All About Computer Keyboards

Have you been using your laptop for a long time? Chances are that your keyboard would have got worn out due to usage. This can be replaced with a new keyboard component and your laptop will be as good as new.

Most of the professionals and others including students prefer laptop instead of desktops simply for the sheer fact that it is compact and can easily be carried anywhere like a notebook. However these are very delicate and expensive machines, which need to be handled carefully.

Keyboards in a laptop are susceptible to damage due to wrong usage or negligence of the users. Many times one can find a lot of unwanted dust particles, food items and pins etc stuck in the keyboard and sometimes keys are broken. People tend to work and eat at the same time spilling food items on the keyboard.

If the keyboard has got spoilt due to the food and other particles being lodged into the keyboard, the only option would be to change and replace the keyboard with a new one and this can be done easily within a few minutes.

First ensure your laptop is switched off and turn it upside down on the table. Use screwdrivers and unscrew on all four corners. Now with the help of a small thin pin separate the connectors attached to the data cable and the keyboard.

Remove the keyboard now and replace with a new keyboard. You can now reconnect the connectors of the mother to the data cable.

Next step involves removing the damaged keyboard and replacing it with a new keyboard after clearing out the dusk if any. Once the new keyboard is in place. Reconnect the motherboard connector to the data cable and clamp it in place.

One you have removed the defunct keyboard, reverse the process by first inserting the new keyboard in place. Go on to connect the motherboard to the keyboard by connecting the data cable with the connectors and clamps.

After checking to ensure that the connectors are in place, put back the battery component and close the laptop and tighten the screws back in place.

This kind of delicate job requires attention and concentration on the part of the person doing the job. He should be watchful and patient to ensure he does the job thoroughly without damaging or spoiling the laptop.

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Is your space bar sticking, or several keys on your computer keyboard are not working, or you must bang it hard to get the character to show up? It is almost certain you will want to take the time to do a keyboard cleaning. This task can be quite simple, or perhaps not if the keyboard is full of substances or maybe liquid was spilled into it.

We hope to offer you some simple and fast techniques and tips to have a nice clean keyboard. We will start with the easiest, and then proceed to the more difficult.

First, make sure you have available these items: cotton swaps, compressed air with adapter, clean, a lint free dry cloth, cleaning solution for instance isopropyl alcohol, vacuum plus a screw driver (flat tip).

Make sure to first power off your computer, and unplug it.

Step 1: This one will surely be the easiest and with any luck you won't have to take your keyboard apart. Use either your mini vacuum, or the compressed air, and try cleaning all the dust and dirt from inside the crevices of the keys. Try turning the keyboard upside down and shake it to stir up whatever could be caked onto the interior bottom.

Step 2: Next take your cotton swabs and dip them into the cleaning solution. Go about each of the keys and clear out any debris from inside of them. Take your time and effort in this keyboard cleaning step.

Step 3: Use your cloth and dip it into the solution and slowly clean keyboard areas and around keys and buttons. Let dry and do it a second time.

At this time, you can turn on your computer to see if that is all that was necessary. However, in the event the buttons and keys are still sticking you should now proceed to a more challenging aspect of keyboard cleaning. You ought to do this systematically, by attempting to correct the buttons and keys which have been giving you the most problems.

Step 1: Use your screwdriver and start with your space bar. Be very careful when taking off the button. There are many springs that must be put back again.

Step 2: After the key, button, spring is off, you need to use a cotton swab dipped in the cleaning solution and clean the areas carefully. You might like to use the cloth also to remove any debris or larger gunk that might be stuck there.

Step 3: Put the key plus springs back in place. Press a few times to make sure it is connected correctly.

Repeat the aforementioned 3 steps for the keys and buttons. Once done, power back up your pc and see if this keyboard cleaning method has worked. In the event that none of this helped you get a clean keyboard that is working, you may well have to purchase a new one.

If you want to have a clean keyboard, and need more help please read visit us at Computer Too Slow to get a more information on keyboard cleaning and other computer tips.

