Internet Browsers

 

What is an Internet Browser? 

 

An Internet browser is basically your window to the web where you can find almost everything with a click of a button and from the comfort of your own living room. Today, the Internet is widely used for media, research, communication, shopping and entertainment. The better your browser, the more you will see and experience. Below I have listed a number of operating systems which I believe to be quite effective, listing them from 1 to 3, 1 being the most recommended.

 

1. Firefox

This web browser is my most recommended web browser for several reasons and I believe most people would agree with me. Firstly the browser is very secure depending on how the end user uses the browser. The web browser is also very fast and has a lot of add-ons to help it run applications faster or load images faster etc. This web browser packs top–notch features and blazing speed into a tidy, intuitive interface that will help you navigate the web the way you want to. A Few of these features include tabbed browsing, integrated search engines, faster downloading features and it also has many different customisation add-ons for the look of the web browser.

 

2. Google Chrome

Google’s newest piece of software out is the Google chrome which is also really effective combining top notch features with speed, compatibility, and simplicity. The web browser uses a lot of complex features but makes them very simple to use. Certain features that the browser has are:

 

Flexible Tabs

Incognito Mode for Private Browsing

Integrated Download Manager

Online Task Manager

 

3. Opera

Opera is a beautiful little web browser which makes browsing through the internet quick and very fun. The speed dial feature at the start up of opera is very effective and more efficient than a standard home page. Just a few of the outstanding features include interactive voice, quick find, thumbnail previews, mouse gestures and customizing skins. This is one of the only browsers that have interactive voice commands. You can navigate the web by talking to the browser, and Opera will even read text to you. You can configure opera to fit all your needs, styles, arrange toolbars and buttons and pick from a number of skins or themes. So opera is also very recommended when choosing a web browser.

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Building My own Computer

Apple Macintosh computer iMac 20" 2.66Ghz
Originally uploaded by supercamel

Today I am going to show how I am going to build my very own home computer. Firstly before I think about any aspect of building the actual computer I have to think about what I need the computer for and what tasks that will be carried out on this computer. So I have come to the conclusion that I am going to use the computer for my pictures, music and videos such as a media centre PC.


Below is certain aspects on which I want my computer to do:

·Use a hard drive to record and store television programs and play them back later.

· Watch TV programming (broadcast, cable, or satellite) on your computer monitor.

·Listen to music through your home audio system

· Edit your digital photographs and display them in digital slideshows

· Edit your digital home movies.

· Listen to local and Internet radio.

· Record music and video files to CD

Now I will start with the case I need to hold all of my hardware such as the motherboard and the DVD/CD drives etc. So I went ahead and bought this super slim Antec Minuet case for £50 which is just over 30cm wide.
The next piece of hardware that I needed to worry about was the motherboard itself which I needed to think about carefully. So I decided with AMD 780G Chipset as these have well enough onboard sound and audio for a media centre, so there’s no need for a separate soundcard or video card which keeps the costs down. The total cost of this motherboard only cost me £45.

The 780g motherboard that I purchased supports AMD, AMD2 and AMD3 processors and since I could not find any AMD2 CPU’s I decided to stick with the AMD3 Athlon X2 Dual Core 240 Which is quite to fast but it will have to do for now. The total cost was £55.

For my computer I will be running windows seven and this can run on 1 GB of memory but when adding memory sensibly i knew that 1 GB wouldn't be enough so i went ahead and bought 2GB's which ended up costing me £20.

Then one of the last pieces of hardware I had to get was the hard disk which didn't take that long to think about because i didn't need that much memory as i mostly store my files in an online database. So i went ahead and bought the 160GB 2.5 SATA Internal Hard Drive for the price of £50 on eBay and that was to buy new.

So at the end of all this and after I have built my computer I came to the conclusion that it was well worth the money as it only cost me £220 for all the pieces of hardware.

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Originally uploaded by Mark Murray1

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Virtual Desktop

Virtual desktop is an online guide to help us better understand the hardware that is used in a computer and how it is put together to build a computer. The few different aspects of this online guide is the learning aspect and the physical aspect where you have to physically place a certain part to whereabouts it goes on the motherboard. One example would be placing the CPU (Central Processing Unit) into the direct slot on the motherboard.

Whenever you click on a piece of hardware to place in the computer then a paragraph of text pops up and explains exactly what this piece of hardware is and exactly what it does. This gives the user more knowledge to whereabouts it should be placed and more knowledge on how a computer works.

My personal opinion on this online guide is that it really helped me and i feel that now i am really confident to build my own computer even though i know that the real thing is much different

Laptop Repair

Today in our computer maintenance class one of our class mates had brought in there computer so the rest of the class could take a look at it and find out certain problems. We suddenly realised that the computers hard disk memory was almost used up. This shouldn't have necessarily been the case as the hard disk was quite large and that not much software was stored.
We had a few solutions to this problem. We firstly decided to back up the system to see if the memory was still as big when transferred to another hard disk.
If this was the case then all that was needed was to override the former hard drive.
The other solution was to back up the hard disk and just to restore factory settings which would be much simpler.

Ransomware

Ransomware is now the new type of virus that is attacking local computers. This new type of virus can show up on your computer if you do any of the following:

• Open an unsafe E-mail
• Download an unsafe file
• Open an unsafe website

This virus is shown as a pop-up on your computer and will not be able to be removed. It shows information saying something like this;

"Internet access is blocked due to violation of the license agreement schedules of uFast Download Manager

You must activate your copy

Get a registration code by sending an SMS with the following code fw0004199 to number 7122

In response you will receive an activation message.

Enter the activation message received from the SMS response ________"

This virus is becoming very common throughout computer systems and should be dealt with immediately. Here is a few simple steps to keep your computer safe:

• Backup your systems frequently
• Update software frequently
• Then simply keep your computer maintained.