SD is the abbreviation of Secure digital. It is for memory storage. In computers, cameras, laptops, Mobil phones, the secure digital is often used. It is popular technology. We will make small mistakes such as pulling out the card in an incorrect manner, formatting it by mistake and so on, which will bring in big problem. We will feel upset about losing all our information in the card. If we have not back up and there is no other methods can access to, an SD Card Recovery Software can be used. But if we have a backup at that time, we can relax from that.
The information can’t be accessible since the card is corrupt, because we can write any data from the memory card. Generally speaking, all hard drive transfer the data with two rules: read and write. It is often worked like this. Read form on disk and write on the other. In this case, the information is written into the computer disk and be read from the memory card. Basing on the above-mentioned, pulling out the card early will destroy this process, along with connecting the card to the system, so that we lost the information stored in the memory card. Fortunately, it doesn’t mean that the data are gone forever. After we connected our card to the system, format your card. It means that all our messages in the card will be erased. Then we can download a tool SD Card Recovery Software from the internet. This tool can get back our information in the card. With the purpose of recovery, the tool is specially designed.
January 9, 2010
SD Card
January 8, 2010
Webcam
A pile of webcams in the market make it possible for everyone to own a webcam in internet. The products QuickCam and webcam32 become the representative. Lots of people have different problems about the webcam. Obviously, I don’t know the keys for all questions, however I will share all my learned to you. Here is some I learned. Hopefully, it will be useful for you.
Most of them feel upset after getting the webcam at home, because they don’t know how to fix it. If you are one of them, please don’t feel bad. The basic things that you should do
1. About video chat: By software Netmeeting or others you can talk with others who have the same software with you once you are connected.
2. Run a webcam webpage: After setting up a program, you can upload your webcam picture to the webpage of your internet server. Then people in the internet can see your images showed in your webpage.
3. About the hardware: One thing you should notice is not the specification in the booklets. There are almost the same specifications from the seller in the market. They will tell you the same resolution. But they have greatly difference in the image quality. Make sure the webcam is suitable for your pc. Don’t buy a webcam which can’t run properly in your window operating system. Or the webcam need an usb hub but your pc hasn’t.
4. About install the webcam: You should follow the instruction from the seller. Step by step. If they say you should download software, you should do it exactly even if you are good at that.
Also the cable can raise many problems. Get a bad cable or the length will not meet your needs. Before purchasing it, you should ensure all the questions.
January 7, 2010
Electrical Outlet
In general, we know the receptacle as outlet. We plug our lamps, computers and blow dryers into it. In our states, the most outlets electrical circuits are 120-volt.
There are two places plugging in our appliances in the new apartment. It is include two parts. One is the contemporary receptacles with a half round hole. The grounding plug is in this hole. The other is a contact that leads from the hole to the house ground, which is metal conduit or a green wire. The function of the contact is against shock with an appliance inserted in.
But we may not find the grounding holes with the receptacles in some old house. In this case, we should find out a ground adapter, which can transfer the three-pronged plug to two prongs. We must connect the grounding metal flange or green wire to the wall receptacle’s center screw. We should confirm it is be grounded, or the electrical will be failed.
How can we know whether our system has a grounding wire? First of all, turn of the power with the tester to make sure the power actual off. Secondly, take out the receptacle form the wall. We will see three terminal screws with different color. There are brass screws for black wires, silver screws for white wires, and a green screw for the ground wire. If the green terminal screw is connected to a bare wire or to a metal electrical box, it means our system has a grounding wire. If not, we should ask for an electrician to get clear whether our system has grounding wire or not.
Another outdoor receptacle is installed with special cover that is protected from the outside. Once a dangerous thing happened, it will instantly be shut off the circuit
Some devices need 240-volt such as ranges, and air conditioners. These appliances have different configuration. Don’t plug the device into the receptacle, which is not fit for. Just do it when they have the same amps and voltages.
January 6, 2010
Notebook cleanning
Notebook has been the exclusive domain of business people, as prices keep falling, the former Golden Phoenix also began to fly into ordinary people’s homes, more and more people began using a laptop. But the notebook’s “fragile” and not because of technological advances, we still need to take care of it to use it for a long time. This article will introduce some basic maintenance and repair notebook strategy for you and your instinct is more to this long-term coexistence.
Everyone want their books to have a clean, neat face, and keep laptop clean also help extend the life of notebooks.
1. Clean when you cut off the power. Cleaning notebook must be carried out in the off state. You’d best unplug the external power supply, network cable, remove the laptop battery after cleaning.
2. Select the professional tool for cleaning the screen. Now on the market there are many dedicated LCD screen cleaning cloth, you should buy big brand items. These cleaning materials can not only remove dust, but also prevent static electricity, disinfection, sterilization and other functions.
