By J.Jacobs
Early computers were capable of handling a few bytes of data, at most. Advances in technology saw the rise of kilobyte and then megabyte computing. Today, computers are capable of handling gigabytes of information. The term gigabyte refers to one billion bytes of data. A gigabyte actually contains 1,073,741,824 bytes, not 1,000,000,000 bytes as would be expected. This is because computers use...
By Jason Gordon
Printers usually come with setup disks that contain drivers, the software that tells your operating system how to talk to the printer, and utilities, manufacturer specific software that controls your printer and allows you to choose printing options. The printer will usually work fine without the utilities software, but it may not work without the drivers. The only exception is if it is...
By Mitchell Wyatt
A DVD burner is capable of "burning," or downloading, movies and other files to a DVD-R, which is a DVD-sized CD that can have DVD movies burned to it. A DVD burner works just like a a CD-ROM drive. If a button is pressed on the outside of the computer case, the drive will slide open and a blank DVD can be put into it and then retracted. In order to actually burn something onto the...
By Linda St.Cyr
Several things can make a computer slow. A slow computer loads files at the speed of a turtle, takes forever to open new windows and prevents work from getting done as quickly as possible. Learning how a computer that once was fast goes to being slow can help you know why the computer slows but also how to prevent it from slowing down and ultimately having a hard drive crash. Software programs...
By J.Jacobs
Computer printers come in many shapes and sizes and, over the years, they have advanced from rudimentary special purpose machines to an indispensable part of modern day computing. The printer is a computer peripheral that produces a physical copy of data stored in an electronic form. In the mid 18th century, Charles Babbage created the design that would become the blueprint for the first...