Court Reporters are an interesting bunch. I wonder how they stay in order notwithstanding all the excitement that occurs around them in the courtroom. As the parades of experts appear and disappear, you can see them pound away or talk into the equipment that help them do their stenographer jobs. It is clear only a few people understand the tools that help court reporters perform their careers so promising.

In this post, I inspect these gadgets for court reporting. The court reporter may use 2 pieces of equipment in the performance of their career. They're the Stenograph and the Silencer.

I am going to start out by focusing on the stenograph. The stenograph or stenotype is a specialized typewriter used by court reporters to do their role. It is meant to make allowances for shorthand typing. The keyboard is compact similar to a piano. The symbols on the typewriter are phrases or words.

These are transcribed in real time to computers. A good court reporter employing a stenotype can type up to three-hundred wpm. It's this speed that permits the court reporter to capture all the words said in the legal proceeding. A number of these machines are even wireless.

The second and last court reporter kit I'm going to focus on is the Silencer. The silencer is a hand held facial cone that contains a mic. The transcriptionist uses this silencer for voice writing. Using the voice-writing methodology, a court reporter speaks straight into the silencer. As the court reporter repeats the sworn testimony into the recorder. The facial mask on the silencer prohibits the reporter from being heard during the hearing. The silencer records everything that's said by judges, expert witnesses, lawyers, and other parties in the court.

Today, other types of kits are being developed so court reporters have the best equipment to deliver an error proof transcript of the testimony.

The latest technology and flawless legal transcripts are employed in the www.FraleyCooper.com Columbus Ohio Court Reporter agency. Interested in learning more about Court Reporting in Columbus Ohio? Visit us! Also published at Court Reporters And The Tools They Use In A Court Of Law.

Throw those cables to one side with a wireless mouse and keyboard combination.

Amazon is the prime place to purchase a wireless mouse and keyboard.

Don't waste your time around the city sussing out all the keyboard shops trying to find the best bargains. At Amazon you're pretty much guaranteed low-cost prices. Best thing is if on a budget they not only offer new, but restored wireless mouse and keyboards.

To help you make a decision about which cordless keyboard and mouse to buy, Amazon offers a comprehensive report of not only good but negative product reviews as well.

Wireless technology has opened a whole new desktop world, a world without all the clutter! Without cords, one can lean back and cruise the Internet and do your work in comfort.

The most outstanding thing is the plug and use feature right out of the box. There's no messing about with drives and software.

Which wireless mouse and keyboard to buy?

The Logitech K350 is one of the most popular keyboard you can purchase. It has hot-keys on the board for both application and media. Also programmable keys as well. The best thing about this keyboard is it links up to your computer straight out of the box.

If you're a Mac owner, the Apple wireless keyboard is the one for you. It looks and feels super with it's aluminum finish, low profile and reactive keys.

For you high end buyers, the best money can purchase is the Microsoft 5000 keyboard and mouse. It has a curved design for a more instinctive feel, and better ergonomics.

Some customer reviews of wireless keyboard and mouse.

Logitech Wireless desktop MK 300 Keyboard and Mouse - has adequate size keys with a slinky keyboard, lightweight and shorter in length and width.Logitech Cordless Wave Pro - Beautiful keyboard, but after a while, the mouse sometimes become jumpy and erratic.Logitech Cordless 300 + Mouse set - I purchase this keyboard for the ergonomics.

The mouse is technologically advanced, ready to work on any desktop. The keys feels great. They're magnificently quiet and not hard to get used to.

Current amazing sale prices on all wireless mouse and keyboard as well as more information can be found on the Wireless Mouse and Keyboard website

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Seven Ways To Upgrade Your Netbook/laptop/pc

Many people admire netbooks for their portability, but no two models are exactly alike, and each reflects different trade-offs. A system with a great laptop battery may have a horrible keyboard arrangement; a model with a solid-state drive might be out of your price range; or a unit with killer specs might be missing 802.11n connectivity. All of these are common problems, but they don’t have common solutions.

