Tag: USB
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Need a mic? Find a Yeti.
In the last few years it’s gotten a bit easier to use a microphone to record audio on your home computer — USB headsets with quality microphones have been available for a while, but only recently have USB desktop microphones oved out of the niche and specialty retailers into the mainstream, driven mostly by the…
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How to run your favourite desktop utilities from almost any computer using Portable Applications
In the course of my day, I use two or three main desktop and laptop computers in two or three different parts of the city. And yet, working on different devices, I still have access to a core set of tools and utilities that I find essential to my daily work. Here’s how I do it. Some…
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It’s not the size, it’s what you do with it
Some of you probably suffer from the same problem that I have; it’s just not big enough. Sure, you confide in your close friends, they all nod sympathetically, tell you that ‘size isn’t important’, yet really, we all know that it is. Especially when we’re talking about hard drives in Netbooks! …more This post is…
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Backups don’t have to be painful
In a previous post (on my personal blog) about preparing for your Windows 7 installation, I briefly discussed backups. Aside from the obvious reason of having a copy of your imortant stuff stored safely, backups have another benefit; they give you the confidence to work on your computer yourself — not having to rely on…