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NZXT Phantom Case, The Best Choice for Your Computer

NZXT designer has launched a new case that is known as Phantom. Phantom has come up with all the hype surrounding its conception. NZXT has launched more cases in the past.

Phantom is available in Whit and Black color. The glossy finish of NZXT phantom is the new black in the market because of its looks. The inside of the case is combined of black trimmings. The side panel is little flimsy, which is not good.  But the company is working on it. They have said that it was the problem in the earlier version of the case now it has been rectified.

It has weakly magnetic door with 5.25 in drive bays. Just beside the door it has a large vent. It has two side mounted fans with 120 mm that will filter the dust from the incoming air flow and the other two will work as exhausts. It also include a giant fan of 200 mm. So we can say that the mother board of the computer will be safe from the heat sink issues and from the dust.

There are plenty of features including the cable whole around the mother board, 3.5 in bays, each of then mounts 2.5 in drive. The 3.5 in drive has split in to two cages and the rear cage is also removable.

Two USB port and the SATA port has been located at the top of the Phantom with the microphone and speaker jacks. So the structure of Phantom is not bad and also useful for the users.

Let’s have a look at the specifications.

Dimensions (mm) 222 x 623 x 541mm (W x D x H)
Material Steel
Color  Black
Weight 11kg
Front Panel Power and reset switches, 2 x USB 2, 1 x eSATA, Stereo, Mic
Drive Bays 5 x external 5.25in drive bays, 7 x internal 3.5in/2.5in drive bays,
Form factor(s) E-ATX, ATX, micro-ATX
Cooling 1 x front 140mm fan mount (fan not included), 1 x rear 120mm fan mount (fans included), 2 x 200mm roof fan mounts (1 fan included), 2 x 120mm side fan mounts (fans included)
PSU Not supplied

For any kind of computer services, talk to a tech support expert.

How to fix Stuck Pixel Problem?

It is certainly quite annoying to have a stuck pixel on an LCD screen or TFT. How to fix stuck pixel problem? This article will help you to resolve the issue. You can also get in touch with a computer services company in this regard. We are going to talk about dead pixels or stuck pixels on the screen. It is usually due to transistor malfunctioning or uneven distribution of liquid on the liquid crystal display. This can be fixed.

Let’s have a look how to fix stuck pixel issue.

• Software method - Try to run any software which will help you to resolve pixel issue.

• Hardware method - Turn off monitor, plug in and turn on pixel tune up, then turn on the monitor, now wait 20 minutes, turn off and unplug pixel tune up.

• Pressure Method - Turn off your computer’s monitor, Now wash the screen with a clean cloth, when you put pressure on the screen with the cloth then turn on the screen, now check the stuck pixels will be gone.

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• Tapping Method - Turn on the screen and then make the background black and then take a pen or a pencil to point out the stuck pixel on the screen and then try to use any cloth remove the pixels.

These are some of the methods that will help you to remove the stuck pixels from the screen. If it is a leakage internally then there is no point to resolve it. You need to take the computer to a computer repair shop or to the vendor to change the LCD to replace it.

Learn Networking through Tech Support

Networking your office and home computer allows you to share information and files which might be important for you. Through networking you can connect thousands of machines together. For a small network, the Windows workgroup allows you to share information in your home and office. A mapped network drive is created to move information from machine to another. This allows you to read, edit and save information which is similar to working files on your local and physical hard drive.

 For this right-click on “My Network Places” on your desktop. If you have Windows Vista or 7 then the icon will be labeled as “Network”. Now select “Map Network Drive” from the menu. Now enter the location of the remote computer drive. It will be something like this \\computer_name\c$ into the text box if you want to access information from the “C” drive of your computer. Now replace “ computer_name” with the name of your computer. Just remember that, the “C” drive has dollar sign suffix. Now click on

 “Finish”. The network drive is mapped to your machine. Now double-click on “My Computer” from your PC’s desktop to verify if it is complete and start downloading the files from your remote machines.  If you have Vista or Windows 7 the icon will be labeled “Computer”.

Now double-click on the new mapped drive. The mapped drive has a letter next to it and it displays the location of the folder in the remote machine’s folder. You can download files from the mapped drive to the local “C” drive. You can double click on files to read and edit them from the remote machine.