Due to their diversity, netbooks don’t share a standard upgrade path as typical desktop PCs do. Each model is unique in what you can do to it, and the procedures are as varied as the netbooks themselves. If you plan to upgrade your machine, you’ll need to hunt down the instruction manual or – in the case of trickier upgrades – a community of users to walk you through the process. That said, possible netbook hacks range from five-minute routines to soldering-gun-based surgeries. Following are seven hacks for a dell e1505– one of the more tweakable netbooks we’ve come across. The first three hacks are easy, and the other four are intermediate. While your mileage (and procedures) will depend on your own netbook model, this guide should give you a good idea of the kinds of upgrades that are available (and suitable) for your machine and your skill level.

1. Insert a better battery

In PC World testing the Dell Inspiron E1505 Battery survived for about 3 hours, 34 minutes. That’s not too shabby for a four-cell battery, but you can do better. Though you may find a few guides online that describe how to create a laptop battery by using a number of aftermarket batteries wired together, that method is a recipe for disaster

Instead, we found an Nine-cell, 6600mAh battery on udtek.com that’s entirely compatible with the existing connections (and size) of your Dell e1505. At $191 it’s by no means cheap, and if you’re prepared to order offshore you can do a lot better with a US $69.99 battery from udtek.com, who ship worldwide. With an nine-cell battery you’ll double the longevity of your netbook – provided that you aren’t bothered by the inelegant mass sticking out from underneath it. To replace the battery, just flip your netbook upside-down, move the two switches from the locked icon to the unlocked icon, and then push up on the battery tray.

2. Upgrade the OS

If you want to install a new operating system onto your netbook, you certainly can: you simply pop the CD into any external USB optical drive and install away.

Want to dual-boot your netbook? Grab the GParted utility, by downloading the .iso file for its LiveCD at udtek.com and then burning the file onto a disc. Insert that disc into the external optical drive, restart the netbook, and enter the BIOS to change the boot settings for your machine. Boot off of the optical CD  first, and GParted will load. Right-click on the primary partition and select Resize/Move. Microsoft recommends that you have at least 16GB of space for Windows 7; if you were hoping to use that OS but your netbook has too little room, your experiment ends here. For any OS, if your netbook does have space for it, enter a new partition size of your choosing. Click Resize, and you’ll see the newly unallocated space sitting to the right of your primary partition in GParted’s graphic. Right-click on this area and select New. Enter zeros for ‘Free Space Proceeding’ and ‘Following’, select Primary Partition under ‘Create as’, and click the add button.

If you prefer not to use an external optical drive, you can follow the same steps for using GParted and installing the new OS with a simple USB thumb drive.

3. Rearrange the keyboard

Does your laptop keyboard’s default layout conflict with the muscle memory you’ve built for desktop keyboard layouts? You can pop an offending key off of your netbook by wedging a tiny screwdriver under the key and gently applying upward pressure. As long as the keys you are swapping are the same size, you can interchange them as you please.

Dell Inspiron E1505 Keyboard

Once you’ve made the physical transformations, use the Sharp Keys utility (udtek.com) to reassign your OS’s interpretations of the keystrokes to the appropriate keys. Alternatively, if you don’t mind a bit of visual confusion, you can leave the physical keys exactly where they are and use this helpful application to redefine their purpose.

4. Replace the hard drive

What’s worse: the underwhelming capacity of a typical solid-state drive inside a brand-new netbook, or the price difference you’d have to pay to get a larger drive in your preconfigured netbook build? Here’s a way around both of those nightmares. First, when you’re building your netbook on the maker’s website, select the lowest-capacity drive available (or if you have no configuration options, buy the netbook as is). Next, consult user forums (see “More resources” on page 85) to get a clearer sense of which aftermarket solid-state or magnetic hard drives are compatible with your unit. Finally, grab a screwdriver.

For the Dell e1505, flip the netbook over and remove the two screws that secure the large back panel into place (since it’s in the centre, it’s hard to miss). Pry off the panel with your finger or with the tip of a screwdriver. With the dell e1505 battery facing north, you’ll notice a set of four electronic pieces inside the machine; those are the hard drive, the memory, the network card, and a space for a 3G card (if you bought your e1505 from Vodafone it will have the 3G card installed). You should see a pair of screws securing the tiny flash-memory circuit board into place in the upper-left quadrant. Unscrew them, and the SSD should lift up. Pull it out, insert its replacement, and tighten the screws.

