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Desktop PC
Intel® Atom 230 (1.6GHz) CPU
Kingston 1GB DDR2 800 RAM
SATA II 160GB Hard Drive
Integrated GMA 950 Sound/Video/LAN
SATA DVD+RW Dual Layer Drive
Microsoft® Windows XP Home
PS/2 Multifunction Keyboard/USB Optical Mouse

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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.

About the Author

Udtek.com delivers high quality laptop batteries, laptop AC adapters, Laptop keyboards, Lcd chargers, DVD drivers, Scooter chargers and more. Our unique product lines of over 1000 diverse accessory power products and replacement batteries and adapters provide our customers with an extensive selection of the best quality products available.

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Long Range

what was the long range and immediate cause of the 1st world war?

what was the long range and immediate cause of the 1st world war? how did world war one change the nature of warfare? please elaborate.

Mutual offense alliances between russia and serbia, Germany and Austria-Hungary, France and Russia, Britain france and belgium, and japan and britain. Also European Imperialism, Nationalism, Militarism, and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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Idea Reader - 125Khz Rfid Reader For Long Range Industrial Application

DAILY RFID has newly unveiled 125KHz Long Range RFID Reader (Idea Reader). The long-distance identification function and ease of use features make it ideal for Industrial Application.

The low-cost LF RFID Reader(Idea Reader) provides high performance. And it iscompatible with LF RFID chips such as I-CODE, Mifare-One S50. With accurate identification ability, this Idea Reader RFID Reader has a long read range up to 100cm.

The 125KHz long range RFID reader can be easily installed for indoor or outdoor use. And it has a Two-LED indication for standby search and data communications to make it easy to use.

In addition, this 125KHz LF RFID Reader (Idea Reader) can produce a robust RFID solution for access control since its long read range and full-range output interface options. It is ideal for long range access control application, such as personal identification, hands-free logistic and employee attendance tracking.

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DAILY RFID CO.,LIMITED ( http://www.rfid-in-china.com ), which belongs to PAN Group Co., ltd, is the leading company focusing on the research and development of EPC & RFID technology in China.

DAILY RFID specialize in producing arguably the world's most extensive line of RFID Tag,RFID Label,Smart Card and RFID Reader, which are suitable for any vertical markets, and have obtained the National Integrated Circuit Card Register Certificate, IC Card Manufacture License and ISO9001 Quality Management System Certification. We also provide customized Tracking solutions for IT Assets, People and Products. And we own a factory covering an area of 26,000 square meters.

 

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technical manager DAILY RFID Co.,Ltd, which belongs to PAN Group Co., ltd, is the leading company focusing on research and development of EPC & RFID technology in China. We specialize in manufacturing RFID Tag,RFID Label,Smart Card and RFID Reader.

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Wireless Presenter

Will a wireless presenter work for controlling CDs and DVDs you are playing?

as well as controlling the powerpoint and adobe files you are presenting?

Yes, wireless presenters that I have used were designed to navigate both presentations (i.e. powerpoint) and multimedia programs (i.e. the CD or DVD you are playing in your media player).

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Team Free Wireless, The Premier Zoom Mobile Team!

We are proud to introduce Team Free Wireless, the premier Zoom Mobile team!  We think you will find this a much different home based business opportunity than you have typically been exposed to.

Zoom Mobile provides individuals an opportunity to own their own cell phone business in an industry that has more than 228 million cell phone users in the United States.   No other invention has so quickly been embraced than the cell phone.  In a 2005 University of Michigan study, 83 percent said cell phones have made life easier, choosing it over the Internet (76 percent).

Thanks to Zoom Mobile, are lives just got easier yet once again. Now 228 Million Americans have the opportunity to eliminate their cell phone bill and make money in the process.   The concept is simple, bring on and maintain just three out of millions of cell phone users and your service is free!

There are fundamental differences between Zoom Mobile and our competitors.  The single most significant difference is that the CEO of Zoom Mobile is not a career network marketer.  When you review the resume of most network marketing CEOs it is not uncommon to find a lifer with a checkered past.  George Burton, CEO of Zoom Mobile, owned a successful independent record label that was sold to Universal Records.  For my money, I want a proven businessman at the helm, even if their experience is outside of the particular industry.

Now add Team Free Wireless into the mix.  With Team Free Wireless you get true small business support.  You have a Professional Business Coach that provides:

• fast track training so you are up and running at full speed in days, not weeks
• weekly and monthly Q&A sessions
• blog focusing on how to run your business
• sales presentation videos
• marketing material

Team Free Wireless provides this level of support and training to you and your entire down-line.  While you may not need this level of support directly, think of how beneficial it will be for your down-line.  Together, we can help make this opportunity a long term, sustainable business.

 

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We value the opportunity to speak with you about free mobile phone service and Team Free Wireless, the premier Zoom Mobile team.  Please visit www.MyFreeWirelessNow.com or www.TeamFreeWireless.com to learn how to take advantage of this exciting business opportunity within the cell phone industry.

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Optical Wireless Mouse

Does Microsoft Wireless Notebook Optical 3000 mouse work with normal Alkaline batteries?

I have a Microsoft Wireless Optical Notebook 3000 mouse.The problem with this is it suddenly stops working in between and then i have to reinsert the battery again to make it work.I want to know whether this mouse is optimised to work with normal AA Alkaline batteries like EVERREADY or NIPPO or it only works well with a DURACELL or ENERGIZER.Is it a problem with the mouse or the batteries i am using?

You have to reset (sync) the mouse, it will work with all kind of batteries, best to use rechargable coz this mice eat alott of juice.