Web Ads with Zip Coded Targets

Advertising has always been target oriented where the right product has to reach the right customer. The challenge is about reaching the right person. In an attempt to reach the right person, the advertising industry has embraced the telecom industry and we are in a new age of zip code specific advertising. Web based advertising is an old concept now and the internet service providers are acquiring such routers with a special software which will be able to track the IP addresses to the level of zip codes and provide the information back to the advertisers for demography based advertising reasons.

Juniper Networks has tied up with Feeva, a software company which deals with computer networks and digital advertising to include a specific software in the router like the MX960 which will be able to track down the zip codes of potential customers which can be later used by the advertisers. How exactly does it accomplish it? Feeva attaches a tag in the HTTP header, consisting of a “zip+4” number which is more accurate than the normal five digit zip code.

Advertisers have been gathering data about demographic data, zip-codes but it is not reliable enough. IP address detection is only accurate within the twenty-five miles range and cookies that track the user’s surfing habits do not give information about the location of the marketer. This is where the importance of the technology lies.

However, there have been concerns with the privacy of the end user that is the potential customers but according to Feeva, no other personal information is divulged except the zip code. However, it is for the technicians to see into the security issues of the end system user. So what can we do to ensure our privacy?

 1)      A combination of firewall and antivirus/antimalware software configured properly in the system with special care for ICMP related packets over the internet.

2)      A home-network behind a router is very safe provided the router is configured properly with reference to security.

3)      Proper maintenance of the computer like deletion of cookies and junk software which gets accumulated as you visit the internet.

GRAPHICS CARD, WINDOWS7 AND 2D PERFORMANCE

Graphics card manufacturer ATI has come up with the driver version 10.4(Catalyst 10.4) for it ATI Radeon 5870 which is in close competition with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and a lot is being talked about the 2D or the two dimensional performance that the two deliver but we are more interested with the 3D performance because we want a better performance in our games. However, 2D rendering is not less important when we complain about the slow performance in opening windows, folders and working with Word in Vista and Windows 7 being faster if we compare. Apart from the internal memory management of Windows 7, the graphics card installed in your computer will make a difference to the system performance in addition to the RAM present in it. In programming language jargon the Graphics Device Interface for the Application Programming Interface takes care of the “display” speed of the windows 7 and the redrawing of lines, polygons color-depth and pixels are involved in the 2D display speed.

The ATI has gained some good responses with reference to benchmark testing for 2D performance but still NVIDIA which is another giant is doing well with its GTX 480 product. These can handle high refresh rate for the screen as well which is again another factor to good 2D acceleration. Windows 7 has added a separate hardware 2D acceleration rate but with a question mark from the experts. Windows XP still competes in terms of 2D rendering speeds.

 

So we can conclude by saying that if most of your computer usage is related to office work which is related to 2D performance of the computer then go for a graphics card which offers you good 2D performance. The cards that I mentioned at the beginning of the article offer you good 3D performance as well if you are still concerned with the 3D performance factors. Windows 7(using direct X 11) should be the choice for over all system performance and for 2D performance as well since we are focusing more on the 2D performance issues. Windows XP is still good in 2D performance.

CLOUD COMPUTING – THE NEW BUZZ WORD

In modern day computing, the term “cloud computing” is a much used term. But what exactly is cloud computing all about? It is about using the recourses already present in the World Wide Web for better resource utilization, lesser cost in capital expenditure and increased scalability of hardware and software.

In cloud computing, the customers, better known as tenants, use third party resources to cut capital expenditure on hardware such as data storage as an example and pay rent for the resources used by them. Billing occurs on input/output resources, load balancing, IP addresses, GET requests and Put requests related to database management queries etc. It is not that, only the large companies take advantage of it. Individual users can take advantage of it as well. A person using online data storage is a good example of cloud computing. Using Google is another example of cloud computing.

Data storage, HTTP services, Web based services related to ASP, network based access to commercially available software, centrally managed multi-tenant architecture support – all come under the purview of cloud computing.

Well, we have already talked a lot about ‘Cloud Computing’. But we still did not discuss what a “cloud” is? Cloud is nothing but a diagrammatic representation of the World Wide Web to indicate the internet world outside the user’s computer system. A cloud could be of the type “public”, “private” and “community” depending upon the accessibility and security features.

Where security, device and location independence, scalability and cost could be the advantages of cloud computing, on the other hand there are some privacy issues associated with Cloud Computing as well. It has been found that due to security reasons of the country some espionage activities have occurred in the domain of “secured” cloud computing. While discussing about security, we must mention the presence of a few online antivirus scanners like Panda Cloud Antivirus. The concept is that, it takes lesser time to update a central server related to virus signatures instead of testing virus updates in separate laboratories. The concept is good enough as far as a quick response-time to a new virus is concerned but it is yet to be termed as the best.

