With so many laptops available for college students to choose from, it can be challenging to find the right laptop for taking notes, writing papers, making presentations, watching tutorial videos and taking online classes. Not to mention keeping up with your social network, streaming movies, and posting photos. Laptops are growing more indispensable for students… Read More »
If you are upgrading an old PC that has DDR3 1066/800 Mhz RAM slots on its motherboard and planning to upgrade, then you might not be able to find new RAM modules with that frequency. Newer RAM modules available in the market will have higher frequency like 1333 Mhz and 1600Mhz. So can you put… Read More »
In today’s market, there is a wide variety of monitor ports or display connections out there. Most monitors will have more than one type of video input connection or port. Depending on the purpose of the monitor, you will find that it would have a combination of two different input ports. A few of them… Read More »
Buying or building a gaming pc needs planning, research, comparing and contrasting, and, if possible, testing out your options. Many newbie gamers wonder whether to buy a pre-built PC or build one themselves. Self-built PCs are cheaper, and you get more control over the components of your gaming rig. However, the process can be tedious… Read More »
Monitor DPI/PPI DPI or PPI is a measure of how many pixels are there per inch. High PPI means that more pixels are packed in the same amount of space. The “sharpness” of a display depends on the PPI and not just the resolution. For example 2 monitors with the same Full HD resolution may… Read More »
Now a days computer monitors are available in huge variety of size, resolution and other features. Specifications vary widely across different monitors and each one is designed for very specific needs. Whether you’re a casual user, gamer, or professional, it’s important to know about the different monitor technologies and features to choose the best one… Read More »
Auto-mount partitions On Linux systems like Ubuntu or Kubuntu all partitions other than the root partitions are usually not mounted at startup. Clicking on the partition inside a file manager mounts them and open the content for viewing. However sometimes it is desirable that the partition mounts automatically at startup, so that some application can… Read More »
Dpkg Dpkg (Debian Package) is a package management system in Debian and debian based linux distributions like Ubuntu. Dpkg is actually a low level command line utility to manage packages. It is different from tools like apt-get and gdebi. Apt-get and Gdebi are more advanced tools that can resolve dependencies and install them so that… Read More »
Open Ports Ports are opened on a system by various background services like http server, database server, smtp server etc. If you are running a webserver and launch any such service then it will open a port so that other systems on the internet or local network can connect to it. After you start a… Read More »
Over the last couple of years, the popularity of ultrawide gaming monitors has exponentially increased, thanks to technological advancements. These machines are engineered to provide an extensive field of view in gaming. This means a better peripheral vision, especially in multiplayer games. Depending on the display size you need, you’re looking at a resolution of… Read More »