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Eizo's C@T-one TV remote control mouse: wheel, reinvented

NANAO CORPORATION is, TV remote control function wireless mouse with "EIZO C @ T-one (one cat)" was launched September 12, 2006. The
sale of the company's retail store and direct sales center site. Theprices are open direct sales prices priced at 12,600 yen.

"EIZO C @ T-one (one cat)," the circular design. Using a mouse can turn back to the unit, TV, including multi-infrared remote control switch. Body in the built-in tilt sensors, remote control for use as a function of the mouse will automatically become clear.

9 TV remote control button type is, by default, power, channel UP / DOWN, the volume UP / DOWN, broadcast switching, input switching, PinP, has been assigned to silencer. NANAO products, including third-party TV / video / digital tuner / CATV tuner as well as support. Included with the application, PC code on the remote control you. The company is "working on the PC while sitting at the same time to operate TV" or "kitchen, TV, I saw acooking recipe obtained from the website", and looked at the situation and the products.

The mouse functions, 2.4 GHz band, using radio, the effective range is about 10 m. Mouse button, scroll wheel left and right buttons and three-button technology. The type of optical sensors are used. Also, do not operate more than 30 minutes, the mouse automatically become a power-saving feature is OFF function.

Body size is 83 × 32.9mm (diameter × height) and weighs approximately 120 g (including battery). AA alkaline batteries for power, battery life about three months.

USB interface is a receiver the size of 18 × 47.2 × 9.4mm (Depth × × height width) and weighs approximately 6 g. Supported OS is, Windows2000/XP/Vista, Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.

The C@T-one (get it, cat one?) ships with a 2.4GHz wireless USB dongle and should work with your PC-based media center or FORIS.HD TV. ¥12,600 (about $120), problem solved.

Eizo C@t-one is a curious product: one side is a regular wireless optical three-button mouse with scroll wheel, and the other is a basic 9-function TV remote. It's a 2.4GHz device, with a small USB dongle, and is designed to work with Nanao TVs, as well as third-party TVs, videos and tuners, and it looks like it'll work as a PC controller too, for media-center action.

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Tablet Wireless

What System Requirements do I have to have for my Tablet PC to have wireless internet/networking access?

If you are talking WiFi -- most tablets come equipped with this internally (just check the specs on the machine). If you want wireless Internet when you are not in WiFi range... consider an aircard (basically a cell phone internet connection).

I use one with my Motion 1600 PC and I really like it. Now, it's not nearly as fast as broadband, so if you are spoiled by DSL like I am, it may frustrate you a bit. It's still alot faster than dial-up and slow broadband formats (if you are in a 3G area and have a 3G enabled aircard-- or Edge/GPRS). Speeds run 850-2100 MHz, on average.

Most of these cellular cards require a PC card Type 2 slot (32 bit card bus form factor)

The one I'm using (a Option GT Max) is nice because the antennae doesn't "stick out" when it's not in use, the "butterfly" style will tuck away where it's safe when you don't need it -- and out of your way. I used the external antennae style with my Tablet PC and it made me nuts (it was a Sierra Card) because no matter how I held my Tablet, it seemed to always be in my way.

Hope this helps!

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Super Compact 7 Inch Touch Screen Samsung CPU Tablet PC w/ Windows CE WiFi GPS

Welcome to visit our new updated Samsung PC tablet. This cool black tablet PC features Samsung CPU and built-in GPS. By adopting the powerful Samsung CPU and windows CE5.0 OS, this mini netbook will ensure you a high performance in operation and high speed and smooth experience when surfing online. Since armed with WiFi and light in weight, it's convenient for you to enjoy anything you are interested in the Flat World.

 Now, with this mini size pad, built-in GPS, equipped GPS module, you can drive anywhere, and don't have to worry that you will lose your way. What's really exciting is this 7 inch netbook even embed a Live TV! It will never disappoint you from now on. While for those who are crazy about You Tube, this tablet pc will be your favorite.

In fact, this pad show brilliant performance in entertainment, apart from Live TV, You Tube, and the tablet also is with e-book reader, Skype, and HiFi stereo speaker, which is really a very practical UMPC. Now order this Samsung PC tablet here:

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Highlights:

Delicate body, light weight portable
CPU: Samsung 533MHz
OS: Windows CE
Memory: 128M DDR II,  2GB NADD FLASH
GPS / LIVE TV/YouTube
Standard T-FLASH card slot, max up to 32 GB
Lower overall costing: up to 30% saving on normal notebook

Features:

• Main Video/Audio Format: MP4/AVI/ASF/MP3/WMA/WAV(OPTIONAL)
  Video Frame Rate: Max 30fps/25fps (PAL)
• Office format : WORD/EXCEL/PPT/FLASH/ZIP/RAR
• Text format: PDF /TXT/HTM/HTML/RTF/PRC/EPUB
• Image formats: GIF, BMP, JPG, PNG (maximum support 4000 × 3000)
• Software: IE, Email, Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), PDF, ImageViewer, MSN, Skype, QQ, Media Player, Flash player, game software, PPT browsing, stocks, games and so on.
• 3D and JAVA: Support flash player
• File System: FAT/FAT32 File System
• Wireless connection: 802.11b/g Wireless
• USB port: High speed USB2.0 interface and full-speed USB HOSTI/O ports: 1 USB slave sockets 1 earphone/line in sockets 1 MIC
• Card Port: SD CARD (up to 32GB)
• AV Output: No
• Speaker: Built-in
• Audio input: Microphone
• Audio output: Build-in stereo speaker
• Web camera: NO
• GPS: Built-in GPS NAVIGATION SYSTEM
• Entertainment: You Tube, Skype, Live TV, Digital Picture Frame, Media Player, E-book Reader
• Power Adapter: Input: AC100-240V, Output: DC5V/2A
• Size: 198mm*118mm*15mm
• Net Weight: 390g

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