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Universal Coordinated Time and Zulu Time. How To Connect Your PC to Your Home Stereo or Home Theater. How about connecting your PC to your home stereo or even to your home theater in order to get a better audio for your games, videos and audio files?

How To Connect Your PC to Your Home Stereo or Home Theater

In this tutorial we will show you how to make this connection using regular analog connection and also digital connection (both coaxial and optical, also known as SPDIF). Please continue reading to learn how to connect your PC to your home stereo or home theater. Or call the number below for an expert to help you immediately! The first thing you need to check is what kind of connection both your PC and receiver support. You can hook your PC to your stereo or home theater system using three kinds of connection: Analog connection: This is the standard connection all PCs have. To discover what kind of connections your PC supports, take a look at its back and compare it to Figure 1.

Figure 1: PC connections. As we mentioned, all PCs have analog audio output. Understanding the Windows Pagefile and Why You Shouldn't Disable. Processing 1.0. Droid vs iPhone 3GS vs Palm Pre vs MyTouch 3G: Total Cost of Own. After months and months of blogger buzz and a heavy veil of secrecy, the new Motorola Droid by Verizon Wireless is set to launch within days, just in time for the holiday season.

Droid vs iPhone 3GS vs Palm Pre vs MyTouch 3G: Total Cost of Own

The Droid enters into a smartphone marketplace dominated by the Palm Pre with Sprint and the ever-popular iPhone 3GS with AT&T. But how are consumers supposed to compare the offerings? BillShrink is here to help! While sticker prices are roughly comparable between smartphones, each offers its own particularly generous features. Below is an apples-to-apples comparison graphic that examines the true cost of ownership, select features, and cell phone plans of each phone. Find the best cell phone plan for your Motorola DroidFind the best cell phone plan for your Apple iPhone 4 And, without further ado, we bring you the Droid vs. iPhone vs. (click image to enlarge) Embed the above graphics on your blog: Check out previous graphics comparing:myTouch 3G vs. iPhone 3GS vs.

RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters. For Content Publishers and Webmasters This tutorial explains the features and benefits of a Web format called RSS, and gives a brief technical overview of it.

RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters

It also includes information on a similar format called Atom. The reader is assumed to have some familiarity with XML and other Web technologies. It is not meant to be exhaustive; for more information, see the ‘More Information about RSS’ section. Introducing RSS Think about all of the information that you access on the Web on a day-to-day basis; news headlines, search results, “What’s New”, job vacancies, and so forth.

Most people need to track a number of these lists, but it becomes difficult once there are more than a handful of sources. RSS is an XML-based format that allows the syndication of lists of hyperlinks, along with other information, or metadata, that helps viewers decide whether they want to follow the link. What’s in a feed? A feed contains a list of items or entries, each of which is identified by a link. No! Laptop Display And Graphics Guide. When looking at the video for a laptop there are four items to look over: screen size, resolution, screen type and graphics processor. For most people only the screen size and resolution are all that will really matter.

The graphics processor really only tends to make a difference for those looking to possibly do some mobile gaming or high definition video. Pretty much all laptops use some form of backlit active matrix display to allow for bright fast displays capable of video playback. Screen Size Laptop screens have a wide range of sizes depending upon the type of laptop system that you are looking at. All screens sizes are given in a diagonal measurement. Ultraportable: 13.3" or Less Thin and Light: 14" to 16" Desktop Replacement: 17" to 19" Luggables: 20" and Higher Resolution Screen resolution or native resolution is the number of pixels on the display listed in the number across the screen by the number down the screen.