5. Upgrade the RAM

Memory is one of the main areas of a netbook where system manufacturers can increase their profit margin. Don’t let a netbook maker empty your wallet by selling you RAM that you can find elsewhere for a lot less. In the case of the e1505, we bought the bare minimum of RAM that we needed to complete the configuration: 512MB. To upgrade RAM, first open the netbook’s back and look for the existing memory. On the e1505, it’s in the upper-right (with the battery facing north).

On the RAM module you should see its specifications. You can either purchase the same type of RAM in a larger size (in our case, a 2GB stick of DDR2 SODIMM running at 533MHz) or check the manufacturer specs for your netbook to discover its maximum supported speed. The difference between DDR2-4200 and DDR2-5300 memory is almost unnoticeable, but there’s no sense in maxing out with DDR2-6400 memory if your netbook can’t support its full speed.

To replace the memory, push outward on the two clips holding the RAM in place near the notched groove on each side. The RAM will pop up toward you for removal. Insert the new memory and push it into place. When you start up the machine, quickly press the appropriate key to access the system BIOS (for the Dell Mini 9, it’s the 2 key). Head to the main tab and confirm that the system recognises the new memory.

6. Upgrade the Wi-Fi

Upgrading the internal Wi-Fi capabilities of a netbook from 802.11g to 802.11n sounds as though it should be easy. In theory, you’d simply buy a miniature wireless card, pop off the back of the netbook, shuffle its components, and start enjoying the increased functionality and speed of the new card.

Alas, in reality it isn’t that simple. Just because a Wi-Fi card looks as if it will fit in your netbook, that doesn’t mean the card is compatible with the netbook’s OS/motherboard combination. But even before that, you have to deal with the issue of size. When purchasing a new Wi-Fi card, you need to know whether your netbook can support a full-height or half-height card. Remove the back of the netbook and look for the existing Wi-Fi card. A full-height card is long and rectangular, similar in shape to an SD Card for a camera. A half-height card is stubbier and resembles the shape of a CompactFlash card.

As for the particular brand of card, there is no hard-and-fast rule for determining what will be compatible with your netbook model. A card that looks perfect on paper may not work with your unit’s configuration. Instead of using trial and error, search the internet for stories of other people’s successful Wi-Fi upgrades of the same netbook model. It’s the best way of improving the odds that the card you pick will actually work.

Once you’ve cleared that hurdle, installing the card is easy. On the Dell e1505, for example, remove the netbook’s rear cover. The Wi-Fi card is in the centre-right of the system; it’s the card with white and black wires (the antenna) running into it. Gently disconnect those wires, undo the screws, and remove the card from the slot. Insert the new card, reinsert the screws to tighten the card into position, and reconnect the two antenna wires – note, however, that the specific card you buy will dictate whether you should reverse the wires as compared with their positions on the original card. Depending on the size of the card and the configuration of the motherboard, you might have to remove a motherboard standoff to permit a solid fit.

If the operating system can’t find the new card on the next boot, install the drivers for the particular Wi-Fi card you bought. You should be able to find the drivers on the company’s website; if not, you might have to install drivers from a third-party netbook manufacturer whose product uses the same network card.

7. Overclock the CPU

Overclocking represents the pinnacle of system upgrades that an average user can perform without physically deconstructing the netbook. It’s also among the more dangerous upgrades for netbooks, given that these miniature systems don’t come with the best cooling systems. In the case of the Dell e1505, the passive cooler protecting the processor from thermal overload is no match for frequency tweaking, and it’s probably for the best that we couldn’t find a way to overclock this tiny PC.

Other netbooks are a bit more flexible in this regard. Owners of Dell e1505 netbooks can rev up their CPU through the SetFSB utility. Users of earlier Asus Eee PC models can pick up the Eeectl utility, which permits them to alter the frontside bus within Windows and, consequently, up the speed of the processor. If you have an MSI Wind and you want to update its BIOS, you’ll discover that MSI officially supports your overclocking habit. Still, these waters demand careful navigation (or strict avoidance) lest you wreck your netbook and condemn it to an inglorious end.

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