ComputerDumb.com

Posts Tagged ‘tv’

Wow, what a great keyboard!

Hat’s off to Logitech: They really know how to design a keyboard. Our opinion of the rest of the Revue—Logitch’s first Google TV product—isn’t nearly as lofty. The Revue’s utility in no way justifies its $300 price tag. And while Dish Network customers can buy the device at the subsidized price of $180, they’ll forever pay a $4 per month “DVR integration fee” to get full use of it.

The Revue is based on Google’s Google TV concept and is designed to let you search for and enjoy all types of media, be it on … [Read More...]

The Finder is the most complained about application on the Mac, and rightly so—it’s just not very powerful, and often behaves in unexpected ways. Today, we’ll be taking a look at several tweaks that will make the Finder suck less.

Some of our tweaks will be in the form of setting changes that make more sense, and then others are tweaks or add-ons that enhance the Finder. Keep reading, and then give us your thoughts in the comments.

Image by abooth202

Add a Path Bar to the Finder

The Finder has an option for a basic path bar like that … [Read More...]

Overview

ESET’s Cybersecurity for the Mac is a AntiVirus form the makers of NOD32. Cybersecurity for the Mac is lightweight yet powerful. During everyday use it is unobtrusive and does not cause any unneeded load.

Installation

Installation is pretty straight forward and typical of any Mac program. However, Cybersecurity does require a restart after installation.

For most cases a typical install will do.

But with the custom you can add proxy settings.

Define what users have admin access privileges.

And choose if Cybersecurity should detect unwanted applications.

Features & Use

ESET Cybersecurity has the typical antivirus features and it is … [Read More...]

Images Credit Wikimedia (link and link)

Are you confused by the barrage of video cables available today?  Let’s take a look at the most important video cables today, HDMI and DVI, and see what’s the differences between the two.

A decade ago, it was much easier to figure out how to get your TV connected to your devices, especially since most people only had a VCR.  Our screens were smaller, the quality was worse, but the world was simpler.  Today you can hardly walk in an electronics store without getting pressured to buy a several hundred dollar HDMI cable just … [Read More...]

Libraries were introduced with Windows 7; these libraries are special folders with special views. They are “special” because each library is an aggregate of many different folders. The default libraries include pictures, videos, music, and documents. The data in these folders is a mix of personal files and publicly shared files on the computer/network.

In this guide, we share the top 10 tips for getting the most out of Windows 7 Libraries. If we missed a tip that you feel should be included, let us know in the comments. Here’s a preview of the 10 tips:

1. Add a New Library

… [Read More...]

If you’ve ever had problems with your PC starting up or shutting down slowly, there’s lots of different troubleshooting techniques that you can use—today we’ll talk about how to enable verbose messages.

Enabling these verbose messages is not going to magically solve your problems, of course—the point is to use this to identify a problem, which you can then solve through other means, generally by uninstalling a problem application or upgrading a faulty driver.

Enable Verbose Boot Logging for Drivers and Such

Open up msconfig.exe through the Start Menu search or run box, and then head over to the Boot … [Read More...]

You might have seen it being used in some of the tips here on mintywhite. But what are BAT- and VBS-files, and what is the difference between them ?

The short version is that both kinds are small script files that can be used to execute functions or to do repetitive tasks. BAT is short for BATCH-file and is a very simple script-language from back then, when DOS was the ultimate PC OS. Some years later Microsoft decided (after much pun from the Linux, and Unix communities) to upgrade the functionality, thus creating VBS.

VBS is an abbreviation of … [Read More...]

• Q#1 – I’ve received an .exe file type as an email attachment – how do I open it?
• Q#2 – How do I delete all the .tmp file types from my computer without risking the removal of one or more essential .tmp files?
• Q#3 – What causes file type errors? I’m receiving one when I try to open a .psf file type with Adobe Photoshop – what should I do?

Q#1 – I’ve received an .exe file type as an email attachment – how do I open it?

Answer – Let’s first understand what .ex_ files are. An .ex_ file is a … [Read More...]

Not too long ago we encountered some problem with our users that share PC’s in different locations on our network. Some users do not always log-off their PC’s when they have to go into the plant. Now from where they are on the network, they remote desktop into another workstation for a particular system developed in-house.

Now if a user does not log-off, this remote desktop connection stays logged-in and makes it so no-one else can use that PC. Therefore, I was tasked with finding a way to log a user off if there is no activity for a certain … [Read More...]

This article compares Linux and Microsoft Windows. It highlights the similarities and differences between the two operating systems. It should assists managers make better decisions when faced the option of choosing Windows or Linux.