3. Common parts cleaning. For the keyboard, pointing boards we usually use the something like a soft, clean, slightly damp cloth.
4. Outlet cleaning. Should choose a soft brush to clean the outlet, in the way we prevent the internal temperature is too high. Please clean regularly.
We should treat it as our friend and a partner who need for careful protection, so you will carefully take care of it, according to the method described above, I believe your laptop will be able to live longer
January 5, 2010
Switch Language on Keyboard
I just know that there is a computer program offering users change the language of the computer keyboard by the Caps Lock key. Nowadays, many people work with different language in one day. For example, some foreign investment company needs to use two or more languages at the same time. Sometimes, write in English, read in Chinese. Make a file both in English and Chinese. If we need input different language in the same keyboard, using different language background is one of solutions.
A keyboard would have some special key to change the languages immediately. If so, this will be purchased by most of users. Some company develop a program which can make it came true. But the company doesn’t know that, in fact, the windows operating system has that feature. Once you install the operating system, there is an option with keyboard shortcuts to switch the language locales. Taking windows xp operating system for example, you can go in control panel in which there is a regional and language option module. As soon as you hit the detail button in the language tab, you will see all the installed languages. Opening the setting menu, you can default the input language. Select one of the installed input languages to use when you turn on your computer. And there is an advanced key setting. You can choose the hot key for input language. If you want to switch between input languages, you can set up hot key Alt+Shift or some other keys. Finish setting, click ok. It is easy and quick to set up.
But keep in mind, only keyboard shortcut will be configured by default to switch between all installed input languages. No extra program is needed. The function can be run smoothly after you r setting. You can finish switching the language in the keyboard by these keyboard shortcuts.
How to Use Your Notebook as a Second Monitor
Two screen or more are necessary for someone who works with lots of document at the same time. But most of companies are not willing to buy the second monitor. Fortunately, it does not matter due to a wonderful application called Maxi Vista. With this application, any networked notebook can be changed into a second monitor.
Even though many people have more than one monitor at home or at their office, it doesn’t become an industry. Now the second screen brings in a vast usage of the application of Maxi Vista. It got me changed greatly. I am using it to get one more monitor in my job for about a year. If I am so busy. I can use the application to add two or three monitors in no time. The only thing I must check is that they should be in the same network.
One day, I made a video in my house. It shows my using HP Mini 100 notebook as a secondary monitor for the Dell Studio 14z. It is wonderful. I use it just after connecting my two computers together. It is easy to install and run in the windows vista and window 7 because of the issue of the MaxiVista. It is supposedly used to control your computer remotely, which feature are popular with all users. One program called Synergy also can share your computer screen. But after you use MaxiVista and Synergy for a long time, you will find that there are some special mouse buttons with MaxiVista, for example backspace, Ctrl+Shift+Tab is better than using Synergy.
In order to use MaxiVista, you must install a program on the main computer as well as a viewer program on the secondary one. Moreover, you should make the program permitted by your firewall. As soon as you connect, you can change the location and resolution by using the window monitor tool.
January 4, 2010
Virtual memory settings
The virtual memory set to a fixed value is already a universal “truth”, and it is only right to do so, but the vast majority of people are setting it to the C drive is located outside the non-system partition, and its value is more than the physical Memory 2 ~ 3 times. Most people think that the higher the better performance of the system, run faster! But that is not the case, because the system more dependent on virtual memory – if the virtual memory larger, the system will be in physical memory, there is a lot of free space to start using virtual memory, and those who have less than a Dongdong are still stuck in the physical memory, and this will inevitably lead to a decline in memory performance!
So I start from the 512MB memory, 1024MB memory, up until trial and found that the facts mentioned above is very correct, the virtual memory to physical memory should be set from 0 to 1.5 times to be good, but the greater the multiple of the physical memory should be smaller rather than larger. When the physical memory is equal to or greater than 512MB, most of the PC you can disable the virtual memory is no need, then memory performance is the highest!
As for your virtual memory, how much concrete to set, you should try it himself, because it is, and permanent memory, the number and size of the software and your software is running normally have a direct relationship, so I can not give the recommended value . You can set it to first, after the same physical memory, and then run several large-scale software, if there is no abnormality occurs, you will then set into a half of physical memory to run after those few large-scale software, if there is an exception , you would properly increase the value of the virtual memory!
