi-Core processors Smithfield Pentium D Roadmap |
CD-ROM Red Book Yellow Book CD-ROM XA Green Book Orange Book White Book Blue Book Purple Book CD-I Bridge Photo CD File systems Manufacturing The disc Operation Digital audio CLV CAV Applications Interfaces DMA vs PIO mode TrueX technology |
CRT Monitors Anatomy Resolution and refresh rate Interlacing Dot pitch Dot trio Aperture grill Slotted mask Enhanced Dot Pitch Electron beam Controls Design Digital CRTs LightFrame technology Safety standards TCO standards Ergonomics |
Laser Printers Communication Operation LED printers Colour lasers Consumables Environmental issues Page description languages PostScript PCL GDI Adobe PrintGear |
Digital Comms ISDN Digital Subscriber Line ADSL G.lite ADSL2 ADSL2+ Other xDSL variants ADSL implementation Wires-only ADSL Cable modems Satellite broadband |
Components Displays Battery technology Expansion devices Expansion interfaces DynaSheet External keyboards USB On-The-Go Kensington Security Slots |
| Chipsets Triton chipsets 440 chipsets i810 AGPset i820 chipset i815 chipset i850 chipset i845GE chipset Intel E7205 chipset i875P chipset i865 chipset i925X Express chipset i915 Express chipsets i945 Express chipsets i955X Express chipset Intel 965 Express chipset Comparison chart |
Celeron CPUs Covington Mendocino Coppermine Tualatin NetBurst-class CPUs Celeron D |
CD-R/CD-RW Formats CD-R CD-RW Mini media Digital audio media Double density media Universal Disc Format MultiRead BURN-Proof technology Disc capacities Overburning Mount Rainier DiscT@2 technology |
Panel Displays Liquid crystal displays Principles Rules DSTN displays Creating colour TFT displays In-Plane Switching Vertical Alignment MVA Features comparison Polysilicon displays Digital panels Plasma displays ALiS PALCD Field Emission Displays ThinCRTs LEDs Organic LEDs Light-Emitting Polymers HAD technology |
Inkjet Printers Operation Thermal technology Piezo-electric technology Colour perception Creating colour Colour management Print quality Photo printers Ink and paper |
Networking OSI Model Topologies FDDI Token Ring Ethernet Fast Ethernet Gigabit Ethernet Peer-to-peer Client-Server P2P computing Network hardware NICs Hubs/Repeaters Bridges Routers Switches Transceivers Cabling Home networking Ethernet networks Phoneline networks Powerline networks IEEE 802.11 Wireless networks Technology comparison |
Handhelds Organiser origins Evolution Palm Pilot Operating systems Handwriting recognition Synchronisation Applications |
| Memory L1 cache L2 cache Main memory DRAM FPM DRAM EDO DRAM SDRAM PC133 SDRAM DDR SDRAM DDR2 SDRAM Dual-channel DDR 1T-SRAM Direct RDRAM SIMMs DIMMs RIMMs Presence detect Parity memory ECC memory Memory upgrades Evolution Flash memory Magnetic RAM |
Intel Core CPUs Intel Core Duo Intel Core Solo Intel Core 2 Intel Core 2 Quad- Kentsfield Intel Penryn Core 2 Processor SSE4 |
DVD History Formats Technology OSTA File systems Compatibility issues Encoding Content protection Regional coding DVD-ROM DVD-Video DIVX DVD-Audio Recordable formats DVD-R DVD-RAM DVD-RW DVD+RW DVD+R DVD Multiwriters Next-generation DVD Blu-ray Disc HD-DVD |
Sound Cards The physics of sound Components Frequency Modulation WaveTable synthesis Connectivity Standards A3D EAX MIDI General MIDI DirectMusic Sampling and recording PCI audio USB sound MP3 SDMI |
Other Printers Solid ink Dye-sublimation Thermal autochrome Thermal wax Dot matrix |
Mobile Comms GSM GPRS 3G WAP Bluetooth GPS Galileo IEEE802.11b IEEE802.11a HiperLAN2 IEEE802.11g Wi-Fi access WiMAX HSDPA IEEE802.11n |
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| Cyrix CPUs Cyrix 6x86 Cyrix 6x86MX Cyrix MediaGX |
Tape Storage QIC Travan DAT 8mm Mammoth AIT technology DLT Super DLT ADR technology Linear Tape Open VXA technology Robotic applications |
Digital Video History Fundamentals Video capture Digital camcorders Video editing Performance requirements Video compression MPEG M-JPEG Cinepak IVI Other codecs QuickTime Video for Windows ActiveMovie VCD SVCD minDVD DivX DV format Formats comparison Digital TV Evolution Digital broadcasting Digital TV sound Widescreen HDTV 24p Convergence |
Scanners Operation PMT CCD CIS Scan resolution Interpolation Colour scanners Bit-depth Dynamic range Scan modes File formats TWAIN driver Colour calibration OCR Photo-retouching |
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| AMD Technology AMD K6 AMD K6-2 3DNow! AMD K6-III AMD Athlon AMD-750 chipset Thunderbird Duron Palomino Morgan Thoroughbred Barton HyperTransport Hammer Athlon 64 Sempron Athlon 64 X2 Socket AM2 AMD Native Quad Core Barcelona CPU |
Removable Storage Floppy disk Optical drives Magnetic disk technology Magneto-Optical technology LIMDOW MO media OSD technology Fluorescent disc technology Phase-change technology Floppy replacements Super-floppies Hard disk complement Compatibility Holographic data storage |
Digital Cameras CCD CMOS Picture quality Features PIM technology Batteries Memory storage Disk storage Connectivity Digital vs film X3 technology PictBridge |
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Portable RAM |
Projectors CRT technology LCD technology DLP technology LCOS technology |
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T U T O R I A L S |
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| Upgrades: | How to set up and share a broadband Internet connection | How to upgrade your graphics card | How to install a second hard disk drive | How to upgrade your motherboard | How to update your system BIOS | How to install a front-loading drive |
| How to install a SCSI device | How to install a Pentium 4 CPU | How to upgrade your audio subsystem | How to set up a RAID array | |||
| Maintenance: | How to do a clean installation of Windows XP | How to do a clean installation of Windows XP | How to do disable the Find Fast Indexer | How to use the Windows Backup utility | How to backup and restore your Outlook Express data | How to maintain your hard disk drive |
| How to schedule a program using Task Scheduler | ||||||
| Troubleshooting: | How to perform a clean boot in Windows XP | How to troubleshoot startup problems | ||||
| Customisation: | How to add Safe Mode to the Boot Loader menu | How to create and configure user accounts | ||||
| Leisure: | How to transfer your LP collection to CD | How to transfer your VCR tapes to DVD | How to set up a Digital Media Management System | |||
ARTICLES & EDITORIALS |
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| Web Development & Design: | Non Technical Website Development Guide | Getting Dedicated - Moving to a Dedicated Server | ||||
| Programming: | The Waterfall Software Life Cycle Model | Object Oriented Programming | Number Systems in Computing | |||
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Last Update: Tue Oct 16th 2007