Import DVD Content with the Help Desk Specialist

It is much easier to copy a homemade DVD than doing it from the commercial ones.  This is also lot more legal. Most of the commercial DVDs come copy-protected that prevent you from doing this.  Know how you can copy content from a homemade DVD onto your PC through a help desk specialist.

                                             

With the help of a tech support team you can port the video from your camera to your computer. For this check these troubleshooting steps. If it is the homemade DVD made elsewhere – like for instance your last family trip and you want to edit it to watch it on your phone or without a disc. You need to rip the DVD to get the content.

Some technical support experts suggest you to try Microsoft’s Movie Maker programs that come bundled with Windows XP and Vista. It’s true that the current unbundled but free version of this software can import live videos but the job is so clumsy that you’re better off skipping it.

The other day a remote PC repair expert suggested me the free version of Digiarty Software’s Winx DVD Ripper. It is one of the simple and free costs programs that just does what it is expected to do. It can easily save any of the video programs off a DVD to any of the several formats including MPEG, AVI and MOV.

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Tech Support Tips to Start a Computer Faster

Most of the computer users face start up issue but there are solutions for it. This guide by computer support experts can help to boot up your computer faster.

As soon as you switch on your computer and Windows has started up, take a look down in the right corner of your computer screen. Next to the ‘time’ should be the ‘all programs’ that is currently running on your system. If lots of programs start up when Windows start then these are going to make your system slow.

                                         
The next step suggested by computer repair experts  is to check the hard drive and make sure that you have at least 20-30 percent of your of free space. Having full drive with lots of unused files slows down the computer. Try to delete extra files and pictures that are not into use. You can also run a spyware or a virus checker. Spyware programs are available online for free but virus programs may come with monthly costs. These programs help removing unwanted files and program.

These age old tricks can help your computer run faster. You only need to get rid of the stuffs that you do not need anymore. The best way is to get rid of temporary files and downloaded set-up programs that have already been installed. Send those tons of email into trash. In this way you can make your system clutter-free.

You can also remove the optional Windows components that you do not use and any other installed programs which you no longer need. You can do this Add/Remove program.

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Get Tech Support to resolve Problem with Mouse

One most irritating and of course frustrating problem is mouse malfunctioning. In such cases the pointer moves to some other places while you are aiming them to somewhere else. Such problem with mouse becomes more frustrating when an active window gets suddenly closed at the mid of some important task. Sometimes, a double click command comes out of a single click. Now, let’s find what the common possibilities for such error.

                                                                   

Online technical support companies offer couple of possibilities such as power supply problem, dust deposition, mouse driver error etc. These are some of the typical issues users face. However, solutions are there. As tech support experts suggest, first you need to make sure that the main power connections are not loose. If you are having a USB mouse driver, the problem will most likely be in power supply, so stay alert. Regular dust removal is an important part of PC maintenance. The same applies for your mouse as well. It is not possible to clean up a roller mouse by opening it everyday, so tech support professionals recommend users to get an optical mouse. Finally you need to get a proper mouse pad as an optical mouse may not work on a glassy surface.

If none of the above attempts worked out, call a remote tech support expert to help you reinstall the mouse driver if needed. It is important to remove the existing driver properly before installing the driver again; else, the fragmented files can slow down your system in the long run.

Tech Support Suggestions for Internet Explorer 8 Crash

Users of Internet Explorer 8 often complain of their browser crashes or locks up the entire system frequently. It is true that Microsoft has a poor reputation for software security and especially for Internet Explorer. It is no secrete that hackers exploit Windows product and steal user’s identity at ease. But, at the same time it is the most widely used software and probably that is the reason why bad guys target Windows mostly. Tech support experts working online are now providing specialized support to help users get the latest security patches for their system security.

                                        

However, the good thing is, Microsoft help desk support has set out to drastically improve security of their products. There are several tasks that IE 8 doesn’t allow users to do. But still it is advisable to take technician’s suggestion while accessing web through IE 8. Remote tech support companies provide advanced antivirus software applications that block scam entries. Regular system scanning is also important. Some computer support experts personally advice IE users that, it is better to access internet through comparatively secured browsers unless it is barely essential to use IE.