The rational use of the hard disk
What is the rational use of the hard disk? The first thing we have to understand the physical structure of the hard disk platter. Partitions and formatted the hard disk is based on sectors as the basic unit, a partition is formed by a number of sectors. So what is the sector? We all know that the disk is rotating at work, and its stored information is based on a series of concentric circles recorded in its surface, each concentric circle is called a track, in Figure 1 we can see the track and sector distribution (of course, this is only a sketch, in-kind is much more dense than the figure!), many of my friends think that red “big man” is a sector, but the correct understanding should be yellow small as one sector of that. A sector size of 512 bytes, a full circle for a track, a track there are a number of sectors, it is not difficult to see, the more * outside the track on a single sector of its larger size, other words is its density, then the smaller, due to the hard disk is a mechanical transmission, so the search for their heads, reading and writing speed also faster distribution of partition from the outer to the inner ring is, therefore, relative to the C drive to D drive, etc. * things, which is why we feel more than C drive D, E and other partitions to be fast causes.
Understand the above knowledge, we will be able to drive a fair use! With a capacity of 60GB sata laptopn hard drive as an example the new description: the C drive is divided into 5 to 10GB (depending on your operating system), to tune into the D drive 10GB, the E disk set to 10GB, savings based on looking at bar (which can be divided into pairs of semi-plate F and G) – have little impact on system speed.
How to use a good sub-zone is the most critical:
1, the operating system installed on C drive and to MwIE, Foxmail, ICQ, QQ, FlashGet, Super Rabbit, the player software, as well as some plug-in software commonly used small-scale software installed on the C drive. If you are using, such as Microsoft Office-like large-scale software, they should be installed to the C drive. Of course, since we will not use all the features of them, so that a useful part of the custom installation to save disk space C! Then the virtual memory settings to the D drive (only temporary ^ _ ^) and then using the system since belt Disk Defragmenter to tidy up the C drive.
2, the use of “micro-Xiao optimize the Registry master” sort of system to modify the software to “My Documents”, “Internet cache”, “Internet History”, “Favorites” and so they have to perform write operations deleted folder settings to the D drive partition up to avoid other hard disk fragmentation decreases the performance!
3, the various applications installed to the E drive, As for the game can be installed in the F drive, G drive used to store video files.
4, the C disk defragment once again, and then finished second the following step after the virtual memory settings to the C drive!
What’s your choice? Investment of stock is art or science?
Investment of stock is art or science?
I was told that the great scientist Mr. Newton bought stocks once upon a time but he lost his money in the market. He said that he could gauge the gravitation but he failed to measure the craziness of human being. Later some statistic experts tried to explainthe market through statistics. They failed more than they won. Why is this so? I reckon the reason is that investment of stock is art but science. It is experience but rules. Of course the market will decline after it rises, vice versa. It should be a general rule of the market. However, we don’t buy the market but tangible stocks. When will a stock decline or rise in price? It is really an enigma. I generally judge a stock’s price proclivity through technical analyzing and the company’s performance. It is intricate to foreseethe market, especially the market in the near future. Mr. Buffet never forecasts a stock’s market performance but the company’s quality in the future. As the stock market in China is always yeasty up and down, we must keep an eye on the short-term trend ofthe market. Meanwhile we may as well look forward to the company’s future achievement.
Why online backup?
Online backup is a web-based service. It can back up files to against the loss of the data. The online backup service supplies the customer copy their important files to make sure the safety of the information. Online backup systems create a software program that can copy the files automatically once a week even once a day.
Why do we use the online backup system? When our hard drive fails or the files are deleted accidentally, we can get our original data from the backup if we like to. It is safer than other methods that just depend on the local media. An online backup service has several advantages.
Simple
Online backup just need a simple, one-time setting. Then it can runs automatically finished your backup depending on your plan and order without any effort. It is easy and quick. On the contrary, the traditional backup asks you to use a complicate backup process. You should put the cd in your driver. Then begin to back up the data from one step to another. Many people so tried to make it work. All in all, the traditional backup process will take much time.
Safety
Once you link to your local network, the system copies the data automatically. If you don’t want some else to access to your backup, you can set up a passport. If so, only you can get the backup, which is fast and safe.
Storage place
As to the traditional backup, your backup data is often place in a location such as in your office. If there is a disaster, like a fire or flood, the backup will be destroyed without taking it out in time. However, online backup locate the backup in many places, which are far from each other. Even if a disaster happened, it will be saved easily.
Version
Compared with traditional backup, online backup allows you to restore the version you want, for it back up multiple version of your data. You must update your version of your data files when use the traditional backup because of the limited storage space
Convenience
You can back up your data just accessing to the webpage wherever you are with the online backup system. A traditional backup requires you have a medium to store the backup.
Reliability
Traditional backup needs a media. The media may be a tape, cd, hard drive, which could be failed sometime. Due to this, online backup needn’t depend on a media. Needless to say, backup online is more reliable.